Sleep in London

[Rui]

hello everybody, i just finished of booking a ticket to London by plane with Ryanair ;), i will go there only for a night in november, is a surprise that i wanna made to my girlfriend, but what i really wanna know is if somebody knows some good places to stay in the center of London and of course not to expensive 8)

i will be very pleased if you can help me with this

cheers

[Rui]

i guess nobody have been in London before , if possible near from Liverpool street or Paddington

thanks :P

Rui

[serenella]

Hi Rui,
I've been in London several times, but I cannot help you. :(
Accomodations in the center are expensive, I can suggest that you go to some bed&breakfast, they are lovely and cheaper than hotels.
Have you got an English tourist office in your country? They are usually very helpful.
Otherwise, have you tried by searching online?

[Rui]

hello, i've been searching in net for something, i'am just looking for some opinions of someone that already had stayed in some place and liked, i see many things in the net but as you must know in the net everything is perfect, all the sites say that you never will have a problem, but sometimes when you arrive some bad surprises are waiting for you

but anyway, thank you fore the help ;)

[trinity19]

hi rui!
i was in london last july and if you want sth cheap i recommend you bed&breakfasts. the problem with them is that you don't know how they will be and they don't always accept books for one day. i stayed in a bed&breakfast and i was lucky cuz it was clean and the family was nice so here's the info
http://www.welcomehomes.co.uk

if you're interested, the one i stayed in is SE10/JS in the A list. it's not in the center but is well communicated by train :) [/url]

[Rui]

thank you very much trinity19, well, i have to see, because as i just gona stay for a night, maybe it would be better stay in some place in centre of London to make a walk around the city and go visit something, if i would stay outside the city i’m going to lost many time in transports, and if I’ll like London I would make another visit for more time, as a said before this is only a surprise to my girlfriend, this will be the first time of her in a airplane

cheers,

Rui Pedro

[serenella]

What a romantic idea, Rui!
She'll surely appreciate it and this will be the first one of many many journeys together throughout the world.

If you stayed more than one night, I would suggest you the vouchering system of Bancotel (http://www.bancotel.com).
You can stay in good hotels (three stars or more) paying with one voucher (50€) for two persons, but you have to buy at least 5 vouchers (or 10, 15, etc.). Vouchers expire after one year, so you can buy them in advance.
I've tried it, it's a good system, cheap and with no bad surprises, I suggest it to everyone who would need to book hotels.

[tikay]

There are places called hostels that are incredibly cheap, compared to hotel stays and one night should not be a problem. :D

[Rui]

thank you very much for your information tikay, however, and as you can see looking to the date of my post, i have been in london last month and the question of accommodation it's not a problem anymore, or thinking better.. it would be nice to see here some links with sites of those places you were talking about who knows if someone wanna go there or even if i wanna go there again... i guess i want 8)

[tikay]

Hey Rui...I have a son named Tui...well thats part of his middle name...and we always call him Tui.
Anyway there are a few links here that I got from inputting youth hostels in London...here goes:
http://www.piccadillyhotel.net/
http://www.youthhostels-in.com/
http://wwwstudio92.com
http://www.hostelworld.com
I hope these are good links to cheap accommodations for anyone traveling. These are all over the world too. just put in hostel and your destination or youth hostel & same.
PEACE.