The Rockwell

There aren’t many hotels in central London with their own landscaped garden, but this elegant Victorian townhouse allows you to fully indulge your Jane Austen fantasies out among the rhododendron bushes. Its somewhat stuffy-looking stucco facade and giant oak front door may scream 1800s grandeur, but inside you’ll find decor that would definitely not amuse the old Queen: 1970s-style geometric prints vie for attention with vibrant splashes of azure and yellow. Gloriously mad.