41 and Milestone Receive Travel+Leisure's Highest Ratings
LONDON, UK, July 14, 2009 - The prestigious Travel+Leisure magazine has just published its famous annual World's Best Awards list, which ranks Europe's top hotels for 2009.
Travel+Leisure's Number Five spot goes to 41, a boutique property in the Red Carnation collection. Situated opposite Buckingham Palace's Royal Mews, T+L describes 41 as a "discreet and private retreat with a private club air". This subtle symphony of high technology and pure luxury is a haven for the business-savvy traveler and a cocoon for the discriminating guest. The pampering never ends. Guests help themselves to tasty treats in the pantry 24 hours a day, watch CNN on the plasma screen TV, and join the general manager in the evening for cocktails. A personal butler will coordinate a shopping trip, arrange for afternoon tea, and answer any technical questions at a moment's notice.
The Milestone Hotel, a boutique property of 57 rooms and 6 apartments in the Red Carnation Hotel collection, is placed in the Number Ten spot. Situated opposite Kensington Palace and Hyde Park, "a refined, residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like sweets at turndown", is how T+L describes the atmosphere at The Milestone. Highlights of a stay at The Milestone include traditional English cream tea In the Park Lounge, a gorgeous parlour with sumptuous fabrics and a roaring fire, cocktails in the Stables bar, and dinner in Cheneston's restaurant, which Tatler magazine has described as 'a brilliant address to have up your sleeve'.
These ratings in one of the world's most prestigious travel magazines are a superb acknowledgement of the luxury brand of Red Carnation, which now comprises six hotels in London as well as a Relais & Ch^ateaux hotel, Summer Lodge, in Dorset, along with hotels in Guernsey, Geneva, Palm Beach, Cape Town the Western Cape and Durban (re-opens 2009).
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