{"id":4726,"date":"2011-07-15T15:07:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=4726"},"modified":"2011-07-15T15:08:17","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:08:17","slug":"a-look-inside-the-restored-midland-grand-hotel-st-pancras-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-look-inside-the-restored-midland-grand-hotel-st-pancras-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-01.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roving reporter Emerald paid a visit to the lavishly restored Midland Hotel this week and her photos reveal a luxurious interior, with\u00a0sumptuously decorated rooms.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/st_pancras.html\" target=\"_blank\">visited the hotel back in 2003<\/a> when the place was near-derelict, so it&#8217;s great to see it looking in such good health &#8211; even if it&#8217;s not for the likes of us (one room goes for \u00a310,000 a night and has been booked continuously since the hotel opened!).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of Emerald&#8217;s photos:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-02.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Emerald comments:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The attention to detail with the restoration is amazing, but let down quite a lot by the inevitable hotel \/ health and safety &#8216;furniture&#8217; &#8211; mainly signage &#8211; and some really dodgy choices of contemporary art \/ decoration.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-03.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-04.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-12.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-05.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-06.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-07.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-08.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-09.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-10.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-11.jpg\" alt=\"A look inside the restored Midland Grand hotel, St Pancras, London\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/london\/st_pancras.html\" target=\"_blank\">Midland Grand and St Pancras photo features<\/a>] &#8211; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldtop.org\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\">Emerald&#8217;s blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roving reporter Emerald paid a visit to the lavishly restored Midland Hotel this week and her photos reveal a luxurious interior, with\u00a0sumptuously decorated rooms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193,90],"tags":[10,388],"class_list":["post-4726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","category-railways","tag-london","tag-st-pancras"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/midland-hotel-st-pancras-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-1ee","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4729,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4726\/revisions\/4729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}