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from: Red Carnation Hotels
www.redcarnationhotels.com
Source: Arnelle Kendall
Published: December 30, 2007

ABOVE: The Milestone hotel and apartments.

Red Carnation's Milestone and 41 hotels earn top rankings from Travel & Leisure

Travel & Leisure has just published its famous annual 500 World's Best Hotels list, naming London's top hotels for 2008. But the Number One and Number Two spots are not taken by Claridge's, the Dorchester or the Ritz where rooms now start in excess of $1000 a night, although those famous hotels are also on the list.

No, London's Number One hotel for 2008 is The Milestone, a boutique hotel of just 57 rooms and six apartments in the Red Carnation Hotel Collection. Situated opposite Kensington Palace on the edge of Hyde Park, rooms at The Milestone are from $730 a night. "A refined, residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like English sweets at turndown", is how Travel & Leisure describes the atmosphere at this stunning Kensington hotel, where, in the words of management, "no request is too large, no detail is too small".

Highlights of a stay at The Milestone include traditional English cream tea In the Park Lounge, a gorgeous parlour with roaring fire and sumptuous fabrics; 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".

Guest rooms, naturally, feature London's most comfortable beds with the highest quality linens; marble bathrooms with great lighting; imaginatively stocked minibars; and the latest, 21st-Century in-room technology, including free WiFi and Internet; plasma screen TVs; two-line telephones; and night-light clips for the best bedtime stories.

The runner-up: Red Carnation's 41.

Travel & Leisure's Number Two spot in London goes to another boutique hotel in the Red Carnation collection, 41. Situated opposite Buckingham Palace's Royal Mews, T & L describes 41 as a "discreet and private retreat with a private club air".

Comprising just 30 rooms, this is a boutique property for discerning guests who know they've 'arrived' without having to shout about it. A resident-only entrance offers access to the fifth floor reception. Guests are offered champagne upon arrival, in-room massage is available round the clock, and 'business-ready' guest-rooms offer the last word in comfort and cutting-edge technology.

These First and Second ratings are a superb acknowledgment for the luxury brand of Red Carnation, which now comprises six hotels in London as well as a Relais & Châteaux hotel in Dorset, along with hotels in Geneva, Palm Beach, Cape Town the Western Cape and Durban (re-opens 2009).

For more information and reservations call The Milestone Hotel directly at +44 (0) 20 7917 1000. Email bookms@rchmail.com and www.milestonehotel.com. To contact 41, call the hotel directly at +44 (0) 20 7300 0041. To book online email: book41@rchmail.com or visit us at www.41hotel.com.

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