London: Posh or Common? (6/25-27/25)

Before we fly back to the states, Bob and I have a couple of days in London. This is the first blog of our London stay.

On Wednesday afternoon, Bob and I returned to the Xenia Hotel in the Kensington Borough of London, where we had stayed a couple of years ago. since it is part of the Marriott Autograph collection of hotels, we were able to get an early check in. Bob had upgraded our room so that there would be space for us and our 2 big bags. So posh.

I did our blog about our visit in Cambridge and then we walked for a little over an hour to the Dukes Hotel near Green Park.

We had headed to the Dukes Bar because Bob had researched the best bars in London to treat me to a Vesper cocktail, which is my favorite. We had read that the hotel was currently closed for renovations but that the bar was still open. What we had not read was that they had a dress code, and we were curtly told, luckily outside of the bar, that we could not enter due to no collars on our shirts. So common!

This morning we went down for the lovely buffet breakfast and while we were eating we heard the hostess tell people who weren’t staying at the hotel that the buffet cost $40 US. It was free for us as guests, so we were back to feeling rather posh.