The Pulitzer Prize – GAY TIMES – Gay Times Magazine

So, Pride out of the picture, how does this deceptively sprawling little hotel shape up in real life? A couple of friends watching the Pride parade from across the canal over rows and rows of heads (the suckers!) said, ‘Oh, isn’t it small!’ But they were only looking at a bit of it. The hotel is, in fact, made up of many canal buildings – 25 in fact, all from the 17^th and 18^th centuries with a bit of new tacked on – fused together with walkways running between them so that you have the best of both worlds: a hotel that feels boutique but with plenty to get stuck into.

You’ll know as you pass the perfect brickwork and the hanging flags on the outside that you’re in for a treat but inside it’s all antique pictures, nests of seating, a dark, cosy atmosphere and a buzz. It’s one of the few hotels, you see, where they can balance cosy and buzzy. Old-school and up-to-date. Give them a beach ball and they can probably balance that as well.