Victoria Station and the Grosvenor Hotel

Guoman Grosvenor Hotel

Victoria Station with Grosvenor Hotel at far right

 

Map of Victoria Station neighborhood

Station and hotel at red marker

Square tan building just under words 'Green Park' is Buckingham Palace

Apsley house at the far left upper corner

 

  

The little map above shows the position of Victoria Station and the hotel, which you can see on any London map.  I can't imagine any more efficient location for almost every London attraction.

 

 

Victoria Station interior

 

Victoria Station itself is the second busiest in London (after Waterloo Station), with many rail lines to destinations in south and southeast England, including the Gatwick Express.  The Circle and District tube lines and the Victoria line stop here, and the Victoria Coach Terminal is adjacent.  The station has many shops, bars, and food sources, right at hand.  An upgrade of the facility is planned for the next few years, to include more escalators and improved accessibility.

  

Guoman Grosvenor Hotel

 

The hotel has been newly refurbished and updated, at a cost of  £20 million. The Grosvenor (not to be confused with Grosvenor House, another London hotel on Park Lane) was opened in 1862, one of the earliest of London's Victorian Railway Hotels built beside railroad stations.

 

 

 

Many of these old hotels had declined into disuse in the past decades, and the Guoman Grosvenor is not the only one to be newly redone.  I recently wrote about the St. Pancras Renaissance hotel, formerly the Midland Grand Hotel, and the Great Northern Hotel at King's Cross, both on Euston Road, here. 

 

 

Réunion Bar

 

                

Guoman Grosvenor Hotel

 

 

The hotel website is here.  Hope to see you on this street in September, 2014.

 

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