Afternoon Tea at the Ritz

super_saint

Trying to book Afternoon tea at the Ritz for friends 40th birthday in March. Official site has not got availibilty for months at a decent time. Any ideas of web sites where this can be booked?

bilty

Had afternoon tea at The Berkley, Lonon at New Year, can highly reccommend it, if the Ritz is unavailable.

pinkteapot

The Ritz does tend to get booked up as soon as dates become available and I don't believe there is another route to book.

Have a look at The Tea Guild list of London hotels that have received their Award of Excellence. The Ritz is one but there are 16 in total; all would be good for afternoon tea for a treat:

http://www.tea.co.uk/top-tea-places

Alternatively, if your friend is set on The Ritz, book for after her birthday and make up a nice voucher telling her the plan. She'll love looking forward to it. And The Ritz is right next to Green Park which is nice to walk through to Buckingham Palace for some fresh air after all the food.

My Ritz tip - the sandwiches are decent but they're still just sliced bread with ham, cheese etc in. Have a few but save your appetite for the cakes which are brought round afterwards (it's not all served up at once).

minerva_windsong

Try here: http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/

If it doesn't have to be the Ritz, the Tea Guild named the Langham as the best place for afternoon tea in London last year so that might be worth a look. Or the Savoy is nice and central (just a few minutes walk from Charing Cross station). That website also has lots of offers as well, including for the Waldorf and the Langham - the Waldorf is currently doing a deal for a historic tour of the hotel followed by afternoon tea and rose prosecco for £30 each and has Fridays and Saturdays available in March.

ETA: That site is offering the 12th March at 5.30pm at the Ritz if that suits you: http://www.afternoontea.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2&Itemid=3

poet123

bilty wrote: »

Had afternoon tea at The Berkley, Lonon at New Year, can highly reccommend it, if the Ritz is unavailable.

I have done both, and preferred the Berkley.The pret a Porter tea is unique, but the ordinary one is better value for money.

The Ritz is very staid, and they allow no photographs, which as you usually go for a special occasion and want a momento is a bit off imo.

tuftyclub

fortnum and mason do a nice afternoon tea, also the national portrait gallery resturant has a lovely one with amazing views over london

Ponkle22

You and me both Super Saint. In the dog house I go....

Claudie

I am pretty sure you can book The Ritz at https://www.toptable.com but not sure if you can book Afternoon Tea?

pug_in_a_bed

Apologies for waking up an old thread, but i wondered if anyone has actually used afternoontea.co.uk?

I booked a 2 4 £15 tea deal at the Liverpool Hilton through them, the Hilton has no record of the booking, plus the email address afternoontea gave for the Hilton was wrong!

I'm unsure if its a genuine site, although you don't part with cash untill you go the hotel itself

lucinad

poet123 wrote: »

I have done both, and preferred the Berkley.The pret a Porter tea is unique, but the ordinary one is better value for money.

The Ritz is very staid, and they allow no photographs, which as you usually go for a special occasion and want a momento is a bit off imo.

i realise this is an old thread but as someone else bumped it, in case anyone else needs to know...they do allow photographs at the ritz, and the waiters will take pictures for you, i went in april last year and he took 2 pictures of us at our table, have a look at my post i put in the competition forum (i won 1 night, breakfast, manicure and afternoon tea there)

here are some pictures from my stay in london at...

they were absolutely fine and we were not the only people taking pictures. also they said you have to book at least 12 weeks before you want to go, especially in popular times

Flyboy152

There's always Harrods, Fortnum's, The Savoy or Claridge's.

Or even better, breakfast at The Savoy, lunch at Harrods, afternoon tea at Fortnum's and dinner at Claridge's.