Smith reviews: magnificent Mayfair base Brown’s Hotel in London
Posted by Lucy on December 28th, 2008Yes, that’s right – it’s new-review time again! Every time we publish an anonymously conducted hotel review by Mr & Mrs Smith, we’ll let you know here on the Smith Travel Blog, so you can keep pace with our global wanderings. We visit every property in our hand-picked hotel collection in person, just to check they’re still delivering on their promises and keeping us hungry for more.
The Smiths aren’t always gallivanting round the globe though, and are often to be found closer to home - sometimes even virtually next-door in London: wherever they lay their heads (as Paul Young might have sung), that’s their home…
Here’s a snippet from the latest Mr & Mrs Smith stay at Brown’s Hotel, an elegant in-town escape in London:
Our flat may only be a 20-minute tube ride away, but it may as well be in Adelaide for all the thought we’ll be giving it over the next couple of days. The plants have been watered, the timer on the cat feeder has been set and we’re affecting the air of a couple who regularly frequent this W1 grande dame. Well, Mrs Smith is. I’m still in mildly scruffy work garb. We down our drinks, and check into our Deluxe Suite, leaving instructions for a bottle of Prosecco and an ironing board to be sent up.
Our beautiful suite – all subtle design flourishes and antique furniture – feels like the London pad of a fabulously wealthy gay uncle who subscribes to Attitude as well as The Stage. There’s a mahogany table for six over there, beneath an art deco mirror and shelves of what look like well-thumbed books; over there, there’s a B&O flatscreen TV and an enormous wall-mounted photograph of Milla Jovovich in The Fifth Element. The decor is all cream and brown, and the overall effect manages to be both hip and homely. That’s just the living room.…
You can read the full Brown’s Hotel review now on the Mr & Mrs Smith website…
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