Hello and welcome to London Travel Tips!
This website pools together what I know about London. I created it so that we can all explore London from the comfort of our computer. There's so much to see in London, you won't be able to cover them all in one or two or even three visits. Booking into cheap London hotels is advisable as England's capital city can be expensive. But through this website, you will soon be able to explore more of London than most vacationers. Together let's visit the famous, less famous and out right obscure sights in London, as if we are there ourselves.
My goal in writing London Travel Tips, is to eventually create one of the most comprehensive sites about this city, with extensive description of all its many areas. Through this website, you can look for good value hotels in London and make sensible decisions. This is not a travelogue. I am not documenting my travels here. Rather this website is a reflection of my passion to know everything about London.
I hope you will find it to be a useful guide, whether you are visiting London for a few days, many weeks, or even planning to live there. This website is still a work in progress - I don't know when I will ever get it completed. Do bear with me if there are whole sections that have not been written yet. I hope you will enjoy the sense of discovery that I feel, as I myself discover London.
Canary Wharf at night
Author: Dave Pape (public domain)
About London
London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. A city with an urban population of 8.2 million people and a metropolitan population of 12.3 million, London is the biggest city in the United Kingdom as well as in Western Europe.
London covers an area of 1,572 sq km (607 sq mi). It has a complicated administrative structure comprising 32 areas known as "boroughs", collectively known as Greater London, and a central core known as the City of London.
Royal Albert Hall at night
Author: M.Minderhoud (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)
The City of London, popularly referred to as The City or The Square Mile, is a small area in Inner London. It should not be confused with Greater London as a whole. The City is the oldest part of London developed by the Romans as Londinium circa AD 121. Today the City of London is the main financial center of London. It has a high concentration of banks and financial institution, but in terms of population, not many people live here. Of the 500 largest companies in Europe, 100 have their headquarters in London, and a good percentage are based in the City of London.
There are two areas within Greater London with city status. Apart from the City of London, the other is the City of Westminster, located immediately to the west of The City. This is the location of the Palace of Westminster, the parliament of the United Kingdom, as well as major government offices and Buckingham Palace.
Of the 32 boroughs of Greater London, two are conferred "royal" status, namely the Royal Borough of Kensinton and Chelsea, and the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames. They are the two out of three boroughs with royal status in England.
Somerset House, London
Author: Jan van der Crabben (Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic)
The river Thames slices London into two parts, the north bank and the south bank, as it meanders eastwards into the Thames Estuary. The major part of London is located on the northern bank of the river.
London is served by three major international airports with the biggest, London Heathrow, being the world's busiest in terms of international passenger numbers. The city also has the oldest underground railway network, the London Underground, which is the second most extensive after Shanghai's.
You can find on this website hotels in London that you can book online. There is also Southampton hotel, with full description, star rating, location map, evaluation, and minimum prices. This helps you to make your room booking with the site that offers the best price.
London Airports
With great transport links throughout the city, if you are venturing beyond London getting to the airport couldn't be easier. There are numerous options when travelling to the airport including using the trains, catching a bus, coach or taxi or simply driving to the airport.
Big Ben Clocktower at night
Author: Tohma (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported)
At Paddington rail station you can pick up the Heathrow Express train service which takes a maximum of twenty minutes to get to the airport. For Gatwick airport, the same service runs from Victoria rail station every fifteen minutes. For London City Airport, a shuttle bus transfer operates between Canary Wharf and Central London and is pre-bookable in advance.
Accommodation in London
When visiting London, you have a wide range of hotels to choose, from budget to upscale. On the whole, however, the city is an expensive destination. If you're coming for a short visit to London, you can get hotels in London from hotel direct. Alternatively, there's also plenty of hostels in London to consider.
Staying in London
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