Inhabit Hotels opens Queen’s Gardens in London

Inhabit Hotels has announced the soft opening of Inhabit Queen’s Gardens, the brand’s second London hotel, located in Bayswater. 

Queen’s Gardens is situated in a tree-lined square in the Bayswater neighbourhood, five minutes from Paddington station and in close proximity to Hyde Park and the West End, with excellent public transport links.

It is set across a crescent of mid 19th Century townhouses that have been transformed to create a 158-key hotel showcasing “sustainable, responsible” design and practices. The 158 guest rooms include 10 suites, 13 interconnecting rooms and four accessible rooms. 

The public areas include a 70-cover plant-heavy, meat-free restaurant and bar, comfortable lounge areas for socialising and working, and a noise-free library stocked with reads spanning wellness, meditation, social enterprise, holistic health, contemporary art, philosophy, local London and nature. 

In addition, a subterranean wellness area provides treatment rooms, a fitness suite and yoga studio. 

The hotel brand has collaborated with Devon health retreat Yeotown to create Yeotown Queen’s Gardens, a 70-cover restaurant serving an all-day menu in a light-flooded space. It serves a California-inspired menu. 

According to Inhabit, everything at the new hotel has been considered with a “genuine commitment” to environmental initiatives and meaningful community partnerships. The hotel has pledged to work with 100 social enterprises and small, socially-conscious businesses. 

Inhabit is also working towards B Corps certification with the goal of being among the first hotel groups in the UK to achieve this standard of corporate responsibility, an accreditation for businesses that meet the highest standards of verified social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability to balance profit and purpose.