If The Ritz hotel were a woman it would definitely like admiring itself in the glass, there are mirrors everywhere and oodles of 24 carat gold leaf. Walk through the revolving doors of The Ritz London and you have time-warped into her world of elegant over the top excess. She may be in the heart of London but this flamboyant hotel, modelled on a French chateau with furnishings in the style of Louis XVI, prefers to flirt like the French than maintain an English reserve, no stiff upper lip here. There is a reason the word 'ritzy' was coined after the luxury hotels of legendary hotelier Cesar Ritz and this opulent hotel lives up to the name. The Ritz is perfectly placed for a London sojourn, right across the road from the Royal Academy and a diamond sparkle for De Beers if the romance of it all should inspire a proposal.