London travel help needed!?!?
September 16, 2015 6:51 AM Subscribe
My husband is attending a conference the week after next, near charging cross, and myself and our 3 month old son get to join him! Yay! But now we're looking at hotels and having trouble finding something in our price range that has a nice area around it that I can putter around with the baby (about a thousand euros, less if possible, for the 26th- 1st) .. And we have particular needs... Details below the fold
We have friends from Essex who want to visit us at the start of the week and hope our location can be at least a little convenient and then we need to rent a car and drive up to Lincolnshire. Is there any hotels mefites know of that are located on a line to charing cross, but also in a good location to shoot out of town up north. With a new baby this is all a little confounding! I can try and answer any questions if I didn't give some pertinent info!
We have friends from Essex who want to visit us at the start of the week and hope our location can be at least a little convenient and then we need to rent a car and drive up to Lincolnshire. Is there any hotels mefites know of that are located on a line to charing cross, but also in a good location to shoot out of town up north. With a new baby this is all a little confounding! I can try and answer any questions if I didn't give some pertinent info!
I have some clarifying questions if that's alright?
Do you want the Hotel in London or are you planning on commuting into Charing X for the conference?
Any constraints on the puttering area?
What are the Essex friends constraints? They want to come see you for dinner? Or more involved?
You're planning on driving from London to Lincolnshire?
Is that 100 Euros for 5 nights?
That's £145 a night. That seems like a lot. I'm sure that's possible.
Is that to include travelling to Charing X and back or not?
Or is my maths wrong.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 7:11 AM on September 16, 2015
Do you want the Hotel in London or are you planning on commuting into Charing X for the conference?
Any constraints on the puttering area?
What are the Essex friends constraints? They want to come see you for dinner? Or more involved?
You're planning on driving from London to Lincolnshire?
Is that 100 Euros for 5 nights?
That's £145 a night. That seems like a lot. I'm sure that's possible.
Is that to include travelling to Charing X and back or not?
Or is my maths wrong.
posted by Just this guy, y'know at 7:11 AM on September 16, 2015
Best answer: That's £145 a night. That seems like a lot.
For a couple, with a baby, at this notice, specifically in Charing Cross? Its not. though is it only 4 nights? You might have to look a little further afield but something like a premier inn would be doable, there is one at Leicester Sq that seems to have availability for those dates at about £184/night and gets a decent rating on trip advisor.
Are you comfortable with driving in London? Ie are you brits who would be pretty happy to get in a car in central London and drive or would you prefer to avoid that? It would be about £15 to get from Charing cross to Kings cross in a cab, then get a train a way out of London and pick up a hire car locally. Or just across London to hire a car and miss out the worst of the main part of the city.
posted by biffa at 7:38 AM on September 16, 2015
For a couple, with a baby, at this notice, specifically in Charing Cross? Its not. though is it only 4 nights? You might have to look a little further afield but something like a premier inn would be doable, there is one at Leicester Sq that seems to have availability for those dates at about £184/night and gets a decent rating on trip advisor.
Are you comfortable with driving in London? Ie are you brits who would be pretty happy to get in a car in central London and drive or would you prefer to avoid that? It would be about £15 to get from Charing cross to Kings cross in a cab, then get a train a way out of London and pick up a hire car locally. Or just across London to hire a car and miss out the worst of the main part of the city.
posted by biffa at 7:38 AM on September 16, 2015
Best answer: Try Camden Town. Accommodation will be cheaper there than actually at Charing Cross, but it's only a few stops on the northern line straight down to CC. It's a little north, so should be easier to drive out of town to visit your friends (or for them to drive in.
posted by greenish at 7:44 AM on September 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by greenish at 7:44 AM on September 16, 2015 [2 favorites]
The Strand Palace Hotel right near Charing Cross might have a room at your price level, or if it's a little higher your husband would save on the cost of a tube ride as he'd be walking distance from where he needs to be. It's by Covent Garden and an easy walk to aThames dock where you can take a ferry trip, so great for puttering.
posted by hazyjane at 9:42 AM on September 16, 2015
posted by hazyjane at 9:42 AM on September 16, 2015
Response by poster: Thanks everyone! I couldn't answer all the questions but we took biffas advice and checked the premier inn and they had a lot of options- so we went with hampstead Heath! Thank you!
posted by pairofshades at 10:06 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by pairofshades at 10:06 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
Just to add, there's no way I'd drive from Hampstead to Charing Cross in London (and I live in London). Not least because there's a tube line that runs between the two. But hiring a car and driving to Lincolnshire would be fine.
posted by rhymer at 10:54 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by rhymer at 10:54 AM on September 16, 2015 [1 favorite]
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posted by pharm at 7:04 AM on September 16, 2015