London Hotels Go Into Overdrive For Art Gallery Openings

As collectors descend on London for the numerous art galleryopenings this week, Londons Hotels have gone into overdrive accommodating the extra influx of poeple.

This week has been the most exciting in the British art calendar: at least one mega exhibition opening every day in London; the Frieze juggernaut last weekend; blockbusters like Karla Back's sculptures at Modern Art Oxford; the photography of Martin Parr at Gateshead's Baltic; and The Long Dark at Manchester's International, a group show of industrial medievalism. Art lovers have a treat of a week ahead. So how much can one see in a day?

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London Rock Roll Sanctum Hotel Scraps Service Charge

Sanctum Soho Hotel in London has become the latest hospitality business to abandon service charges on customer bills following the introduction of new tips legislation.

Owner Mark Fuller, who opened the hotel in the heart of London Soho earlier this year, said he was banning the 12.5 per cent service charge at the hotel and its No.20 restaurant to make bills more transparent for customers and give them the option to pay what they wanted to reward good service.

He said: “Service charges cleverly manipulate prices. You head out with a budget in mind, and it's blown out of control with an unwanted tax. I want guests of my hotel and restaurant to know what they’ll be paying when they leave.

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