Durrants
With gilt-framed paintings, a panelled dining room and ‘quiet corners and pretty public spaces to sit and chat in’, the Miller family’s hotel steeps in an ‘old-worldly Edwardian club atmosphere’ in the ‘restless heart of the town’. More
Contact details
Hotel information
Bedrooms
92. 7 on ground floor.
Open
all year, restaurant closed 25 Dec evening.
Facilities
lifts, bar, restaurant, lounge, function rooms, free Wi-Fi, in-room TV (Freeview), use of nearby fitness club.
Background music
none.
Children
all ages welcomed.
Dogs
allowed in George bar.
Credit cards
Amex, MasterCard, Visa.
Prices
[2017] room from £175. Set menus £19.75–£22.75, à la carte £45 (plus 12½% discretionary service charge).
Good Hotel Guide Review
With gilt-framed paintings, a panelled dining room and ‘quiet corners and pretty public spaces to sit and chat in’, the Miller family’s hotel steeps in an ‘old-worldly Edwardian club atmosphere’ in the ‘restless heart of the town’. Despite the traditional feel, time hasn’t stood still: a return visitor was ‘impressed by the improvements they’ve made over the years, including refurbished bathrooms and bedroom decor, and more generous lounge areas’. Guide readers in 2017 praise the attention to detail throughout: the silver-plated teapots, the ‘gleaming brass rails’, the ‘neat period uniforms’ for chambermaids, the ‘very welcome tea’ after a day in town. ‘How splendid that such a place lives on!’ Follow ‘winding corridors’ to the ‘well-appointed bedrooms’ – the quietest overlook a mews at the rear. In the restaurant, the cooking ‘speaks of older, comforting verities’, perhaps roast duck, purple kale, orange and golden raisin sauce. (A set menu is ‘sufficient, and well priced’.) At an ‘extensive, tasty breakfast’, find ‘good healthy options and plenty of cooked delights’. (Keith Salway, Max Lickfold, Ralph G Wilson)
Tourist attractions
Wallace Collection
Home to one of Europes finest collections of works of art, paintings, furniture, arms & armour and porcelain.
Regent's Park
410 acres of stunning parkland, with rose gardens and lakes.
The Providores
Good Food Guide recommended tapas restaurant.
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