Review of Colonnade Hotel, by The TI Review Team

By TI writer Caitlin Kasunich:

The cosy and intimate Colonnade Hotel resides in one of London's most scenic areas, near Regent's Canal. Sightseers and business folk alike find their perfect home-away-from-home here. Just a short walk from Warwick Avenue underground station, the Colonnade is a 15-minute tube ride from major London hotspots including the West End, Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square and Marble Arch. Guests can also reach Regent's Park, Hyde Park and Notting Hill by taxi.

The Colonnade's quiet and comfortable reception area looks and feels like a family living room, with its cosy green couches, brown leather chairs, fireplaces, antique-style wooden reception desk, brown rug with vine designs and pink, red and white flowers. The coffee table at the centre of the room has neatly placed newspapers and charming old-fashioned lamps that cast soft light against the walls.

Guests enjoy free Wi-Fi throughout the building, as well as 24-hour room service. Dine in the breakfast room, which serves anything from warm pancakes and egg sandwiches to cheesy omelettes and frothy cappuccinos. Additionally, the interconnected "e bar" serves great cocktails, tapas, wines, meat platters, burgers and desserts and even has its own weekend barbeque menu during the summer.

There is a gorgeous terrace and elegant outdoor dining area with umbrella-covered tables and chairs alongside bright and colourful flowers and greenery. Best of all, guests can cuddle with the hotel cat who roams the public rooms throughout the day.

Each of the Colonnade's 43 rooms and three suites on the hotel's four floors enjoy traditional English styling. Guests surely will not be disappointed with the luxurious deluxe rooms, gorgeous studio suites and spacious single rooms. The rooms' calm ambience makes it easy to forget that you are, in fact, away from your home.

Furthermore, the deluxe rooms provide a most soothing and relaxing atmosphere with red carpeting, four-poster beds, golden wallpaper and red-cushioned chairs. Equally comfortable are the studio suites with their high ceilings and high windows. Each room also has a flat-screen television, as well as marvellous marble bathrooms.