Hotel in London

[jonnylayze]

We're going to London in a couple of weeks and want to stay in a hotel on Saturday night. Can anyone recommend somewhere reasonably central, decent quality and reasonable value?

[uk89camaro]

Have stayed in a few ranging from the Travelodge at Covent Garden (Jail cell sparce and feckin' rammed. Don't bother.), to the Grosvenor on Park Lane. (Nice, decent room rate, but brecky at £30 a pop!!)

Have just booked Le Meridien in Picadilly as it's where we wanted to be in the City.

My point is, pick where you want to be geographically, set yourself a budget, search, and put some trust in sites like trip advisor.

[craigjm]

uk89camaro said:

Have stayed in a few ranging from the Travelodge at Covent Garden (Jail cell sparce and feckin' rammed. Don't bother.), to the Grosvenor on Park Lane. (Nice, decent room rate, but brecky at £30 a pop!!)

Have just booked Le Meridien in Picadilly as it's where we wanted to be in the City.

My point is, pick where you want to be geographically, set yourself a budget, search, and put some trust in sites like trip advisor.

agree with that. Book it through Trivago or other booking service too

[TwigtheWonderkid]

jonnylayze said:

reasonably central, decent quality and reasonable value?

I can give you central, decent and expensive.
I can give you central, good value and crap.
I can give you suburban, decent and good value

But central, decent and good value, sorry, I'm all out of miracles.

[jonnylayze]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

jonnylayze said:

reasonably central, decent quality and reasonable value?

I can give you central, decent and expensive.
I can give you central, good value and crap.
I can give you suburban, decent and good value

But central, decent and good value, sorry, I'm all out of miracles.

Booked the Royal Horseguards Hotel. 5* and just off Whitehall. £130 via lastminute.com less 10% cashback which I get through a work-based discount scheme so just under £120 which I think is pretty good value.

[Busa mav]

Great value, but some of the rooms at the back , can be extremely noisey from the morning trains .

Good for train spotters though

[jonnylayze]

I've got two small children so I'm well used to being disturbed early in the morning....

In fact we booked it on the basis of it being a "mystery hotel" right up until after you've paid for it. Last minute show you roughly where it is and what the facilities are but don't advertise the name of the hotel. I was happy with that given the price and given the fact that I didn't really know what I was looking for.

Only time will tell whether it was a good decision but I'm taking the OH to Claridges and then to see Les Mis on the stage so we should have a good time even if the hotel turns out to be a dud

[Kudos]

Doubletree by Hilton at tower bridge is a fantastic hidden hotel.