New to Covent Garden is the four-star Amano hotel, the first international hotel for this cool Berlin-based German brand, the AMANO Group. You can’t miss it on the corner of the iconic Drury Lane and Russel Street in an imposing historic 17th-century building once owned by Sir Robert Drury.
In the 1980s the building was used as an office block but there is nothing officious about it now. The building has been restored and renovated to produce this stylish and contemporary hotel in the heart of London’s popular Covent Garden.
The reception is smallish, clad in brown wood with overhead lighting that seems to fly above two check-in desks. A couple of minimally designed sofas complete the scene. It’s slick yet cosy.
Who for
When you want a reasonably priced, well-located hotel close to London’s theatres and bars perfect for a night or two, Amano’s comfortable pied-a-terre rooms fit the bill.