The Memoir Club can seat 264 people for a conference, serve dinner for 180 or host a wedding of up to 160 with a dance floor, with bedrooms, a restaurant and a bar in the same building. The hotel stands at 12 Upper Woburn Place, between Euston and Russell Square in London's Bloomsbury, and takes its theme from the Bloomsbury Set of writers, artists and thinkers.
Seminars and company events
Conferences, training days, hybrid events, awards and gala dinners and delegate packages are all on offer. The three main suites are pillar-free, air-conditioned and accessible, and each has built-in screens with audio. The Keynes Suite has one 136-inch and two 98-inch screens, the Woolf Suite one 110-inch and two 98-inch screens, and the Club Suite one 75-inch and two 65-inch screens. Keynes and Woolf each have an anteroom and foyer for registration and catering, which keeps coffee breaks out of the plenary room. Wifi is free in the meeting rooms, and the venue sends a meetings fact sheet on request.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells fully inclusive wedding packages. Larger weddings use the main suites, for up to 160 guests with a dance floor, and smaller ones can take a private room or the restaurant. Christmas parties, birthdays, baby showers, reunions, retirements and private dinners are also hosted.
Rooms and capacities
The Keynes Suite covers 205 square meters and takes up to 264 in theater style, 180 for dinner, 160 in classroom and 144 in cabaret. It divides into Keynes 1 and Keynes 2, each 98 square meters. The Woolf Suite takes up to 180 in theater style and 120 for dinner, and also divides in two. The Club Suite, 104 square meters, takes 80 in theater style, 50 for dinner and 25 around a boardroom table, and splits into three boardrooms named Strachey, Grant and Forster. Adeline, the 104-square-meter bar and restaurant, can be booked exclusively for group lunches, receptions and drinks after a conference.
Accommodation
Bedrooms range from 11-square-meter Club Solo rooms for one guest to Club Doubles and Twins at 15 square meters, Luxe Doubles and Twins at 18, and Large Luxe rooms with a king-size bed at 21. An accessible Club Double is booked through reservations. The hotel does not publish a total room count online, so ask how many rooms can be held for your group.
Catering
Food and drink are handled in house, with menus built for each event. Adeline is named after Adeline Virginia Woolf, and its all-day menus draw on her travels in the Eastern Mediterranean. It serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, afternoon tea, small plates and cocktails.
History and setting
The name recalls the Memoir Club, a circle of Bloomsbury friends who met to read memoirs to each other. The meeting rooms carry the names of members of that circle: the economist John Maynard Keynes, the novelist Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the painter Duncan Grant and the novelist E. M. Forster.
Getting there
Euston station, with mainline and Underground services, is a short walk north, and Euston Square and Russell Square tube stations are close. King's Cross St Pancras, with Eurostar trains to Paris and Brussels, is within walking distance. Heathrow is the main airport.
