London: travel to, parking, hotels, things to do

terrierlady

good travel lodges in london now ,one really close to London Eye the other in Covent Garden I think.

rocking_horse

Too late now but the "big road map" button on station info page shows car park location.

Savvy_Sue

Too late now but the "big road map" button on station info page shows car park location.

Ah, some of them do and some of them don't! Hatton Cross, for example, doesn't show where the car park is, and the NCP car park site appears to be absolutely useless when you do a search by postcode, even though TubeGuru says it is an NCP car park near Hatton Cross!

But MANY thanks for the tip: next time I will keep looking until I find a tube station which does show where the car park is!

System

Hatton Cross tube station costs £5 for the whole day. It is just south of Heathrow on the A30. Limited parking but I always get a space if I get there 9:30 - 10am.

rocking_horse

Yep just found out about that with the car parks.Couldn't find the car park for a station I will be using soon. Some of the maps show supermarkets too.
Some supermarkets dont have restrictions on car parking and so might also be worth looking at.

rocking_horse

and if 50 money savers get their tomorrow at 9.00 you'll regret saying that.

VickyA_2

There's an ASDA in Southgate, which is relatively close to the tube station. Or alternatively Cockfosters has it's own "station parking". I've used that a few times, gets busy quickly though.

System

??? Hi, does anyone know where I can book tickets to see Chitty Chitty Bang Bang during August. I found a link to Ticketmaster saying if we booked on a Tuesday night, top price ticket £37.50 we got £10 off for the children. Booked it online, but no discount. They wanted to charge me 6 x £37.50 - They listed the specific seats for this price, but I thought they did not really look like they were top price seats. Phoned them (twice) nearly an hour on the phone (0870 number) and finally was told, they no longer have top price tickets available. The only tickets left are for cheaper seats at £21.50. Gave me the seat numbers and guess what, they were the exact tickets the online booking system had tried to charge me £37.50 for. Searched high and low for a telephone number for customer services, but no such luck. Spent another 2 hours searching the web for someplace to get tickets that aren't going to cost the 6 of us just under £200! Anyone have ideas on a) how to complain to Ticketmaster and b) where to get good price tickets. Thanks.

saveapenny

Try [url]Http://www.whatsonstage.co.uk[/url]
and try the meal deals section


Penny

blindman

This may not suit you but it's here for info:

Last minute availability ON THE DAY tickets can be bought from here.

http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/tkts/today

You have to queue to get the tickets and not all shows are available.

I believe you have to pay in CASH only.

The Whatson Stage link is also a good source of info