Luxury Travel Directory

Oakley Court Hotel is an elegant country house hotel in the South East of England. This unique Victorian Gothic country house is set on the banks of the River Thames in 35 acres of landscaped gardens. It’s location in Windsor makes it within easy reach of London and Heathrow Airport.

Once owned by Lord Otho Fitzgerald, the Gothic styling and proximity to Bray Studios made it a popular film location. It was used as the St Trinians school house, a number of Hammer films and also as Dr. Frank N Furter’s castle in the Rocky Horror Show.

Today, Oakley Court is a luxury hotel and a grand wedding venue.

Oakley Court
Windsor Road
Water Oakley
Windsor
SL4 5UR

Tel: 01753 609988
Fax: 01628 637011

Website: Oakley Court

Warren House is one of the finest, dedicated conference, training and meeting venues in the United Kingdom. This majestic country house is situated within the M25, which makes it well suited for travel from London. From it’s commanding position on the exclusive Coombe Estate close to Richmond Park, Warren House makes a great base for team building, conferences and much more.

Warren House was built in 1884, and in the early 1900s it was often visited by royalty. Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, George V and Queen Mary, often stayed at Warren House on private visits. King Edward’s bedroom is still there, along with a magnificent ballroom, modelled on the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

Completely restored to it’s former glory, the house has also been brought right up to date with internet and WiFi throughout, along with a slew of other features. Warren House has 3 conference rooms, 6 meeting rooms, 45 bedrooms and a host of leisure facilities including an indoor swimming pool. The main dining room seats 80 people comfortably in the informal but elegant atmosphere of the former Persian Room.

The house is also available to hire as an exclusive wedding venue. Warren House have only a limited number of wedding dates available each year. Which is not too surprising since wedding parties have the exclusive use of this beautiful Victorian mansion and grounds.

Warren House
Warren Road,
Kingston-upon-Thames
Surrey
KT2 7HY

Tel: +44 (0)20 8547 1777
Fax: +44 (0)20 8547 1175

Website: Warren House

The 16th century Elizabethan Billesley Manor is located in 11 acres of beautiful Warwickshire countryside near to Stratford-upon-Avon. Dripping with history this fine hotel is an inspiring location.

72 country and contemporary bedrooms along with a restaurant praised by Egon Ronay and awarded 2 AA Rosettes make this a fine location for leisure or business. The Billesley Manor Hotel also makes a fantastic wedding venue.

Billesley Manor Hotel
Billesley,
Nr Alcester,
Stratford-upon-Avon,
Warwickshire
B49 6NF

Tel: +44 (0) 1789 279955
Fax: +44 (0) 1789 764145
Billesley Manor Hotel Website

Lower Slaughter Manor is a regal manor house set in the beautiful village of Lower Slaughter in the Cotswolds, England. Offering luxury accomodation and fine cuisine, it makes a spectacular wedding venue and idylic honeymoon retreat.

The Lower Slaughter Restaurant offers the finest cuisine and wines along with a spectacular 17th century private dining room for up to 20 guests. With a wonderful mix of contemporary and classic decor, the Lower Slaughter Manor is available for business and private functions.

Facilities include over 5 acres of landscaped gardens, with fine specimen trees, a croquet lawn and tennis court.

It’s setting in this pretty English village in the heart of the Cotswolds makes it well placed to explore this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Lower Slaughter Manor is now part of the von Essen Hotels ‘Classic Set’, which includes Cliveden.

Lower Slaughter Manor Hotel
Lower Slaughter,
Gloucestershire,
GL54 2HP

Tel: +44 (0) 1451 820 456
Fax: +44 (0) 1451 822 150
Lower Slaughter Manor Website

View images of the iChauffeur Rolls-Royce Phantom shot in the grounds of Lower Slaughter Manor.

In 1828, William Crockford established Crockfords of St James on the principles of fine dining, opulent surroundings and select membership. This exclusive Mayfair private members gaming club once enjoyed the patronage of the Duke of Wellington. For over 175 years the founding principles of Crockfords have been maintained in the elegant 18th century building in Curzon Street, Mayfair.

30 Curzon Street
London
W1J 7TN

Tel: 0207 493 7771
Fax: 0207 629 3257

Website: Crockfords Website

Rules has the distinction of being London’s oldest restaurant. Established by Thomas Rule in 1798, Rules is known for it’s traditional British cuisine.

Classic game cookery, oysters, pies and puddings are all on the menu of this fine restaurant in Covent Garden. Much of the menu is sourced from their Lartington Estate, in the High Pennines, including high quality game birds, roe deer and Belted Galloway beef. Rules is renowned for its game dishes and the Game Season plays an important part in shaping the menu.

Rules has four private dining rooms, suitable for groups between 7 and 18 people. Along with a dedicated team of staff trained to make dining in these unique, historical rooms a memorable and unique experience.

Rules Restaurant
35 Maiden Lane
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 7LB

Tel: +44 (0)207 836 5314
Tel: +44 (0)207 379 0258 (Private Room Reservations)

Website: Rules Restaurant

The Ivy is possibly the most celebrity-strewn eating place in London, where actors from the city’s West End theatres mix with politicians and celebrities of every hue. One is advised to book well in advance as it is always very hard to get a table here, but The Ivy is certainly worth the effort.

There is the air of an old gentleman’s club about the place with it’s oak panels, soft lighting and 1920s stained glass windows.

The food is mainly British/European, with a few influences from further afield. But classic British dishes such as Fish and Chips and Welsh Rarebit appear regularly on the menu, giving the place a delightful lack of pretentiousness. It was this atmosphere that encouraged the restaurant to be frequented by Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier and many other of Britain’s finest actors and actresses. Indeed, even the restaurant’s name has a theatrical lineage.

When the Actress, Alice Delysia, overheard Abel Glandellini apologising to customers for the inconvenience of building work in the restaurant when he was enlarging the dining room, she said, “Don’t worry, we will always come to see you, we will cling together like the ivy.”

The name stuck. And a legend was born.

The Ivy,
1 West Street,
LONDON,
WC2H 9NE
Tel: (020) 7836 4751

When Rowley Leigh opened this stylish and contemporary west London restaurant in 1987, it proved an immediate hit; not only with London’s media elite, who swarm to it every night, but also with The London Times’ food critics who rewarded it with their coveted Restaurant of the Year Award after stating, “This is the place, and about time too”.

KP has since almost doubled in size and yet continues to be as busy as ever, proving that it’s standards remain as high today as they were when Lady Diana used to list this amongst her favourite London restaurants.

The modern decor - with it’s enormous signature plate glass windows - guarantees a “see and be seen” factor, which has always been one of the restaurant’s attractions. This, coupled with the space’s madly buzzing ambience, has ensured it’s popularity into the new millennium.

However, it is for it’s food that Kensington Place is most renowned. Indeed, Leigh could be said to have started the current food renaissance as both KP’s style and Leigh’s food have gone on to be recognised as ”the most plagiarised and influential of the last decade”.

Kensington Place,
201 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LX 
Tel: (020) 7727 3184
Email: kpparty@egami.co.uk
Website: Kensington Place

The phrase, ‘weekend in the country’ could be said to have been invented at The Grove. Regular visitors such as Queen Victoria, Edward VII, Horace Walpole and Lord Palmerston would arrive on Saturday, returning to London on Monday morning. Owned by the 4th Earl of Clarendon, The Grove became a fashionable weekend retreat.

Today, The Grove is a five star hotel, set in three hundred acres of woodland and parkland, complimented by an 18 hole championship golf course and a rejuvinating spa. Tennis and croquet in the Walled Garden complete the experience. Awarded AA Hotel of the Year 2005, the 227 sumptuous and luxurious rooms and suites range from the luxurious to the truly palatial. Three restaurants along with meeting rooms create the perfect base for business or pleasure. Situated 40 minutes from central London, The Grove is ideal for short or longer stays.

The Grove Hotel
Chandler’s Cross,
Hertfordshire,
WD3 4TG
Note: some satellite navigation systems may use the postcode WD17 3TU.

Tel: +44 (0) 1923 807807
Fax: +44 (0) 1923 221008

The Grove Official Site

Located in Belgravia, adjacent to Buckingham Palace, The Goring Hotel was first opened in 1910 and was the first hotel to have private bathrooms and central heating in every bedroom.
Dine at their luxurious restaurant and sample some delicious menus. Vegetarians are also deliciously catered for.
Treat someone to a Goring gift voucher so they can experience it for themselves. The gift vouchers include champagne afternoon tea for two. lunch for two, dinner for two, a night to remember and not forgeting the champagne weekend.
Meetings, Weddings and Private Parties are also catered for.

The Goring
Beeston Place
London
SW1W 0JW

Tel: +44 (0) 20 7396 9000
Fax: +44 (0) 20 7834 4393

The Goring Official Site