Ideas please for London lodging location

Inforapennyinforapound

Looking for inspiration please.
At end of month expecting young overseas visitor who will arrive at Heathrow.
Rather than collect her and return home we plan to stay in London for a few days and do the touristy things.
We are arriving at Heathrow from the Midlands and wish to book a Hotel/b&b accomodation.
We arrive by car so will need somewhere to park(at lodgings ideally) and be near to transport (tube) links so we can travel to/from the City with ease.

Can anyone please offer suggestions near tube station etc .
Maybe somewhere near Heathrow or north London as we will eventually go home up the M1 or M40 back to the Midlands.

Many thanks in advance for useful suggestions!

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Travel lodge or premier inn and book in advance. South london is cheaper. Parking can be expensive and there is the daily congestion zone tax £. £200+ a night is not uncommon for a room the size of a postage stamp

Beware of tourist traps, especially around the Eye. Expect to pay over £5 a pint. Weatherpersons pubs are cheaper and food is reasonable.

look on the web if tower bridge is opening that day... often an early morning thing. Also the Tower bridge experience where you walk inside it is good. this is usually early - 6:05 am-ish for me.

Greasy spoon breakfast

London eye, walk along Westminster bridge, catch a ferry that does the guided river route to Greenwich. Walk up the hill to Royal Observatory and see the international date line. Pay the observatory a visit - now it costs

Cutty sark?

either Fly across the Thames cable car, or walk under he Thames Greenwich tunnel.

If the walking has not killed you, spend the evening in the west end. china town has some reasonable priced food, but some places only take cash.

Do not thing this is the girly girl tour though.

Then there are Museums

All depends on your purse, interests and age?

bouicca21

Do you really mean travelling to the City or just into central London?

daveyjp

Try smoothhound.co.uk. You may get something more interesting such as a decent pub, rather than a basic Premierinn, Travelodge.

Inforapennyinforapound

bouicca21 wrote: »

Do you really mean travelling to the City or just into central London?

Sorry, dont understand your question.

Central London/City= same thing?

I am basically wanting a place to stay that is very handy for tube to get to central London( i.e. tourist area..Buck Palace/ Big Ben etc) for a visitir who has never been to London or indeed the UK before.

Do not want to stay in the centre because i will have car with me so need somewhere i can park car for 2 or 3 days and travel easily by tube.

Thanks

gwynlas

Look at Premier Inn Heathrow and others, some have free parking. eg Greenford and near tube stations.

p00hsticks

Inforapennyinforapound wrote: »

Sorry, dont understand your question.

Central London/City= same thing?

The City of London basically is the oldest (ex-walled) part of London, now mainly financial. Central London also includes a large area to the West, including Westminster, Buckingham Palace, Hyde Park etc

I've no experience of parking as we always go to London by train, but with a car I'd suggest looking to stay around Heathrow.

Or if you want to be north, Watford Junction has a fast train connection into Euston and I've also seen Wembley mentioned on similar threads....


Edit:

For a quick look at many of the sights, including Houses of Parlament, LOndon Eye, St Pauls, Tower of London, Canary Wharf, the Shard, Greenwich and the Dome, I'd recommend a River Roamer ticket on the Thames clippers - you can get 2-4-1 s on this and lots of other attractions with train tickets (there are previous threads on what train tickets are valid and the cheapest ones to get to fulfil the qualifying critiera)

https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/2for1-london
https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/mbna-thames-clippers

macman

'The City' is a small and distinct area with its own local government and police force. The 'West End' is largely in the London Borough of Westminster: two separate and different districts. Both are tourist areas, although the 2 sites you mention are in the West End (though neither are open to the public)
'Central London' has no specific meaning at all, but most Londoners would define it as anywhere within the Circle Line.

zagubov

Make sure you have age-appropriate Oyster cards for all travellers otherwise multiple contactless cards might do the job.

You need to be pretty far out to get parking spaces. I only know south London and would suggest Tolworth (A3, from the M25) would be a possibility - has a Pemier Inn next to train station connected to Waterloo.