What is the best place to stay in Central London when you are visiting, whether it’s for a couple of nights, a couple of weeks, or several months? The answer to that question is that there is no answer.
It really all depends on your definition of the words “best place” and that will have different meanings for different people. For some people it means the most expensive hotel in the West End where everything is done for them and they really don’t care about the cost. If you happen to be a Hollywood star, an oil tycoon, or you are one of the Richard Branson’s of this world, then that may be what you would choose.
Others may prefer a hotel, but don’t want to, or are unable to afford, the prices of West End hotels, so they will choose somewhere further away from the centre of the city. Of course, this means that if you have to come into the city centre every day, whether on business or on vacation, you will have to join the thousands of other Londoners on the daily commute and that can be really no fun at all.
For other people a hotel may be regarded as out of the question for any number of reasons. The cost might be one, but others just don’t like being stuck in a big impersonal building with hundreds of other people whom they have never met before and never will again, and so they will go looking for an apartment to rent in Central London. This can be an excellent choice, because a serviced apartment can provide you with a lot of facilities that you would get in a hotel, but you have your own “home” for the duration of your stay. You can rent a serviced apartment for a couple of nights, a couple of weeks, or in many cases much longer, and it will cost less than a hotel room.
There are quite a lot of serviced apartments to choose from in Mayfair and they come with a variety of different facilities. Some may provide a 24 hour concierge and security service as you would get in a hotel, and the maid service will take care of changing the beds and cleaning the apartment for you. Most will have high speed broadband as standard, and provide the latest televisions – often with very many international channels in a variety of languages. Many of the apartments have one or two double bedrooms, and a few may have three, usually with king sized beds. Of one thing you can be sure, and that is that these apartments are all furnished luxuriously so you will want for nothing.
However, what do you do if you have a large family or are in a party of six or more people? You won’t find many apartments that can cater for a group of that size, so your other option is a house to lease, Mayfair. While this is an option, you will find that there are nowhere near as many houses to lease as there are apartments, but there are nonetheless some available.
Many of these homes were built in Georgian times some 200 years ago and are excellent examples of the architecture of that era. Even though they are in Central London, some of them have small gardens or access to communal gardens so that you can sit outside on sunny days, and perhaps even have a picnic.
Leasing a house in Mayfair can also be a cost-effective solution, depending on how your party is made up. The cost of leasing could be split between two or three people, making the house considerably less expensive than renting, say, three one bedroom apartments in the city. Of course, if you just have a large family you may have to pay for the lease yourself, but it will still work out at much less than hotel rooms for say eight or nine people, and you still have a home which you can call your own for the duration of your stay. Altogether, leasing a house can be a great solution as opposed to other types of accommodation.
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