Cadogan Hotel to Open in 2019 After Extensive Refurbishment

Belmond announced that the Cadogan Hotel in London will reopen in early 2019.

The 131-year-old Cadogan Hotel closed for a $48 million restoration project in 2014. Around the same time, hotel management was assumed by Belmond, which operates 45 hotels across the globe as well as the Venice Simplon-Orient-Express and the Belmond Royal Scotsman trains.

In its earliest days, the hotel became infamous for the arrest in 1895 of frequent guest Oscar Wilde for “committing acts of gross indecency with other male person,” an event immortalized by the poet laureate John Betjeman in his poem, The Arrest of Oscar Wilde.  Other well-known guests include the actress and reputed royal mistress Lillie Langtry and the explorer Sir Hans Sloane.

The 64-key hotel is located between Chelsea and Knightsbridge on Sloane Street. Many of the rooms, done in a traditional décor with marble bathrooms, offer city views.

Guests have access to the ornamental Cadogan Place Gardens and preferred access to the Cadogan Hall concert hall in Chelsea,

The hotel’s traditionally British restaurant, Adam Handing Chelsea, will offer cuisine from a kitchen under the direction of Chef Adam Handling.  The Terrace Café will serve coffee, tea, and light bites during the day, and the Cadogan Tea Lounge offers Afternoon Tea.

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