Waldorf Astoria to open in Syon Park in November

Syon Park is an oasis of parkland in busy West London and will soon be the site of London Syon Park, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, which is a brand within Hilton Worldwide. The new property will be opening in November 2010. Looking out across the River Thames onto Kew Gardens, Syon House and its 200 acre park is the London home of the Duke of Northumberland. Only seven miles from Knightsbridge in central London and Heathrow airport, the luxury hotel will be located close to the main house

There will be 137 rooms and state-of-the-art meeting and conference facilities, plus several destination restaurants and bars. A bespoke spa experience has also been developed for the property. Guests will have use of the park grounds, with exclusive year-round access to the Syon House gardens and various activities, including trout fishing. Patrick Fitzgibbon, Senior Vice President Development, Europe and Africa, Hilton Worldwide, comments: The addition of London Syon Park, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, to our European portfolio brings to five the number of properties of this brand. London is a key destination in our global plans and this hotel will offer discerning travellers something completely new - a luxury parkland retreat only moments from the centre of one of the world's great cities’. Features of the hotel will include a butterfly house in the lobby; an ice-cream parlour; a park-view first-floor terrace with seasonal food and drink; seven luxury suites, each with an exclusive and palatial theme; and 1,000sqm of meeting and event space. There will also be a swimming pool and full sensory spa experience.
The Duke of Northumberland says: ‘I am very pleased that a Waldorf Astoria hotel will be opening in Syon Park, which has been my family's London home for over 400 years. Construction of the hotel includes the restoration of a number of important historic features designed by the great landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown. The future additional revenue will also enable restoration work to Syon House itself, which contains arguably one of Robert Adams' finest interiors."

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