Wednesday, September 28

For Your Budget Vacation - Discount Hotel Rooms London


While planning a vacation or a trip, a prudent traveler always puts booking a hotel, on top of his list. It is always wise to start looking for an accommodation before getting to the place of visit. It saves a lot of time and trouble. The things that one should keep in mind while choosing a hotel are its location, whether it offers the comfort that you need and how much will it cost you. More than the others, the budget factor often happens to be the deciding factor as far as choosing an accommodation is concerned. So a discount on the hotel room price is very pleasing to majority of the travelers.

In a city like London, which is known for its luxurious hotels, discounted hotels promise good news for those looking to cut their accommodation expenses in the expensive city. It has been seen that a large number of people visiting London are businessmen, people from neighboring countries who frequently visit London for meetings or to attend certain concerts or events. These frequent travelers don’t often long for expensive luxury hotels. Therefore Discount hotel rooms London are the best option for these travelers. 

Most of the discount hotel rooms London are located in the epicenter of all the action. The major attractions of London like the Tower Bridge, the London Bridge, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus and others are easily accessible from these hotels. The rooms at these hotels are also pretty decent and you will not be disappointed with the comfort they are going to offer. A few luxuries like a Jacuzzi, LCD TV and internet facilities might be missing but it will save you a lot of money which pretty much makes up for it. 

These hotels have many discount packages running like discount for booking more than one room, some give complimentary stay to the children and some offers special packages for the senior citizens. You might also get corporate discount at some discount hotel rooms London. Booking a room in time is an important factor too, as sometimes you might get even fifty percent discounts for booking in advance.

One should not act with haste while booking a discount hotel because sometimes the promises to give big discounts turn out to be false. So it is important that you do some research before booking a hotel.

Monday, September 26

London Mayfair Attractions

If you are planning for a thrilling holiday then you must visit London. The city promises a lot of fun and entertainment and never disappoints anyone. There are historic landmarks, palaces, lush parks, theatres, casinos, museums, art galleries, and many exciting and adventurous entertainment venues for kids and adults alike. So, book an accommodation now in one of the major central London districts to enjoy all the fun that London has on offer.

Mayfair and Marylebone district is a popular choice of visitors to get an accommodation in Central London close to the major attractions of the city. Mayfair is characterized by most expensive real estate in London and is home to a plethora of world class hotels. Some of the major tube stations in Mayfair are Piccadilly Circus, Oxford Circus, Edgware Road, Baker Street, Green Park and Warren Street.

Mayfair’s major attractions remain its shopping streets including Oxford Street, Regent Street, Bond Street and Jermyn Street. Most of the hotel rooms in this district are occupied by shopping buffs who come from far off countries to enjoy shopping at the most exclusive stores of London. The legendary Selfridges pulls a huge crowd every day and so do Topshop and Debenhams at Oxford Street. Bond Street is a favourite with those searching for designer label clothing while technology geeks head towards Regent Street.

Regent Park which is one of the major Royal parks of London falls within Mayfair-Marylebone district and is quite popular with the locals. This park is not as famous as Hyde Park among visitors but surely offers a lot for them to enjoy a memorable evening here. The park features beautiful lakes and plays host to puppet shows and many sporting activities round the year. In the north of Regent’s Park is London Zoo, a must visited attraction for children.

Mayfair-Marylebone is also home to many museums including the world famous Madame Tussauds popular for its wax work collection. Other popular museums in the district include Sherlock Holmes Museum, Wallace Collection and the Royal Academy of Arts.

Mayfair is a huge entertainment districts and houses many theatres, restaurants, pubs, nightclubs and gay bars. To book accommodation at one of the Mayfair hotels London act now. http://www.montcalm.co.uk/

Monday, September 5

He Doesn’t Want To See Tou He’s in A Conference

Imagine how many times an executive’s secretary has had to repeat the words ‘he’s in a conference’ when the real meaning is he doesn’t want to talk to you so please push off and stop calling!

How many other excuses like that have been derailed by the dreaded mobile phone?
Everyone is expected to carry a mobile telephone and things are getting worse with video phones and tracking chips. Soon none of us will be able to keep any secrets about our movements. For the innocent, good, clean living person that may be O.K. but for the rest of us this is fast becoming a disaster.

There was recent talk in the U.K of putting tracking devices in all new cars and this was not a suggestion but a mandatory plan! I am still trying to get over the shock of reading the article and cannot remember what pee-brained politician promoted the scheme.

Fortunately nothing more seems to have been heard of that particular nightmare and with luck it has been buried for good. So many things we read about all those years ago in 1984 have crept into our lives. For example, London has more spy cameras watching your every movement than any other city in the world by a long chalk.

Organisations like the police will come out with the nonsense that it is for our own protection in which case why are crime rates dropping year in year out in New York, Los Angles with a fraction of these intrusive cameras. Even George Orwell could not have imagined the latest humiliating invention of airport body scanners that see us as naked.

It’s time to put an end to further abuses and to form an organisation we could perhaps call ‘keep my privates private.’ We can begin by looking for some hotel conference rooms and meeting in secret to plan the next stage. Obviously it will be necessary to go incognito as the foyer camera and the ones in the street will know who we are.
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THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO LAND IN LONDON

Overseas visitors to London will usually arrive at the capital by air and land at Heathrow airport or perhaps Gatwick, Luton or Stansted but if someone offers to sell you a ticket to Croydon don’t buy it!

Even Londoners forget there was once upon a time another airport which closed in 1952 but used to be the main London airport. This is Croydon airport in south London and there is very little sign of how important this terminal once was. Opened in 1915 as a military landing strip this site began taking the very earliest commercial flights after the First World War ended in 1918.

Commercial in those days was not quite as we think of it today. There were very few commercial flights and those that existed were usually small, barely converted military aircraftand consequently very uncomfortable. The airport is no longer in use although some enthusiasts want to create a flight museum and there is one old plane on a plinth that observant passers-by might just notice these days.

Gradually, as commercial flights grew in volume the London traffic was dealt with at Northolt in north London which to this day is still a busy little airport used by both military and privately owned craft. It is also the usual departure point for the Queen’s flight as it is close to both Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace.

Northolt could not expand and so eventually Heathrow became London and the country’s leading airport. Back at Northolt, another piece of history was made here back in 1921 when it built a tower beside the landing strip and so created the world’s first air traffic control!

Just occasionally men in anoraks with small cameras are seen lurking in the adjoining bushes taking pictures of this iconic aero piece of architectural memorabilia and pasting the developed results on their bedroom wall along with rare aircraft photos and UFOs.

There are stories of a very old man with dementia still turning up now and again and demanding to be let on the afternoon’s flight to Paris.

Because Gatwick, Luton and Stansted are mostly charter flights, most international visitors find themselves arriving at Heathrow. As one of the busiest half dozen airports in the world Heathrow is at full capacity and there is a huge push to create an extra runway by the airlines and other authorities and an equally powerful lobby group trying to prevent it.

As it happens visitors to London are without doubt better served by Heathrow if their intention is to stay in a London hotel and enjoy the best parts of the city. From the airport a speedy regular tube train runs to Paddington station in west London and this is the area where most hotels are located.

For a London last minute hotels this and the immediately surrounding parts of Kensington, Hyde Park and Marble Arch are ideal for exploring the city and it is in these areas you will find the vast majority of all the London quality hotels.