Inside a West London lodge simply minutes from world-class museums

The Kensington lodge lies in a London residential backwater – however this five-star property with a white stucco façade and a obscure Pride & Prejudice vibe deserves a torrent of reward.

Not least for the torrent of water that gushed by way of our rainshower head.

I’m not typically minded to start a lodge evaluation by waxing lyrical a couple of bathe, however this was one thing particular – so highly effective I used to be left questioning if the lodge had diverted a Thames tributary by way of the first-floor plumbing into our ensuite.

At first, I used to be nearly too scared to face beneath it, fearing that what few hair follicles stay on my head is perhaps blasted off.

It transpired to be splendidly invigorating, a welcome wake-up support for a day on which prime kind can be wanted – for we had been benefiting from the lodge’s proximity to the V&A and taking our younger daughter to the museum’s ‘Gabrielle Chanel – Fashion Manifesto’ exhibition (which runs to March 10). And who is aware of what tantrums we’d must cope with, French high fashion not essentially a prime precedence for a six-year-old.

MailOnline Travel’s Ted Thornhill checked in to The Kensington lodge in west London, staying in a room much like the one above 

Ted writes: ‘The Kensington lodge lies in a London residential backwater – however this five-star property with a white stucco façade and a obscure Pride & Prejudice vibe deserves a torrent of reward’

Fuel for the foray got here within the type of a frankly magnificent breakfast within the lodge’s elegant Town House restaurant.

For £40, we had been in a position to choose a veritable banquet – croissants, eggs benedict, fruits, cheeses, and charcuterie.

The amiable waiter forgot our sourdough toast twice over (the reminder he’d forgotten it… was forgotten about). But it turned out for one of the best – our menu eyes had been too large for our stomachs and we virtually rolled out of the lodge’s double-framed doorways.

The V&A helps to kind a cluster of world-class museums – together with the Science Museum and Natural History Museum – that’s only a 10-minute stroll from The Kensington.

What’s extra, the lodge can furnish company with tickets for reveals which are bought out to most of the people.

Ted is filled with reward for his room’s ensuite, noting that the bathe was notably highly effective

Ted loved a Sunday roast on the lodge and a ‘veritable banquet’ of a breakfast

All the tickets for the Chanel present had been vacuumed up months earlier than we checked in, however the property was in a position to subject us with three passes.

Not that my daughter appreciated this. She declared herself bored three minutes into the beautiful show of Chanel clothes and writhed round on the ground to press house the purpose.

My French accomplice was in heaven, although.

Ted describes The Kensington as ‘a gem of a lodge in a gem of a location’

The lodge furnished Ted and his household with tickets to the V&A’s bought out ‘Gabrielle Chanel – Fashion Manifesto’ exhibition 

Rooms at The Kensington begin from round £250 per evening

Contentment was evenly unfold again within the lodge, the place all of us revelled in our room’s sleek luxurious.

Our quarters housed not solely an epic bathe, however a claw-foot tub, a four-poster mattress, and crowd pleasing floral wallpaper and equally patterned curtains. And the baby liked the tippee that served as her personal mini ‘bedroom’.

We didn’t handle to squeeze in a drink within the lodge’s decadently styled bar, with its plush furnishings and polished wooden panels, however earlier than leaving for house we did pattern a formidable Sunday roast, served for we dad and mom as an inviting platter for 2.

It was a bit of on the luke-warm facet, however the cuts of beef had been mouthwatering, because the waiter promised they might be.

Thinking of a keep in London? Put The Kensington in your radar – it’s a gem of a lodge in a gem of a location, and assured to make a splash if energy showers are the precedence.

The Kensington has upcoming partnerships with the V&A for ‘Fragile Beauty: Visions from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’ and ‘NAOMI’. Guests can take pleasure in an in a single day keep on the property, together with a full English breakfast on the Town House restaurant, and obtain two tickets to the exhibition.