Lonely Planet Review
Slick and smooth, this hotel plays host to the likes of low-key moguls and secretive stars who appreciate staying in surrounds that are straight out of an interior-design periodical. Every superstylish mod con (including DVD players) is provided; in fact the trinkets and fittings in this place will have your 'klepto' impulses twitching.
There are only 34 rooms available, giving the hotel the exclusive feel so elusive to the other top-end inns in this part of town (where hundreds are crammed into identical 'could be anywhere' luxury boxes). But this place wants to be remembered, and so service is bend-over-backwards helpful, you can choose between two colour schemes for your room and the dining and drinking options are actually cool places to be seen. The Establishment Bar is where young guns and the achingly attractive try to hear themselves chatted up. At Hemmesphere an air of exclusivity doesn't preclude you from having a ball (and buying the matching CD). Besides all that is the stellar sushi restaurant Sushi e. A world within a world really.
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Sally O'Brien