Hyde Park – 500 meters
Harrods - 1 mile (1.5 kilometers)
Knightsbridge - 1 mile (1.5 kilometers)
Portobello Road Market - 1 mile (1.5 kilometers)
Victoria & Albert Museum - 1 mile (1.5 kilometers)
Madame Tussauds - 1 mile (1.5 kilometers)
Buckingham Palace - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
West End (theater district) - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
Trafalgar Square - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
National Gallery - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
Oxford Street - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
Piccadilly Circus - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
Regents Park and London Zoo - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
British Museum - 2 miles (3 kilometers)
Covent Garden - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
Westminster Abbey - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
BA London Eye - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
Tower of London - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
Tate Britain - 3 miles (4 kilometers)
St Paul’s Cathedral - 4 miles (5.5 kilometers)
The City (business district) - 4 miles (5.5 kilometers)
Shakespeare’s Globe Theater - 4 miles (5.5 kilometers)
Tate Modern - 4 miles (5.5 kilometers)

London Heathrow Airport (LHG): Approximate driving time is 45 minutes and distance is 18 miles (27 kilometers).

The Heathrow Express train and black taxis are available for transfer from the airport to the center of London. The London Underground’s Piccadilly Line also serves all Heathrow terminals and takes passengers into central London.

The extensive London Underground system (the Tube) connects the hotel with the rest of central London within 20 minutes. The Underground station closest to the hotel is Paddington. There is also a wide choice of buses. The hotel can order black taxis on request.

This hotel has 192 guestrooms, 32 of which are located in an annex. These larger than average air-conditioned Executive Rooms (Suites) occupy two adjoining Victorian townhouses. Front-facing, 1st floor Executive Rooms have balconies. All feature king beds, brushed steel equipped kitchenettes, parquet flooring, mosaic bathrooms with make-up mirrors, heated towel rails, tubs or showers and marble vanity units. Amenities include irons and ironing boards, hair dryers, satellite TVs and multi-line phones. The main part of the hotel has 160 rooms accessible by lift with identical blue and red color schemes, pine furniture and clock radios. White-tiled bathrooms have checkerboard floors, shower handrails in tubs or stand-up showers.

Grosvenor Restaurant - The air-conditioned lower ground floor restaurant has cream and green William Morris wallpaper and mahogany upholstered chairs. A Continental buffet breakfast is served 7am-10am with a cooked breakfast available to order. At night a capacity of 60 guests can be served with dishes such as chili con carne and lamb cutlets. Vegetarian options are available and the wine list offers a good selection of world wines. Dinner is served 6pm-10.30pm daily.

Grosvenor Sports Bar - Adjacent to the restaurant, the snug bar has 10 round tables and a wood-topped bar. Licensed until 11pm and until midnight on Fridays and Saturdays, it serves alcoholic drinks, soft drinks and snacks.

What to expect: On a quiet terrace near Paddington Station, this large hotel comprises four well-maintained Victorian townhouses. Fresh flowers and a glass vase of apples greet guests upon entering the carpeted lobby. Guests are an equal mixture of up-market leisure travelers and business travelers. Families are made very welcome.

Amenity highlights: An elegant drawing room (high ceilings, William Morris wallpaper, gilded mirrors, mahogany furniture) offers high speed Internet access (fee) and there is a lower ground floor restaurant and bar where breakfast and dinner are served daily.

Insider tip: Victorian novelist, Charles Dickens, lived at No.1 Devonshire Terrace between 1839 and 1851. He wrote Nicholas Nickleby, A Christmas Carol and David Copperfield while living in this house. Track down more about the author at the Dickens House Museum, 48 Doughty Street, near Holborn tube station.

A high-ceilinged Victorian drawing room two steps up from reception has matching dark wood furniture, velvet-upholstered chairs, cream and green William Morris wallpaper, candelabras, several palms and a large gilt-edged mirror facing three bay windows. Two desks face the floor-to-ceiling windows, one of which offers high speed Internet access (fee).