Priceline Hotel: London, England stay for 3 nights - Jan 7th to Jan 10th

[utopianbl]

Hey all

While I am not new to priceline, I am new to this website. I've read a few posts and I wanted to see if the experts here can help me get a good deal for a hotel in London for 3 nights.

I have used priceline before, so I have a general idea of how it works. Though - I have never stayed in London. The location I have chosen - Mayfair-Soho - is more for being in the central zone. I am open to change - but I do want to be able to get a good 4* - 5* in the region of $90 - $120.

Are there any good strategies and/or locations that will allow me to hit my price points?

Thanks

[thereuare]

Welcome to BetterBidding!

Are you willing to pay more for a 5* hotel vs. a 4* hotel OR is your goal the least expensive 4* or better for this stay?

Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.

Let us know the above and we'll advise accordingly.

[utopianbl]

Really looking to get the least expensive 4* or better for this stay - provided its in a locality centric enough to most tourist activities.

[thereuare]

...provided its in a locality centric enough to most tourist activities.

You won't know the hotel, or location within the zone, untl after your purchase... are you comfortable receiving a hotel anywhere within the shaded boundaries that PRICELINE uses to define this zone?

Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.

[utopianbl]

You won't know the hotel, or location within the zone, untl after your purchase... are you comfortable receiving a hotel anywhere within the shaded boundaries that PRICELINE uses to define this zone?

Please use these PRICELINE and HOTWIRE links to begin your travel purchases.

Definitely. But can you or someone please assist me in selecting the shaded areas closest to prime activities(tourism).

[Romelle]

London top 10 tourist attractions:

Tate Modern

British Museum

National Gallery

Natural History Museum

The London Eye

Science Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

Tower of London

St Paul's Cathedral

National Portrait Gallery

Web site with more detail on each of these:

www.visitlondon.com/attractions/index

You only have three days. I've spent more than a day on just the British Museum (2nd on list above). And probably the best I've ever done is hit three tourist things in a day. I'd suggest you want your own list of choices rather than someone else's. Maybe start with the above list and pick the things you'd like to do from that. Then pick up a guide book from your local library or bookstore (you'll probably want one for the trip anyway) and see what else appeals to you. When you have your own personal Top 10, then find them on a map (that guide book will have one, or the above web site). And just see into which PL areas your choices fall. Those could be your bidding areas. Or if your choices are pretty widely scattered, you will be having to move about anyway, so more areas might work. I've read that the tourist attractions are spread pretty well all over London and that has been my experience, yet London is compact and there are good transportation options.

I'd add the Churchill War Rooms, as authentic a British pub as you can find (with dart games), Marks and Spenser (it is said Queen Elizabeth buys her ever-so-proper white cotton unmentionables there), high tea some place fancy, riding in a double decker bus and one of those big black cabs, a glass museum, changing of the guard, Harrod's, Kew Gardens, ..... ah, but this is my list....

And Kensington often tends to yield the least expensive hotels, closely followed by Islington. You might look closely at them in order to either rule them in or out.

Romelle