Face it. London’s an expensive city so wouldn’t it behoove you to save on accommodations so you can shop heartily at the fabulous stores and dine in style? While traveling, we spend so little time in our hotel rooms, anyway, so why not opt for a budget hotel in the most amazing city in England? Now, budget hotel doesn’t have to equate nasty, dirty dumps swarming with vermin and sleazy characters. Thank God! This is where St. David’s Hotel comes in.
The St. David’s is a family run budget bed and breakfast hotel in Paddington, reputed for its cleanliness, hospitality and for serving what has been called by many of its guests, the “best English cooked breakfast in town.
In the heart of Central London, you’ll have easy access to Oxford Street (for shopping!), Hyde Park, not to mention being a stone’s throw from the Paddington tube station, giving you free reign of the public transportation system taking you to where ever you’d like in the city.
St. David’s Hotel
16-20 Norfolk Square
Paddington, London W2 1RS, England
Tube Station: Paddington
Telephone: 020 7723 3856
Rates: £40 – £120 ($61 – 183 reflecting the exchange rate of the date of this blog post.)
Before commenting on the Stafford Hotel’s amenities, rooms and other reasons it’s a worthy accommodation in London, I would like to touch upon a very overlooked but highly essential feature of this hotel – one that is, in my humble opinion, so important, that it would sway my decision to stay here given a situation where I’d have to choose between two or more hotels. That feature is: free internet access. I personally feel this should be free in all hotels and if they charge anything more than 5 dollars (or pounds) per day, it’s a true fleecing of the client. All I have to say is, “Bravo, Stafford Hotel – and thank you.” As someone who needs the internet while traveling for work reasons, I very much appreciate this free amenity.
Travel in style and escape suffocation, an unfortunate manifestation as a result of being in a bustling, big city. 
Conveniently situated in the heart of London’s Mayfair on Park Lane, between Hyde Park Corner and Marble Arch, The Dorchester Hotel is very near to the inimitable London shopping in Knightsbridge and Bond Street. The Dorchester is within easy access to several London attractions including the National Gallery, Buckingham Palace, the Royal Albert Hal and West End theatres.
There doesn’t seem to be a bad bedroom here and the Dorchester. All are a tastefully decorated, generous sizes for European standards with crisp, clean bed linens and superb bathrooms overloaded with toiletries, room slippers, bathrobes and luxurious fluffy towels.