Covent Garden Hotel

Hotel in London

51°30′52.31″N 0°7′37.42″W / 51.5145306°N 0.1270611°W / 51.5145306; -0.1270611Other informationNumber of rooms58

Covent Garden Hotel is a 5-star hotel in London, England.^[1] It is located in Monmouth Street 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 hotel's 58 bedrooms and suites are designed by co-owner and creative director 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 a restaurant called 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, Robert De Niro, Kiefer Sutherland and Kate Winslet.

Attic suite
Brasserie Max Restaurant & Bar

Notes

^ Katja Gaskell. "Lonely Planet review". Lonely Planet. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013.
^ Fiona Duncan (13 December 2009). "Country house hotels: New life in the country". The Daily Telegraph. London. Archived from the original on 15 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ Design Hotels Archived 2010-12-25 at the Wayback Machine, Retrieved 15 December 2009
^ "Courtney Love Trashes the Covent Garden Hotel". Hotel Chatter. 12 July 2007. Archived from the original on 18 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
^ "Not-so-simple Simon" by Andrew Billen, Evening Standard (London), 16 January 2002
^ Match Point Archived 2010-12-15 at the Wayback Machine at Film London
^ "Celebrity secrets: The city slickers". Archived from the original on 16 October 2009. Retrieved 26 December 2010.
^ Claire Rudebeck (16 February 2005): "Stockard Channing: One tough cookie" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine, The Independent

References

McGrath, Ginny (7 April 2009). "Covent Garden Hotel, Monmouth St, London, WC2". The Times. Retrieved 15 December 2009.
Burt, Paddy (11 March 2000). "Paddy Burt: The Covent Garden Hotel, London". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 18 December 2009. Retrieved 15 December 2009.