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Where to Stay When Paul McCartney Plays in London on December 22

Where: 49 Brook Street, London, United Kingdom, W1K 4HR

Are you one of the lucky people who bagged tickets to Paul McCartney at the O2 on December 22? We want to wrestle them from your hands are really pleased for you. So pleased that we’ll even help you out with where to stay.

But first, a little tutorial on how to get to and from O2.

If you’ve been to the O2, you’ll know it’s in the back end of beyond - otherwise known as North Greenwich. As such, there aren’t really any hotels on site (and if there were, you probably wouldn’t want to stay there – you want happy memories of Macca, after all). Do not fear though, because the place is linked up extremely well with the rest of London.

What’s crucial is that you don’t go by car. Yes, Macca probably will, but he’ll likely have a police escort or something. You, as a mortal, will find it trickier. We tried to drive to the O2 from central London once and it took two hours and a relationship-testing argument. We could have walked in that time.

Public transport links are excellent, though. The easiest, and most fun way, is to get a boat down the Thames with Thames Clippers. They run a special O2 Express service from Waterloo Pier, in front of the London Eye, to the QEII Pier at the O2, which they lay on for special events – like Macca. A return journey is bookable a month before the event, costs £12, and although it’s pricey, it’s very classy – everyone gets a seat, thanks to safety regs, and you can get champagne with your ticket for £7.50 more.

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The Claridge's Hotel Not Posh Enough for Posh?

Where: Brook Street, London, United Kingdom, W1K 4HR

You’d think that with all them classy hotels around in London catering for all them A list celebs, there’d be one that came up to Victoria Beckham’s high standards, right? And among those classy hotels, Claridge’s would be up there with the best, no?

Um, no. According to the Sun and the London Lite, Posh and Becks fled the hotel on Sunday night, when they found it being seriously pillaged by the cast of EastEnders (which, for those of you not au fait with your Brit soaps, is like any of your American dramas, except the characters work in cafes and on market stalls shifting designer knockoffs rather than living off Daddy’s squillions).

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