DK Travel : London

A city of infinite colour and variety, London is both richly historic, tracing its roots back over 2000 years, and unceasingly modern, at the forefront of fashion, music and the arts. There is a fantastic amount to interest and entertain the visitor here: a selection of the best of the best is explored here.

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The Warwick

Cosy little bar with good tunes, friendly staff and mismatched furniture!
The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake Exhibition

From 2nd May - 6th September 2009 The Wonderful World of Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake exhibition in the Upper Galleries at the V&A Museum of Childhood. One of the largest toy collections in the world, including dolls, teddies, puppets, games and children's costumes. See the museum's website for daily activities (www.vam.ac.uk/moc).
The Zetter Hotel

London hotels don't come much more understatedly stylish than the Zetter Hotel. As you'd expect from a self-styled 'boutique hotel', it's stuffed with funky design features; it's also spotlessly clean and well-run, though, while it's hard not to be struck by the friendliness of the staff.

Location-wise, Clerkenwell stretches away with all its great restaurants, local locales and some of the best nightlife in London.

Which just about makes it the perfect choice for a weekend break, a business trip or, well, any stay, really.
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

A Truly brilliant theatre and the show Lord Of The Rings, I Highly reccomend
Thistle Euston Hotel

Thistle Euston Hotel have been making changes of our own, which include the recently refurbished restaurant now known as Brasserie 43. With 362 bedrooms, which include 283 superior and 36 executive rooms Thistle Euston is the perfect place to enjoy a relaxing and comfortable stay. With 11 meeting rooms, the largest of which seats 100 theatre-style, Thistle Euston is an ideal venue for UK and international business meeting and other events. The hotel is in close proximity to St Pancras Eurostar Terminal and Kings Cross station as well as the British Museum.
THISTLE MARBLE ARCH

The Thistle Marble Arch is an art deco style, 4 star hotel located in the heart of London overlooking bustling Oxford Street yet opposite the 340 green, rural acres of Hyde Park. The financial district is 10 minutes away by underground, and Paddington station with its fast, direct link to Heathrow Airport is a 10 minutes taxi ride away. The Thistle Marble Arch, with 692 bedrooms, offers the ultimate in luxury and comfort and is said to have the largest air-conditioned bedrooms in London and has an unrivalled position from which to enjoy London.

As you would expect from a 4 star hotel, the Thistle Marble Arch has a modern Club Floor business centre complete with phone, fax and PC networking and all the other high-tech equipment and secretarial backup needed to make your conference a success. There are 11 conference suites and 7 syndicate rooms for smaller meetings, all in a flexible format set around a business lounge and catering for up to 33 delegates. The Thistle Marble Arch will provide a dedicated event manager to ensure everything runs smoothly and an audiovisual assistant to run the technical side.

The huge retail opportunity that is Oxford Street is literally on your doorstep at the Thistle Marble Arch and the bustle of Covent Garden with its bars, cafes and market stalls is within walking distance. If you need exercise you can use the Just Gym facilities at the Thistle Marble Arch, walk or jog in the rural splendour of Hyde Park or hire a boat on the Serpentine Lake. Art lovers can enjoy the Wallace collection or travel slightly further to the Royal Academy or the National and National Portrait Galleries in Trafalgar Square. The Thistle Marble Arch is an ideal base for visiting London's many theatres and cinemas as well as concert venues such as the nearby Wigmore Hall. The theatre desk can easily organise tickets. Disabled guests are also catered for with specially adapted rooms and accessible public areas.

If you want to stay in, enjoy a meal in the Marble Arch carvery. The lively CoMotion coffee shop is a mix of New York deli and Italian cafe in an Art Deco style providing a speedy, flexible and informal dining experience. Round your evening off in the Glen Miller traditional English bar where there is jazz and live entertainment most evenings.
Thorpe Park

Its the best theme park with rides like you wouldn't believe. It has thrills and splashes. We loved the Sledgehammer ride and Colosus best. A great day out just a skip out of London to the west.
Three Kings - Pub

It's not an ordinary pub - it's a place to eat, drink, talk to your friends, play snooker or just watch a football match on a big screen. This is a place where you can go and relax on your lunch break eating a great scalops and fries or meet your other half on Friday night having a cosy evning on the couch. Sounds great? the pub is on two levels, have a great reddish decor and it's placed on West Kensington. I sincerely recommend it to those tired and in need of a good fun.
tibits

quote from their website: Hailing from Switzerland, tibits is an all-day vegetarian restaurant built on four core values: trust in the product, joy of life, progressiveness and time.

The attraction of tibits is that it is perfect for city living, catering to those in a hurry, as well as those who wish to relax for hours.

Tibits offers a buffet, or rather ‘a food boat’ from which customers have the option to choose between 35 salads and 12 hot dishes. A seasonal menu operates, ranging from Asian, to Indian, to Mediterranean, with fresh juices and organic beers and wine also on the menu daily.

Tibits claim that when it comes to speed, they're really fast, but this is no Wagamama style restaurant - the atmosphere created is completely high-class - with Designer's Guild interiors no less.

Relaxed and uncomplicated are two of the key words that sum up the experience that is dining at tibits, so make sure you check it out soon before another year goes by... If you haven't already.

End of quote.

This is perfectly true !
Tokyo Diner

Sweet little sushi bar with fresh food and nice atmosphere. And bizarrely for London, they don't allow tipping!