Hotel for paralympics?

mintymoneysaver

Can anyone suggest a good hotel to stay in? Just need the one night 31st August. Quite happy to go on tube etc, but somewhere quite light and bright as single mum travelling with two teenage girls.

pgethea

We were in London for the Olympics and stayed at the Holiday Inn London - Camden Lock.

Excellent hotel, perfect location, overlooking the locks in Camden and right next to the markets and great food/stores all around Camden. 3 blocks from the tube station. We were 2 adults and 2 kids and they put 2 cots in one of their executive rooms, worked out great. If you can get room 418, it has a huge balcony overlooking the locks and markets, we loved it! Great staff and breakfast too. Check out tripadvisor reviews too, lots of people love this hotel.

barbarawright

The Excel Travel Lodge was mentioned on another thread (I can't make a personal recommendation so I've never stayed in a hotel here )

balletshoes

mintymoneysaver wrote: »

Can anyone suggest a good hotel to stay in? Just need the one night 31st August. Quite happy to go on tube etc, but somewhere quite light and bright as single mum travelling with two teenage girls.

premier inn have a London sale on which includes your dates.

mintymoneysaver

Thanks. I booked Euston premier inn in the end. Last time I went to London my purse was stolen while I was trying to manouvre all my luggage on the underground, so we can just walk there from the station, leave our luggage there and then get on our way. It wasn't in the sale unfortunately!

mikey72

Any tips for a hotel that I can drive to, park, then get the underground in the next morning, and leave the car there all day.
If not what's a good station with a decent car park I can get to in the morning, and leave the car at.
Heading down from the North.

dacouch

mikey72 wrote: »

Any tips for a hotel that I can drive to, park, then get the underground in the next morning, and leave the car there all day.
If not what's a good station with a decent car park I can get to in the morning, and leave the car at.
Heading down from the North.

What price range ?

What events are you going to ?

Are you coming down M40, M1, A1 or M11

mikey72

dacouch wrote: »

What price range ?

What events are you going to ?

Are you coming down M40, M1, A1 or M11

I'm a Travelodge sort of person, going all day for a 9.00am start for the Olympic Park, and leaving there at 10pm, and can come down any of the Northern roads from Nottingham.
More important is somewhere I can dump the car, get public transport in, and pick the car up on the way home.
So I'll plan to be in the hotel at about 9pm the night before, then either leave it there, or drive to a tube station, and leave it there all day, then get it back on the way home.
No preference to distance, how much driving, how much tube, just not somewhere where I need to be up at 5am.

dacouch

I'm a bit biased as I pass this building a lot and it's such a lovely building.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driscoll_House

It's trading under the name of Rest-UP

It's been empty for a while and they've just brought it back, it's basically a hostel but they have ensuite rooms. As it's only just reopened it's been done up and they are only about 15% full so you would almost certainly not be sharing in the dormitories.

Beautiful building, not sure if there's parking on site, there's a Tesco down the road if you are happy ignoring private parking tickets or there's a private car park that's cheapish for central London down the road.

You can jump on the Northern Line at Elephant and Castle change at London Bridge for Jubilee Line or London Bridge (Jubilee Line which is the one you want for Stratford) is about 20 minute walk or the 21 bus goes every 10 mins and takes about 5 minutes

If you're down on a week day you would need to use one of the roads that avoid the congestion charge to get to it which adds about 1.5 miles to your journey. No congestion charge at weekends and there's plenty of free parking at weekends

You can plan public transport journeys on this www.tfl.gov.uk it might try and tell you to travel to West Ham or East Ham tube station as they're trying to keep amount of people at Stratford Station down. Just ignore that and use Stratford as much quicker and not that busy.

There are hotels in Watford, look for hotels near Watford Junction, you can get quick trains into Kings Cross and then the Javelin straight to Stratford.

balletshoes

you could go to one of the Luton travelodges, then drive down and park at Luton parkway rail station in the morning, its a 30-40 minute train journey from there into St Pancras, then on the javelin to Olympic park. My sister stayed at Stevenage and did similar for the Olympics - left their car there and took the train into St Pancras.

susancs

mikey72 wrote: »

Any tips for a hotel that I can drive to, park, then get the underground in the next morning, and leave the car there all day.
If not what's a good station with a decent car park I can get to in the morning, and leave the car at.
Heading down from the North.

Stanmore tube station which is not far from the M1 has a large car park, Jubillee line from there goes to Stratford. Charges on the link below:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/tubestationcarparks/default.aspx

As a previous poster sugguested you might look at staying near Watford as just off the M1 or M25. There is a fast train from Watford Junction that takes 20 minutes into Euston and then 1 stop on the tube to Kings Cross for the train to Stratford. Watford train station has a large car park. The Holiday Inn hotel is beside the station and you have a Premier Inn at North Watford that is 5-10 minutes drive away from the station with a car park. There is also a hotel opposite Rickmansworth, tube station that often has cheap rooms and has parking at the hotel. Wetherspoons few minutes walk for cheap breakfast and evening meal. Tube to Liverpool street and cahnge onto Central line to Stratford.
http://www.longislandhotel-rickmansworth.co.uk/
http://www.longislandhotel-rickmansworth.co.uk/