Chelsea Harbour Hotel

The hotel’s 158 suites offer a lot more space than the average London hotel room. All suites feature comfortable beds, a smart flatscreen television, tea and coffee making facilities and en suite bathroom facilities.

The four penthouse suites offer even more space and include extras including a private balcony and an extra guest bathroom as well as your choice of a walk-in wardrobe, a home cinema or a sauna.

The hotel’s dining options include the Chelsea Riverside Brasserie and the Harbour Bar and Terrace, which both have a British and Italian-inspired menu. The Chelsea Riverside Brasserie is the fancier option, whilst the Harbour Bar and Terrace offers a more casual dining environment.

Guests have access to the on-site health club, The Blue Harbour Spa, which includes a gym, sauna, steam room, spa treatment rooms and a 17m- (56 ft)-long swimming pool.

Free Wi-Fi wireless internet access is available throughout the hotel.

The hotel opened in the late 80s and it still exudes the tacky 80s-era design aesthetic, which can feel a bit brash and show-offy. Fortunately, a number of renovations over the years have softened the impact.

The hotel has a riverside location overlooking Chelsea Harbour (also known as Imperial Wharf). It is in a densely populated residential neighbourhood characterised by modern blocks of flats and a lovely riverside footpath and while the immediate vicinity around the hotel is not particularly charming, it is only a short walk to Chelsea or Fulham, which are both lovely established residential neighbourhoods with delightful local shopping streets.

It is a pleasant 15-minute walk to Fulham Broadway tube station and it is a 10-minute walk to the western end of Kings Road in Chelsea, although it will take you 35 minutes to walk all the way up Kings Road to Sloane Square.

Nearby points of interest include Stamford Bridge stadium, the Chelsea Physic Garden and the National Army Museum, which are all within a half-hour walk from the hotel.

It is only a two-minute walk to Imperial Wharf station, which has around five Overground train services running every hour in each direction. However, these trains don’t run directly into central London so you’ll need to either change for the District line at West Brompton (one stop north from Imperial Wharf) or change for a train to London Waterloo at Clapham Junction (one station south from Imperial Wharf).

The riverboat is a more pleasant, and more expensive, transport option into central London. From the hotel, it is only a four-minute walk to Chelsea Harbour Pier, which has ferries departing every half hour with a 28-minute journey time to Embankment Pier and a 35-minute journey time to Blackfriars Pier.