Hotel for paralympics?

suebfg

Premier Inn at Chelmsford is pretty good and Chelmsford is only 20 mins away from Stratford by train. We stayed there during the Olympics.

mikey72

dacouch wrote: »

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.

Cheers.
Thurs night for all day friday I'm afraid. Whereabouts is the car park near the hostel? I can only find the ncp one, at the elephant and castle, and it doesn't look like parking on site.

dacouch

mikey72 wrote: »

Cheers.
Thurs night for all day friday I'm afraid. Whereabouts is the car park near the hostel? I can only find the ncp one, at the elephant and castle, and it doesn't look like parking on site.

You can park on a lot of the single lines after 6.30pm in the area until 8.30 am so that would do you for Thursday night. The cheap (For central London) car park I was thinking of is £18 for 24 hours which is the Elephant and Castle Shopping Centre Car Park.

Trying ringing Driscoll House as it's a huge building, they must have some parking on site. It's really quiet there at the moment so they may have a spare space. http://www.restup.co.uk/

If your coming down the M1 try and avoid the Kilburn High Road and Edgware Road (North of Marble Arch) as it's been really busy recently. I'd come down the A41 past Lords, then left into Lisson Grove follow it down then right into right onto Church St or Broadley St which will take you onto the bottom of Edgeware Road.

Abbey Road is about 400m out of your way and turns into Lisson Grove if you want to see the Zebra Crossing and run some annoying German tourists over

There's no congestion charge after 6pm, otherwise set your sat nav to avoid the zone.