EXCLUSIVEForget the city centre - 長，率いる to West London instead for a stay in this gem of a hotel just minutes from some of the world's best museums (and it can get you into sold-out 展示s)

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The Kensington hotel lies in a London 居住の backwater ? but this five-星／主役にする 所有物／資産／財産 with a white stucco fa?広告 and a vague Pride & Prejudice vibe deserves a 激流 of 賞賛する.

Not least for the 激流 of water that 噴出するd through our rainshower 長，率いる.

I’m not often minded to begin a hotel review by waxing lyrical about a にわか雨, but this was something special ? so powerful I was left wondering if the hotel had コースを変えるd a Thames 支流 through the first-床に打ち倒す plumbing into our ensuite.

At first, I was almost too 脅すd to stand underneath it, 恐れるing that what few hair follicles remain on my 長，率いる might be 爆破d off.

It transpired to be wonderfully invigorating, a welcome wake-up 援助（する） for a day on which 最高の，を越す form would be needed ? for we were taking advantage of the hotel’s proximity to the V&A and taking our young daughter to the museum’s 'Gabrielle Chanel - Fashion Manifesto' 展示?(which runs to March 10). And who knows what tantrums we’d need to を取り引きする, French haute couture not やむを得ず a 最高の，を越す 優先 for a six-year-old.

MailOnline Travel's Ted Thornhill checked in to The Kensington hotel in west London, staying in a room 類似の to the one above?

Ted 令状s: 'The Kensington hotel lies in a London 居住の backwater ? but this five-星／主役にする 所有物／資産／財産 with a white stucco fa?広告 and a vague Pride & Prejudice vibe deserves a 激流 of 賞賛する'

燃料 for the foray （機の）カム in the form of a 率直に magnificent breakfast in the hotel’s elegant Town House restaurant.

For £40, we were able to select a veritable 祝宴 ? croissants, eggs benedict, fruits, cheeses, and c harcuterie.

The amiable waiter forgot our sourdough toast twice over (the 思い出の品 he’d forgotten it... was forgotten about). But it turned out for the best ? our menu 注目する，もくろむs had been too big for our stomachs and we 事実上 rolled out of the hotel’s 二塁打-でっちあげる，人を罪に陥れるd doors.

The V&A helps to form a cluster of world-class museums ? along with the Science Museum and Natural History Museum ? that is just a 10-minute walk from The Kensington.

What’s more, the hotel can furnish guests with tickets for shows that are sold out to the general public.

Ted is 十分な of 賞賛する for his room's ensuite, 公式文書，認めるing that the にわか雨 was 特に powerful

Ted enjoyed a Sunday roast at the hotel and a 'veritable 祝宴' of a breakfast

All the tickets for the Chanel show had been vacuumed up months before we checked in, but the 所有物／資産／財産 was able to 問題／発行する us with three passes.

Not that my daughter 高く評価する／（相場などが）上がるd this. She 宣言するd herself bored three minutes into the 素晴らしい 陳列する，発揮する of Chanel 衣料品s and writhed around on the 床に打ち倒す to 圧力（をかける） home the point.

My French partner was in heaven, though.

Ted 述べるs The Kensington as 'a gem of a hotel in a gem of a 場所'

The hotel furnished Ted and his family with tickets to the V&A's sold out 'Gabrielle Chanel - Fashion Manifesto' 展示?

Rooms at The Kensington start from around £250 per night

Contentment was 平等に spread 支援する in the hotel, where we all revelled in our room’s graceful 高級な.

Our ４半期/4分の1s housed not only an epic にわか雨, but a claw-foot bath, a four-poster bed, and 注目する，もくろむ-catching floral wallpaper and 類似して patterned curtains. And the little one loved the tippee that served as her own 小型の ‘bedroom’.

We didn’t manage to squeeze in a drink in the hotel’s decadently styled 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業, with its plush furniture and polished 支持を得ようと努めるd パネル盤s, but before leaving for home we did 見本 an impressive Sunday roast, served for we parents as an 招待するing platter for two.

It was a little on the luke-warm 味方する, but the 削減（する）s of beef were mouthwatering, as the waiter 約束d they would be.

Thinking of a stay in London? Put The Kensington on your レーダ ? it’s a gem of a hotel in a gem of a 場所, and 保証（人）d to make a splash if 力／強力にする にわか雨s are the 優先.

The Kensington has 近づいている 共同s with the V&A for ‘壊れやすい Beauty: 見通しs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’ and ‘NAOMI’. Guests can enjoy an 夜通し stay at the 所有物／資産／財産, 含むing a 十分な English breakfast at the Town House restaurant, and receive two tickets to the 展示.