London Hotels - 100 quid budget.

[6th Gear]

Hello folks,

I'm flying to London next week and in need of a decent, centrally located hotel.

Budget - 100 GBP per night.

Any recommendations?

Many thanks.

[Gargamel]

Yeah - double your budget.

For London £100 gets you a flea pit, in a grim location.

If you want acceptable, central. Try Strand Palace Hotel.

[Hub]

Anywhere more specific than just central?

Try Lastminute.com perhaps. They do 'secret hotels' at good rates with a vague description of the area and hotel type. Did it once and got the Hilton Islington for about £70 a night, which was basic but fine! (and I think less than £100 anyway).

[_Deano]

I stayed at the Thistle hotel in Barbican on Friday night after a drinking session. Not bad in terms of prices and quality.
At the time of booking (which was on the Tuesday in the same week), they were offering single rooms for £48 per night and a standard double for £78.
Walking distance from the City, which is what i did when i had to work on Saturday - hence the hotel.

[6th Gear]

Thanks for all the comments / suggestions.

Looks like I may need to venture further out.

Found this, looks decent and within budget. District line on my doorstep and a pub downstairs

http://www.kewgardenshotel.com/home.html

[matt3001]

Make sure the district line is actually working. Half of the time it seems to be under-going planned maintenance

[Blown2CV]

_Deano said:

I stayed at the Thistle hotel in Barbican on Friday night after a drinking session. Not bad in terms of prices and quality.
At the time of booking (which was on the Tuesday in the same week), they were offering single rooms for £48 per night and a standard double for £78.
Walking distance from the City, which is what i did when i had to work on Saturday - hence the hotel.

they aren't very open minded though, at that place

lastminute.com will see you straight with a nice enough place for not too much about 100 quid. However yes, anything other than a skank-pit for two digits is impossible to find.

[Nickyboy]

Best i manged was Holiday Inn at Stratford for £80

[Gene Simmons]

I managed to get a travelodge opposite Euston station for £87. Booked it on Saturday for fri 22/03/13.

Cheap and no doubt not mega cheerful, but it's only to get my head down after a gig in the barfly in Camden on the Friday night so I am sure it will manage to do the job......

[Blown2CV]

if you're going down for that you may as well stay at the generator

[Gene Simmons]

The generator ?

Scurries off to google


Scurries back.....

Didn't fancy a hostel, although thanks for the heads up. Looks like quite a good place for an after hours party though :-)

Edited by Gene Simmons on Tuesday 12th March 21:39

[Blown2CV]

Gene Simmons said:

The generator ?

Scurries off to google


Scurries back.....

Didn't fancy a hostel, although thanks for the heads up. Looks like quite a good place for an after hours party though :-)

Edited by Gene Simmons on Tuesday 12th March 21:39

yea i've never fancied it myself but i have mates who have stayed there on occasion! It's particularly interesting after the notting hill carnival...

[Gareth79]

Gene Simmons said:

I managed to get a travelodge opposite Euston station for £87. Booked it on Saturday for fri 22/03/13.

Cheap and no doubt not mega cheerful, but it's only to get my head down after a gig in the barfly in Camden on the Friday night so I am sure it will manage to do the job......

The Travelodges are in some very nice and convenient locations and pretty well priced, particularly if you book very early. They are very basic, but always clean and tidy and most have decent sized rooms. All you want if you are just in London and need a place to crash late at night and then wake up and leave just before check-out time!

[Gene Simmons]

Kind of my thinking. We arrive into Euston at 15:13, and can check straight in and go out on the beers early

Next day check out is at midday and the train home from Euston is at 11:47. This mean we can roll out of bed hungover and jump on the train with no concerns re the driving.

Convenient all round really

ETA: Apols to OP for the slight thread derail

[hornetrider]

Depends on your idea of central but I've managed to get deals in the Hilton Doubletree in Westminster for about a ton iirc. Nice hotel too, Macs in the rooms etc, but a short tube/cab ride from 'action'.

[dazco]

Trivago is a good site to look at because it compares a lot of the discount sites.

[Blown2CV]

travelodge and premier are very sensitive to 'local' events. If there's anything going on in the area (and London is a big area, with a lot going on) then the price shoots up. I've often seen Travelodge coming in at £120 per night when you can net a 5* late booking for that on lastminute. If you can get one for less then great, but going straight there and booking it just because "it must be cheap" is misguided. Even if I'm out on the piss I still want to get good value.

[jazzybee]

Coming for work:

Clean Modern, no frills:
http://www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/LONOLD/london-c...

http://www.tunehotels.com/our-hotels/liverpool-str...