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Visit London Hotels To Enjoy Spectacular Celebrations For The Chinese New Year

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011

You’ll find that Chinese New Year is increasingly celebrated in the key international cities. London has so many different activities and events around the city to celebrate the start of a new Chinese year every February. The lively celebrations for the New Year can be found all around the city, with everything from fashion exhibitions to fireworks to feasts on offer. To get into the celebration of prosperity and good fortune, book one of the central London hotels and celebrate Chinese New Year. Try to venture away from the hub of celebrations around Leicester Square to find more traditional activities and festivities.

If you want to celebrate the Chinese New Year in a unique way, whilst learning something fascinating, visit the National Maritime museum. The Chinese culture lends meaning to star gazing and you can enjoy stargazing from a Chinese perspective here. Spend an evening deciphering the night sky the Chinese way with an unforgettable evening at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich on 12th February. You’ll have the chance to see the constellations through a huge telescope, whilst learning more about the Chinese understanding of astrology.

You’ll soon see why the astonishing fireworks display is the best part of the Chinese New Year. Every year thousands of revellers come to Leicester square to celebrate the Chinese New Year in style. This year the fireworks are scheduled for the 6th February. It’s not just incredible displays of pyrotechnics you can enjoy; the whole of Leicester Square comes alive with stalls and dance and art performances too. With plenty of London hotels located around the Leicester Square area, it’s easy to join in with these celebrations.

For many, it’s the feasts that make Chinese New Year so memorable. You’ll be spoilt for choice, with so many different restaurants and stalls serving traditional dishes. Traditional dishes include raw fish salad, said to bring luck, prawns for liveliness and noodles to guarantee long life to all diners at the table. It can get very busy at this time of year, so book one of the central hotels to make sure that you can join in with the Chinese New Year celebrations.

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Explore Around London Hotels To Find The Best Pubs In The English Capital

Monday, January 17th, 2011

If you want to learn more about London’s history, then do it with a difference by going to one of the city’s pubs. Many pubs have an incredible heritage, and still look as they may have done in the 16th century. With so many London hotels close to the best pubs, you won’t have far to go after a big night of drinking!

After wandering around the Tate Modern, head to the Anchor, just beside Borough Park. This pub has a brilliant location, a few minutes walk from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and the Tate Modern Gallery. It is believed that this pub was the place that Samuel Pepys wrote in his famous diary and was even the place that he witnessed the Great Fire of London in 1666.

For a relaxing pint after wandering around the British museum, go to the Museum Tavern - it’s the perfect place to refuel. This is the perfect place to stop off for a quick bite to eat, with a very reasonably priced lunch menu. There is a brilliant choice of quintessentially English meals including arguably the best fish and chips in the city.

For one of the oldest pubs in London, go to Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese just off Fleet Street, close to Chancery Lane tube station. This pub is a tourist favourite, as it was known to be the choice pub of Samuel Johnson. After drinking a few pints of some of the pub’s brilliant ale, head back to one of the your hotels to unwind in preparation for the next day’s activities.

If you want to go to a pub with the quintessential British clientele go to the George Inn. Found just around the corner from London Bridge, this is a brilliant place to come after taking in the Tower of London. The unique selling point of this pub is its famous clientele, which included Charles Dickens and Shakespeare. This pub is in a brilliant area, so think about staying in one of the London hotels in this area, so you can drink here every night.

 

 

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Where to Stay in London

Friday, July 10th, 2009

It is not surprising that, a City which is the most visited in the whole world should have a lot of cheap bed and breakfast and cheap hotel accommodation properties. London, the capital of England has so many places to stay. A lot of tourists are drawn to the City because of its many major landmarks as well as the numerous tourist attractions found in it. The City of London has many cheap bed and breakfast and many cheap hotels but the hotels in the West end get full up quicker than those in other areas especially when there is a major even in London.

Select to book your Central London cheap hotels and bed and breakfast based on what you want to see in the City or what you are coming to do in Central London for you may want to be close to a particular area or you may want to stay in some cheap London hotels close to a particular Landmark or tourists attractions in the Capital or may be you may want to be close to London hotels in West End

London Victoria SW1 area has cheap London hotels close to the Buckingham Palace which is the residence of the Queen of England Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and at the same time the administrative headquarters of the United Kingdom monarchy. You also do not need to walk too far to get to the tourist attractions and the Landmarks like the famous London eye which is now and iconic Landmark, the Westminster Cathedral, Westminster abbey, the Tate Gallery , Big Ben also called Tower Clock and the House of Parliament from where the Country is ran.

Russell Square and the Bloomsbury WC1 area also have many cheap london bed and breakfast as well as  cheap London hotels and when you stay in that area, you are close to British Museum, British Library, the Covent garden and the University of London to mention but a few. The West End shopping areas of Oxford Street, the Bond Street and the Regent street are close to you at Russell square or Bloomsbury area. You are also just a walking distance away from The Soho area and the China town.

The Marble arch area and the Oxford Circus have a lot of cheap bed and breakfast and cheap hotels too. These are the busiest areas of London West End because of inflow of tourist and shoppers every hour during the day time.

The Paddington, Bayswater, Lancaster Gate and the Hyde Park area also have fair share of Central London cheap hotels and also cheap London b&b accommodation and the Hyde Park and the Kensington Garden are the major tourist attractions the area can boast of.

Kensington and Earls Court areas have got the Kensington Olympia and Earls Court exhibition centres. Also in the area are the Royal Albert Hall, the Science Museum, the Kensington Gardens, Kensington Palace, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Natural History Museum.

 

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London and its places of interest

Sunday, June 28th, 2009

I was to visit London to transact some business. My supplier I have been with for the past 10 years invited me. I went to two other European countries, France and Holland for the same purpose. I was happy that I was to visit the City because I have read so much about it and wanted to know if all that I read during my school days were true. I wanted to see a lot of London so I booked two different hotels for my stay. A week in Russell Square and a week in London Victoria.

I arrived at the Heathrow international Airport on British airways and after going through the immigration formalities, I took a mini cab and was taken straight to the Tavistock hotel on Tavistock Square in Russell square. You will get many good standard hotels in Russell Square Bloomsbury district.

I realised why a lot of tourists like the place. I myself fell in love with it the very day I was there. I just took my street map and just stepped out of the hotel to start the Central London tour. I was so happy with what I saw in London because it was not different from what I thought of it. I first visited the British Museum which I understand has over 7 million items from all over the world and also visited British Library all in Russell Square. I moved from the British Museum to the Covent garden and found a lot of street performers as I have read in books.

For the rest of the week at Tavistock hotel London, I visited the West end area. A visit to west End would not have been a complete one without visiting Oxford Circus and Marble Arch. I came to realise that the Leicester square is not Theatreland just for the sake of it. the whole area is full of Theatres. From Leicester Square, I proceeded to Piccadilly Circus and found the place to be very busy and exciting. I paid a visit to the shopping streets in the West End area on my 5th day and was surprised to see that the place was so dense with shoppers and other tourists. The Bond street, the Regent street and the Oxford Strret are very busy shopping streets but I found the Oxford Street to be the busiest. The China Town and the Soho were just off the Oxford Street so I took the opportunity to vist the area.

I went to stay in Victoria area in my second week as booked through Cheap London hotels agency. The Landmarks close to Victoria enticed me to book to stay there for one week. I saved the best for the last. I was in Buckingham Palace the very day i arrived at Victoria to witness the changing of the guard. I was so anxious to visit the Tower clock also called the Big Ben for what I have read. The Big Ben is just at the same location as the Houses of Parliament. I also took a trip to the Westminster Abbey at the Parliament Square. Finally, I went to have a look at the London Eye. It is a fantastic piece of architecture. The London ey will continue to be one of the best Landmarks in London for quite sometime. I enjoyed my stay in Central London and I would like to stay in the cheap hotels in Russell square as they have good accommodation standard but lower rates.

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The Effects of Credit crunch on London hotels

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

London is not only a business centre; it is also a very vibrant city. Reasons oor purpose of visiting London are not always the same for everyone. Some London Visitors come to the city to do business and some are also visit to do some sightseeing. There are a lot of popular tourists’ attractions. The Trafalgar Square, London Eye, Westmninster Abbey are some of the most visited Landmarks.There are others who also who cannot resist shopping in the great Capital. Bond street, Regent street and the famous shopping street in Europe the Oxford street have a high concentration of shops.

Businesses fear collapse which the world economic crisis will bring. Many businesses are closing down and making people redundant. There has been a lot of redundancies in many industries. Experts say that it will take sometime for big economies to to recover from the current world economic crisis. There is one industry which the Credit crunch has not affected. The London hotel industry it is. What are the effects so far on Hotel industry? The article talks only about London hotels and bed and breakfast.

The current economic crisis do not seem to have an impact on the London hotels industry yet according to my little research. Our booking Agency has been working with bed and breakfast and big hotels for a very long time. There has not been a slow down since I started my research. Hotels to date continue to be busy.

If hotels are getting full or already full for some dates, if they have registered with us, can log on and close out those dates. It is so surprising that, in this economic crisis, hotels get full up in the weekdays and every weekend
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Between March and July was the peak period for London hotels in 2008. Hotels were almost full everyday. Because hotels are closing out dates on the system all the time, there are not rooms for us to book for our guests. Some hotels are over booked for certain dates ahead at london hotels. Hotels can sometimes become over booked and they even have to book out some guest to other hotels. One wonders why our agency is not getting rooms to book for our clients. This is because hotels have closed out dates on the system.

Why may be the London hotel industry is still booming is that the British pound is now week and travellers get more when the shop in London. In view of that, London hotels are always busy because of the inflow of tourists. However, the Pound was strong in some part of the past year. It was even stronger than many of the major currencies. Is it London’s popularity and importance that has made it unavoidable during this economic crisis? The research is not yet complete; I am still monitoring the hotel industry. London Hotels will offer lower rates to travellers if the economic crisis spread to their industry. This is because they will be guaranteed special London hotel offers, cheap London hotels accommodation and also cheap London bed and breakfast rates. The Tavistock hotel London is an example of such hotels.

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