Could use some hotel/travel help

[david]

You could try http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ [2] It certainly
appears to be able to position your hotel better than Priceline. 

I
would echo what other people have said about picking the hotel you like,
based on price, facilities, scenic location, etc., but don't worry *too*
much about proximity to the station. You can get pretty much anywhere in
central London in about 20-30 mins by tube/taxi. 

My suggestion would
be to look at the slew of (relatively) recently built "entry-level"
chain hotels (Novotel, Premier Inn, etc.) that have been built south of
the river in Southwark[*] between Waterloo and London Bridge. Both of
those stations are on the Northern Line, which will take you direct to
Euston. 

David 

[*] Pronounced "Suth-ark" ;-) 

On Thu, 26 Sep 2013
11:55:37 +0100, Smylers wrote: 

> Alan Mosca writes:
> 
>> I've got one
word for you : Priceline.
> 
> OK, I've never used Priceline before so
just had a look to see what they
> can find for our London trip.
> 
>>
You can easily get sub 100$ per night and have a 4*, depending on
period.
> 
> The dates were fixed for us (we're attending a wedding).
>

> I dispute "easily". By default it searches all of London, which is
>
surely useless for everybody. It doesn't allow narrowing down by
>
postcode or Tube station. Admittedly it does offer to search by
>
proximity to golf courses, but regrettably directions for venues tend
>
not to mention those in the way they do postcodes and stations.
> 
> So
I'm left reading through a long list of 'other landmarks' to work out
>
which one is likely to be nearest to where we want to stay, then going
>
through the resulting hotels list, adjusting the distances given to
>
allow for the delta between the location we actually want to search
near
> and the one it let us search near.
> 
> At which point it turns
out that some of the purported hotels in the
> list are actually hostels
or apartments.
> 
> So far as I can tell we can get actual, non-scummy,
hotels for $182 or
> $239. Which admittedly is less than £189, but still
way over the $100
> you mentioned.
> 
> Oh, except that there's an extra
mysterious[*] 'taxes and fees' added at
> checkout, which I'm guessing
is VAT, making the $182 actually $218 per
> night (which, when
translated to sterling, is exactly the same price
> that Booking.com
quote for that room on those dates).
> 
> [*] Mysterious in the sense
that they don't even try to justify how they
> calculated that
particular charge for this booking, just waffling on
> about the kinds
of things they cover.
 

Links:
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[1]
http://www.alltrials.net/blog/the-alltrials-campaign/
[2]
http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/