There is a quiet and relaxed feel about The Lensbury, a far cry from the busy hotel full of tourists and conference goers near Tower Bridge, where the All Blacks spent their first three nights of the World Cup.
Assistant coach Ian Foster told the assembled media in a press conference held in a large and fully equipped lecture theatre that the self-contained nature of the facility was just what was required.
"Obviously we've just go here today and I think it took us about an hour and 10 minutes to get across town so we were very very thankful after that bus trip to actually get changed and just walk two minutes across the driveway to the field. I know Shandy [manager Darren Shand] and Steve [Hansen] were here earlier in the year and did a lot of good work and chose it for a reason. At this time of the tournament, not having to do a lot of travelling during the week I think is going to be a real bonus.
"It's fantastic and we had a good training today, so no issues at all with the facilities."
Foster, sitting alongside wing Waisake Naholo, added: "It has been a good couple of days. We've had a reasonably busy programme but it's been good for everyone to settle in. But coming here today to The Lensbury and getting out on the park, you can see the excitement building."
The All Blacks do not have their own team of travelling chefs, but the team nutritionist is believed to be working in accordance with hotel staff to manage the players' meals.
A full English breakfast is available in the hotel's Thames View Restaurant and the hotel lounge and bar is open all day for a coffee, snack or three-course meal.
The Terrace Conservatory has views over the landscaped grounds, which sweep all the way down to the river Thames.
For starters, players can get stuck in to an all-day menu which includes a selection of salads and flash fried prawns for an entrée, as well as chicken wings, Scottish salmon, or a Middle Eastern platter.
There is a salad bar and variety of other snacks available, including a Mediterranean platter, jacket potatoes, or olive and herb focaccia gourmet sandwiches.
The generous menu of mains has everything from gnocchi and South Asian curry, to British classics like fish, chips and crushed peas.
There is a charcoal-cooked burger, slow roasted half chicken and a pulled pork bun, as well as a selection of Buccleuch Scotch beef steaks.
If that's not enough, there are pizzas and desserts available, including raspberry crème brûlée, homemade ice cream and British apple and pear crumble.
You can view the all-day menu here.
For a more formal dining experience the All Black players and management team could sit down at The Lensbury's Dunbar Restaurant, set inside the main lounge.
The restaurant menu has everything from Morteaux sausage and Gin and juniper cured salmon gravlax for starters, to ravioli, traditional steak pie and herb crusted rack of English lamb for a main.
On Sundays, the hotel's popular Sunday Carvery is served in the afternoon.
You can see the full Dunbar Restaurant menu here.
While the players are unlikely to drink, the hotel bar also provides pub food and live sport on large plasma screens.
About the Lensbury Hotel
The Lensbury is a four-star hotel on the southern bank of the river Thames in Teddington, in the south west of London.
It was constructed in the early 1930s and sits within 25 acres of landscaped grounds.
It has a conference centre, a health club and spa, 19 tennis courts - including grass courts, a mini tennis zone and two squash courts.
The 171-room hotel has a gym with 77 stations of cardiovascular, resistance and free weight equipment, as well as two heated indoor swimming pools - a 25m pool and a learner pool. It also has a thermal suite.
There is a hotel water sports centre with sculling boats, kayaks, canoes and sailing dinghies, plus small motor boats.
The lounge and bar area of The Lensbury is in the centre of the ground floor and overlooks the hotel lawns and the river Thames.
