The Clermont Royal Horseguards and One Whitehall Place

The Royal Horseguards is a hotel 5* hotel that offers mix of facilities for both the leisure and business/corporate markets with a significant amount of meeting and event space across the hotel and connected One Whitehall Place.

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Location

Its location in Whitehall, central London, means it is surrounded by Government buildings with popular tourist areas within easy reach but not in the immediate vicinity.

The Embankment tube & London Charing Cross mainline train stations are a short walk from the hotel. The hotel does not have any parking spaces for either cars or coaches.

Design

The hotel is a Grade 1, listed building with French chateau-style architecture, with an interior of high ceilings, intricate detailing, and a blend of modern comforts.

Meeting Spaces

The hotel offers 2 separate meeting spaces, within the hotel and the connected One Whitehall Place.  External access is available to One Whitehall Place but is also accessible from the hotel lobby area.

The River Room and Meston Suite can accommodate 60 for a dinner or 70 for a reception. The Whitehall Suite can host dinners up to 180, reception for 250 meetings up to 240 and this room interconnects with The Whitehall Reception which can be used as a catering space for the Whitehall Suite for up to 150.

The Gladstone Library can cater for dinners up to 252, receptions of 300, theatre style meetings up to 280, and interconnects with The Reading and Writing Room which can be used as a catering space for the Gladstone Library.

Within the hotel building, both the lower ground floor and 2nd floor have the largest meetings spaces at the hotel and are suitable for conferences, presentations, exhibitions, and dinner/lunch events and always has a varied mix of business. Also, on the second floor there are 2 smaller meeting that are regularly used as either stand-alone meetings or syndicates. The second-floor space is available for exclusive hire.

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Bedrooms

The hotel has 282 across 9 floors. All rooms have a work desk, tea and coffee making facilities, Universal voltage sockets, Safe. Mini bars can be emptied on request.

Hotel Restaurant

One Twenty One Two, on the ground floor, is the hotels main restaurant and can seat 50 – 80 guests but cannot be privatized.

The hotel can accommodate dinners from 15 to 252 across various spaces for small business dinners to theatre style presentations with drinks and canapes to large seated dinners.

The Churchill Bar is not open to the public and receptions can be held there for up to 50.

Experience

The hotel has played host to meetings and events from the health care industry from non-sponsored events for 250 guests to smaller boardroom meetings for 10.

Fitness

The hotel has a small gym on the  7th floor but no other health/leisure amenities.

Language used to describe the hotel includes ‘impressive’, ‘historic’, and ‘iconic’ and as a Grade 1 listed building, it is likely to be considered appropriate for internal meetings only.

For day meetings, the event spaces within One Whitehall Place can be accessed without using the hotel and has a history of its own on show however, without explanation, it is not clear what relevance the paintings have.

The building shares its spaces with the Liberal Club and décor can be described as historic rather than modern and contermporary.

The location is described as being on the banks of the River Thames however, building high trees make visibility of the river minimal and there are gardens a main road between it and the riverbank.

Popular tourist areas are close but not overlooked by the hotel.