Its parties are as legendary, as they are fun, though you might wanna stay out of the downstairs bar unless you take this sort of thing very, very seriously.
"That would be asking a lot," he said, heading them off and then downstairs.
We were downstairs having breakfast - Golden Grahams quite possibly - (don't get me started on the British and the breakfast cereal) when a dull thud on the hall floor announced the arrival of the hamster who had taken his new-found freedoms too far and hurled himself off the landing.
We are now on the roof, but I can hear the guitars and the humble Andean folk downstairs singing a melancholy refrain.
Many of we foreign reporters in the weeks before September 1973 had got into the habit of gathering in the snug downstairs bar of the Carrera hotel – across the square from Allende's sober and unadorned presidential palace, the Moneda – where many of us were staying.
The unusual layout – one bedroom is downstairs by the sitting room; the other is accessed by an outdoor staircase and has its own kitchenette - makes it great for two couples.
Tri House's new private tri-training space is located downstairs at the Heavenly Spa in Paddington, W2, with more locations opening soon.
Now he's heading back downstairs for a second look.
"The format," Wright declares triumphantly, "was deemed generic!" Downstairs in the shopping centre I find Blossom and Nick, a rather eccentric pair who met 12 years ago in a queue for The Wright Stuff and quickly became engaged.
By some clocks it was Happy Hour, and the bars downstairs had filled and emptied a time or two.
This isn't the discredited "bush tucker" days of the 80s and 90s, saltwater crocodile and red kangaroo are used sensitively upstairs on the Orana tasting menu or in the casual Street bar downstairs as croc dogs, hop dogs or carpaccio.
