St. Pancras Renaissance hotel opens
At last, the St Pancras Renaissance has opened in St. Pancras station. The Gothic Revival railway hotel, built by George Gilbert Scott in 1869-1876, has undergone an impressive £200m refurb. The station’s former taxi lane has been turned into a beautiful lobby, the old ticket office is now a resto-bar (Marcus Wareing’s British brasserie ‘The Gilbert Scott’ opens shortly) and the former Ladies’ Smoking Room is a chic events venue. Attention to detail is superlative, with original artworks from the Royal Academy on the walls, gold-leaf stencils on ceilings, old-school tipples in the bar and low lighting that apes original Victorian gasoliers. Rates start at £300 and rise to around £14,000 a night for the royal suite.
To book, see stpancrasrenaissance.com.
Contact the hotel’s historian, Royden Stock (07778 932359) for tours of the building (90 min tours cost £20 per person; max 6 people).
[...] the success of his eponymous restaurant in The Berkeley with The Gilbert Scott which opens in the St. Pancras Renaissance today. The vast Victorian hotel, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, lay derelict for years and was [...]
[...] the success of his eponymous restaurant in The Berkeley with The Gilbert Scott which opens in the St. Pancras Renaissance today. The vast Victorian hotel, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, lay derelict for years and was [...]