Hilton London Heathrow Airport Terminal 5

The bizarre thing about the new Hilton T5 is that it isn’t exactly located at London Heathrow Terminal 5.  Not in the sense you can just walk out of the hotel into the terminal building. Admittedly, the hotel is only 2 miles away and served by a frequent shuttle bus, but the truth is being somewhat stretched here to attract the lucrative Heathrow business traveller market.

You arrive at Hilton T5 having initially circumnavigated a scruffy airport cargo area, making this smart hotel seem out of place.  Yet, this is a nicely designed hotel with everything the business traveller might need; standard bedrooms are well soundproofed against aircraft noise and are a good size.  Meeting rooms are equipped with the latest hi-tech A.V., and there’s even a large garden/patio outside area.

The main function room can hold over 1,000 people and has a good ceiling height aided by retractable chandeliers.  Although the room lacks any daylight, the conservatory pre-function area compensates for this.

Mr Todiwala's Kitchen

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In addition to the main hotel catering area is a “celebrity restaurant” – Mr Todiwala’s Kitchen. Wonderful for  fans of pan-Indian cuisine.  Central to this  lovely room is a life size wooden elephant.  Specially carved for the hotel and flown in. At least it didn’t have far to travel on arrival at LHR.

London's Livery Halls

For those in the know, London’s Livery Halls make fabulous unique venues for meetings, weddings, parties and dinners, and many are catered for by the City’s top catering companies. 

Vintners Hall

Livery Hall - Haberdashers

There are more than one hundred Livery Halls in the City of London representing practically every craft or trade. The Livery Halls tend to consist of, a main Livery Hall and a Council Chamber. Most are steeped in history and tradition and only until relatively recently have they opened their doors to the venue hire market.

Two favourites are, Vintners Hall and Haberdashers’ Hall. Both Halls suffered after the Great Fire of London (1666) and whilst Vintners still retains many of its beautifully crafted features, Haberdashers had an impressive new Hall built in 2001.

Haberdashers' Hall Courtyard

Uniquely, both venues have outside spaces; Vintners Hall has a small rooftop drinks area with views over to St Paul’s Cathedral, whilst Haberdashers has a wonderful outside courtyard complete with fountain making a great space for summer cocktail receptions and barbeques.

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The Venue Guru is a name given for reviews of business venues that as a professional, I have inspected personally or used for meeting and events.  The venues reviewed are in the UK or mainland Europe and these reviews are from a meeting and event planners perspective.  I have no links with any hotels or venue marketing consortia and the reviews expressed are my own opinions. I hope you find them useful.