ApartHotels, townhouse suites—whatever you call them, these modular rental flats with a front desk balance some degree of hotel-like services (concierge, housekeeping) with the benefits of having your own apartment
ApartHotels, townhouse suites—whatever you call them, these modular rental flats with a front desk balance some degree of hotel-like services (concierge, housekeeping) with the benefits of having your own apartment
Serviced flats, residence hotels, Aparthotels, and other townhouse suite lodging in the U.K.
Serviced flats are a cross between a hotel and a rental—You get your own mini-apartment, but with hotel-like services (front desk/concierge; housekeeping, etc.)
A Kensington Hotel with remarkably inexpensive apartments and an amazing Penthouse flat
Luxury apartments 100 meters from St. Paul's Cathedral
Your own modern London flat overlooking the Tower of London and the Thames River
A serviced flat combines the space and freedom (and kitchenette) of an apartment with some hotel-like serviced (front desk, housekeeping, etc.)
Modern serviced flats in Greenwich, London
Modern serviced apartments in a Georgian building just SW of the Roman baths
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.