House too messy to deal with? Well you can shun responsibility for one more weekend when you enter our hot little competition to win a two-night stay, including full English breakfast each morning, in The Gore Hotel, London.
A simple brass plaque is all there is to tell you that you’ve arrived at The Gore in Queen’s Gate between fashionable Knightsbridge and Kensington, (and a short little stroll to Hyde Park). But once inside, prepare to enter a world of highly-polished antiques, oak paneling, rich fabrics and welcoming open fires. Quite perfect for the current arctic London climes, and cooling, we’re sure, in the summer.
The Gore’s 50 guest rooms are all highly individual – filled with antique furniture, period pictures and prints to make you feel as though you’re living in a perfectly English Jane Austin novel. Some rooms are even named after the celebrities who once stayed in them, including Judy Garland and Dame Nellie Melba.
Here too, the modern blends seamlessly with the traditional. The ornate beds, each an antique, are made up with pure white Egyptian cotton bed linen. Lounge to your heart’s content, and lie in for as long as you want! The bathrooms offer environmentally friendly products and every room is equipped with complimentary Wi-Fi access and a lovely flat-screen TV.
The Gore has a well-earned reputation throughout London for the fine food served in its informal and lively restaurant, Bistro One Ninety Queens Gate, which has been home to many a celebrated chef, didn’t you know? Might be worth checking it out – even if you don’t win the hotel stay there’s nothing stopping you going out for dinner.
Just a step across the hotel’s elegant entrance lobby is the world-famous candlelit Art Deco mahogany-paneled Bar 190 with its ornate plaster ceiling and intimate atmosphere, which attracts a mix of fascinating people. Here guests and local residents mingle with celebrities from the worlds of film, television, fashion and publishing. It’s a bit like a private party and you’re invited.
Let’s not forget the lovely Green Room – The Residents Drawing Room with its period paintings, where guests can take afternoon tea served by courteous and friendly staff. Or you might just settle for a quiet pre-dinner drink by a roaring winter fire. Whatever you do at The Gore, it’s bound to be a memory you’ll treasure long into the rest of the year.
Click here to enter the competition
or Book a weekend at The Gore Hotel here
i would like to have a diferent experiens , to winn a week -and in this hotel
Posted by: elena valiouk | 23/03/2007 at 05:50 PM
I would love to be pampered all weekend in this beautiful hotel, steeped in so much history and fame.
Posted by: Julie Clark | 23/03/2007 at 05:58 PM
I have stayed here and its lovely.Lots of unusual vodka's in the bar! Beautiful place.
Posted by: A | 23/03/2007 at 11:30 PM
I'm facinating, I'm a person, I deserve to be there.
Posted by: Liz Dudley | 24/03/2007 at 12:41 PM
It's my birthday and winning a trip would be a fantastic present!
Posted by: laura | 24/03/2007 at 03:31 PM
I would like to treat my husband who not to well at the present time.
Posted by: Mrs Mary Mcconnell | 24/03/2007 at 04:12 PM
for my daughter who will be 40
Posted by: val | 24/03/2007 at 05:47 PM
mmmm. This is the place for a romantic weekend.x The perfect time to propose to my better half.!
Posted by: helen louise | 24/03/2007 at 06:04 PM
My wife is always gesting about my age. It would be great to whisk her off for a break in such swanky surroundings as the Gore Hotel. Given pipe and slippers I expect she would see me fitting in just fine.
Posted by: Gordon Beardsley | 25/03/2007 at 07:20 PM
Hello
I am getting married this Autumn and we are unable to afford a honeymoon, we want our wedding day to be special and so have invited as many friends and family as we can afford to our day, which I have been planning tirelesly.
It would be fantastic if I was able to surprise Mark with a stay in such a beautiful hotel after our wedding.
Posted by: dawn winter | 26/03/2007 at 10:47 AM
I have just entered the competition and realised I should have commented sorry....I am entering this for my son and his girlfriend as he has lots of health problems and never complains and works hard, his girlfriend is a student, so they have no money to go away with, so this would be so lovely for them.
Thank you
Posted by: Sue Redford | 26/03/2007 at 12:04 PM
would just love to win a competition
Posted by: T Houston | 26/03/2007 at 12:13 PM
tired mom and dad- rejuvenation required + to win it would be bliss!
Posted by: christina colleran | 26/03/2007 at 01:11 PM
I have just entered the competition and realised I should have commented as well.... sorry...
To be honest SO sorry that I can't give any heart rending reasons for needing to win it. I just WANT to!!! If I do fabulous.... but if not I will get over it .... SOB!!
(Looks like it the ex services club at Waterloo and single beds and bathroom down the corridor for my birthday present again hun - would have been nice to get a double bed seeing as it IS my 50th Birthday this year - while I still know how to use one hun!)
"I am Unique" - But a bit too old for the Kensington Boutiques .... so a Unique Boutique Hotel may not want want me..... But I would love a bed with my Fifty and Foxy partner BEFORE I get too old - still flirty and forty until June. It would be nice for a night or two to luxuraite in something that does not look like Tracey Emmin's latest masterpiece - and if it is the four poster - can I 1) have a step ladder??? & 2) Do you provide silk scarves - I will need at LEAST 4 of them ........ :) XXX
Posted by: Teresa Reynolds | 27/03/2007 at 12:02 AM
Just Realised - 190 Queensgate - That address Rang a HUGE BEll - Total Blast from the Past .... I am sure that it used to be THE Chef's Club, I used to talk to a very young Anthony Worrell Thompson on the phone when he placed his orders for catering equipment and other stuff way back then when I worked for a supplier of cutlery china and knives and stuff .... It was also the place all the chefs congregated AFTER they finished work late at night in the West End in the very early 1990's to chill out - NOW I REALLY WANT THAT WEEKEND - a chance for someone who is still works in the Catering Industry to go to the original Chef's club & get Star Treatment instead of giving it 24/7!!!!! Pick Me.. Pick Me .. Pick Me.. !!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Teresa Reynolds | 27/03/2007 at 12:19 AM
I'd love to give my wife a break from the building site that we call home.
Posted by: Gareth Holt | 27/03/2007 at 11:02 AM
I bet this is the closest thing to stepping back in time you can get. I would love to get my crinolines out and sashay around this place!
Posted by: Tracy Manzi | 29/03/2007 at 09:27 PM