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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Jonathan Prynn

London's five-star hotel 'gold rush' gathers pace as well heeled tourists flock to the capital

The former US embassy on Grosvenor Square will be reborn at the Chancery Rosewood next summer - (Handout via David Chipperfield Architects)

London is on the brink of a new luxury hotel “gold rush” with destinations offering hundreds of five-star level rooms and suites due to open over the next 18 months.

Hoteliers have been encouraged by the response to the first wave of grand new launches that began last autumn when the Peninsula at Hyde Park Corner and the Raffles London at the OWO in Whitehall became the capital’s first billion-pound hotels.

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