Posted by Lisa | Posted in General Travel | Posted on 09-07-2009
London is a vibrant City and London is a business city. People visit London for many different reasons. Some come to the great capital for business purposes; some come to the city to visit the famous Landmarks and the many places of interest the City has to offer. The most visited Landmarks include; The Trafalgar Square, St Paul’s Cathedral, London Eye, House of Parliament, The Westminster Abbey and what have you.There are others who also who cannot resist shopping in the great Capital. A lot of shops can be found on the Europe’s famous shopping street; the Oxford street, Bond Street and Regent street.
Companies are very concerned about the negative impact of the world credit crunch. Some businesses are laying workers off because of a lot of close downs. Cutting down of the work force and redundancy is seen all over the place. According to experts, the credit crunch will be around for sometime. The credit crunch has not affected one industry. London hotel industry is my point of reference. What effects are we seeing on the London hotel industry? The research on the article has been made only on London hotels and bed and breakfast.
My little research I have made gives me the implication that the negative effect of the so called Credit crunch has not yet gripped the London hotels industry. As a reservation agency for hotels, we have been in association with both small hotels and big hotels for sometime now. The research was started in August 2008 but London hotels continue to be busy to date.
Dates hotels are full up or approaching full up can be closed out on our real system for the hotels which have joined our portal. One finds it a bit difficult to understand why during weekends and weekdays hotels still get full up with this credit crunch
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During the peak season in London hotels industry (May to End of July), hotels will be full up almost everyday. There are most of the times no rooms for us to book for our clients. Some London hotels are full up for some future dates. Rooms in some hotels run out and they have to speak to other hotels to accept guests and accommodate some of their guests for them. One wonders why our agency is not getting rooms to book for our clients. This is because hotels have closed out dates on the system.
As the exchange rate of the pound to the other currencies has gone down, travellers may be feel that they stand to get more value for their money when they shop or spend their holidays in London. In view of that hotels still get full up because more travellers come in. The British Pound was not performing badly with the other major currencies for the whole of the year 2008. Is it the importance of London or its popularity that has made it imperative for people to visit regardless of the situation? If in the near future the article will have to be rewritten due to more findings, I will not hesitate to do so. Once the credit crunch hits the London hotel industry, travellers will get low rates for the hotel rooms. This is because they will be guaranteed special London hotel offers, cheap London hotels accommodation and also cheap London bed and breakfast rates. The Tavistock hotel London is an example of such hotels.
Posted by Lisa | Posted in General Travel | Posted on 21-06-2009
I have been a business associate for 10 years to one of my suppliers and he invited me to London. I have paid visits to my suppliers in France and Holland some years ago. I wanted to see with my own eyes some of the things I have read about London in School so I was anxious to visit the City. I deliberately book my hotel in two parts. Spend one week at Tavistock hotels and the other week at a Hotel in Victoria. I wanted to be close the Landmarks in the area.
I got to Tavistock hotel by Taxi from the airport after going through all formalities at the airport. The journey to the hotel took more than an hour. In Bloomsbury, the Russell Square area has good hotels.
I was so fond of the area although that was my first day. With my map, I decided to hit town and explore the capital which I have read so much about. To say all at onec, London was not different from the London I read about in books and magazines. For that, I was so happy. In Bloomsbury there is the British Library and the British Museum. I toured both places on the first day. From there and with the aid of my map and people on the street, I was able to navigate my way to Covent Garden where there we a lot of street performers.
For the rest of the week at Tavistock hotel London, I visited the West end area. I just went to Marble Arch and the Oxford Circus areas to explore the areas. I visited the Leicester Square which is sometime called The Theatreland. The area has got a lot of cinema theatres. I also visited Piccadilly Circus. It was in fact another busy area of London because it is very close to Leicester Square. I paid a visit to the shopping streets in the West End area on my 5th day and was surprised to see that the place was so dense with shoppers and other tourists. It was so surprising to see that the three famous shopping Streets in london were all filled with people. Each of the shopping streets was busy but the Oxford Street was much more dense. I also went to Soho and also to China Town.
I went to stay in Victoria area in my second week as booked through Cheap London hotels agency. Victoria area was the place I was dying to be because there were a lot of exciting Landmarks to see. At Victoria, my first place of interest I visited was Buckingham Palace to witness the changing of the guard. I had the desire to go to the site of the Tower clock or the Big Ben for what I have read in books and picure I have seen of it. You cannot see the Big Ben or the Tower clock without see the Houses of Parliamnet. I also grabbed the opportunity to visit the Westminster Abbey. London eye was the final Landmark I visited. How this structure was built will forever amaze me. The London ey will continue to be one of the best Landmarks in London for quite sometime. I enjoyed my stay in Central London and I would like to stay in the cheap hotels in Russell square as they have good accommodation standard but lower rates.
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Posted by Lisa | Posted in General Travel | Posted on 21-06-2009
Russell Square is with the Bloomsbury distrct which is in London Borough of Camden. This Garden Square is huge. The Square’s name is the same as the Earls and Duke of Bedford. Many travellers to London on leisure or on business prefer to stay in hotels in the area. You are perfectly connected to the other West End sectors and other major sectors of London fron the area. Trains run from Russell Squae to Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Green park, Knightsbridge, etc.
You are not far from the Marble Arch and the Oxford Circus from Russell Square. The Oxford Circus is home to some to some of the top and popular shops in the. The well know shopping Streets include Bond Street and Regent Street. You are not far away from Oxford Street when you are in Russell Square. Russell Square connects to other sectors of London via a lot of buses. Exploring Central London is quicker by the subway but for sightseeing, better get on the London buses. Euston station is close to Russell Square station and it will take just about 7 minutes to walk.
You will find some tourist attractions in London Bloomsbury area and many of the are located close to the Russell Square area. You can easily access the British Museum from the Russell Square as it is very close. The Russell Square is again close to the British Library in Bloomsbury which now has in excess of 150 million items of known formats and languages. The University College of London on Gower Street is also among the places of interest in Russell Square vicinity. It is exciting to see street performers in Covent Garden. It also has shops, restaurants and many other eating places. It happens to be the centre of the London West End and it is not far away from the Russell Square area. The Russell Square area is not far from Piccadilly Circus and the Theatreland.
The area is blessed with many hotels accommodation properties that tourists can stay in. London hotels ranging from cheap London bed and breakfast and Cheap London b&b to five star luxury hotels can be found in Russell Square. The Imperial London hotels group provide very competitive 3 star Cheap London hotels accommodation in the area. Imperial hotel, Bedford hotel, President hotel, Royal National hotel and the Tavistock hotel are the 3 star hotel you will find in the group and all en suite. The County hotel is the only hotel with shared shower and toilet facilities.
Posted by Lisa | Posted in General Travel | Posted on 13-06-2009
It is not surprising that, a City which is the most visited in the whole world should have a lot of cheap bed and breakfast and cheap hotel accommodation properties. London, the capital of England has so many places to stay. A lot of tourists are drawn to the City because of its many major landmarks as well as the numerous tourist attractions found in it. A lot of tourists like to Visit the Oxford Street, Bond Street and the Regent Street for some shopping when they are in London. The West End hotels therefore gets filled up two weeks before Christmas most of the time as tourist come to London for their shopping. London although has got a lot of cheap hotels and cheap bed and breakfast properties.
Select to book your Central London cheap hotels and bed and breakfast based on what you want to see in the City or what you are coming to do in Central London for you may want to be close to a particular area or you may want to stay in some cheap London hotels close to a particular Landmark or tourists attractions in the Capital or may be you may want to be close to London hotels in West End
London Victoria SW1 area has cheap London hotels close to the Buckingham Palace which is the residence of the Queen of England Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and at the same time the administrative headquarters of the United Kingdom monarchy. Also a walking distance from London Victoria is the Tate Gallery, the Big Ben or the Tower Clock, the Westminster Abbey, the Westminster Cathedral, the Parliament Houses and the famous London Eye which has become very popular with tourists.
Russell Square and the Bloomsbury WC1 area also have many cheap london bed and breakfast as well as cheap London hotels and when you stay in that area, you are close to British Museum, British Library, the Covent garden and the University of London to mention but a few. A stay in the Russell square or the Bloomsbury area as a whole, makes it a walking distance to the Soho, Oxford Street, China town , Bond Street and the Regent street which are all London West End areas.
There are a lot of cheap hotels and bed and breakfast in the Oxford Circus and the Marble Arch area too. These areas are always busy as tourist and shoppers always troop to the area.
The Paddington, Bayswater, Lancaster Gate and the Hyde Park area also have fair share of Central London cheap hotels and also cheap London b&b accommodation and the Hyde Park and the Kensington Garden are the major tourist attractions the area can boast of.
The Kensington and Earl’s Court are close to the Royal Albert hall, Kensington Garden, Kensington Olympia Exhibition, Earls Court exhibition centre, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and the Kensington Gardens, Kensington Palace and the Natural History Museum.
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