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Tips

• .TIP: Airport transfer from london
  I've just become aware of a rather bemusing strategy by BAA owners of Heathrow for people overnighting at Heathrow Hotels. A few years ago now Heathrow banned the free hotel shuttles citing traffic congestion at Heathrow. So they introduced the Hoppa Bus which runs at best every 15 minutes and does a milk round of the airport hotels - last count 19 of them. The innocent visitor is fleeced £5 return or £3 single for this "service" - compare this with the cheaper hotels room rate of £40 at weekends and a couple is paying 25% of the room rate for transfers. Nearly all the hotels are located along the Bath Road serviced by frequent public buses - more frequent then the Hoppa Bus anyway. For this service BAA subsidises all public transport journeys around the airport to the extent that these services are FREE. Of course if you're a visitor all the advertising only mentions the Hoppa Bus costing £5 per person.
• .TIP: Hotel Tip from muban
  If you go to Victoria Station in central London, outside is the hotel booth, they will book a hotel for you. Ask for bed and breakfast in Victoria, the rooms are from 30 pounds up. Victoria is 10 minutes from central London on the 24 bus. You will pass Westminster Abbey, parliament etc. Buckingham Palace is around the corner, enjoy... the rooms are clean.

Dining

• Bread Street Kitchen
  A lively and exciting restaurant and bar from the team at Gordon Ramsay Restaurants, Bread Street Kitchen is home to a relaxed dining experience set in a large warehouse style space drawing inspiration from the East London aesthetic that surrounds it.
  
  Address: 10 Bread Street, London EC4M 9AJ
  Telephone: +44 20 3030 4050
  Email: info@breadstkitchen.com
  
  
  
• Foxtrot Oscar
  Another Gordon Ramsay restaurant in London. They have a wine list, but on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday you can bring you own favorite wine and they will "only" charge a €10 corkage fee.
  
  Address: 79 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HN
  Telephone: 020 7352 4448
  Email: foxtrotoscar@gordonramsay.com
  
  
  
• Harwood Arms
  Where the country comes to town. This rural haven in the middle of Fulham is a collaboration between Brett Graham of the famed Ledbury restaurant, Mike Robinson of the acclaimed Pot Kiln pub in rural Berkshire and Edwin Vaux from the famous Vaux brewery. The idea is to provide Londoners with a really relaxed venue for eating the finest British produce, cooked amazingly well, accompanied by excellent beer and wine at a great price. Please remember that even though they serve Michelin star food, it is still a Pub and there is a lively, friendly atmosphere and at times (particularly on Tuesday quiz night) the noise level can rise!
  
  Address: Walham Grove, Fulham, London, SW6 1QP
  Telephone: +44 0207 386 1847
  Email: admin@harwoodarms.com
  
  
  
• Jamie's Italian
  Jamie Oliver's chain of Italian restaurants in the United Kingdom. First opened in Oxford in 2008, there are now Jamie's Italian restaurants all over the country with several in London, including:
  
  Canary Wharf: Unit 17, 2 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5RB
  Covent Garden: 11 Upper St Martin's Lane, London WC2H 9FB
  Islington: North Retail Angel Building, 403 St John Street, Islington, London EC1V 4AB
  Kingston: 19-23 High Street, Kingston KT1 1LL
  Shepherd's Bush Westfield: Unit 1078, Westfield Shopping Centre, Ariel Way, London W12 7GB
  Stratford City Westfield: 147 The Street, Westfield, Stratford City, London E20 1EN
  Threadneedle Street: Ground Floor, 38 Threadneedle Street, London EC2R 8AY
  
  
  
• The Ship Tavern
  "London's Finest Watering Hole" Ale House and dining room since 1549. Famous for quaffable ales, fine fayre and illustrious past. Proud to return to what British pubs do best; a warm welcome, a good honest pint with quality home-cooked food and exceptional real ales.
  
  Address: 12 Gate Street, Holborn, London, WC2A 3HP
  Telephone: +44 20 7405 1992
  Email: info@theshiptavern.co.uk
  
  
  
• The Wolseley
  The Wolseley is a café-restaurant in the grand European tradition located in St James' on London's most famous of boulevards, Piccadilly. 160 Piccadilly is a Grade II Listed Building. An exciting restaurant with one of the best menus in London. Great for breakfast, tea or any other meal.
  
  Address: 160 Piccadilly, London, W1J 9EB
  Telephone: +44 020 7499 6996
  Email: info@thewolseley.com
  
  
  

Wine, Beer, etc.

• Fuller, Smith & Turner P.L.C. The Griffin Brewery
  Fuller's Griffin Brewery is home to a family of beers recognised as among the best in the world.
  
  Address: Fuller, Smith & Turner P.L.C. The Griffin Brewery Chiswick Lane South London W4 2QB
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 8996 2000
  Email: fullers@fullers.co.uk
  
  
  

Lodging

• Camping in London
  A List of London Campsites from LoveCamping.co.uk
• Caravan/Campsite
  Information from Visit London about campsites handy for central London.
• Cheap Hotels in London UK
  - Discount hotels from all the major chains including Holiday Inn, Travel Inn, Marriott, Travelodge, Hilton, Hyatt, Novotel, Best Western, Comfort Inn
• HouseTrip
  
  HouseTrip is the revolutionary holiday rental online booking site, where you can find, book or list your holiday apartment easily and securely. HouseTrip is easy to use and comes with a free protection plan. Find your perfect holiday rental in just 3 easy steps.
  Contact Page
  Telephone: +44 (0) 20 3641 9944

  
  
  
• London Bed & Breakfast
  
• London Camp Sites and Caravan Sites
  Information from UKCampsite.co.uk, the online destination for caravanners and campers.
• London Campsites
  Information from LondonNet.co.uk about London campsites.
• London Connection
  
  Offers specially selected private apartments, houses, and cottages to holiday travelers and to business people going to London, Paris, and various other locations.
  
• Studios-London.com
  A resource for finding various London flats, studios in London, and flat share properties everywhere in London.
• Tune Hotel : Liverpool Street, London
  A great value option not far from the Tower of London.
  
  Address: 13-15 Folgate St, London E1 6BX
  Telephone: 020 7633 9317
  
  
  

Attractions

• Chelsea Physic Garden
  An independent charity committed to the conservation and demonstration of plants used by mankind.
  
  Address: 66 Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London, SW3 4HS, United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7349 6458
  Email: enquiries@chelseaphysicgarden.co.uk
  Underground: The nearest tube station is Sloane Square on the District and Circle lines
  
  
  
• Kew Royal Botanic Gardens
  The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew was founded in 1759, and declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003. Alongside Kew Gardens in London, Kew has a second country garden based at Wakehurst which is the home of Kew's Millennium Seed Bank. As well as being one of London's top visitor attractions, Kew is also a world leader in plant science and conservation.
  
  Address: Kew Gardens Rd, Richmond. Surrey, Greater London, TW9 3AB, United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 8332 5000
  
  
  
• London Eye
  The way the world sees London.
• St. Paul's Cathedral
  The current English Baroque cathedral was built between 1675 and 1710 by Sir Christopher Wren after the great fire which destroyed much of London in 1666. St Paul's is the cathedral of the Diocese of London. Here are some of the things you can do here: Climb the Dome; Go on a touchscreen multimedia tour; Discover the crypt (buried here are Sir Christopher Wren, Admiral Lord Nelson and the Duke of Wellington as well as other heroes of England); Travel back in time in an immersive film experience; Treat yourself to afternoon tea in The Restaurant at St Paul's.
  
  Address: St Paul's Churchyard, London, EC4M 8AD
  Telephone: 020 7246 8357
  Email: admissions@stpaulscathedral.org.uk
  
  
  
• Temple Church
  
  Here are eight hundred years of history: from the Crusaders in the 12th century, through the turmoil of the Reformation and the founding father of Anglican theology, to some of the most famous church music in London. The Church was built by the Knights Templar, the order of crusading monks founded to protect pilgrims on their way to and from Jerusalem in the 12th century. The Church is in two parts: the Round and the Chancel. The Round Church was consecrated in 1185 by the patriarch of Jerusalem. It was designed to recall the holiest place in the Crusaders' world: the circular Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
  Address: Temple, London EC4Y 7BB
  Telephone: +44 020 7353 3470
  Email: verger@templechurch.com

  
  
  
• The Royal Parks
  Information about Hyde Park, Richmond Park, The Regent's Park, Kensington Gardens, Greenwich Park, St James's Park, Bushy Park, Green Park and Brompton Cemetery
• Tower of London
  Information from the Historic Royal Palaces website. In the early 1080s, William the Conqueror began to build a massive stone tower at the centre of his London fortress. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Through the centuries that followed, successive monarchs added to the fortifications. The building that houses the Crown Jewels is located here also.
  
  Address: The Tower of London, London, England EC3N 4AB
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 3166 6000 (from outside the UK)
  Email: visitorservices_TOL@hrp.org.uk
  
  
  
• Whitechapel Bell Foundry
  32/34 Whitechapel Road, London E1 1DY, UK. Phone: 020 7247 2599 Email: bells@whitechapelbellfoundry.co.uk "the world's most famous bell foundry"

Museums

• Charles Dickens Museum
  
  Visitors entering the building will feel as if Dickens has just left the building and might return at any moment. The stories and customs relating to each room will be told by Dickens himself, using his words and descriptions of domestic life in the Victorian era.
  Address: 48 Doughty Street, London, WC1N 2LX
  Telephone: +44 020 7405 2127
  Email: info@dickensmuseum.com
  Tube: Russell Square (Piccadilly Line), Chancery Lane or Holborn

  
  
  
• Imperial War Museums
  IWM is a family of five museums: IWM London; IWM North in Trafford, Greater Manchester; IWM Duxford near Cambridge; the Churchill War Rooms in Whitehall, London; and the historic ship HMS Belfast, moored in the Pool of London on the River Thames.
  
  Address: IWM London—Lambeth Road, London SE1 6HZ United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 7416 5000
  Email: mail@iwm.org.uk
  
  
  
• London Transport Museum
  The collection includes vehicles, rolling stock, posters, signs, uniforms, photos, maps and drawings. London Transport Museum's collection originated in the 1920s, when the London General Omnibus Company decided to preserve two Victorian horse buses and an early motorbus for future generations. The Museum of British Transport opened in an old bus garage in Clapham, south London, during the 1960s, before moving to Syon Park in west London in 1973 as the London Transport Collection.
  
  Address: Covent Garden Piazza, London, WC2E 7BB
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 7379 6344
  
  
  
• Whitechapel Gallery
  For over a century the Whitechapel Gallery has premiered world-class artists from modern masters such as Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Frida Kahlo to contemporaries such as Sophie Calle, Lucian Freud, Gilbert & George and Mark Wallinger.
  
  Address: 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 7522 7888
  Email: info@whitechapelgallery.org
  
  
  

Shopping

• Harrods
  Encompassing seven floors of exquisite collections across 4.5 acres, Harrods welcomes over 15 million customers through their doors each year.
  
  Address: 87-135 Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, London, SW1X 7XL, United Kingdom
  Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7730 1234
  
  
  
• London's finest bookshops
  Shops are organised alphabetically by district

Food Shopping — Bakeries, Chocolate Shops, Food Markets, Wine Shops, etc.

• Borough Market
  Borough Market is London's most renowned food market; a source of exceptional British and international produce. Since its renaissance as a retail market just over a decade ago, it has become a haven for anybody who cares about the quality and provenance of the food they eat — chefs, restaurateurs, passionate amateur cooks and people who just happen to love eating and drinking.
  
  Address: 8 Southwark St, London SE1 1TL
  Telephone: +44 (0)20 7407 1002
  Email: info@boroughmarket.org.uk
  
  
  
• Kappacasein Dairy
  toasted cheese sandwiches and raclette
  
  Address: 1 Voyager Railway Arches, London SE16 4RP Also located at the Borough Market
  Tube: a 6 minute walk from Bermondsey tube station & Maltby Street
  Email: bill@kappacasein.com
  
  
  
• La Fromagerie
  Stylish and unconventional LA FROMAGERIE is recognised as being one of the best cheese shops in England.
  
  Two locations:
  Marylebone +44 020 7935 0341
  Highbury +44 0207 359 7440
  
  
  
• William Curley
  A British patissier chocolatier.
  
  Two locations:
  Address: 198 Ebury Street, Belgravia, London, SW1W 8UN
  Telephone: +44 020 7730 5522
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  Address: 10 Paved Court, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1LZ
  Telephone: +44 020 8332 3002
  
  
  

Internet Access

• London Portobello Gold
  The most "wired" venue in town has a cybercafe area plus wireless Internet (the first in the UK.) Bar/restaurant, live music, cybercafe, guest rooms.
  
  95/97 Portobello Road, Notting Hill, London
  Telephone: +44 (0) 207 460 4910
  Email: reservations@portobellogold.com
  
  
  

Transportation

• Transport for London
  
  Transport for London (TfL) is the integrated body responsible for the capital's transport system. Its role is to implement the Mayor's Transport Strategy for London and manage the transport services across the capital for which the Mayor has responsibility. TfL is accountable for both the planning and delivery of transport facilities, which enables it to take a truly integrated approach to how people, goods and services move around London.
  
  
  

Other — Tourist Guides, etc.

• Gift Tours
  London Sightseeing, London Tours, London Shows, London Accommodation
• Let's Take the Kids to London
  A family travel guide.
• London Map
  The London Map tour of London contains over 100 panoramic 360 degree high quality images of attraction in Central London linked to an interactive map. See major places of interest - Buckingham Palace, the museums, Tower of London, the London Eye, Piccadilly Circus and Barnsbury Park.
• London Tourist Information
  London is the most cosmopolitan city and perhaps the only city which can be called a mini world. London is the melting pot of cultures as people from every race all over the globe can be found here. London has the charm and open heart to accept everything and any one thus making it truly cosmopolitan.
• London Travel and Tourism
  This tourism and travel guide for London, featuring hotels, street maps, restaurants, tours, attractions and more, will help you plan a successful trip to London, England, United Kingdom.
• London Walks
  
  London Walks is the London walking tour company whose hallmarks are an astonishing variety of routes, utter reliability, and -- most important of all -- superb guides. These are the finest walking tour guides in London.
  
  
  
• LondonTown.com
  
  The number one Internet site for London.
  
  
  
• Urban Gentry
  Urban Gentry is the fast, private and in-depth way for visitors and businesses to connect with an all together more stylish slice of London life. The network of all knowing insiders guides lead you to the heart of London's vibrant, but often missed, contemporary edge.
• Visit London
  London is one of the world's most popular and accessible cities with a varied and exciting cosmopolitan culture, making it the ideal place to live and visit.