Situated in a leafy street in London's prestigious Knightsbridge area, Parkes Hotel is set in a tall Victorian townhouse 100 metres from Harrods. All 33 air conditioned guestrooms feature decor in a traditional English style, with dark wood furniture, rich colours and heavy drapes. Bathrooms are marble and feature under floor heating, power showers and Molton Brown toiletries. Rooms have Egyptian cotton sheets, cable television, DVD and CD players, wireless Internet access, minibars and laptop sized safes. Complimentary copies of The Times are delivered daily.
Guests can plan their sightseeing itinerary with the complimentary wireless Internet throughout the hotel. Multilingual staff are also on hand to help if required, and a concierge service is available to organise and book daytrips, sightseeing tours, theatre tickets and more. Those wishing to stay in the hotel can find onsite entertainment in the hotel's book or video library. The central location of the Parkes Hotel means that many of London's most popular tourist attractions are within easy reach. The designer shops of Beauchamp Place and South Kensington are less than 200 metres away; the Victoria & Albert, Natural History and Science Museums are 300 metres away. Heathrow Airport is 14 miles from the city centre a drive of 45 minutes.