What is the best place of London to stay?
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mikkak said:
Do you want to be right in the centre eg. the West End or will that be a bit too touristy for you and you'd prefer to be a little bit further out??
What's the purpose of your trip Mikkak cos that will give me idea - is it shopping, cultural stuff, visiting friends, clubbing etc etc??
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Also, what is your budget?
Is a mixture, we are going to visit my english family in Peterborough and then I am going back to London friday nigth, we want to go to dinner and then go out but not hard clubbing because is just me and my sister. Saturday we want to do something like walking around because we just have a day left and is not practical visiting a palace or a particular museum ( I have done that before), we have also saturday nigth in London. so I don't really know where to stay, a point is that I am going back to Mallorca from luton.Barbie said:
mikkak said:
If you're flying back from Luton you'll need to catch Thameslink from Kings Cross, it takes about 35 mins. You wouldn't want to stay in Kings Cross tho as it's not a particularly nice area.
You're probably best off staying in or around the West End cos then you'll have lots of shops, restaurants, bars right where you're staying and you won't be needing to catch a lot of tubes/taxis.
Here's a link to a long list of West End hotels at various prices http://www.hoteldirect.co.uk/london/
I see, I dont mind staying anywhere but I have to put together a few of points, I would like to be next to the action, I mean restaurants, etc, mostly because of the nigth, I much prefer moving around or doing longer ways during the day than during the nigth but I am worried about Luton airport because I have to be 6:30 sunday morning and I would like to make it as easiest as possible. I am a little bit messed up 
mikkak said:I see, I dont mind staying anywhere but I have to put together a few of points, I would like to be next to the action, I mean restaurants, etc, mostly because of the nigth, I much prefer moving around or doing longer ways during the day than during the nigth but I am worried about Luton airport because I have to be 6:30 sunday morning and I would like to make it as easiest as possible. I am a little bit messed up
If you want to be near the main action then I'd probably avoid Victoria, there really isn't much there at all, when we used to go to Pacha we'd sometimes have a drink before in the station bar cos the pubs/bars in the area were so bad
I would suggest somewhere more central then, maybe Covent Garden or round near Soho. Everywhere is so busy and bustling there, you'd never be short of something to do and you wouldn't have to worry about it being hard to get home.
This is the website for travel info to get to Luton from London http://www.thameslink.co.uk/index.php
I will take note of all your tips and start to search for a hotel in Coven Garden, Soho and West end, taking into consideration wich of the three fits better in my way to Luton airport sunday morning.Barbie said:mikkak said:I see, I dont mind staying anywhere but I have to put together a few of points, I would like to be next to the action, I mean restaurants, etc, mostly because of the nigth, I much prefer moving around or doing longer ways during the day than during the nigth but I am worried about Luton airport because I have to be 6:30 sunday morning and I would like to make it as easiest as possible. I am a little bit messed up
If you want to be near the main action then I'd probably avoid Victoria, there really isn't much there at all, when we used to go to Pacha we'd sometimes have a drink before in the station bar cos the pubs/bars in the area were so bad
I would suggest somewhere more central then, maybe Covent Garden or round near Soho. Everywhere is so busy and bustling there, you'd never be short of something to do and you wouldn't have to worry about it being hard to get home.
This is the website for travel info to get to Luton from London http://www.thameslink.co.uk/index.php
Thanks very much
mikkak said:I will take note of all your tips and start to search for a hotel in Coven Garden, Soho and West end, taking into consideration wich of the three fits better in my way to Luton airport sunday morning.
Thanks very much
The tubes won't be running at that time on a Sunday morning so wherever you stay you'll have to get a taxi to Kings Cross, it won't take long wherever you're staying at that time.
Barbie said:mikkak said:I will take note of all your tips and start to search for a hotel in Coven Garden, Soho and West end, taking into consideration wich of the three fits better in my way to Luton airport sunday morning.
Thanks very much
The tubes won't be running at that time on a Sunday morning so wherever you stay you'll have to get a taxi to Kings Cross, it won't take long wherever you're staying at that time.
ohhh ok, didn't thougth about that
thats fine because its so simple I didn't like the idea of doing all that work at that time of the nigth. Thank you very much, you are so helpfull!!!! mikkak said:ohhh ok, didn't thougth about that
They don't start running til 7am so you can just jump into a black cab, much easier
Ask away Mikkak, I know when we were going to Barcelona last NYE all Sil's help made our trip even better, I've already got her planning my next one for my 30th in January (between you and me I'm not very good at embracing this manana lifestyle
) My fav London hotel is www.myhotels.com the bloomsbury one.
It's lovely and even has a Yo shushi. Yum.
It's lovely and even has a Yo shushi. Yum.
I am a mañana girl, but today I started thinking of my Ibiza-Formentera trip but just because I am already missing the summer, it kinds of give me something to think about and don't miss so much, but I normally don't know what i am doing tomorrow morning
Sandi, thanks for the link I will have a look
but just because I am already missing the summer, it kinds of give me something to think about and don't miss so much, but I normally don't know what i am doing tomorrow morning Sandi, thanks for the link I will have a look
a week for my trip to London and still havent arrange anything about restaurants or what I am doing over there, just living it till the end, like in Barcelona that I didn't have hotel a few of days before the trip, that once I had it I forgott to writte down the adress, and when I was in Barcelona didn't know how to go or anything and I had to call my friend to check in the net for the name and the adress of the hotel the taxi driver thougth I was crazy, had to go to my friends restaurant by surprise and forgott to writte down the adress and I had to call some friends to find out where did he had the restaurant, couldnt call the owner cause was a surprise.
Silvia recomended a nice restaurant and had to send a text to another member of the spanish board to tell me what was the adress
I wont let it happen this time in London
the taxi driver thougth I was crazy, had to go to my friends restaurant by surprise and forgott to writte down the adress and I had to call some friends to find out where did he had the restaurant, couldnt call the owner cause was a surprise.Silvia recomended a nice restaurant and had to send a text to another member of the spanish board to tell me what was the adress
I wont let it happen this time in London 
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I like the Westbury, it's in Mayfair, just off Regent Street so near the West end too.
http://www.westbury-london.co.uk/
You can get really good deals from www.laterooms.com and the hotel is really nice
http://www.westbury-london.co.uk/
You can get really good deals from www.laterooms.com and the hotel is really nice