Why you should experience DoubleTree London Ealing in London, England.
DoubleTree London Ealing is a cosmopolitan West London hotel where Ealing's cinematic pedigree, garden-suburb character, metropolitan connectivity and independent cultural confidence converge beside the broad greenery of Ealing Common.
Set along Hanger Lane near Uxbridge Road and just steps from Ealing Common, the hotel occupies a strategic threshold between the Common and the town center, placing it within a district whose creative character reaches far beyond its residential streets. Ealing became inseparable from British cinema after Will Barker acquired the White House at Ealing Studios for filmmaking in 1902, beginning a production history that later flourished under theater producer Basil Dean and producer Michael Balcon. Balcon's tenure generated the celebrated cycle of Ealing productions including Kind Hearts and Coronets, The Man in the White Suit and The Ladykillers, while later productions at the studios have ranged from Notting Hill and Shaun of the Dead to Darkest Hour and Back to Black. The result is a hotel where Will Barker, Basil Dean and Michael Balcon place contemporary Ealing hospitality within a neighborhood whose name became synonymous with a distinct chapter of British screen culture.
What you should know about DoubleTree London Ealing.
DoubleTree London Ealing is best known for joining DoubleTree by Hilton in June 2013 after a £10 million transformation of the former hotel, reopening with 189 rooms under a franchise agreement with Westmont Hospitality and becoming the brand's twentieth property in the United Kingdom. The conversion formed part of a combined £20 million investment in the Ealing and Hyde Park properties, both former Jarvis hotels, while Patrick Fitzgibbon represented Hilton Worldwide's European and African development leadership and Christopher Rawstron represented Westmont Hospitality's operations and asset-management program. Councillor Kamaljit Dhindsa formally opened the transformed Ealing property on June 12, 2013, while Matt Williams became general manager after six years with Millennium & Copthorne Hotels and earlier experience with Ramada Hotels & Resorts and Corus Hotels. The redevelopment reduced the previous 214-bedroom configuration to 189 rooms, relocated the principal entrance to the rear of the building and introduced W5 Grill & Bar as the property's named restaurant, creating the physical and commercial structure that still defines the DoubleTree operation.
Westmont Hospitality supplies the defining corporate thread in that reinvention, having taken both former Jarvis properties into franchise relationships with Hilton while directing the investment program that repositioned them within the DoubleTree portfolio. Hilton Worldwide simultaneously used the Ealing opening to expand a brand that reached eight London hotels and twenty United Kingdom properties at the moment this hotel debuted, giving the conversion significance within DoubleTree's rapid British growth. W5 Grill & Bar emerged from the 2013 project with leather, honey oak and taupe shaping its original interior, and the restaurant continues today as W5 Bar & Kitchen with a grill-centered menu under the Hilton operation. The property later changed hands in 2017 when Hotel Properties Limited sold the 189-room hotel to Gilmour Sarl for £44.5 million, adding another substantial ownership event to a history already shaped by Jarvis, Westmont Hospitality, Hilton Worldwide and the £10 million 2013 conversion.
How to fold DoubleTree London Ealing into your trip.
DoubleTree London Ealing works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Regency architectural experimentation, more than a century of filmmaking and Anglo-French aristocratic collecting across Ealing.
Begin at Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery, where Sir John Soane purchased the estate for £4,500 in 1800 and rebuilt his country residence between 1800 and 1804 as both a family home and architectural showcase, retaining an earlier George Dance wing on which the young Soane had worked before selling the property in 1810. Continue to Ealing Studios, where Will Barker began filmmaking in 1902, a 1910 Hamlet became one of the early screen versions of Shakespeare's tragedy, Basil Dean opened the Grade II-listed sound stages in 1931 and Michael Balcon took control in 1938, initiating the era most closely associated with the Ealing Comedies. Conclude at Gunnersbury Park Museum, occupying the former Rothschild estate at Gunnersbury and carrying the afternoon from Ealing's architecture and cinema into the social and collecting histories of West London. The progression moves from Soane's intensely personal architectural laboratory through Barker, Dean and Balcon's filmmaking institution into the aristocratic world preserved at Gunnersbury, revealing a depth of creative history that makes DoubleTree London Ealing a surprisingly effective base for exploring this corner of West London.
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