Lancaster Gate Hotel, also known as Park Inn Hyde Park Hotel, is a family-friendly and affordable hotel. Although has a mundane look on the outside, once inside you can enjoy its colorful and modern design. It is located in central London near Hyde Park and Porchester Centre. It is a 3 star hotel that offers cozy accommodation and friendly service. Because of its convenient location is often chosen by both business and pleasure travelers. At Lancaster Gate Hotel you can enjoy the multiple facilities that the hotel offers. There is a 24 hour reception desk, air conditioning, luggage storage, laundry and dry cleaning services, internet access, tours and tickets assistance, computer station, bar & lounge, currency exchange, fax/photocopying, and meeting/banquet facilities. The hotel features Serpentine Restaurant and Bar, where the staff serves international plates. The restaurant has a vivid layout. You should know that starting with 11 March 2015 the Serpentine Restaurant in under renovation approximately until June 2015. But not to worry; a full service will remain working over the entire period of reconstruction. The hotel is a non-smoking one and its personnel are multilingual. * The Serpentine Restaurant, offers comfort, friendly service, the ideal place to enjoy a nice meal and unwind away from the hustle and bustle of the city. The restaurant has an appetizing menu offering a good selection of freshly prepared dishes and some home cooked favorites. The delicious breakfast buffet offers hot and cold dishes and any special dietary requirements can be catered for. * The Serpentine Bar, offers drinks and snacks after a long and exhausting day of sight seeing. Guests can choose from different light meals and refreshments that the bar is offering such as a fine collection of wines, malt, whiskeys and cocktails. * Conferences and Events, offers 2 meeting rooms that can accommodate from up to 16 guests in a boardroom format and up to 30 guests in a theater style set up. Each of the meeting rooms are all equipped with Overhead Projector and screen, Slide Projector, Monitor, LCD Projector, Sound Equipment, Microphones (wireless, portable and stationary), High speed wireless Internet, Flip chart, Easels and Whiteboards. * Other Hotel Facilities include 24-Hour Front Desk, Newspapers, Non-Smoking Rooms, Elevator, Safety Deposit Box, Heating, Luggage Storage, All Public and Private spaces non-smoking and Air conditioning. * Services offered are Room Service, Meeting/Banquet Facilities, Babysitting/Child Services, Laundry, Dry Cleaning, Breakfast in the Room, Currency Exchange and Fax/Photocopying. * WiFi Internet access is available in the entire hotel. * There is No Parking area at the hotel. Lancaster Gate Hotel has 196 well-furnished, bright and colored rooms. In each room there is climate control, flat screen with satellite TV, internet access, phone, private bathrooms, free toiletries, hairdryer, coffee and tea facilities, daily housekeeping, iron and ironing board, free cribs/infant beds, extra beds available, a desk, free newspaper, and 24 hour room service. Check-in time starts at 3 PM and check-out before noon. * Lancaster Gate Hotel has a total number of 188 rooms all equipped with Air conditioning, sofa beds and desks, 26-inch flat-panel televisions feature premium satellite channels and movies. Wireless Internet access, direct-dial phones, in-room safes, and coffee/tea makers. Bathrooms include shower/tub combination\'s with hand held shower heads, as well as makeup/shaving mirrors, toiletries, and hair dryers. Climate control, iron/ironing boards, and a trouser press are provided. Lancaster Gate Hotel opened its doors in 2000 and has been running ever since. In 2012 the hotel received its Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor. It is situated quarter mile from Hyde Park and half a mile from Kensington Palace and Gardens, in the delightful area of Bayswater. The hotel is close to public transport stations giving access to shopping areas, landmarks, and any other parts of London. Getting to the hotel is really easy as it is located just 2 minutes away from Hyde Park. You can get here by public transportation. The stations Paddington Station and Heathrow Express are 0.9 km, Lancaster Gate Underground Station, Queensway Underground Station, and Bayswater Underground Station just 0.5 km away from the hotel. Lancaster Gate Hotel is a 20 minutes’ drive from Heathrow International Airport. Due to its central location, the hotel is close to many attraction points in London such as Hyde Park, Kensington Palace and Gardens, Albert Hall and Memorial, and Madame Tussauds. For more recreational activities you can rent a bicycle, or go on biking and hiking trails that are nearby. Or take golf lessons. For the shopping lovers there is Westfield Shopping Centre, Portobello Market and Oxford Street. A London Hotel near Kensington Gardens... * Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens - 0.1 km. * Oxford Street - 1.8 km. * Bond Street - 2.4 km. * Portobello Road - 1.3 km. * High Street Kensington - 1.4 km. * Knightsbridge - 2.3 km. * Westfield Shopping Center - 2.5 km.