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May 18, 2014 | 5:28 am

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IB6825

Join Date: Jan 2012

Location: ZRH

Programs: TK Miles&Smiles Elite, IB Plus Plata

Posts: 62

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/ho...on-review.html

'Take the Bulgari, London’s newest enclave for the super rich. It’s bland. It’s humourless. It’s overpriced.'

'All 85 bedrooms are spacious, extremely comfortable and superbly kitted out, but they are all the same, their big excitement being bedheads and curtains based on a 19th-century Bulgari brooch design (the company started as Italian silversmiths) and the clever minibars that look like steamer trunks. The restaurant, down a swirling, gleaming staircase, could be on a cruise ship.'

'Designed by Antonio Citterio and Partners, also responsible for Bulgari Milan and Bulgari Bali, the granite grey lobby is deliberately pared down to resemble a ‘des res’ rather than a grand hotel, but it only succeeds in feeling sombre, and the acres of too glossy sapele wood veneer are repetitive, while the sweeping stainless steel staircase to the restaurant reminds me of a cruise ship.'

'The prices of the grandest of London hotels, but with none of the fun.'

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