London Hotel advice - Saturday

VincentHanna · 26 Jul 2023 at 12:58

Me and my wife are off to see Pulp at Hammersmith 'Eventim' Apollo on Saturday.

Usually it's 30 minutes back on a train from Liverpool Street to Chelmsford, but due to strike action the last trains are leaving before the gig even finishes (Tube running fine)

So I'm now thinking I will need to drive in, and get a hotel overnight.

Options are:

Hotel near(ish) the venue either with parking, or at least a secure car park nearby. It doesn't need to be anything fancy as long as it's clean/comfortable/quiet.

Or

Park at Stratford overnight (a lot easier/quicker for me to drive to) and a hotel over that side of London, nearby.

in which case any suggestions?

VincentHanna · 26 Jul 2023 at 13:11

Sirrel Squirrel said:
Novotel Hammersmith is close and has parking

Thanks

£250 with breakfast does seem a bit pricey though!

I should have mentioned we are also seeing Oppenheimer at 11:15 a.m at Waterloo, so I will need to be able to park early. I assume Novotel won't let you park until check in?

VincentHanna · 26 Jul 2023 at 17:22

Scam said:
We’ll see you there

Can’t help with hotels, and no you can’t stay at mine. I certainly wouldn’t recommend going anywhere near Stratford on a Saturday night, let alone staying there!

If you’re feeling flush the Hoxton in Shepherds Bush is probably lovely, I’ve stayed in a couple of those before.

I can’t imagine anywhere is going to be affordable at this short notice. Can’t you tube out quite far and get a taxi?

Now that the Queen Elizabeth line is running, I can tube out Shenfield, but that will take over an hour and then still leaves us 20 miles from my house.

Also it looks like a reduced service after 7:00 p.m. on Saturday.

VincentHanna · 27 Jul 2023 at 13:42

I know, but we weren't aware of the overground strikes until about 8-9 days ago

VincentHanna · 27 Jul 2023 at 16:18

Mrwong said:
I don't know how much you want to spend but they have parking.

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Not far from Hammersmith.

Are you trying to get me to stay in an absolute dive on purpose?

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VincentHanna · 28 Jul 2023 at 12:28

Ended up going for the Holiday Inn express earls court

£160 - £135 voucher = £25.

Bit further out, but it's got parking there and 7 min walk from West Brompton station

VincentHanna · 28 Jul 2023 at 13:59

Mrwong said:
There you go you looking for cheap, as I said no point giving other hotels.

But unlike your suggestion, it wasn't the bottom 10% of hotels in London on TripAdvisor with reviews like "stay in a homeless shelter instead" and "Avoid unless you like sharing your room with rodents"

It's the top 30%, which is fine for somewhere to stay after a gig.

VincentHanna · 28 Jul 2023 at 14:10

Diddums said:
Nice, how'd you get that voucher?

Offer still stands if you fancy a beer btw

Tesco conversion of a lot of clubcard money accrued over time.

Thanks for the offer, but my wife thinks me using this forum is weird enough already, so going to meet someone from there will be a bit too much for her :cry:

VincentHanna · 30 Jul 2023 at 17:35

The tube engineering works were a bit of a pain, we ended up walking all the way to the Apollo which took 25 mins or so.

Hotel was fine. Clean, Comfortable bed, dark with the curtains shut, quiet etc. Had the free breakfast this morning that was pretty basic but did the job after a night out drinking.

Nothing wrong with the area, 'The Prince' was right near by and was a good pub and had a good atmosphere (crowd was quite young though). Why does everything shut so early though? We thought we would get an Uber back to there after the gig, arrived at 11:10 p.m. and that and the Lillie Langtry were both closing.

Oh and I did happen to walk past Hotel Lily on the way to the Earls Court tube station and you can tell it was a dive from the outside.

VincentHanna · 24 Aug 2023 at 12:03

No, parking was not free with the room - you have to book that seperately as there are only about 12 spaces, but the hotel give you a token so you can come and go as you please.

So definitely reserve ahead of time.

This is the link for their specific car park

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