Recommended London Hotels

[fossyant]

The family and I are off to London for a few days in mid November, going mid week and coming back on Sunday. Sorted out the train tickets for the vastly expensive sum of £47 for 4 return (with Family and Friends Rail card discount) so now looking for a good hotel for 4 which is convenient for the tube.

So far the favourite seems to be a Premier Inn near St Pancras/Kings Cross. Works out at about £500 for 4 nights, plus £15 a day for breakfast for the 4 of us. Eating out will be in the city where ever we are.

Doing the usual stuff, 3 of the museums, Tower of London, maybe the Eye yadda yadda - not been 'sight seeing' in London since I was a child.

Can anyone recomend any other hotels that they'd stay in again ?

Ta !!!!

 

[Globalti]

NEVER a Best Western. The hotel industry in the UK is on its knees and small hotels are not making enough money to reinvest and refurbish. When eventually they go tits-up they get bought out cheap by chains like Best Western who provide the brand and the marketing but don't spend any money, so you end up in some crappy old Victorian house with creaky floors, endless gloom corridors and thin walls.

Best to stick with the Comfort Inns, Novotels and other "formula" hotels, which are the only ones making any money at the moment.

 

[fossyant]

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The Dorchester
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LOL

Almost £500 for a double room per night.......... crikey..... Budget is £500 for 4 nights or less....... LOL

 

[wafflycat]

Try the web sites for Travelodge, Holiday Inn Express and the like. Basic but clean, so you know what you're getting.

 

[fossyant]

Try the web sites for Travelodge, Holiday Inn Express and the like. Basic but clean, so you know what you're getting.

Ta, yes I have tried most all about the £500 mark. Checked Travel Adviser for reviews as well - looking at positives and negatives - i.e. some are good, but nothing near them, or it's a good walk to nearest tube.

Some 'non-chain' hotels look good, until you read reviews... As with anything some folk don't like annything at all and will moan, but it's been good to compare reviews.

 

[dmoan]

It might not immediately appeal, but I can highly recommend No.16 St Alfeges Passage, Greenwich (http://www.st-alfeges.co.uk/) - a very friendly B&B and very close to Greenwich & Cutty Sark DLR. I know it is a bit out but I like to stay outside the centre and travel in each day - still in zone 2. Plus you can take the river taxi back from the Embankment at night - a very relaxing way to get home after a show or a busy day.

B&B run by two genuinely nice guys with a lovely cat, rooms unique and full of antiques - the complete opposite of a chain hotel!

Very handy to the O2 arena and the Greenwich Observatory, if you are interested...

[edit] - forgot: full English cooked in front of you every morning with good coffee and as much toast as you can eat!

 

[Archie_tect]

Fossyant,
If you use tesco and have any of their discount vouchers saved up, you can apply for 4x the value of the vouchers off hotels that are partners in tesco scheme. we saved £57.50's worth of vouchers so got £230 off the hotel bill- but you have to apply for them on line and key in the tesco voucher reference numbers and book but check first which hotels are taking them.

We stayed at the Ramada Inn south of the Tate Modern and the Globe Theatre as we booked very late and all the promotions had been snapped up. It was a lovely hotel but a five/ ten minute walk to Southwark tube [or 10/ 15 minutes to the ones north of the river over the footbridge in front of St Pauls] but you could use a Novotel within the tesco vouchers for about about £79 per night [less any discounts] which can sleep up to 4 in a standard family room [double + 2 singles made up from the sofa].

Also with your booking for train tickets, the train company's website may have deals with attractions to get 2 for 1 entry into places, possibly even the London Eye. I know that East Coast do. Also people like the AA have discount vouchers for entry to attractions in their renewal packs.

Have a great time!

 

[biggs682]

we just come back from an overnight stay in the Travel Lodge on waterloo rd , waterloo , ok very basic but very clean and comfortable £65 for the pr of us cant complain

 

[dan_bo]

Foss, it's not reet glitzy or owt but you should be able to get a family room in the tavistock on tavistock square for around a 1er a night including breakfast. it's a bit crusty and tough but for some reason it's where I always stay and i'm in there 2-3 nights a month. it's geet convinient for russell square, warren st and euston square (and obviously euston station), the british museum, west end blah. It's not to everyone's taste but whatever.

Just don't end up in the royal national. Same block same company but boooooooooy it's poo.

 

[guitarpete247]

We stopped at Bermondsey Square hotel last year. Highly rate it. Booked through laterooms.com and got a good deal. Late rooms and Bookings.com are good starting pints when looking and checking the reviews.

 

[Globalti]

My sister and BIL have just returned from a long weekend in London, they went on a guided tour of Highgate Cemetery and said it was the most fascinating, mind-boggling gob-smacking thing they had ever done.

Must try that next time.