Cromwell Crown Hotel offers low, low prices in chic Kensington & Chelsea! Basic, ... more
budget 72 room London hotel offering superb online budget rates for travellers looking for simple low cost central accommodation in the UK capital. Very small rooms w...
The Cromwell Crown Hotel is in the heart of vibrant 'Theatreland', in London, with a ... more
24-hour front desk and multilingual staff. Professionally managed, the Cromwell Crown Hotel is located a short walk from famous shopping in Knightsbridge, close to all...
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Price is per double room per night and may vary depending on date booked...
Advantages: Great Location. Excellent standard of service. Relatively good value for London. Disadvantages: No Pool. That's about it!
INTRODUCTION
I booked dinner and theatre for my wife's thirtieth birthday, and needed a relatively up-market hotel in London - with a bit of ?wow? factor - to overnight in. I am a frequent visitor to IC Hotel Group properties on business (these include the five star Intercontinental Hotels, the four to five star Crowne Plaza, and the three to four star Holiday Inn) and am a member of their award-winning ?Priority Club? loyalty scheme, so I decided to use my accumulated points to redeem a ?Reward Night? and stay for free. The hotel is on Buckingham Gate, with extensive frontage featuring an attractive red and white brick façade with decorative arches, reminiscent of Florentine architecture.
GETTING TO & FROM
The hotel is in the heart of Westminster. It?s a short, three minute, walk from St James? Park Tube ...
Advantages: Superbly restored Disadvantages: Not in the nicest part of London
I live near a part of North London that is not really known for anything much except that it's a bit rough and going out alone after 10pm is not really a good idea. However, I've become very fond of it over the last couple of years and am delighted to be able to say that The Crown is definitely the highlight of the place and is superb even when compared to the 'nicer' parts of town like West Hampstead and Hampstead. The pub has an Irish connection - 100 years ago, Kilburn and Cricklewood inhabitants were mainly Irish and the area still has many Irish families, although mixed with every nationality you can think of.
Location
Cricklewood Broadway is part of the A5, which leads up to the North Circular and can get very busy. Fortunately, the pub is set back from the road, so even if you choose to sit outside, the noise isn't too bad ...
Advantages: Lots to see, entertaining staff Disadvantages: Busy
As we live in London there is luckilly quite a lot for us to do. We decided we would go and see one of the tourist attractions even though we knew it being a bank holiday, wherever we went would be packed. We decided after a bit of thought that we would try the Tower Of London this time as I haven't been there for years and boyfriend never had visited.
To get to the Tower Of London is fairly easy. We travelled on the tube, which is on the circle and district lines. The tube station is just across the road from the main attraction so it was easy to spot and there are signs also in the tube station to tell you the right exit. It would also be easy to get to by bus. I would not recommend that anyone would try and drive there as you would certainly have a problem trying to park.
The ticket offices are fairly obvious once you get ...
