It's not often you get to hang out in a world leader's old office. Nor stand at the top of the magnificent marble staircase where he made his morning addresses. But stay at a lavish new hotel in London and you'll get a peek into the four walls where Sir Winston Churchill once worked.
READ MORE: Locations you can visit from your favourite TV shows or movies And if those wood panelled walls could talk...
well, they probably would be sworn to secrecy. Because this is the Old War Office in Westminster. And spies were among the hundreds of staff who worked here between 1906 and 1964, alongside Churchill.
READ MORE: 'I didn't even buy these headphones to travel with, but they ended up saving my trip' He was here as Secretary of State for War from 1919 to 1921. We hear the 1906 building even has secret tunnels to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street. The building is now owned by the UK's richest man, Gopichand Hinduja, who is worth about $70 billion.
And after a multi-billion dollar makeover, it's home to a new hotel, Raffles London at The OWO. READ MORE: What it's like being an acrobatic juggler on a cruise ship And from the rooms, such as The Haldene Suite in Churchill's old office ($25k a night if you were wondering) to The Spy Bar where you can sip cocktails in bunkers where classified documents were once stashed, it's jaw dropping. We got to live the high life by sampling a suite for a night.
From the very start it was clear this is no normal hotel. We were offered a war.
