Travelling to a show? Hotel recommendations.

Following on this thread!

I often stay at the Premier Inn, Holborn. But as mentioned above, even Premier Inn has become very expensive. I usually pay around £150 a night (and now they have started charging an extra £10 if you check in before 3pm!).

Location is great though and pretty much walking distance to most theatres.  I love walking to the National and I often stop off for lunch / dinner along the way. 

One consideration now that the hotel prices have risen, it can be much more cost effective to book somewhere slightly outside the centre and to just jump in an Uber.

Now I’m based in London I don’t track deals as closely as I used to do, but Croydon is still worth checking for hotels. Fast trains all night from London, lower prices, and an easy walk from the station.

Student halls over the summer period are worth investigating as well.

I’ve merged your post into this thread, hopefully some useful recommendations in here already but always happy to hear any new ones! 

I was looking recently and noticed that easyhotel Victoria was as low as £76 per night if you join their free loyalty club. Also the Imperial Hotels group, several properties all based around Bloomsbury, have singles for around £110 again if you join their free loyalty club (these were midweek rates booking a few weeks ahead).

Ive also noticed that the Premier Inn in Chiswick is always much cheaper than central but the location is apparently not that convenient. 

I used to do a London theatre two dayer every couple of months, stopped that now because of my health but I always used to choose the Z Hotels.

They are on practically every corner in Central London and were without fail one of the cheapest options if you want central London in particular. They are great if you are going solo but the rooms are tiny if it's a couple of you, they are very similar the premier inn hubs, but the facilities are great, you even get Sky TV and free movies.. At one time you got free wine and cheese between 5 and 7pm or something like that but i don't know if it still goes on. There has been another couple of hotels launch that have a similar but more basic concepts like the Zedwells that are in central london and come in a tiny bit cheaper but they are literally a room, not even a tv or coffee making stuff I don't think. I'd recommend the Z hotels for sure. The ones i used most often were the Soho one which is next to the Palace Theatre and the Trafalgar one which is just off the corner of Trafalgar square. But there's one right next the the Adelphi, one just up from the Drury Lane Theatre Royal, one just behind the Prince Of Wales, one one in Holborn, one just off Tottenham Court Road, one in Victoria...they are literally all over and especially close to theatres it seems.

For some reason I always kind of panicked about too much travel to my hotel after shows so I always picked somewhere that was within a 10 minute walking distance if I could.

If its uni holidays the halls of LSE in Holborn normally show up on Hotels.com etc, which are a decent (single) bed in a really central location but they fill up quick. Its worth searching all of their halls of residence for a good deal.

Also lots of the Victoria/Pimlico hotels have basic single rooms for about £60.