Heaven is the only way to describe the Langham’s Sterling Suite. The game changer—at 450 square metres and now London’s biggest suite and one of its most expensive at £24,000 a night—is airy, celestial and touched with silver and gold leaf in all the right places. But besides the numbers (which is obviously not The Langham group’s main goal, if at all), the suite also reconfirms the hotel’s place at the height of luxury hospitality. The Langham was to many Europe’s first “grand hotel” and the location for the birth of the quintessentially British tradition, afternoon tea.
In keeping with such an iconic history, the Sterling Suite isn’t a hotel suite at all, of course. Not really. Mostly because such a moniker simply suggests more square footage, higher specifications and perhaps multiple bedrooms. In all senses, the Sterling Suite is so much more than that, although it certainly offers all of those things as well. More accurately, it is as close as a hotel can come to providing an at-home experience, the likes of which some guests book for as long as six months.