Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel
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Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel is a luxury hotel
Hotel
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 in west London
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, England
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. It is located at 140 Bath Road in Hayes
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, London Borough of Hillingdon
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, in close proximity to Heathrow Airport. The hotel is operated by the Radisson Hotels
Radisson Hotels
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 group.

Style and facilities

According to Frommer's
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, the hotel is decorated in the Edwardian style with Persian rugs, brass-railed staircases, chandeliers and hand-painted hardwood furnishings.The bathrooms are marble in each of the 459 rooms. The hotel has 294 standard rooms, 17 suites, 101 deluxe rooms, and 47 single rooms.

The hotel has two restaurants, the Henley's AA Rosette award winning restaurant and bar which serves modern British cuisine and Brasserie cafe which serves a wide range of food and drinks.
The hotel contains the Pegasus Health Spa and Gym which also caters in beauty treatments and contains a dance studio. The hotel also has a jewellers store and a newsagents.

Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel also functions as a noted conference centre, and regularly hosts exhibitions, conventions, press conferences and weddings. It has 43 rooms allocated to this purpose, the largest of which has a capacity for 500 guests. On March 25-27, 2005 it hosted a Dawn of the Dead convention. On March 21-24, 2008 it hosted the Science Fiction Easter Convention.

Reception

Business Traveller
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magazine voted it the best airport hotel in the world.

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