The hotel is set in its own garden, overlooking Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, just one stop by underground from Marble Arch at the beginning of Oxford Street. This busy hotel, fashioned from a terrace of 19th-century houses, offers much to its many international tourist and business guests, with well appointed public rooms, extensive conference facilities, a hotel shop, and a spacious lounge and bar. This attractive and comfortable hotel overlooking Kensington Gardens, with its own gardens and Terrace, is only minutes away from the busy shopping areas of Oxford Street and Regent Street as well as the famous theatres and restaurants of London's popular West End. Refurbishment of all the bedrooms was completed in April 2000; they all have private facilities, colour TV with in-house movies, direct dial telephones and tea and coffee making facilities. Many of the hotel's bedrooms are air conditioned.