The Hospital Club, Covent Garden, London: hotel review

top 10 craft beer pubs in central London Such pampering can cost a pretty penny, of course. Not least at the Hospital Club, where the larger rooms (for the record, some of the most modishly handsome, comfortable and smoothly functional I have seen), can top £200 or even £300 a night. However, if you can bag one of the five starter rooms (these include two “sleeper” bedrooms with no natural light), you will – by central Londonstandards, where prices frequently spiral off into the stratosphere – have a relative £124-a-night bargain. Indeed, if you lie there considering endless Ren toiletries, your sumptuous bed or the macaroons and newspapers (albeit the Times) that appear at your door unbidden, you may find yourself, for the first time ever, praising Dave Stewart, of Eurythmics fame. He and Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, opened the Hospital Club on the Covent Garden/Holborn border in 2004, as a hub where creative and media types could – cough! – “Create. Connect. Collaborate.” Today, over seven floors, it variously contains a TV studio, a cinema, an art gallery and a private members’ club, comprising a restaurant and several bars, which guests using its 15 bedrooms have access to.