The Secrets of London’s Luxury Hotels  New Walk!

This is a standalone walk that can also be enjoyed before or after More Luxury Hotels – Their Stories & Secrets.

New York Times First

“London Walks puts you into the hands of an expert on the particular area and topic of a tour.” The New York Times

Guide Next

It all comes down to the guiding. Andy – we call him Andy Hotels – is an acknowledged expert on luxury hotels and the golden age of travel. The official historian of Brown’s Hotel, Andy Hotels is the author of the definitive histories of Brown’s and The Savoy. No surprise then that he’s the go-to expert for television documentaries and radio interviews on the subject.

The Walk

Let us go then, you and I and Andy Hotels, up the red carpet and through the portals into the world of white glove service. The walk is your Platinum Pass to what goes on behind the gilded doors and top-hatted doormen of the city’s luxury living quarters. It’s your entrée to a cast of characters more intriguing than a novel by frequent guest Agatha Christie, from royals to roués, writers to rakes, bon vivants to bankrupts…let alone con artists and crooks, spies and war criminals, actors and musicians, upstairs and downstairs.

We stop by the capital’s finest stopping places during the golden age of luxury hotels. Learn about Oscar Wilde’s fall from grace, Rudyard Kipling dying at his desk and Stephen King’s resulting Misery, Britain’s first phone call, King Zog of Albania checking in with the crown jewels, the world’s greatest chef creating culinary classics, the mystery of the body in the bathtub, the nervous breakdown of the world’s greatest hotelier, Bob Dylan writing lyrics on his dry cleaning inserts and King Charles going public with Camilla. And that’s just for starters.

Yes, welcome to our new five-star walk. Five-star in every respect.

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