Templeton Place

Templeton Place

Templeton Place sits on a residential stretch of Earl's Court, five kilometres from central London, within walking distance of Brompton Cemetery and The Mosaic Rooms gallery. It is built as an apartment stay rather than a hotel room: thirty units, each with a kettle, microwave and fridge, sit alongside a 24-hour reception, an on-site restaurant, a gym, a garden, and a terrace with a sun deck. That pairing, real self-catering kitchens next to full hotel service, including a doctor on call and a conference hall for anyone working through the trip, is the thing that separates it from the apartment blocks and the hotels that surround it, most of which pick one or the other. Staff move between English, Spanish, Italian and French, and the health and safety measures extend to contactless check-in and decontamination protocols beyond the basics. Family rooms are available, with an extra bed costing 24 pounds a night depending on the room booked, which makes this a workable choice for a trip that has grown by one person rather than shrunk to fit a couple. It is a smoke-free property with no parking on site, and pets are not allowed, so anyone arriving by car or bringing a dog should look elsewhere. What it suits is a stay long enough to want a kitchen and short enough to still want someone else doing the laundry, dry-cleaning and luggage storage. Check-in runs from 3pm, checkout is 11am, ordinary numbers for what is, underneath the aparthotel label, a fairly complete small hotel. Templeton Place pairs real kitchens, kettle, microwave, fridge, with 24-hour reception, a restaurant and a gym in Earl's Court. It suits a longer stay built around cooking some nights, not one that needs a car or a dog, since there is no parking and pets are not allowed.