The City has seen a growth in new hotels recently and, most interestingly, it seems these are not just for business travellers but increasingly for people who are visiting London simply for pleasure. Long gone are the days when the City closed down at night, the streets empty until the early morning traders arrived. Now people choose to stay here because the whole area is buzzing. One of the kids on the city block here is Savage Garden. Sitting on the skyline (12th) floor of the Doubletree Hilton Hotel, the views are amazing and it's been designed to take full advantage of them with floor to ceiling windows that curve for a 360-degree outlook. You get a particularly good sighting of the Shard and the Tower of London from inside but, outside there's also a long terrace that in a few weeks time is going to be a fantastic night-time destination – though not quite right for the chilly March evening that I visited. Inside, there's a massive bar in the main area but also cos