London has a reputation for expensive hotel accommodation with very little cheap budget hotels. OK so what is cheap. For the purposes of this article lets define cheap as below 100$US per night, (60 pounds sterling in local currency) for a standard double/twin room with all taxes paid.Most of the hotel accommodation in this bracket is termed ‘bed and breakfast’ hotels. This can be misleading to the unaware. No it’s not a cosy family owned guest house with personal attentive hosts, traditional English breakfasts & home-made offerings, commonly available outside London. The vast majority are small hotels with 20-50 rooms, staffed by immigrants on very low salaries with very simple rooms, seldom lifts & ‘continental breakfasts’.
The main cheap hotel districts in London are Bayswater, Victoria & Kings Cross. Here you will see lots of these bed & breakfast hotels together in clusters. An ensuite double or twin room with breakfast in these areas is around 70-100$USKings Cross has a poor reputation, it used to be notorious for drugs, crime & prostitution. That is all largely behind it now & it’s a district on the up, the whole area is being rejuvenated & Eurostar Trains will terminate at Kings Cross station in 2007. The bed & breakfast hotels are all around a garden square immediately opposite Kings Cross Station. Kings Cross is no more than a mile from the West End, the central entertainment area of London, & there’s lots of public transport on your doorstep.Bayswater is on the northern border of Hyde Park, London’s biggest, & within a mile are Oxford Street, Kensington Palace & Paddington Station, (terminus for the Heathrow Express airport link. Bayswater is a traditional budget area and a great place to stay for the cost conscious traveller. Bayswater High Street (Queensway) is host to a great variety of economical restaurants & shops.Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/92080
