MARRIOTT is to open the brand new London Marriot Hotel Kensington in May, featuring 216 bedrooms including 47 executive rooms and five suites. Situated on Cromwell Road it is well located for easy access to Heathrow and is served by both Earls Court and Gloucester Road Underground stations. There is an executive lounge and business centre and unusually for a central London hotel, a leisure pool (and before every hotel operator in town sends an e-mail ABTN is aware of other indoor swimming pools in W1 properties. They are just rare!) and it is said to have the largest atrium in town. The ”Fratelli” Italian restaurant should prove popular with users of the Earls Court exhibition complex. www.marriott.com