NEIGHBOURHOOD HOTELS

COVID-19 certainly hasn’t cooled London’s red-hot hotel scene. New accommodation is mushrooming across the city, including

buzzy outpost in hip Shoreditch (hotel.qantas.com.au/ mondrianshoreditch). Taking

Mondrian’s

over and revamping the space vacated by The Curtain hotel, it’s not just a savvy base for tourists (who can choose from 120 rooms with exposed brick and bespoke artwork) but a magnet for digital nomads and local creatives escaping the working-from-home grind. Yep, that’s them lingering, laptop-tapping and fuelling up on flat whites and other goodies at Christina’s, the all-day café and bar. At BiBo, the property’s basement restaurant with a courtyard, Michelin-feted

Andalusian chef Dani García turns out tapas and paella. A bonus for hotel guests: from 7am until noon, the rooftop – part of the members-only Curtain Club – is yours for alfresco breakfast, a dip in the pool and views over a city of endless possibilities.