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Maybe You Can Get a Hotel Room in London for the Olympics After All?

January 30, 2012 at 12:16 PM | by | Comments (0)

For several months now we've heard that hotel rooms for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were sold-out or going for ridiculously expensive rates. But according to the BBC, there may be room in town after all.

It turns out that about 8,000 hotel rooms, ranging from budget options to five-star, are no longer needed by the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and have been put back on the market for the rest of the general public. Whee!

We hit up the Visit London site to look for hotel rooms during the first week of the games (July 27-August 3) and we found quite a few options available, although at predictably high prices. Two-star and three-star hotels were averaging about £260 a night while we found four-star hotels like the Hotel Indigo Paddington for £578 a night and the newly relaunched St. Ermin's Hotel for £467 a night. That's close to a $1,000 a night or about $7G if you plan on staying the whole week.

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Olympics Scam Crackdown Targets People Selling Fake Hotel Rooms

January 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

The Olympics site in Stratford, London

Remember when we told you about the ongoing crackdown on scalpers hawking non-legit Olympics tickets? Well, the local po-po (or, would that be bo-bo, since we're talking U.K. bobbies?) are going after delinquents selling fake hotel rooms, too.

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Could an Olympics Hotel Showdown be Brewing Between London and Paris?

Where: Paris, France
January 24, 2012 at 12:15 PM | by | Comments (0)

Paris may have lost the 2005 Olympics bid to London, but the City of Light and Louis Vuitton is hoping to hand their 'cross-the-Chunnel metropolitan peers their comeuppance by stealing away tourists come summertime. According to a recently published report by express.co.uk, Pair-ee is being touted the " 'cheaper, safer and more attractive" alternative city from which to watch the 2012 Games.

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Quelle Surprise! Two More London Hotels to Open Pre-Games, but Nowhere Near Stratford

January 23, 2012 at 12:04 PM | by | Comments (0)

We've brought you news about the forthcoming opening of The Belgraves, capsule accommodations inside the Trocadero, and other newbies on the London hotel map, and today go-to publication The Guardian brings our attention to two more soon-to-be players on the scene.

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Forget Gymnastics: Which London Hotels Are "Gold Medal Winners" for 2012?

Where: London, United Kingdom
January 19, 2012 at 1:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

Cue "God Save the Queen": The Daily Mail lists their top picks among London's hotel crop

Though there's no Olympics event that doles out medals for superior concierge service or Free WiFi, every Londoner's favorite guilty pleasure read, The Daily Mail, recently took the opportunity to anoint a handful of local hotels "gold medal" winners in the local accommodations scene.

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What's Up With a Room For London?

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, United Kingdom, SE1 8XX
January 16, 2012 at 12:46 PM | by | Comment (1)

A look inside A Room for London's nautical interior

Now that London's hotel of-the-moment, the single-suite Room for London, has opened its nautically-themed doors, we're on a mad hunt for reviews. Creative or kitchy? Comfy or cramped? Opinions will filter through in drips and drabs, as ARFL's limited coterie of guests experience and check out of the Southbank-perched lodgings.

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Tune Hotels Will Honor The Beatles With Liverpool Hotel, Edinburgh On The Way

January 3, 2012 at 12:30 PM | by | Comments (0)

Despite just having opened a new branch on Liverpool Street last week, Tune Hotels is now aiming for yet another two new hotels in London between now and the start of the Olympics. And don't think they'll be taking a break after that, either. Oh no. CEO Mark Lankester told The Star that though the Olympics is good for business, "we are in [it] for the long term."

What this means is rapid expansion throughout the rest of the UK. And now we've gotten a few more details on the upcoming hotels, the first of which Lankester confirmed would pop up in Edinburgh and Liverpool (the city, not the London street) by 2013. And just to throw in a little extra excitement, he added: "With a name like Tune Hotels, we have to have one in the birthplace of the Beatles."

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Which London Hotel Opening Excited a Fashion Magazine The Most?

December 28, 2011 at 3:30 PM | by | Comments (2)

According to Elle UK 2011 was "The Year of the New London Hotel." Seeing property after property from our sprawling Master List of London Hotel Openings welcome new guests over the course of the year, we must agree. 2011 saw a bounty of new faces on the London hotel scene, a boom which comes as no surprise: we're less than eight months away from the 2012 Olympics, and the city is prepping to field a mass of tourists come summertime.

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Holiday Inn Keeps Us Coming Back For More Of Those £20 Hotel Rooms

December 14, 2011 at 9:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Apparently, everyone was such a fan of Holiday Inn's promotional £20.12-per-night rooms last year that the brand has decided to make another go of it. Next Tuesday, simply log onto their website anytime between midnight and 11:59pm to book stays in any of the 160 participating properties at a special rate of £20.12. Just like last year as well, the promotional period lasts from Dec 26 to Jan 31.

In case you've forgotten, Holiday Inn was named the official hotel of the 2012 Olympics, for which London has been frantically preparing over the past few years. Now with the date looming ever closer, Holiday Inn is eager to keep its name fresh in people's minds.

For anyone who happens to be visiting family over the holidays, this promotion could be a major leg up. Deals like this mean you'll find yourself relying less and less on those dreaded bare-faced lies.

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Could London Hotels Suffer a Post-Olympics 'Hangover?'

December 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM | by | Comments (0)

2012 will be a huge year for London in more ways than one. With the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and a certain international sports event set to descend upon the city, Londontown will see a massive influx of tourists. Hotel rooms are rapidly being snapped up by intelligent travelers, and profit projections for city lodgings remain promisingly high.

But what will become of the city after the torch has been extinguished and tinsel and confetti from the Queen's celebration swept away? According to a recent report by local commuter publication of choice, the London Evening Standard, a dark cloud may descend over the city come 2013.

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All Aboard, Mateys! There's Still a Chance to Book 'A Room for London'

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Southbank, London, United Kingdom
December 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM | by | Comments (0)

You might remember a recent report we logged about London's pop-up, one room hotel, "A Room for London," set to open this January in the lead up to next summer's Olympic Games. Bookings for the floating suite of sorts—"perched" on the edge of the Thames River and offering a spectacular view of the Southbank—have already sold out from January through June.

Not surprising, considering the novelty factor and the fact that London hotel rooms in general are disappearing faster than you can say "tourist board windfall."

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Company Plans to Pitch Pop-Up Olympics Rooms at a London Royal Park

November 28, 2011 at 11:28 AM | by | Comment (1)

A pop-up hotel at Hyde Park? It might happen in time for the 2012 Olympics.

Pop-Ups are a common London phenomenon, usually appearing in ultra-trendy restaurant form. Pop-up hotels are less ubiquitous, but slowly making their way onto the local radar, especially in the lead up to the 2012 Olympics.

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