The Wyndham Grand London recently celebrated the re-opening of its Blue Harbour Spa to guests and non-resident club members.

New to the Chelsea spa is the introduction of VOYA, the world’s first certified organic seaweed-based products.

The Chelsea spa has been designed with neutral tones, clean lines and contemporary feel which creates a soothing environment.

The Blue Harbour Spa has six treatment rooms and relaxation suite.  The Chelsea Spa also features a fully equipped fitness centre, hair salon, sauna, steam room and a 17-metre indoor heated swimming pool.

VOYA’s vitamin and mineral-rich, indigenous Irish treatments will bring a breath of fresh air to this chic, relaxing retreat for guests and local residents.

The Chelsea spa, with the aid of VOYA’s products will detoxify, rejuvenate,  regenerate or simply aid relaxation.  In addition to the new VOYA range, the spa offers a full range of massage and body care therapies by Susan Molyneux and Aromatherapy Associates.

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At some point in history graffiti became known as street art. Despite having been given the title ‘art’, some still question the ‘artistic’ merits of this form of expression.

Whether you love it or hate it, London is home to a mass of street art displays and even tours, with this year’s Olympic Games even getting in on the street art act. Here is a rundown on where you can find the best street art in London.

Hackney Wick is the Olympic Stadium’s neighbour and, in recent years, has experienced an explosion of colourful displays of street art.

The 4^th Plinth in Trafalgar Square is another home of the controversial modern art. Three of the four plinths near the base of Nelson’s Column in Trafalgar Square have statues of George IV and two generals, while the 4^th was intended to be the home for the horse, but was left empty for 150 years, due to, as the story goes, a lack of funding. Since 1999 the 4^th plinth has been a display for specially commissioned street art.

Of course when talking about the best street art in London, the name Bansky invariably crops up. The guerrilla artist’s work has taken London by storm and many of Bansky’s street art displays can be seen on unexpected walls across London.

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The Wyndham Grand strives to be London’s best luxury hotel and for this to be maintained, we sometimes need to make changes to the hotel. We do this with the minimum disruption to guests.

Please note that due to refurbishment the gentlemen’s changing room will be closed from next Monday 16th January to Monday 13th February. Temporary changing rooms will be available for male guests but the sauna and steam room will be closed.

We would also like to announce that as of Monday 9th January 2012, The Wyndham Grand London Chelsea Harbour will be completely Non-Smoking. Please also note that there will be an additional fee should the guests decide to smoke in any of our rooms.

Just two of the many ways we are making sure The Wyndham Grand remains to be London’s best luxury hotel!

London’s Olympic Park Garden – Living proof of a truly green Olympics.

After two years of design, preparation and construction, the London Olympic Park garden is finally finished. The 2.5 kilometre site located in Stratford, east London, consists of many lush meadows and fields, containing more than 4,000 new trees.

The former brownfield industrial site is nectar-rich with 300,000 wetland plants, 4,000 semi-mature trees and a multitude of flowers designed to blossom whilst the 2012 Olympics are taking place. Blue Peter gardener, Chris Collins, put the final touches to the UK’s largest urban park by planting an English oak sapling, a poignant symbol of Englishness located within a truly international event.

The quarter of an acre riverside Olympic Park garden overlooks the Olympic Stadium, which has the capacity to hold 80000 people during the Games.

The amazing transformation of a barren, disused industrial estate into a vast urban park of meadows and fields brimming with natural life, is a pleasant feature of the London Olympic 2012’s commitment to be the greenest Olympic and Paralympic games to date. Talking about how the now completed urban Olympic park garden is going to help ensure London achieves its goal as being the greenest Olympics in history, Chris Collins said:

“What has been achieved on the site in turning it from brown to green is remarkable. Spectators will find it hard not to be blown away next summer as the effort put into creating a diverse and colourful park has already paid off.”

Earlier this year, London 2012 Olympic organisers published a statement that they were “on track to deliver the world’s first “truly sustainable” Olympic Games.”

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With a bare, barren and frosty landscape, winter can sometimes cause us to daydream about the spring and the summer and the plethora of flowers, colour and fragrance that occupy the British Isles throughout the warmer months.

If such floral, fragrant and happy thoughts are occupying your mind, you may appreciate us telling you about the London flower shows in 2012.

Orchid & Botanical Art Show 16 -17 March, 2012

Although you don’t have to wait until the spring and summer it seems to experience some dazzling floral displays in the capital, as kick-starting the 2012 flower show events in London is the Orchid & Botanical Art Show. Put on by the Royal Horticultural Society, this prominent show is held at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London.

Amidst a maze of incredible flower and plant displays, the show will demonstrate to visitors how even the smallest and neglected of urban spaces can be transformed into a flourishing garden spectacle fit for royalty.

RHS Chelsea Flower Show 24 -26 May, 2012

Arguably the most glamorous annual flower show to take place on London if not British soil, the Royal Horticultural Society welcomes the public to the Royal Hospital in Chelsea to experience a simply breath-taking assortment of flowers.

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