On Wednesday, the 14th
of August, the EMC3 team had the pleasure to spend their evening at the site of
Queen Elizabeth II former residence, the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel. Hyde
Park and Green Park, which are just a few steps away, inspire the whole of the
interior of the hotel.
After walking in,
Theo Randall’s restaurant is on your right, which is voted the “finest Italian
in London” and prepares Italian food with the finest seasonal ingredients. The
restaurant provides a big general seating area as well as a private dining
room, which seats 24 people at the private dinner table.
The Chef Theo Randall is known for taking very good care of his guests, will
interact with them when he is onsite and also has cookery activities offered on
selected Saturdays from 10am to 3pm where he passes on tips he has compiled
from 20 years’ experience in top kitchens around the world.
Apart from dining in
Randall’s restaurant, hotel guests can also spend their time in the Cookbook Café
or the Club InterContinental, which is available exclusively to guests with
permitted access and offers a great view over the London skyline and boosting
views of Wellington Arch.
The recently
renovated events floor offers 12 rooms for meetings for any occasion providing
a view overlooking Park Lane and a huge ballroom, which can accommodate up to
750 people for a dinner and 1000 for a drinks reception. It can also be broken
down into three spaces.
Looking at the
accommodation, guests can enjoy sweeping views of London in one of the 387
elegant Rooms featuring timeless English interiors and 60 expansive and
luxurious designer Suites to accommodate both the modern man and the
quintessentially British woman.
In addition to the
exclusive rooms and restaurants, the Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel also
provides a Spa, which comprises of five treatment rooms and an additional VIP
treatment suite for couples and private parties. Featuring state-of-the-art
facilities and an expert team of therapists, the luxurious spa offers
innovative treatments and packages using products from luxury British spa and
skincare brand Elemis. Moreover the Spa is designed to meet also the demand of
the modern man and is open 9am – 9pm Monday to Friday, and from 10am – 6pm on
Saturday and Sunday.
For those who love to
go to their limits there is also a Health and Fitness Center, which provides
all the latest cardiovascular equipment and plenty of space for free weights
and stretching.
At the end of our
site visit at the Intercontinental Park Lane Hotel we relaxed in the Arch Bar
enjoying champagne and a plethora of canapés including onion bhajis in mango
sauce, chicken skewers in honey, lamb koftas in mint yogurt sauce, cheese cones
with humus, rye on salmon with horseradish, carnation chicken on a crumb
biscuit and a never ending trio of nibbles including sun dried vegetable
crisps, rosemary cashew nuts, and green olives.
Overall we had a
really great time at the InterContinental London Park Lane Hotel!
written by Helene
