Recommend Central London Neighborhood to stay
Nov 22, 2015, 1:54 pm
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Recommend Central London Neighborhood to stay
On our first trip to London, we stayed at the Radisson Blu - Seven Dials/Covent Gardens due to its proximity to the Google office for work purposes. We loved the location - love to walk everywhere - as well as the cobble stone streets and small pubs and restaurants plus easy access to Oxford Street for shopping and the theaters.
We will be returning this June with our kids 14 and 10. We will do the tourist things - Big Ben Parliament etc...but would like to stay in a flat with a local feel rather than a hotel in a tourist area.
I'm looking for suggestions for another neighborhood in Central London. We will likely be walking home late with our kids so safety is important. We will pay for a nice location accordingly.
We will be returning this June with our kids 14 and 10. We will do the tourist things - Big Ben Parliament etc...but would like to stay in a flat with a local feel rather than a hotel in a tourist area.
I'm looking for suggestions for another neighborhood in Central London. We will likely be walking home late with our kids so safety is important. We will pay for a nice location accordingly.
Nov 22, 2015, 3:35 pm
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Kids like Harry Potter so will probably see some of those sites from the movies plus go out to the studio. Old kid like Prince WIlliam so will do some royals things. Younger kid like science so will go to the Transportation Museum as well as two or three shows. Tower Bridge, Parliament, British Museum, Kings Cross as also on the list.
Budget is probably $500/night - ideally would like a 2 bedroom flat but would go form 1 bedroom + pullout sofa.
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Nov 22, 2015, 4:07 pm
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Kids like Harry Potter so will probably see some of those sites from the movies plus go out to the studio. Old kid like Prince WIlliam so will do some royals things. Younger kid like science so will go to the Transportation Museum as well as two or three shows. Tower Bridge, Parliament, British Museum, Kings Cross as also on the list.
Budget is probably $500/night - ideally would like a 2 bedroom flat but would go form 1 bedroom + pullout sofa.
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Budget is probably $500/night - ideally would like a 2 bedroom flat but would go form 1 bedroom + pullout sofa.
Feedback?
Nov 22, 2015, 4:11 pm
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Nov 22, 2015, 4:16 pm
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Nov 24, 2015, 3:18 pm
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+1 for these. Or Wapping which is just across the river from Shad Thames. It's local but safe and quiet. St Katherine's Dock and the Tower of London are on the doorstep, and it's a short hop by boat or tube (District line) to Big Ben Houses of Parliaments.