Accommodation in London

kittenz

There are a few of us heading to London in June for a concert, can anyone recommend cheap accommodation in central london, preferrably close enough to piccadilly circus, covent garden, leicester sq as we would like to be staying near good clubs and pubs. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

BuffyBot

www.travelodge.co.uk might be a good place to start. You don't even nessecarily need to be exactly central, as with the efficient public transport (including good night bus service, 7 fdays a week) you have a lot more options. Check out www.journeyplanner.org.uk to check the distances and transport options between hotels and various destinations..

kittenz

BuffyBot wrote:

www.travelodge.co.uk might be a good place to start. You don't even nessecarily need to be exactly central, as with the efficient public transport (including good night bus service, 7 fdays a week) you have a lot more options. Check out www.journeyplanner.org.uk to check the distances and transport options between hotels and various destinations..

Thanks for the suggestions, the travelodge site is good. I know we dont need to stay really central, but would like to for handyness sake. I used to live in North London so i know the public transport is really good, but also know how much of a nightmare it can be when trying to get home drunk, and no doubt at least one of the group will be at one stage, so accommodation close would be most suited.. Thanks for the info though, it was really appreciated

babaduck

Would you consider a hostel - friends of mine stayed in the Edinburgh one last year & the location was unbeatable...

http://www.st-christophers.co.uk/hostels/london_hostels

kittenz

yeah i am sure we would consider staying in a hostel, never stayed in one before, how safe is it to leave your belongings in hostels while you are out for the day/nite etc?????? Items being stolen would be my only worry!

babaduck

Get a room between you all (i.e. no others sharing) and you should be fine

kittenz

Thanks for all the info Babaduck, i'll mention it to the rest of them. Cheers

Femelade

just came back from london last nite, stayed in paddington, got a hotel only a few mins from paddington underground.
booked it from Hotels-London.co.uk . it was the gresham hotel, there were 7 of us and it came to £470 which came to only around £68 pp for 3 nites, which was pennies!

piccadilly was only 10 mins away by tube and leicester sq was only about 2 mins walk from there, easier to walk that to change tubes.

the hotel was small but lovely, and very clean, i would def stay there again, they have triple rooms and quad rooms which made it cheaper for us.

kittenz

Thanks Femmy, I checked out that hotel, it looks really nice.... was just wondering, did you go to any pubs and clubs in central london and stay out late, if so, how did you find getting back to your hotel after 11.45 when the tubes close?

Femelade

there's plenty of taxi's, went out in leiscester sq two of the nites, on the sunday night we went to o neills, a chain of irish pubs, great crack but had to be out by 12.30 and then we found it very hard to find a club to get into to, but we eventually found one. sorry i cant remember any names really.taxi cost about £25 on the sat nite (which is ok, if there is a group), we went as far as finsbury park, and got a taxi back easily enough and that was even cheaper but further away. one thing i will say to you though, when u get a taxi, ask to see their licence, one of the girls we were there with had lived in london last yr and said most people do ask cos people posing as taxi drivers is apparntly common.

kittenz

Femmy wrote:

there's plenty of taxi's, went out in leiscester sq two of the nites, on the sunday night we went to o neills, a chain of irish pubs, great crack but had to be out by 12.30 and then we found it very hard to find a club to get into to, but we eventually found one. sorry i cant remember any names really.taxi cost about £25 on the sat nite (which is ok, if there is a group), we went as far as finsbury park, and got a taxi back easily enough and that was even cheaper but further away. one thing i will say to you though, when u get a taxi, ask to see their licence, one of the girls we were there with had lived in london last yr and said most people do ask cos people posing as taxi drivers is apparntly common.

Thanks Femmy, that doesnt sound too bad for taxi's will definitely check that hotel out. Yeah i know about the taxi's there, i used to live in Finsbury Park, there are a lot of unlicenced cabs about can be dodgy alright, you always need to check for licence. As i used to live in north london, i am familar a good lot of places in london, it is just i never stayed in a hotel there, always had accommodation or stayed with mates, so hotels there are all new to me, that is why i was querying taxi's. Thanks for all the info