Cocktails in a hotel lobby are a great way to get the tourist experience in London without actually spending half your rent in a hotel in London. I actually prefer hotel bars to the actual hotel room. The hotel bar is like dating before the relationship, the hotel is on its best sparkly behaviour, it's guests are at their most interesting and no matter what your budget, the decor is the same for the prince as it is for the pauper. That and the fact that when you stay in a hotel room, all you is sleep and shower- the essential boring stuff. In a hotel bar you talk, laugh, drink and drink some more.
So long as we are evaluating hotel bars the 45 Park Lane, is a great place to go. Set on actual park lane, we now enter premium Monopoly board territory.
I had always seen its impressive artists Art Deco exterior and wanted to go in, and so the other day, I decided I would.
The bar is upstairs, the seating is comfy, the colours warm and the art engaging.
The staff are friendly and come around with bowls and bowls of delicious butter salt garlic popcorn as well as offering great service.
I ordered my signature Margharita love, and being a tequila fanatic found it to be exquisite.
It had soft jazz playing in the lobby, and all in all - if this was a date with 45 Park Lane, I would certainly be up for a second, and perhaps even up for a hotel room...
