Hotel Choice Can Make or Break a Trip to London

Enjoying a visit to London is a question of priorities. If you’ve never been before it can be easy to be rather overwhelmed by the sheer size and scale of the place, and try to sample a little bit of everything it has to offer.

The problem is that there’s so much on offer that this approach can just end up beingstressful and unproductive. When you’re visiting London it’s easy to find yourself beingtorn between hitting the shops, looking round historical buildings, catching the famouslandmarks, soaking up the culture in galleries and museums or simply wandering thestreets revelling in the vibrant and exciting atmosphere. The key to a successful trip is topick and choose the highlights you wish to enjoy and, where the ones that you miss areconcerned, console yourself with the thought that you’ll be coming back many moretimes.

One of the best ways of making sure you manage to cram in as much as possible onevery day of your stay, without risking over stretching yourself, is to choose a hotel injust the right location. This doesn’t necessarily mean a place right down the road fromyour favourite museum, market or gallery, since the chances are that you’ll want it visitdifferent places on different days, or even different parts of the same day.

The right location is one which is near to the centre of London, where the bulk of touristattractions are situated, and which makes it easy to travel from one to the other and backagain. London has an excellent integrated transport system consisting of many Tube stationsand bus routes, and staying in a hotel close to the points at which these routes intersect willcut the time and money you’re forced to spend on travelling. The hotels in the Shaftesburygroup all fit this criteria perfectly, being based in areas such as Paddington, Hyde Park andNotting Hill.

From any Shaftesbury hotels it’s just a quick walk to the nearest tube station, from where you can travel all over London quickly, easily and, if you take advantage of the Travel Pass system, relatively cheaply. There’s more to a hotel than just the convenience of its’ location of course, and the owners of these hotels also go out of their way to ensure that they provide accommodation which you’ll actively look forward to returning to at the end of a day.

It’s all too easy to fall into the trap of viewing your hotel room as being somewhere tochange and sleep, and nothing more, but the truth is that accommodation which offers styleas well as comfort and a few touches of luxury will help to make the trip extra special, neverforgetting, of course, the fact that a restful night’s sleep and a hearty breakfast in themorning is the best possible way to prepare to make the most out of a day in London.Choose the right hotel, with a pleasing ambience and helpful staff, and it will be just as mucha part of your memories as any other part of the trip.