Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Exterior of St Pancras Renaissance Hotel

For our last night in London we stayed  in the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel at St Pancras station.  It is an exquistetly beautiful hotel.  Fully restored after about 50 years of being abandoned at a cost of 20 million pounds.
We explored the hotel and the staff were very keen to let you explore.  The man looking after the grand stair case let us go up  and he explained a bit about it and once we had reached the top floor another man let us into the ladies smoking room.  The very first room anywhere where ladies were permitted to smoke in public.
Returning to the bottom of the stairs the doorman insisted on taking several photos of us from various angles around the staircase.
We then went to the ticket office which is now a restaurant and bar.  The ticket office looks straight out onto the platform of St Pancras.
Grand Staircase St Pancras Renaissance Hotel


1 comment:

julie and lorraine said...

looks like the staircase on the titanic !!