Regents Palace

Long before I stayed at the Regents Palace Hotel, close to Piccadilly Circus, I had the impression that it must be rather a nice place to stay. From the exterior one gets the impression that it is quite swish and, of course, one assumes that it must be quite costly given its location in the very heart of the West End. Therefore it was never an accommodation option I considered when looking for somewhere to stay in the capital until I found myself needing a hotel during one of the all too frequent public transport strikes. I had won a competition to go the MOBO awards with a nights accommodation at the rather grand Sunbourn Yacht Hotel in Docklands but wanted to extend ...

A month or two ago, I booked a hotel for a three night stay in London. After trawling around the Net for bargains and failing miserably, I stumbled across activehotels.com, which offered much better rates than the likes of lastminute.com, whose reputation has been built on providing cheap travel and accommodation options for the spontaneous despite the fact that it’s probably the most expensive site of its type out there. After browsing for a while, I plumped for the Regents Palace Hotel – an absolute snip at £44 a night for a non en-suite twin room in early September. Even better, it is located slap bang in the centre of London, just off ...

My girlfriend and I recently spent a weekend in London seeing a selection of shows we?d been wanting to see for quite some time, and we stayed overnight in the Regent Palace Hotel. There were two main reasons I picked the Regent Palace Hotel: 1) The price- at £79 for the night it was the cheapest in the area, and actually the only one I could reasonably afford, what with being a student. The prices generally start at about £34 per person per night. 2) The location appeared to be superb, apparently overlooking the statue of Eros and the lights of Piccadilly Circus. On the way there I had been permanently worried that I had spent my money on ...