Covent Garden Hotel

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Covent Garden Hotel
General information
Location 10 Monmouth Street,
London WC2H 9HB, England
Coordinates 51°30′52.31″N 0°7′37.42″W / 51.5145306°N 0.1270611°W / 51.5145306; -0.1270611
Other information
Number of rooms 58

Covent Garden Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, England.[1] It is located near Seven Dials in the West End, a short walk away from the Royal Opera House, and is surrounded by some 21 theatres. The hotel is part of Tim and Kit Kemp's Firmdale Hotels.[2]

Style

The lavish drawing room

The reception area and the 58 bedrooms were designed by Kit Kemp. At the reception, there are large curtains and aged wood furnishings. Stone stairs lead up to the first-floor drawing room which has maple-wood panelling. The Tiffany’s Library is also located on the first floor and has a fireplace and bar. The hotel has three private dining rooms, a private 47-seat screening room, and the Brasserie Max, with a pewter bar with an arched mirror. The bedrooms are elegant, with floral motifs, and they have bathrooms made of granite and mahogany. The hotel also has a gym and a spa.[3]

Notable guests

The hotel frequently attracts notable guests. Musician Courtney Love stayed at the hotel in 2007,[4] actor Simon Russell Beale in 2002,[5] The lobby and restaurant of the hotel were used as filming locations in the 2005 film Match Point;[6] Scarlett Johansson, one of that film's main actors, also stayed there. Other well-known guests include the director Peter Jackson, actors Tim Robbins, Meryl Streep,[7] Stockard Channing,[8] Stephen Fry, Geoffrey Rush, Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Winslet.

Notes

  1. Katja Gaskell. "Lonely Planet review". Lonely Planet. 
  2. Fiona Duncan (13 December 2009). "Country house hotels: New life in the country". The Daily Telegraph (London). Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
  3. Design Hotels, Retrieved 15 December 2009
  4. "Courtney Love Trashes the Covent Garden Hotel". Hotel Chatter. 12 July 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2009. 
  5. "Not-so-simple Simon" by Andrew Billen, Evening Standard (London), 16 January 2002
  6. Match Point at Film London
  7. "Celebrity secrets: The city slickers
  8. Claire Rudebeck (16 February 2005): "Stockard Channing: One tough cookie", The Independent

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Coordinates: 51°30′52″N 0°07′37″W / 51.51453°N 0.12706°W / 51.51453; -0.12706

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