The Milestone Receives Highest Ratings

Travel World's Most Prestigious Publications Hail London Property

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. October 14, 2008

LONDON, UK, February 22, 2008. Travel + Leisure, the prestigious travel magazine, has just published its famous annual 500 World's Best Hotels list, naming London's top hotels for 2008. But the top spots are not taken by Claridge's, the Dorchester or the Ritz, although these famous hotels are also on the list.

No, the London's Number 1 hotel for 2008 is named as The Milestone, a boutique hotel of just 57 rooms and 6 apartments in the Red Carnation Hotel Collection. And it doesn't end there. The Milestone has also been ranked Number 1 in England in Cond'e Nast Traveler's just published Gold List for 2008 - an incredible double first.

Situated opposite Kensington Palace and Hyde Park, "a refined, residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like sweets at turndown", is how T+L describes the atmosphere at The Milestone, the beautiful Victorian-era hotel, where, in the words of management, "no request is too large, no detail too small".

Highlights of a stay at The Milestone include traditional English cream tea In the Park Lounge, a gorgeous parlour with sumptuous fabrics and a roaring fire, cocktails in the Stables bar, and dinner in Cheneston's restaurant, which Tatler magazine has described as 'a brilliant address to have up your sleeve'.

Guest rooms feature, naturally, London's most comfortable beds with the highest quality linens; marble bathrooms with great lighting; imaginatively stocked minibars; and the latest, 21st-century in-room technology, including free WiFi and Internet; plasma screen TVs in most rooms; two-line telephones and night-light clips for the best bed-time stories.

These first-place ratings in the world's two most prestigious travel magazines are a superb acknowledgement of the luxury brand of Red Carnation, which now comprises six hotels in London as well as a Relais & Ch^ateaux hotel, Summer Lodge, in Dorset, along with hotels in Geneva, Palm Beach, Cape Town the Western Cape and Durban (re-opens 2009).

For more information call The Milestone Hotel direct at 44 20 7917 1000. Contact Red Carnation Hotels from North America toll free 1 877 955 1515 or from Europe 00 800 1698 8740. Visit www.redcarnation.com and www.milestonehotel.com or email the hotel at [email protected]

---|2007: Cond'e Nast Traveler placed the hotel Number One in England on its 2008 Gold List

---|2007: Travel & Leisure 500 The World's Best Hotels Voted The Milestone Number 1 in London

---|2007: Cond'e Nast Traveler Readers' Choice Awards voted The Milestone '69th Best Hotel in the World' and 'Number One Hotel in the British Isles'

---|2007: AA Hospitality named Red Carnation Hotels 'Small Hotel Group of the Year'

---|2007: Travel & Leisure World's Best Awards' named The Milestone 'Fifth Best Hotel in the World', 'Second Best Hotel in Europe' and 'Fourth Best Small Hotel in the World'

---|2007: Zagat voted The Milestone 'One of the World's Top Hotels'

---|2007: Gayot publication included The Milestone in its 'Top 10 Boutique Hotels in London'

---|2007: Milestone Sommelier Nicolas Clerc is 2007 winner of the Champagne Ruinart UK Sommelier of the Year

---|2006: Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice 2006 included The Milestone in its Top 100 Best Luxury Hotels in the World and ranked the Hotel 8th for Best Service in Europe

---|2005-2006: AA awarded The Milestone Top Hotel in Britain and Ireland, five red stars

---|2005: Recognized by VisitLondon, in their Small Hotels category (no small accomplishment) for its high standard of facilities and customer service