London: Rubens at the Palace (4 Star Hotel)

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Address: 39 buckingham palace road , London SW1W 0PS, United kingdom
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Lonely Planet review

  • Katja Gaskell
  • Lonely Planet author
Unless you've got connections with the Royal Family, this is about as close as you'll get to having tea with the Queen. Opposite Buckingham Palace, with views over the Royal Mews, it's perhaps not surprising to find that the Rubens is a firm favourite with Americans looking for that quintessential British experience.

With decor and service as traditional as high tea, the Rubens doesn't disappoint. The rooms are octogenarian chic full of heavy patterned fabrics, dark wood, thick drapes and crowns above the beds. For those really keen to live the Royal high life there are also eight individually themed Royal Suites housed in a private wing and named after British Monarchs. Downstairs the carvery restaurant might remind Brits of Sunday lunches at their local Beefeater restaurant, and the Cavalry Bar smacks of British colonialism, but to be fair the Rubens does an excellent job keeping traditional Britain alive and well, even if it is only within these four walls.

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