The Academy - Small Luxury Hotels of the World

The Academy - Small Luxury Hotels of the World sits in Bloomsbury, one of those discreet upscale property additions that travellers tend to bookmark before the rest of the city catches on. The reasonable location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, within an easy walk of the city centre, with the kind…

The Academy - Small Luxury Hotels of the World sits in Bloomsbury, one of those discreet upscale property additions that travellers tend to bookmark before the rest of the city catches on. The reasonable location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, within an easy walk of the city centre, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends to want. Rooms feel polished; the touches travellers mention most are reliable wi-fi, an in-house restaurant and on-site parking, and the comfort feedback has been consistently flattering. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 2,400 reviews, with a solid consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Pricing has been sitting near €257 a night and the value score puts it in a premium bracket compared with similar properties. The honest read on The Academy - Small Luxury Hotels of the World is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger London names rather than a headline of its own.