Weekend in London

maccapacca said:
Try the Grange City Tower Hill. Parking is fairly cheap.
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Id take the Grange Tower Bridge or Apex over it (all within 300 yards of one another). I tend to use all 3 most months, Apex first choice, Tower Bridge second, City 3rd. Must have spent 50 nights in them in the last year. Ideal for my office and quiet even during the week, but businesslike and not somewhere I would want to take my wife on her Birthday.

All subjective in the end mind. :D

The Hilton there also is good, but modern and cold but great roof bar!
 
Housey said:
It depends what's important to you. If you want to make it special, then my advice is spend more and aim for a boutique hotel, it doesn't matter if you don't spend a lot of time there, frankly, as the impression you will make (as long as you are not silly) and the memories you will give are worth it, in my view. Nothing wrong with Premier Inn, good value, clean and comfy these days, but never special. If your other half isn't into special then all good, but if you want to make it special I'd look elsewhere.
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The memories of what, coming in after midnight and going straight to bed - I'm totally with you on the experience side of things but I'd only look to book that level hotel if I was going to be able to at least enjoy the room for more than just a basic crash-pad purpose.

He's coming all the way from Stoke for only a single night so he's already very tight for time, the hotel experience probably won't get much of a look-in. Presumably this is for budget-reasons?

Frankly if he genuinely does want special then he needs to look hard at extending the stay so it's not quite so rushed.
 
Things to do:

There's obviously tons of stuff in London (museums (generally all free), great parks, sightseeing, theatre, old riverside pubs etc.), and without further info I don't really know what you want, so if you have nothing planned yet I would recommend keeping an eye out on the following couple of websites, on their 'things to do' pages, which will give you upcoming events in London:

www.londonist.com
www.timeout.com/london/things-to-do

Hotels - where do you want to be? West, East, North (I doubt South..?)?

Good 'reasonable' (i.e. not Savoy) central hotels are Guoman Tower Hill, DoubleTree (i.e. Hilton) Tower Hill (this has a fantastic roof bar which gives you a great view of the City - open to public so no need to stay here; also it was previously Mint Hotel, so iMacs in the rooms), Grange St Paul's or Grange Tower Hill.

If you'd prefer to drive but worried about parking, if you're staying in one of the Tower Hill hotels don't park in hotel (extortionate) but instead park in Wapping. It's residential, safe and with loads of on-street non-permit parking dotted around. You'll find somewhere. There's also some decent riverside boozers there - e.g. Prospect of Whitby / Captain Kidd. No congestion charge on weekends.

Good luck - it's a great city.
 
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Thanks guys, I've got plenty to think about. Part of me is thinking that it might be best to leave London until we have a bit more time. We both work most days and its very rare our shifts fall so we both have the same days off. Maybe that's the secret of ten years marriage?? :p might be worth looking into a nice spa hotel instead?
 
funkyphantom said:
Thanks guys, I've got plenty to think about. Part of me is thinking that it might be best to leave London until we have a bit more time. We both work most days and its very rare our shifts fall so we both have the same days off. Maybe that's the secret of ten years marriage?? :p might be worth looking into a nice spa hotel instead?
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I try to stay 3 or 4 nights in London to make it worthwhile

A nice spa hotel with a good restaurant somewhere closer sounds a better idea
 
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