Inside: The Grand Hotel, Birmingham

Tucked away on Birmingham's Colmore Row, overlooking the grounds of St. Phillips Cathedral, sits The Grand Hotel Birmingham, an elegant Grade II-listed hotel dating back to 1879 that has hosted a myriad of notable figures, from Winston Churchill to Charlie Chaplin. Swan through the imposing iron-bolted double doors, ascending gold-lined dove gray marble steps as you tiptoe across cool flagstone tiles flowing into The Grand's lavish lobby adorned with antique granite pillars, towering oxidized mirrors, and glass-blown orbital pendant lights hanging from a tray ceiling. Curving around olive velvet sofas...