Add some subtle grandeur, tradition and literary history to your trip at this Mayfair hotel with a guest list including Agatha Christie and Rudyard Kipling.
The Kipling Suite symbolises all that Brown’s Hotel stands for: tradition, subtle grandeur and a rich design ethic.
It is the lion of the hotel’s rooms, where Rudyard Kipling wrote The Jungle Book and Stephen King wrote the beginning of Misery.
The suite, wrapped in ornate jungle wallpaper, contains a framed letter from Kipling. It also has a sitting room, walk-in wardrobe and 16-square-metre marble bathroom, all for £6,210 a night.
Brown’s, in the heart of Mayfair, opened in 1837 as London’s oldest existing hotel. It boasts a Who’s Who of illustrious guests: Alexander Graham Bell made the first phone call in Europe from the hotel, Napoleon III sought refuge in its rooms, Theodore Roosevelt stayed before his wedding, and Agatha Christie and Rudyard Kipling (for whom the Kipling Suite is named) wrote books here. The actor Ralph Fiennes even worked briefly at Brown’s as a porter.
Other literary guests include Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker and Oscar Wilde – and books are piled in most rooms to claim this heritage.
The writer was a guest at the hotel.