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General => General discussion => Topic started by: clancy on 31 January 2012, 22:50
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hi guys after a little help, planning a weekend away with the misses for as soon as possible really. thinking of going to london, i dont really know much about it tbh as ive only been there once.
whats good areas to stay in or visit for shopping/restaurant etc? any particular recommendations ? shes always mentioned camden i think it is, where all the tattoo places are? any recommendations in that area
thanks for any help peoples
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Borough high street and market are good for eating out, Covent Garden is also good for eating, shopping and partying.
Camden is also a good place to spend money and time :grin:
what do you want like to see and do? as we have parks and palaces in places like Richmond, Ham and Kew, Museums in Kensington as well as the clubs and other trivia.
I suggest you stay outside London, transport links are good so need to pay through the nose for an Inner city hotel.
East Croydon has a train every hour to and from Victoria, the town itself is less than desirable but some nice hotels close by.
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What's your budget for accommodation, food, etc... A great way to explore, is to do one of the Bus sightseeing tours, worth every penny, and you can get off at different points of interest..
SoHo, Chinatown, Leicester square are great areas at night for food and bars etc,
Many hotels reduce the rate at weekends, be sure to check those prices, and not weekday rates!
Thom
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Borough high street and market are good for eating out, Covent Garden is also good for eating, shopping and partying.
Camden is also a good place to spend money and time :grin:
what do you want like to see and do? as we have parks and palaces in places like Richmond, Ham and Kew, Museums in Kensington as well as the clubs and other trivia.
I suggest you stay outside London, transport links are good so need to pay through the nose for an Inner city hotel.
East Croydon has a train every hour to and from Victoria, the town itself is less than desirable but some nice hotels close by.
You can stay at mine, 8 minutes to east croydon, im at work in 40 minutes (oxford street) :grin:
Just go to westfields, you can spend an entire day in there - food, shopping, cinema etc. Job done. London bridge, the market (oldest in london) is great for awesome food, though not sure when its on (sat/sun) also bits to do and see, the tate modern is a 10 minute walk, or you can get the boat down the river!
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Croydon, its awesome, we have a Reflex.
That is all.
I could be here all day naming awesome places to go and see in London . . .
East Croydon has a train every hour to and from Victoria, the town itself is less than desirable but some nice hotels close by.
Trains to London Bridge and Victoria leave pretty much every 10 minutes from East Croydon. I wouldnt suggest anyone stay here though, get a travelodge or somewhere up town. If your going to have a nice weekend with the Mrs, dont for the love of god bring her to stay in Croydon.
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Just noticed that, every hour! This morning there were 3 victoria trains within 5 minutes!
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Soho an Shorditch for tattoos, Hotels, i love the Royal Horse Guards (Embankment) an The Cumberland (marble Arch/Hyde Park)
Shopping wise, dont waste a visit to london in westfield, its just a huge mall. Do oxford street, Soho, Carnaby Street, Spitalfields is good fun and maybe even Brick Lane if youre into that. Borough Markets awesome, just go on an empty stomach!
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Soho an Shorditch for tattoos, Hotels, i love the Royal Horse Guards (Embankment) an The Cumberland (marble Arch/Hyde Park)
Shopping wise, dont waste a visit to london in westfield, its just a huge mall. Do oxford street, Soho, Carnaby Street, Spitalfields is good fun and maybe even Brick Lane if youre into that. Borough Markets awesome, just go on an empty stomach!
Oxford street is awful for shopping, they sell out of your size and its full of tourists, soho is expensive, carnaby street as well. Plus they are also full of tourists....well seems a good idea to do that then actually, thats what the tourists do. :laugh:
Just please dont stop suddenly while walking, or stand on the left of the escalator while going to the tube, its annoying!
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..... The OPs a tourist.
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Best place to go in London is the A40/M40 northbound out of the place :grin:
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..... The OPs a tourist.
....well seems a good idea to do that then actually, thats what the tourists do. :laugh:
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haha, thanks a lot for the insight guys. gonna have a look at some places slightly further out of the center with a good route in. now i know the areas too look for :)
how much do you pay for the underground a day ? or can you do it off a nectar card or something ?
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haha, thanks a lot for the insight guys. gonna have a look at some places slightly further out of the center with a good route in. now i know the areas too look for :)
how much do you pay for the underground a day ? or can you do it off a nectar card or something ?
Windsor is a good area to stay and only a mainline ride in to either Paddington or Waterloo, cost for that ride is about £15 return plus Oyster Card when your up town but tbh everything is walking distance apart from Docklands (Canary Whaft) but thats not really that great.
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..... The OPs a tourist.
....well seems a good idea to do that then actually, thats what the tourists do. :laugh:
:wink:
Might not have read the whole thing :lipsrsealed:
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Its about 10 quid for a day travel card, the most you will pay (zones 1-8) would be about 15 quid. Though you wont need zone 8 (watford is in it)
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Croydon, its awesome, we have a Reflex.
That is all.
I could be here all day naming awesome places to go and see in London . . .
East Croydon has a train every hour to and from Victoria, the town itself is less than desirable but some nice hotels close by.
Trains to London Bridge and Victoria leave pretty much every 10 minutes from East Croydon. I wouldnt suggest anyone stay here though, get a travelodge or somewhere up town. If your going to have a nice weekend with the Mrs, dont for the love of god bring her to stay in Croydon.
Good old Croydon.... A few years back I used to go to Pals in Croydon a fair bit. Had some great nights in there believe or not.
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:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: recomending a bloke who is spending the weekend in one of the largest cities in the world to devote an entire day to westfields shopping centre! f**k That
Go to camden, go to oxford st, go see the queen, go to the london eye, st pauls, leics square, soho, chinatown, covent garden, kew gardens, zoo, river cruise, parliment, the parks, science museum, national history museum, harrods in kensington, battersy powerstation, imperial war museum (really fecking cool)..... i could go on
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:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: recomending a bloke who is spending the weekend in one of the largest cities in the world to devote an entire day to westfields shopping centre! f**k That
Go to camden, go to oxford st, go see the queen, go to the london eye, st pauls, leics square, soho, chinatown, covent garden, kew gardens, zoo, river cruise, parliment, the parks, science museum, national history museum, harrods in kensington, battersy powerstation, imperial war museum (really fecking cool)..... i could go on
If you lived here you would understand :wink:
I avoid all those places you listed like the plague!!
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I love London. My favourite places to go are Shoreditch, Brick Lane, Covent Garden, Spitalfields market, White hart Lane :lipsrsealed: Westminster has about a million tourist attractions within a few miles of each other, and can kill a whole day (Big Ben, houses of Parliament, London Eye, Downing Street all within walking distance).
Last time I stayed in a hotel we stayed near The Isle of Dogs, near Canary Wharf. There were some good hotels and The DLR goes straight to Bank, which is a main underground interchange.
What type of thing are you looking to do?
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Croydon, its awesome, we have a Reflex.
That is all.
I could be here all day naming awesome places to go and see in London . . .
East Croydon has a train every hour to and from Victoria, the town itself is less than desirable but some nice hotels close by.
Trains to London Bridge and Victoria leave pretty much every 10 minutes from East Croydon. I wouldnt suggest anyone stay here though, get a travelodge or somewhere up town. If your going to have a nice weekend with the Mrs, dont for the love of god bring her to stay in Croydon.
I said near Croydon, I could not live with it if someone stayed in Croydon on my recommendation :grin:
Just noticed that, every hour! This morning there were 3 victoria trains within 5 minutes!
You are quite right I meant getting back at some ungodly hour :grin:
The coast trains run up till about 1am, Gatwick trains run even later....
I have a lot of customers who want to go sight seeing so we base them near by to Croydon or Wimbledon.
http://www.greyhoundhotel.net/
http://www.cannizarohouse.com/
http://www.selsdonparkhotellondon.co.uk/
Some of the hotels I put customers up in :cool:
Croydon is a sh!t hole simply because of how easy it is to get around from there, you need to be able to get your crack from Dalston 24hrs a day :laugh:
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:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: recomending a bloke who is spending the weekend in one of the largest cities in the world to devote an entire day to westfields shopping centre! f**k That
Go to camden, go to oxford st, go see the queen, go to the london eye, st pauls, leics square, soho, chinatown, covent garden, kew gardens, zoo, river cruise, parliment, the parks, science museum, national history museum, harrods in kensington, battersy powerstation, imperial war museum (really fecking cool)..... i could go on
If you lived here you would understand :wink:
I avoid all those places you listed like the plague!!
Yer, but he is a tourist so wants some things to see and do. I have spent every other weekend for the past 2 years in london and after a brief stint of edinburgh, will be doing the same for the next year. Based on this and many long weekends of exploration I would not recommend Westfield. Fish
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none its a f**king sh!thole,i wouldn't wish it on a broke dick dog lol
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that ladies and gentlemen came from....Preston
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haha prestons an even bigger sh!thole just like its neighbour blackpool lol
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I'll agree with that, i used to feel relieved when i arrived at preston station on my way home from blackpool!
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just looked up where i stayed last time and it was a premier inn in camden, cant remember the road now. was there too see the darts at ally palace. looked at some prices for that hotel again but seems rather expensive for a premier inn
really appreciate the help boys, just having some names of areas to look at and places to go is really helpfull
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just looked up where i stayed last time and it was a premier inn in camden, cant remember the road now. was there too see the darts at ally palace. looked at some prices for that hotel again but seems rather expensive for a premier inn
really appreciate the help boys, just having some names of areas to look at and places to go is really helpfull
Whats your hotel budget dude? an even premier inns in London are £80 up
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just looked up where i stayed last time and it was a premier inn in camden, cant remember the road now. was there too see the darts at ally palace. looked at some prices for that hotel again but seems rather expensive for a premier inn
really appreciate the help boys, just having some names of areas to look at and places to go is really helpfull
Whats your hotel budget dude? an even premier inns in London are £80 up
yeah thats what i just looked up :/ in an ideal world i wouldnt want to spend over £150 for 2 nights there, cheaper the better really. obviously without staying in a skip. but id rather have more money for doing things than on the hotel really. there are a few premier inns on certain dates for like £60 odd pound which is fine, just need to find a good date.
worth looking at BandBs or they going to be more ? ill have a quick look anyway, ya never know
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Some london B an B's are damn scary!
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Some london B an B's are damn scary!
true but i just been on here http://www.london30.com/ some really good price B & Bs on there, look nice with good reviews too. like £120 for 2 nights in a nice place :)