- - We think that travel should be an adventure and here we are in The Haymarket Townhouse right in the centre of London, just around the corner from the National Gallery and Trafalgar Square. The Townhouse itself is a Nash building, which in London is a very important thing. Staying in a hotel should always be different and part of that adventure in this instance is to have your own front door. So you're staying in London as a Londoner. The Townhouse is arranged on four floors. On the ground floor we have the kitchen and dining room. It's like being at home and I think so often when you travel you can feel quite homesick, so all those wonderful features that you would have in your own home are so important. But the beauty is that you have all the amenities of a five star hotel. Climbing up the staircase we come to our first floor drawing room. It's an L-shaped room with two fireplaces. Nash was very clever when he built, he made rooms wonderfully light, so in here there are floor-to-ceiling windows and we wanted it to be fresh and bright so we've chosen blues and raspberry reds. It's often the details in the room which just capture the imagination. We've used our wonderful Vaughan fabric on the plinth sofa, with inside out stitching which is just clipped with that little red colour and the cushions themselves have a bright blue leather piping. There is a nod to the past in this room but we don't wish to be a pastiche and I think it's so important to bring rooms up to date and make them contemporary and so that is the feel that we want to achieve within the room. In fact, that's what we've tried to achieve within the whole of The Townhouse and you can see that in all the bedrooms. The first floor bedroom is called Rose and it's the master bedroom. It's got wonderfully flowered walls in blue and red. The curtains themselves have a lovely big diamond embroidered check but down the leading edge we've got a tweed lovely trim. There's a little picture beside the bed by Katherine Cuthbert with a wonderful white frame and those little red flowers just bring the room to life. The adventure continues as you go up the stairs round the bannisters and into the bedrooms. Lavender is the second master bedroom. The centrepiece of the room is the headboard which is actually embroidered by an artist called Kumi. She is half Japanese and her mother sends her kimonos from Japan and you can see how she cuts and collages them. It's amazingly complicated but looks very simple. It's the essence of folklore itself and folklore is something that we return to time and time again as one of the motifs in our hotels. Next door we have Lemon. Tonally the room is similar to Lavender but it has a feel all of its very own, with the Indian headboard by designer Carolina Irving and the curtains in white linen with a very sharp blue braid down the leading edge. The hallways depict the rooftops in London and Paris and here we are on our rooftop attic room, which is very romantic. It has wood beams, wonderful printed wallpaper which goes all the way over the ceiling and a dramatic headboard. It's a botanical linen print in colours of blues, greens, reds and yellows. The Haymarket Townhouse adjoins the main building of the hotel itself. You can come in through the front door and out through the main hotel of The Haymarket and by going out it means you're passing through the lobby, the bar and the restaurant. You can even go for a swim downstairs in the swimming pool. And you've got someone always to carry your luggage. This Regency villa is a very special place to stay. You have the best of London on your doorstep. There's everything here and it's how we as Londoners aspire to live. It should always be an adventure staying in hotels, but I think staying at The Haymarket Townhouse is another experience which is quite different from anything else and one which you will never forget.