Originally posted by Pam:
I've promised to take Andrea to London for her 16th birthday gift (next year! My baby will be 16 next year!!! oh...I digress). I can't imagine depriving Sonja of the joy of looking at her little daughter's (little??? She's taller than I am!) face when she sees all of this, so there will be three of us.
I have looked at a Holiday Inn that's on the corner of Picadilly and Berkely(?), that says they have connecting rooms. I have looked at the Marriott County Hall but that costs almost as much as Park Tower. I want clean rooms, a/c, and within reasonable distance from some of the things she will want to see (Tower of London, London Eye, Harrods (!!!!). And a safe area for three females to venture out for dinner.
Help? Please?
We've stayed at the Forum in South Kensington - a three minute walk from Gloucester Road tube station, on many London visits. Forum's now part of the Holiday Inn group.
At Gloucester Rd. station you can get Piccadilly, District and Circle lines - which makes it easy to get to just about any site in London.
Holiday Inn used to include the hefty 17.5 tax on its website prices, but I noticed recently the tax was "additional."
I priced the Forum recently using United Vacations' website and it was about $178 (US dollars) per night in February, including tax and breakfast - far less than Holiday Inn site. The United site offers many other hotels, also. The key for us is being near a tube station.
On our theater jaunts to London we travel light - just a rollaboard each. We get a one- week tube pass at LHR for zone 1 (and an extension from LHR that covers the zones prior to Central London) and take the tube directly to Gloucester Rd. Station.
Have a wonderful trip!
