Overnight stay in London

Looking for some advice.

Want to have a weekend away in London. I will drive down to London but want to stay this side of London and take the tube in. Happy to be around 25 30 minutes away on a tube from Leicester Square, Can anyone recommend a good area to stay with a hotel in close walking distance to a tube station. Happy for it to be a travellodge, premier inn Ibis etc,

Looking for some advice.

 

Want to have a weekend away in London. I will drive down to London but want to stay this side of London and take the tube in. Happy to be around 25 30 minutes away on a tube from Leicester Square, Can anyone recommend a good area to stay with a hotel in close walking distance to a tube station. Happy for it to be a travellodge, premier inn Ibis etc,

We did a new years eve at Travelodge London Whetstone,70 quid for a night,10 mins walk from tube and then 20 mins into center.

£36.50 per night for twin room with window at Tune Hotel which is 5 minutes walk from St. Pancras.

Relatively cheap for central London.

I stay there everytime I visit London - cheap, basic and clean.

http://www.tunehotels.com/gb/en/our-hotels/united_kingdom/?utm_campaign=uk&gclid=CjwKEAjw652_BRDfkebVrdOGkDISJAD0Q2Ru-qswz-cGhhTNu1T0A6w35TsSTK5xSbZfwpBVgyYaKRoCf8Hw_wcB

You pay extra for TV, towels etc but still works out cheaper than staying out of town and travelling in.

There is a very nice Turkish cafe across the road that serves an excellent full English.

https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186338-d6503304-Reviews-Cappadocia-London_England.html

Why drive down ?

If you book in good time you can find cheap trains.

https://www.farefinder.eastmidlandstrains.co.uk/

I have recently paid £38 return from Sheffield but if you are patient you can get it cheaper.

Good luck !

We did a new years eve at Travelodge London Whetstone,70 quid for a night,10 mins walk from tube and then 20 mins into center.

Yes, Travelodges are cheap and cheerful; plus they often have special discounts (£35 or less per room) when they want to shift surplus. See https://www.travelodge.co.uk/?gclid=CN-dsaWsr7oCFVHMtAodJTUAJQ

Yes, Travelodges are cheap and cheerful; plus they often have special discounts (£35 or less per room) when they want to shift surplus. See https://www.travelodge.co.uk/?gclid=CN-dsaWsr7oCFVHMtAodJTUAJQ

Some are OK, where they've been recently refurbished, others are well worn and pretty grim.

Have a look on AirBNB.

There's cheap hotels right around Victoria station,, which is where you'd expect them to be seeing as so many of London's new arrivals, especially from abroad, initially come in there. 10 years ago you could get a grubby own room with shared bathroom in one of them for about 30 quid. Maybe it's more like 40 now. Further out, you're going to get your own bathroom and a not-so-grubby room for 40 quid.

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There is a very nice Turkish cafe across the road that serves an excellent full English. !

This sentence sums up 2016 Britain as a whole, not just London.