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London tourism advice
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I'm going to be in London for a week in September, I'd appreciate some tips on the following:
1) A good cheap hotel or BnB to stay in with easy access to
the museums(british museum, imperial war museum, etc - recommend some?), the dockside (hms victory etc), bookstores (abbey road, was it?), sherlock holmes museum...hmm...what else...a harolds for shopping i guess, need to buy stuff for the people back home..
I'm going to be in London for a week in September, I'd appreciate some tips on the following:
1) A good cheap hotel or BnB to stay in with easy access to
the museums(british museum, imperial war museum, etc - recommend some?), the dockside (hms victory etc), bookstores (abbey road, was it?), sherlock holmes museum...hmm...what else...a harolds for shopping i guess, need to buy stuff for the people back home..
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There is a nice bookshop specialized in socialist literature close to the British Museum; also the bookshop in TATE Modern is quite good if you're interested in art books.
Among slightly non-obvious destination: British Library, Courtauld Gallery (in Somerset House), Royal Observatory (Greenwich, houses a very interesting clock collection). Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges and Liberty are all less banal than Harrods (not that I would suggest shopping in any of these if you need a cheap hotel).
Among slightly non-obvious destination: British Library, Courtauld Gallery (in Somerset House), Royal Observatory (Greenwich, houses a very interesting clock collection). Fortnum & Mason, Selfridges and Liberty are all less banal than Harrods (not that I would suggest shopping in any of these if you need a cheap hotel).
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You could try this hotel in Gloucester road. It's called Anwar house and the rates are really cheap, as long as you don't mind how well decorated the hotel is.
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Well generally i would not use the price of hotel/hostel as a gauge of my spending power vis a vis Harrod's etc, it just seems wasteful to splurge on a expensive hotel when I will only be using it to sleep in...
How good is the public transportation? If i stay at any random hotel in the city near a tube station, would it be good enough for me to get around?
How good is the public transportation? If i stay at any random hotel in the city near a tube station, would it be good enough for me to get around?
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Pretty much the best in the UK, though that really wouldn't be hard. (See the thread I started in N&P the other day.) It doesn't even need to be a tube station, the buses and the regular railway lines are part of the same network and you can use all three on the same ticket if needs be.AniThyng wrote:How good is the public transportation? If i stay at any random hotel in the city near a tube station, would it be good enough for me to get around?
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I find bad accomodations depressing, but that's just me. Concerning shopping there is also this.AniThyng wrote:Well generally i would not use the price of hotel/hostel as a gauge of my spending power vis a vis Harrod's etc, it just seems wasteful to splurge on a expensive hotel when I will only be using it to sleep in...
It's generally good. You can reasonably stay cheaply in the docklands (which is close to Greenwich, the naval museum, etc.), take the DLR to the nearest tube station and get to other places using those.AniThyng wrote:How good is the public transportation? If i stay at any random hotel in the city near a tube station, would it be good enough for me to get around?
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Well I settled on a YHA hostel, the one at st pancras. I'm going to run on the assumption that a hostel in a 1st world country like the UK can't possibly be any worse than the cheap accomodations I have experienced in my 3rd world home country.Melchior wrote:I find bad accomodations depressing, but that's just me. Concerning shopping there is also this.AniThyng wrote:Well generally i would not use the price of hotel/hostel as a gauge of my spending power vis a vis Harrod's etc, it just seems wasteful to splurge on a expensive hotel when I will only be using it to sleep in...
It's generally good. You can reasonably stay cheaply in the docklands (which is close to Greenwich, the naval museum, etc.), take the DLR to the nearest tube station and get to other places using those.[/quote]AniThyng wrote:How good is the public transportation? If i stay at any random hotel in the city near a tube station, would it be good enough for me to get around?
For anyone who has tried this - I'm definately going to hop on the train to Portsmorth to see HMS Warrior / Victory etc. I assume this would be a minimum half day trip. Now, is it possible to squeeze in going to Bovington for the tank museum as well, or is it too far a journey to put in the same day? Will I need to make 2 day trips to satisfy my militaria geekery? Otherwise I'll just content myself wiht the Imperial War Museum in London itself.
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The Imperial war Museum is closed for quite a while as it is undergoing renovation though.
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It's a good two and a half hours away from London by train, not to mention over fifty quid.AniThyng wrote:For anyone who has tried this - I'm definately going to hop on the train to Portsmorth to see HMS Warrior / Victory etc. I assume this would be a minimum half day trip. Now, is it possible to squeeze in going to Bovington for the tank museum as well, or is it too far a journey to put in the same day? Will I need to make 2 day trips to satisfy my militaria geekery? Otherwise I'll just content myself wiht the Imperial War Museum in London itself.
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Don´t bet on it. I´ve been to really bad 30€ youth hostels in Amsterdam and a 40€ hotel in Hamburg and perfectly fine 5$ hotels in Cambodia and Vietnam. There´s a significant amount of shitholes in 1st world countries.AniThyng wrote:Well I settled on a YHA hostel, the one at st pancras. I'm going to run on the assumption that a hostel in a 1st world country like the UK can't possibly be any worse than the cheap accomodations I have experienced in my 3rd world home country.Melchior wrote:I find bad accomodations depressing, but that's just me. Concerning shopping there is also this.AniThyng wrote:Well generally i would not use the price of hotel/hostel as a gauge of my spending power vis a vis Harrod's etc, it just seems wasteful to splurge on a expensive hotel when I will only be using it to sleep in...
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Portsmouth to Bovington would be about 90 minutes driving but probably more like 3 hours by public transport, so just about possible if both visits are short.AniThyng wrote:I'm definately going to hop on the train to Portsmorth to see HMS Warrior / Victory etc. I assume this would be a minimum half day trip. Now, is it possible to squeeze in going to Bovington for the tank museum as well, or is it too far a journey to put in the same day? Will I need to make 2 day trips to satisfy my militaria geekery? Otherwise I'll just content myself wiht the Imperial War Museum in London itself.