low priced london hotel with car park?

phebe3 wrote: »

Hi, does anyone know of a London hotel we could use if we visited. Family of 5, 2 adults, 8 yr old, 16 yr old, 10 yr old. Wd prefer to come in the car cos cheaper than the train but then we would need to park it. Hoping to come during half term week...26 May to 1 June time for a night. Reasonabley priced but nice...kids think travel inns/holiday Inn express the height of luxury when we've stayed in them!

hi

where are you coming from?

it may be cheaper if yopu found something like a travelodge, just outside London.

most of them come with free parking, if outside London, and if you book 3wks in advance u can sometimes get a discount, maybe even a night for just £19.

that way you wouldn't have to pay parking charges or congestion charges, but you would have to get travelcards to get into and around london, but i'm guessing you would have been doin that anyway.

Just an example, but Romford Travelodge is £39 (discounted from £55) for any day in that week. Romford train Station is just 20mins train journey to Liverpool Street Stn. from there you can go anywhere on the tubes or buses of London.

Obviously there are plenty of other Travelodges nearby, such as Ilford, Chesunt, Watford. its what suits you best.

hope that helps
insp monkfish

If you are going to the Tower of London using off peak all day travel cards (aft 9.30am at station, kids under 12 free and under 16 £2 for a travel card) you can show this card with the voucher printed off from this site to get 2 for 1 offers at London attractions such as the tower
http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/search-results.aspx?genreid=14&attractiontypeid=21&page=4

After the tower, hop on the no 15 red bus (free using travel cards) and go to marble arch on it. It is a cheap tour option, as it goes past a lot of the London landmarks eg. law courts, trafalgar square, st pauls. Then you could get picnic items at the sainsbury store on the corner of marble Arch and go across the road to Hyde park. You could walk to the Serpentine (boating lake) and carry on walking into Kensington gardens to see The Diana Memorial gardens.
Another day out could be going to South Kensington station (plan your journeys in advance using tfl site maps) and go to the free nearby science, Natural history and vand A museums. The science museum has a lovely picnic garden by the cafe area.

Another nice day out would be using the 2 for 1 offer on the site previously stated to buy an all day hop on and off thames river clipper boat card. Embankment stop has the houses of parliament and Greenwich is great as it has the maritime museum, Queens house, Royal observatory etc. If you want a free Lunch ( depending on waht you want &drinks extra) inside the 02 dome at the slug and lettuce pub- hop off the clipper at the 02 stop. Register for a £5 voucher per person, print it off and use it on the day (only valid for 2 weeks after requesting, so order week before going).
http://www.slugandlettuce.co.uk/o2/join_our_club/ .

You can often get £20 tickets for top London shows if you go to the box office on the morning of the show. Curently ticketmaster are doing £20 tickets for Grease for your week (must be booked by Mon noon to get offer). You go down to countdown offer box and put in sandy as the offer code.

The London zoo and Madam Tussauds are popular with most of my visiting family. Again you can use the 2 for 1 offers.

The Ramada @ Ealing Common is not too bad and parking is £5 a day whilst being next to Ealing Common tube which means the west end and city is easy to get to.