Must be the Marriott chain, 32 are listed:

https://www.marriott.com/hotel...ited-kingdom.travel/

Prefer close to an underground station. Also prefer about $250/night (190 pounds).

I'll be there for pleasure for about a week in mid-October. I'll fly into Heathrow, take a train or tube into the city, and play tourist using the underground and occasionally trains.

Problem: The ones in my price range are not real close to underground stations. I'm happy with a Fairfield Inn equivalent, I don't need high end but want to be within a block or two of an underground station w/o paying a fisftul of dollars. Or pounds.

Any ideas?

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Did you use the advanced search that can put you nearest to the address you want?

I'm assuming you don't mean London, KY cause the underground there consists of coal cars.

Depends on what you want to do, we did much of our sight seeing on foot, for further away we took the tube, London is pretty easy to get around, taxis are expensive, no reason to get a car, take a train to the central station then walk to your hotel.

We stayed at the London Marriott Hotel County Hall its within walking distance of the tube, and quite a few other attractions as well as the Eye. Its right next to the Waterloo station

We went in March/April this year. Lodging was expensive (there were 4 of us). We ended up renting an apartment near Kings Cross through AirBNB. That averaged just under $300/day, had 2 bedrooms and a kitchen. It wasn't perfect, but it was safe, reasonably clean and within our budget.


ETA: The public transportation there is really good. We used the tube to get around mostly and occasionally the buses. Google Maps was awesome at getting us around via public transportation.

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Originally posted by HRK:

...We stayed at the London Marriott Hotel County Hall its within walking distance of the tube, and quite a few other attractions as well as the Eye. Its right next to the Waterloo station

Location is perfect, price is, er...a tad more than I want to pay. They're showing 409 pounds (senior rate), that's about $525!! I'm going solo and don't need fancy. Or costly.

I'm going Marriott to get enough stays to maintain my status in their rewards program. It looks like - get this - location matters! I'll have to decide between paying more to be near a tube station or less and walking further. The walk with luggage will only be twice. I don't mind walking, it's walking in a cold rain I don't enjoy.

Just rechecked the Marriott County Hall for standard rates, it's 309 pounds for seven nights, much less than the senior rate.

There are a bunch of nice hotels right around Paddington Station and Lancaster Gate. This is where I stay when I need to be in London.

It's easy to get there/back from Heathrow.

If you're staying at a Marriott, go to their website, you're going to get the best idea there.

If solo, I'd go for the budget level Fairfield Inn or Towne Home Suites.

I'd imagine the Tube and bus stops are closer than you realize.

I stayed at the one near Heathrow about 8 years ago. There was Underground access well within walking distance.

We did need to take a cab from/to the airport to get to the hotel.

BTW - it's not all that uncommon to see people ride the Underground with their luggage to/from the airport.

If you are doing the tourist thing--get the London pass with tube. Look at the London Pass website--don't buy right away. They will offer a 15% discount in a couple days. You can do as much or as little as you want. Good for Big Bus ride--Thames river cruise, all the sights --more than you can do in a week.

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Originally posted by Russ59:
If solo, I'd go for the budget level Fairfield Inn or Towne Home Suites...

If only. Neither brand is in London, only the 32 hotels in the first link.

I'm leaning toward Marriott County Hall as recommended by HRK. It's a bit more than I wanted to pay, but it's got location, location, location.

If you were to consider a non-Marriot hotel, my family and I stayed at the Roseate House, www.roseatehouselondon.com, which is well within walking distance from Paddington, $180/night. Can take the Heathrow Express from Heathrow to Paddington - purchase tickets online for less than at Heathrow. Easy walk to multiple tube stations as well as bus stops near Hyde Park. Hotel and area was clean and felt safe, we were very happy with the rooms and staff. London is very expensive, particularly for food, but there are some reasonable restaurants nearby.

I cant help you with Rates because we used points in London.

Marriott County Hall is right next to the eye and right across the river from Big Ben. A perfect location for walking.

The Rennaisance in King's Cross stations is a beautiful hotel and if you have Status the private Lounge is awesome.

London is god awful expensive for hotels. Thank god for Marriott points.

If you are Plat just call the concierge and see what they can find for you.

We stayed near Hammersmith at a BnB last year. There is London Marriott Hotel Kensington, which is nearish to that area and looks to be only 2-3 blocks from 2 different tube stations including Earl's Court which is on the Picadilly line that comes right from Heathrow. Prices were right in your range, depending on when you want to go.

There aren't really any "value" Marriott properties in London, at least not the city proper. I did find a Residence Inn Kensington, 10min walk from West Kensington station and under your budget. Anything else in town near a tube station is at your max price level or higher, much higher.

If you're not already familiar with London tube travel buy a 7 day travelcard which gives you unlimited access all day, no peak restrictions. If you get it from a national rail train station, not an underground only station, you can use it to get 2 for 1 deals at a lot of attractions. Just google london 2for1 and it'll pop up. You can also use it on all city buses and some local above ground trains too.

I'll go with Marriott County Hall, thanks for all the tips. It's more than I wanted to spend, but the location is great (we walked right by it my last visit), it has an M club, and the fitness center hours are good. Close to Waterloo Station is another plus.

Flight lands at 0600. Current plan is get a 7 day tube pass at LHR, take the Picadilly Line to the Circus, and transfer to the Bakerloo Line to Waterloo Station, real close to the hotel.

This will be my 4th visit to London, first was 1979, then 1985, and last was 2005. I'm going to rename the subject line as I now have more questions.

Can't help with Marriot as we're Hilton Platinum members.
We stayed at a Conrad property near Kings Cross for a god awful number of points but you couldn't beat the location.

Maybe the OP has enough points for a night or two and can pay for the remainder.... we did that a few years ago in Montreal for the F1 GP.

We enjoyed our stay in London, I agree on the rates but the location was prime, there used to be a very good sushi restaurant right near it, used in a movie as well.

As to price, might as well figure it's one of those trips where you may or may not get back and why skimp, enjoy the week, be where you want and have a great time...

I'm a huge military history nut, here are the sites I plan to re-visit in the seven days beginning Oct 17:

IWM is an easy walk from the Marriott County Hall:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-london

RAF Hendon is easy using the tube:

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/

IWM Duxford will be a train and then taxi, but it'll be worth it:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/iwm-duxford

We did the Churchill War Room in 2005, it's a maybe this time:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/visits/churchill-war-rooms

RN Portsmouth (never been there) is another maybe using the train:

https://www.historicdockyard.c...oyal-navy-portsmouth

On my first two trips I visited abandoned 8th Air Force WWII bomber bases in East Anglia, but those required a rental car and I'm not doing that.

Have I forgotten any other mil hist sites in the London area?

the dockyards are great in Portsmouth. We were there the day the Queen Elizabeth sailed. We watched it go from the Ship Anson pub after a day walking around the dockyard. I used to live there and was visiting my in-laws this summer. You can enter the dockyards without a ticket, but the Victory, Warrior, Marie Rose etc require a ticket. there is a WW1 gunboat there that looked interesting as well. it had 80 years of service!

you could spend a couple days there actually. We did notice Portsmouth seemed to have declined a bit, and as long as you're not going to commercial road for shopping you'll be fine.

The train from waterloo station to gunwharf quays is manageable, but I hate the trains there personally. they were having a strike this summer on Southwest trains, who run that line. Maybe by now the strikes are over.

there are some good places to eat at Gunwharf Quays - like Brasserie Blanc, Carluccio's and a Jamie Oliver offering. the Fullers pub there is good too.

there is Charles Dicken's birthplace there, and not too far a walk from gunwharf, there is Peter Sellers' birthplace, which is now a chinese restaurant.