Hotel of the Week: Radisson SAS Hotel, London Stansted Airport.
'Start your holiday at the airport'
By Kate Simon
THE INDEPENDENT
Published: 16 December 2007
"The Radisson SAS Stansted Airport is a perfect example, largely thanks to its leisure-centre-sized health club, Pace, which admits adults and children staying at the hotel on production of a check-in slip. Not only has it got a well-equipped gym, but you can join in the classes in the aerobic studio and spinning room. Plus, there's a sauna, steam room and indoor pool and a spa offering beauty treatments.
And the evening entertainment is better than the usual soulless lobby experience. At the heart of the hotel is an atrium, centering on a comfortable, attractive bar with a huge wine tower, from where bottles are plucked to order by "angels" - waitresses in harness who glide up and down the racks. It's a bit of nonsense but an entertaining distraction while sipping a G&T.
Of course, the real pleasure to be got from this hotel is its proximity to the airport - it takes about three minutes to walk to the main concourse. That's what it's all about: falling out of bed just that little bit later."
World's best airport hotels
By Farhad Heydari
FORBES TRAVELLER
Dec. 13, 2007
"At London's Stansted Airport, home to a raft of low-cost carriers but also business class-only airline Eos, to say nothing of newcomer American Airlines, the recently-opened Radisson SAS is a swish example of the new generation of slick airport hotels popping up all over the map."
Britain's Bargain Gateway to Europe
By Robert Selwitz
THE SANDIEGO UNION TRIBE
October 22, 2006
"No matter how you reach Stansted, you might want to bunk in the SAS Radisson Hotel, virtually adjacent to the passenger terminal. This is particularly pertinent for those with very early-morning departures, or who, upon arriving, are heading for England's interior attractions, such as nearby Cambridge. The 500-room, high-style property features comfortable, spacious rooms, excellent food, and the eye-catching corps of wine angels - black-clad acrobatic young women who retrieve customers' wine choices by soaring up and down a cable that fronts a 43-foot-tall, 4,000-bottle wine cellar. What they land with, they serve!"
Radisson SAS Hotel London Stansted Airport
By Ginny McGrath
TIMES ONLINE
June 6, 2006
"The Radisson SAS at Stansted is Britain's best new airport hotel, with its ideal location next to the terminal and classy design."
Radisson Celebrates Platter of Chef Awards
Herts and Essex Observer
Thursday 6th March 2008
"Awards were dished out to three outstanding chefs at the Radisson SAS Hotel at Stansted Airport. The hotel won a total of six prizes at the International Hotelympia event at the ExCeL exhibition centre in London's Docklands. Sous Chef Palash Gomes left with four awards - including a gold for his buffet centrepiece - Executive Chef Paul Tuthill gained a merit for his fish dish and Senior Chef de Partie Tim Shephard scooped a merit for his lamb dish."
Ipswich Evening Star
Travel Feature by Nigel Pickover
"The Radisson gave us a great launch pad for our holiday - so enjoyable was it that we said it was worth returning for a couple of days for a long weekend - even if we weren't flying anywhere!"
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