ohhh it’s the little things we like

There’s a lot of hotels in the big smoke of course, but how many of them lend you a bicycle so you can go whizzing round the royal parks at your leisure? How many hotels get their honey directly from those royal parks? and and anndddd how many of those hotels have a garden bloomin err… blooming literally right up their very building?! Well, if you didn’t answer the Athenaeum by now, you clearly need to go and have a good butchers at their fine establishment…..

This is the honeycomb which is in the restaurant (season permitting of course) for each breakfast, the atmosphere is always err.. buzzing.

Of course the rest of the breakfast is spot on too, with a gorgeous array of various reserves & specialities based on seasonality.

And if after a great breakfast you need to work it all off, grab one of their bikes and go for a great jaunt around the parks!On your return from the parks, of course you cannot help but marvel at the vertical garden cascading up the building. The hotel even provides watering cans so you can join in on the gardening….. go on, you know you want to

ok – final thing on these guys from me, one of their doorman holds an astonishing talent, he remembers your name instantly, every time I’ve been back he opens the door and says ‘Good to see you Mr Kleinman’ apparently he does this with everyone (although doesn’t call them Mr Kleinman, that would just be weird), and he just needs to learn your name the once – considering the 1000s that pass through the doors each day, it’s pretty darn impressive, but from a hotel like this – it only seems perfectly natural!