Berners Hotel is a traditional hotel set in an elegant building comprised of five classic houses built in 1835, just 100 metres from the shops of Oxford Street.

The 216 guestrooms are decorated in subtle colours with modern furnishings. All rooms offer satellite TV, bathrobes and slippers, coffee and tea making facilities, desks, direct dial phones and Internet access.

Guests can relax with a coffee and newspaper in front of the fireplace in the lobby, and enjoy a drink from hotel bar which is open late for a nightcap. Room service is also available.

Those with laptops can surf the web thanks to wireless Internet access (fee) and there is also a business centre.

Other practical amenities include a 24-hour front desk, dry cleaning services, currency exchange and valet parking.

The hotel is 100 metres from busy Oxford Street shopping and theatre lovers are only 200 metres from some of the West End's top shows. Covent Garden and the British Museum are within half a mile and Buckingham Palace is one mile away.

Heathrow Airport is 15.5 miles (25 kilometres) away with an approximate driving distance of 15 minutes.