The Milestone Hotel and Apartments: London’s Best Hotel

For the first time ever, this boutique London hotel has nabbed top honors from the travel world's most prestigious awards: Travel + Leisure's annual 500 World's Best Hotels list and Condé Nast Traveler's just published Gold List for 2008. The 57-room Milestone Hotel has been ranked Number 1 in London on both lists. "A refined, residential feel, thanks to its intimate size and personal gestures like sweets at turndown," T+L describes the Victorian-era hotel, where "no request is too large, no detail too small." Situated opposite Kensington Palace and Hyde Park, The Milestone boasts London's most comfortable beds with the highest quality linens, imaginatively stocked mini-bars and the latest 21st century technology. Highlights of a stay at The Milestone include traditional English cream tea in the Park Lounge, a gorgeous parlor with a roaring fire, cocktails in the Stables bar, and dinner in Cheneston's restaurant, which Tatler magazine has described as "a brilliant address to have up your sleeve."