The Savoy re-opens in mid-2010 and when it does you can feed your inner artist by staying in the Monet Suite, which has been refurbished along with the rest of this London Grand Dame, now a Fairmont hotel. If French Impressionism is your thing you'll know that Claude Monet painted dozens of London scenes and particularly loved the Thames, which snakes through the capital at the back of the Savoy. If you feel inspired you can nip along The Strand to the National Gallery and take in the Monet canvasses there.