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The Gore Hotel - A Romantic, Eccentric Boutique Hotel

By Ferne Arfin, About.com

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View the Venus Room, a Romantic Feature Bedroom at London's Gore Hotel

The Venus Suite, A Luxury Suite at the Gore Hotel, South Kensington, London

The Venus Suite, A Luxury Suite at the Gore Hotel, South Kensington, London

Photo courtesy of The Gore Hotel
The Venus Room, with its extravagantly draped bed and ornate marble bathroom (where statues of Venus and Adonis preside over the enormous bathtub), is one of several remarkably individual chambers with four poster or feature beds at the Gore.

In the Dame Nellie Room the bed is swathed in golden damasks, velvets and silky fringe. The room is named in honor of the 19th century Australian Diva who stayed often when performing at the Royal Albert Hall.

The hotel remains popular with The Albert Hall's artists, musicians and celebrities as well as guests from the worlds of fashion and media, who are, no doubt, drawn by the Gore's idiosyncratic decor. The Tudor Room, for example, has a minstrel's gallery, a huge stone fireplace and a copper clad shower. In another room, the elaborate bed once belonged to Judy Garland.

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