London hotels?

**Eggbox** · 31-07-11, 01:31 PM

'lo all!

Headed down to Bestival soon, and going to be staying over in London for a day beforehand. We'll be staying in London on the 6th and 7th of September, and looking for a hotel near Luton airport the first night, and one near Waterloo the second. Either that, or somewhere fairly central that we can book two nights at(get in pretty late on the 6th, so it'd need to be a fairly big chain or have a late check-in.)..

Where's good 'n' where's cheap? Google's not much help, and I figure I'd get a better answer from some of you London dwellers

strewth · 31-07-11, 01:35 PM

You gonna be getting the train to london??

Don't think i would wanna stay in Luton to be fair

**Eggbox** · 31-07-11, 01:40 PM

Nah, flying down - so anywhere near the airport(Luton) would be good I spose.. But that's purely because I'm lazy

**The Lost Soul** · 31-07-11, 01:43 PM

Plenty of cheap airport hotels at Luton. You'll get a double room r/o for about £30-£50 per night.
As DZ says, Luton it's self is a hole.
Get on to Easybook.com or Booking.com and you'll find plenty b&b/guesthouses/Hotels for decent prices.
London like anywhere has it's fair share of shithole accommodation and you really do get what you pay for so beware of extremely cheap places.
The sites I mentioned also have reviews from other guests that have stayed previously , this'll give you a better gauge of the standard.
Cheers

**lambert29** · 31-07-11, 01:46 PM

The cheapest hotels in london are around kingscross. Loads of availability and cheap. But its kingscross and not exactly up market. The little stalls outside the tube stations are good, you get them selling off reservations that have been paid for but the buyers have pulled out. You can end up in a smart hotel for a good price but its a bit of a gamble on the day!

strewth · 31-07-11, 01:49 PM

If your looking for a night out the day you fly down, St.Albans has a ton of pubs (used to have the most per square metre/mile or something) There is defo a pub there for everybody.........I used to get the train there for many a session in my youth lol

**cannamancan** · 31-07-11, 02:08 PM

Ask cock......oh hang on !

Sorry Im no help at all

infect everytime I go Manchester I stay at the malaison , it's a little tiny winy teeny weeny bit pricey but is worth it

here's a link to the London 1-
http://www.google.co.uk/aclk?sa=L&ai...063420%3Bws%3D

Master Poet · 31-07-11, 02:18 PM

Eggy, Luton isnt anywhere near London mate, god knows why they call it London-Luton airport. If it were close I'd offer you a bed for the night, the offer is still open if you want it.

**MR Grumpy** · 31-07-11, 02:36 PM

Originally Posted by Poet

Eggy, Luton isnt anywhere near London mate, god knows why they call it London-Luton airport. If it were close I'd offer you a bed for the night, the offer is still open if you want it.

With 'free cock' on your avatar not sure he will take you up on the offer for a bed for the night!!

As said Luton not really near London about 25 miles away though there are good train links again as said on same train link is St Albans nice little place if you are venturing out, if not then one hotel is as good as another and whether the place is a hole or not is irrelevant .

Have fun.

**Eggbox** · 31-07-11, 02:43 PM

Cheers everyone

Will go have a look at some of those places in a bit.

Was going to look at staying with someone, but we'll be running around meeting folks all day/night and will have all our crap for taking to Bestival - so it'd just be easier to get a hotel(according to the Missus..) Cheers though!

Last time I was down there we got a bloke called Buzz to find us a place after arriving at one of the train stations at about midnight.. He was one of the previously mentioned blokes in the paper stalls outside the stations. Worst comes to it and we'll just go and find one of those fellas