This Gothic marvel is even more breath-taking in person. I took the tube to St Pancras/Kings Cross station and took an exit that has a tall, brick wall blocking the view of the hotel and train station and you have to walk along it to get to the entrance of the hotel. It was an astonishing sight! And it's just as gorgeous inside as it is outside.

This building undertook years of restoration and is hailed as London's most romantic building. Queen Victoria opened this hotel in 1873.
We were walking through the lobby and saw the hours for afternoon tea. What is more British than afternoon tea?? I set a time for us and the little guy was pretty into it (mostly for the sweets)

The whole room. 

Our afternoon tea set up. Classic British Victoria sponge and other little cakes. Then an assortment of little sandwiches, of which my favourite was a cucumber sandwich on beetroot bread (the little pink one below) They refilled the sandwiches as many times as we wanted but we're stingy on the cakes ;)

Before we were done, they asked if we were ready for our scones. They waited until we were ready because it comes out hot from the oven! It came out piping hot and so delicious. 

The scone is eaten with clotted cream and jam. To make it even more schm-ancy, the method by which you put the two on the scone has a name. If you put jam first and clotted cream on top, it's Cornwall. If you do clotted cream with the jam on top, it's called Devon. 

A cream tea is a tea taken with a scone. There is actually quite a major debate about the origins of cream tea and which method is the correct way to apply the clotted cream and jam. 

Things like this make me love England so much. 

Pouring the tea. Because I ordered chamomile, the herb is finer so they switched my strainer to this one. 

The whole experience was so fun and fancy!

It was a lovely few days at the St Pancras Renaissance Hotel. I'll have other posts about my time because I did loads of things I wouldn't have done without that 4-day job!
Classy cars at the St Pancras Hotel. 

(Kings Cross station and St Pancras are right next to each other. Kings Cross and the imaginary Platform 9 3/4 are just beyond this car, to the north)