The Most Opulent Hotels Britain Has To Offer In A New Show

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The Corinthia hotel in is preparing to receive a VIP guest - a Saudi princess with a dog whose needs are almost as exacting as her own. 
A team of staff, including two butlers and a florist, are engaged in a military style operation to get the £15,000-a-night Hamilton Suite ready. If you have any kind of inquiries regarding where and how you can use บาคาร่า, you can contact us at our web-site.  
Keen eyes scrutinise the Italian bedlinen - each sheet costs £1,000 - for creases, ornaments are straightened, the flower arrangements checked one last time. 
A designer dog basket is set down on the marble floor.

Organic apple pie flavour treats are close by. ‘The dog will feel like a royal as well,' declares a team member.
A new three-apart series reveals how The Langham and Corinthia in London and Chewton Glen in Hampshire prepare for their VIP guests.

Pictured: The £1 million chandelier in The Corinthia
The preparations for the Saudi princess's arrival are revealed in Britain's Most Luxurious Hotels, a new three-part series that gives an insight into the painstaking efforts made to meet the whims of the rich and famous, as well as the ups and downs establishments have faced during the pandemic. 
The hotels featured are The Langham and Corinthia in London and Chewton Glen in Hampshire.
First impressions are key at all three.

The showpiece in the lobby of The Corinthia (‘beloved of global megastars') is a chandelier of 1,001 Baccarat crystals, worth £1 million. 
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At the finest hotels, it seems, it's all in the detail. ‘We write our welcome cards using an ink pen,' says Thomas Kochs, The Corinthia's managing director. ‘It's a layer of appreciation.'
The princess duly arrives, and Dominic the butler is assigned his first duty - taking her fluffy white Pomeranian for a walk.

Dominic is often asked to run errands for guests. 
‘The most expensive thing I was asked to pick up was a watch,' he says. ‘It was £500,000.' Jochem Meijerink, the front of house director who is promoted to hotel manager during the series, says they often receive unusual requests at short notice.
‘Our head concierge was once asked to go to Geneva to pick up a package.'
The most expensive suite at The Langham (pictured) is £25,000 a night and boasts six bedrooms, a dining room and a grand piano 
Over at The Langham, manager Nick Davies goes outside to check everything is spot on - ‘flags straight, neat, all right'.

He tells the doorman, shipshape in his bowler hat, ‘Big smile, first impressions count.' 
The level of cool luxury in the suites here matches that of The Corinthia. The most expensive suite is £25,000 a night, and at 4,500 square feet it is six times the size of the average UK home. 
It has six bedrooms, a dining room and a grand piano ‘with a pianist only a phone call away'.

The wallpaper is hand-painted and has 9ct gold panels.
Nick Davies comes up for an inspection. He's not happy. ‘We've got fingerprints here, it looks like a scene from CSI,' he says. 
‘The initial ten seconds of someone arriving is super important,' he explains later.
‘It's walking in and making sure the doors are highly polished, there are no fingerprints on the brass, everything is looking tip-top so it is the very best experience on arrival. We have a specific scent - a ginger lily flower scent that's pumped through the building.'
Darren Venables who is the estate manager at Chewton Glen, said you can hear bird song everywhere around the hotel.

Pictured: Treehouses at Chewton Glen
The Langham's Palm Court afternoon tea has been an institution since the hotel opened in 1865. A Champagne tea costs £83 a head, and a nostalgic menu has been devised - a luxurious take on old favourites the fig roll, chocolate digestive, iced gem, Bakewell tart and custard cream.
Waiting staff, back from furlough, are having a taster session.
Cheese scones are square, sweet are round. There are 18 single-garden teas and three sparkling wines. Michel Roux Jr oversees the fine dining in the hotel's restaurants, where a tasting menu with fine wines costs £160 a head. 
He's about to try a custard tart - and pastry chef Andrew Gravett looks terrified.

‘Oh my God, that's mind-blowing,' says Michel. Phew!
Down in Hampshire, five-star country house hotel Chewton Glen is set in 130 acres. The vibe is luxury amid nature. 
Amanda Holden, James Martin and John Barnes are among celebrities who've stayed at the Chewton. Pictured: interior at Chewton Glen
‘Everywhere around the hotel you can hear birdsong,' says estate manager Darren Venables.

A stay in one of the recently built, ultra-luxurious treehouses can cost £4,500 a night. Guests receive Champagne and freshly picked grapes from the kitchen garden, with a roughly 2,000-strong wine list on offer.
The hotel is a favourite among celebrities.
Amanda Holden is a guest at a Halloween party in the grounds, there's a sighting of Chris Evans, and former England footballer John Barnes comes in for lunch. 
Celebrity chef (and Weekend columnist) James Martin has a restaurant and cookery school, The Kitchen, on site.

The hotel business is about making the client happy, of course, but it's about making money too. 
‘One minute you're checking what the sugar bowl looks like, the next you're making a decision that could net you another million pounds of profit,' says executive director Andrew Stembridge.
No wonder they've been desperate to throw those highly polished doors open again.
Britain's Most Luxurious Hotels, tomorrow, 8pm, Channel 4.