Premier County Hall or Blackfriars

[LiseD]

We will be staying 2 nights in London before a July cruise. There are 4 of us...bringing our twin daughters. It is not easy finding rooms where all 4 of us can stay together.

 

Premier has a family room and Blackfriars would be $93 (dollars less for 2 nights) Is that worth the savings? or $46 per night. Is County Hall a better location or easier to get around?

 

Thanks for the insight.

[John Bull]

IMHO County Hall is much the better Location. Right by London Eye & tour boats, just across the bridge from Big Ben, Westminster Abbey, Whitehall, Churchill's War Rooms, 10 Downing St, Horse Guards Parade, Trafalgar Square - all walkable within 15 min or less. Good riverside bars & restaurants too. And five minutes walk to Waterloo (trains to Southampton) & Waterloo East (trains to Dover).

 

Premier Inn Blackfriars is in the commercial & lawyers' part of central London.

St Paul's is easily walkable, Covent Garden & theatreland are a 20 minute walk. The immediate area is pretty dead at night.

 

That said, no location is ideal for all the sights, & by using the tube (London's metro) any two places within central London are no more than ten or fifteen minutes apart. :)

 

JB :)

[epixx]

The PI Blackfriars has AC, which the PI County Hall does not. We were in London in early August last year, and I believe I would have been miserable without AC.

[LiseD]

Wow...had not thought about AC.....are there fans in the room?

[epixx]

Note that you cannot book a single room for two adults and two 20 year olds at any Premier Inn. The maximum age for "children" sharing parents' room is 15 (i.e., under 16).

[LiseD]

Think I am going to book elsewhere.....we don't want to book 2 rooms. Too bad as it looks like it would have fit our needs otherwise!!