The Royal Garden Hotel

There are several London Underground tube lines close by including:  

• High Street Kensington (District and Circle Lines)
• Gloucester Road (Piccadilly, District and Circle Lines)
• South Kensington (Piccadilly, District and Circle Lines)

Royal Garden Hotel is a 5 red star hotel in London, England. It is located in the heart of Kensington, on Kensington High Street, overlooking Kensington Palace and gardens. The palace, Hyde Park and the Royal Albert Hall can all be seen from the hotel.

What is now the Royal Garden Hotel was originally built in the 1800s under the name of the Palace Hotel with a completely different image and layout. As part of the war effort in the 1900s it was taken over and used as the headquarters for the Woman's Royal Voluntary Service. In the 1960s, as part of a Labour Government grant the hotel was demolished and completely rebuilt under the design of Colonel Richard Seiffert. After five years of construction the hotel re-opened in 1965 under the Royal Garden Hotel brand, as it stands today.

In 1994 the Royal Garden Hotel undertook a 30 million pound refurbishment, opening again for guests in April 1996, under the management of the Goodwood Group. The Royal Garden is one of three partner hotels, the other two being the Goodwood Park and the York Hotel.