2. Websites – Try searching for discount accommodation rates for thousands of properties on websites all over the internet. Many of them have great deals.

3. Bed & Breakfast – B&b is a very British way of enjoying home-away-from-home accommodation. Agencies such as Bed & Breakfast GB, London Homestead Services, Host & Guest, Uptown Reservations and Welcome Homes offer small guest-houses or rooms in houses with families Some are centrally-located and others in the ?burbs, but all provide a warm welcome to those who stay. Bed & Breakfast GB also offer the benefit of allowing children under 7 to stay for free in any of their properties. Alternatively, if you want to stay somewhere dirt cheap where someone else does the cooking, just turn up on the doorstep of those friends you haven?t spoken with since they arrived unannounced at your place five years ago.

4. Apartments – If you are staying in London for longer than a week, it?s worth looking into renting an apartment. They are generally not as well located as hotels, however, prices can start from around ?250 for week with the added bonus of a small kitchen where you can cook your own meals.

5. Stay outside city center – Accommodation is less expensive if you are prepared to stay outside the city centre. One of London?s most active pieces of real estate, the Docklands, near Canary Wharf, offer a growing number of hotels at amazingly good value to go with the waterside restaurants, concert-hall and shopping outlets. Here and in other easy to reach locations such as Greenwich, Kew and some central locations as well, you can find hotel chains such as Formula 1, Etap, Ibis – all part of the Accor Hotel group; Travel Inn, Travelodge and Holiday Inn Express. Many of these en-suite rooms sleep up to four from ?27.50 to ?83 a night. You might find that you can?t have breakfast slid under the door (not really recommended unless you are having pancakes anyway), but there is usually something available in the caf? next door, or from the hotel bar. Either way, they make for a rather attractive option for the budget conscious slumberer.

6. Top End ? It may be that splendor, opulence and hedonism are at the top of your accommodation agenda. In which case, London?s duchesses of luxury such as The Ritz, The Connaught, Claridge?s, and The Dorchester will serve your needs handsomely. These hotels epitomize the elegance, grandeur, and snobbery that you would demand from a place where the front desk clerk looks down his nose upon anyone that dares to ask what the cost of the suite might be, wondering how on earth such a vile creature made it past the doorman. Although eye-poppingly expensive to the frugal tourist, even these properties bow to the age of technology on occasion, so check the latest deals available through online vendors before you book – you could save hundreds of pounds without having to face the wrath of that snooty concierge.

7. Backpackers – If you enjoy sleeping with groups of people, London has a swath of backpacker options – some great, some not so flash. The Piccadilly Hotel, near Piccadilly Circus, is a backpackers? dream, with dormitory beds available at ?12 per night, including breakfast and linen. There are also twin and family rooms, too; a lounge with 100-channel TV, an internet suite, and the chance to mingle with a stream of fascinating people who have seen more countries than hot showers ? often quite literally. Others include the St. Christopher?s Inns group with its flagship hostel on the South Bank, The Generator near the British Museum and is definitely a fun place to stay – its bar offering nightly entertainment.

8. Check the room size ? Someone once said (not sure who, but more than likely they were small and male), it?s the quality not quantity that counts. Maybe so, but at some point lack of endowment begins to get laughable, especially when the quality is nothing to write home about. This can be the case with some cheaper London hotels. Whereas a 3 star hotel room in many countries will usually be large enough for two double beds, some of London?s older basic hotel rooms look like they were prototypes for jail cells with little light, a small monitor into the upper corner of the room pretending to be a TV, and barely enough room to click a mouse let alone swing a cat.

9. Bathroom situation – Most rooms will feature an en-suite bathroom or shower with WC (which stands for ?water closet?, an English term created to avoid the embarrassment of having to say ?toilet?). However, check before you book as some smaller B&B?s only have shared bathrooms, which means you have to run down the hallway ? of course you might find that an exciting option.

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First of all, en suite bathrooms are not always customary in London. If you?re visiting an upscale hotel or a chain, you can feel confident that there will be a bathroom with either a tub or shower accessible in your room. However, since bed-and-breakfast options are affordable and popular with tourists, you need to ask and confirm that you?ll have your own bathroom when you arrive. Otherwise, you may find yourself sharing a communal restroom ? just like in a college dorm.

Air conditioning is not always available either, so it?s best to inquire in advance if you?re traveling to London in the summer months. Many smaller hotels and B&Bs will offer fans in their rooms. Otherwise, you?ll be opening the window and hoping for the best. Smoking and non-smoking options are becoming more widely available in England?s capital city. You?ll need to make your request in advance, not upon check-in.

Finally, room types are very different. While it?s nearly impossible to find a hotel or motel in the U.S. with a single twin bed in the room, it?s very likely you will be given just such a room if traveling alone and ask for the wrong thing. A single room is for one person, with a single bed. A double room is for two people, with one double bed. (Many advertise queen-size beds in their double rooms, but they certainly don?t feel as large as American-sized mattresses.) A twin room is for two people, with two single beds. A triple is for three people, usually with one double bed and one single but sometimes just three single beds. Finally, a quad is for four people, with two double beds, four single beds, or one double and two singles. You can see how it gets confusing!

Avoid a surprise at checkout and ask if breakfast and especially VAT (value added tax) are included or not in the price of your nightly room rate. If breakfast is included, it?s a great way to save money each day of your vacation. Tax is 17.5% and can add a considerable amount to your final bill.

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The thing you should do all the time is to keep your room?s door locked. Lock it even if you are inside the room and also put the security chain. Make sure you have locked the door whenever you are leaving the room. You can do this by trying the door to see if it is perfectly closed and locked. It may look a bit paranoid, but the lock might be broken and your room would be vulnerable to any nosy intruder who would try the door knob.

If there is someone knocking on the door, look through the view port first to check on that person. If you don?t know that person, don?t open the door. Don?t trust people claiming they are part of the hotel staff if you don?t expect any visits from the hotel?s personnel. Check with the reception to make sure that person is an employee of the hotel. If you still don?t trust that person, you could keep the security chain on while carrying on the conversation.

The windows are also important. Make sure they are closed and locked whenever you leave the room.

Always use the hotel?s main entrance no matter if it?s day or night. It is safer to use facilities that are crowded with guests and hotel?s staff. Stay away from dark, remote hallways or rooms.

Jewellery represents the item that is most stolen from hotel rooms. Put all your valuables into the safe which most hotel rooms are equipped with. If your room doesn?t have a safe, you can use the hotel?s safe or locked storage facilities. And don?t live your valuable things scattered around your room in anyone?s sight.

All these tips may sound a bit paranoid, but keep in mind that being vigilant will save you from a lot of trouble. So whenever you are travelling, always pay attention to these tips and your vacation will not be ruined from an unfortunate burglary incident.

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Because of the boom in the travel and tourism industry in the whole of UK, there has been a huge increase in tourists coming to London. London, a very big city is distributed into zones – more for the benefit of an underground traveller which has now become a medium of calculating how costly (in terms of property) and posh a place is. Zone 1, consisting of areas like Victoria, Kensington, Bayswater, Tower Hill, Aldgate and Kings Cross is rated #1 followed by zones 2,3,4,5 and 6.

Together, London has about 2000 hotels/bed and breakfasts/lodges/motels/apartments to offer and the number of agencies selling this accommodation is not much fewer than that number. Therefore, starting a new agency service to sell the same accommodation has to be properly targetted and the rules of marketing should be defined on the table before the work starts, or else it will be a failure with so much competition.

We analysed the market and to our surprise we found that the worldwide market has been taken already by top agencies like expedia, laterooms, bedbank etc. All these agencies have huge presence in almost all countries around the world and therefore all tourism is carried out via their websites or GDS’.

We looked a little within that scope and found that the most easy to target audience is that within England and if that sounds like a narrow view, the figure stands at a staggering much more than 1 million travel tourists per year. And there is no one targetting them wholeheartedly.

That was 2 years ago, and because of the timely and realistic estimates and marketing strategies to sell Central London Hotels, we were able to create one of the biggest booking service for hotels in central London.

There is always a niche market waiting to be explored.

The author has been in the London hotels’ industry since the last 15 years and has extensive marketing and promoting experience especially in central London hotels bookings

First of all, let?s discuss the flexibility of using the suit aspect. A timeshares is offering you a relatively limited freedom of using it. It means that you have paid to use your vacation home only for a certain period of time every year. You can?t change the period of time, so you have little options of enjoying your vacation home. But, when it comes to a condo hotel, you can enjoy it whenever you want provided the fact that you will not make it your permanent home.

The facilities aspect should also be taken into consideration when buying a vacation home. The timeshares usually have a shared swimming pool and some other common areas. Condo hotels offer you full access to all the facilities the hotel is normally offering to his guests: a swimming pool, restaurants, bars, an on-site spa or a gym centre.

Also look at the furnishings provided by each type of property. The timeshares? furnishings depend on individual development. You will pay for the furnishing when you buy the entire property. A condo hotel is offering you high-tech appliances, high-end furniture and fixtures that are usually chosen by an interior designer. The quality of the furnishing is equal to the quality of all the facilities and services provided by a high-class hotel. And the price is also included in the purchasing value of the property.

The services issue may be one of the most important reasons for choosing on a certain property. When it comes to timeshares, you deal with the housekeeping issues during the vacation. A condo hotel is providing you full access to room service, valet, concierge or maintenance services. So no worries about who?s making the bed!

The location of these properties is also important. Both properties are placed in popular resorts.

And here it comes the most important issues: money. The timeshares have different prices, depending on the quality and comfort, but they are definitely much cheaper than a condo hotel suit. On the other hand you won?t be getting any revenue for the weeks when you will not be using your property. A condo hotel suit is more expensive but it also brings you money as you can introduce it into the hotel?s rental programme. The income will be shared with the hotel.

You have now a lot of reasons for buying a condo hotel or a timeshares. Your decision depends entirely to your needs and budget.

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