London: Apartments
Rent a flat on vacation and you can often get more space and more facilities for a lower cost that at a hotel (though less maid and concierge services)
Rent a flat on vacation and you can often get more space and more facilities for a lower cost that at a hotel (though less maid and concierge services)
Rental flats and short-term tourist lets of apartments in London can offer substantial savings, especially for four or more
A Kensington Hotel with remarkably inexpensive apartments and an amazing Penthouse flat
Luxury apartments 100 meters from St. Paul's Cathedral
Your own modern London flat overlooking the Tower of London and the Thames River
Luxury flats in tony Mayfair near Hyde Park
Modern serviced flats in Greenwich, London
There are dozens of hotel alternatives, from London flats to country cottages, farmhouse B&Bs to university dorms, rental rooms to residences, and campgrounds to castles. Here's how to find the lot of them.
Public payphones are disappearing everywhere in the mobile era, and of the some 47,000 phone kiosks remaining on British streets, fewer than 11,000 are that iconic, classic red phone box.
The two most popular variations of this British classic were designed in the 1920s and 30s by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott—same bloke who did the Bankside power station that now houses the Tate Modern. Its design and domed top were supposedly inspired by Sir John Soane's tomb in the yard at St Pancras Old Church.
More on phone kiosks (and those blue, Doctor Who police boxes): The-telephone-box.co.uk