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In the month of January of this year I arranged a cut of weekend to London for my husband and me in the celebration of our twenty-five birthdays of marriage of year. (To fascinate I age)! Not having been at the capital since our honeymoon all these years there is it seemed as the perfect time to visit again. But with only a modest budget of £300 and wanting to pass the nights in a hotel instead of a ha´tellerie, I decided the it was at last the time to obtain to the grips with our portable one of family recently brought, and dig up the better matters than I could find on the interweb for the trip and The theater Etiqua¨te ; -)

The following item is a detailed account of my progress and that I discovered for that you other technophobes could discover some short cuts while planning your next trip to the capital.

During the research my first stop was ordinary Google, more some sites suggested by certain of my friends of COMPUTER geekish. These are the four principal sectors of research:

• Transportation


• Arrangement


• Place to see and the Attractions





• The theater Etiqua¨te

=> To Reverse 1 - To Obtain Counsel of the True TravelersThe first first things - I obtained on the counselor of trip and did a big list of all the a lot of things there is to do to London. (Soooooooo a lot!) the counselor of Trip is a big site because you can enter the details of your following trip, and then to read the opinions and the brands of five of the true people that was there and brought it you shirt. The magazine to the right is typical of the site.avec hope that this list will give you some inspiration as I included also links to some magazines, some descriptions and evaluating for every.

The long list of Attractions of London

They say if you will do the big decision first you need the choice, therefore to be a not very anal one that I used the trip counselor to find possible every attractions that seemed vaguely the interest. Without the amplest agitation this is than I proposed:

The tower of London/The Gallery Nationale/l'Oeil of London/Exposition of Bridge of Turn/Madam Tussauds/The Prisons of London/The Palace of Kensington/The Zoo of London/The Court of Hampton/The Globe of Shakespeare/l'Univers of Dali/The Palace of Buckingham/The Pieces of War Ministerial/Neighborhood Chinese/the Square of Trafalgar/The Princess of Diana of country of Wales Fountain Commemorative/The Corner of the Haut-parleurs/l'Aquarium of London/It Walked Science/V&A/le of Road of Portobello/The Gallery National/The St. The Cathedral of Paul/The Tower of Londres/l'Abbaye of Westminster/Markek of Town/The House of Apsley/The British Museum/The St. The Station of Pancras/The Garden of Covent/The Road of Walked Abbey/It of Camden/The Houses of Parliament/The Museum of Imperial War.

Evidemment had now we tried to bypass all these attractions in a day that we would have keeled on exhaustion and spent our life economies. If the next step was climb Internet and finds the better matters and let us offer can us. We had also need to do to prioritize it serious to obtain the more day.

=> To Reverse 2 - the Trip of Train to London

There were two aspects to travel to plan and the first one was to find a ticket of train of inexpensive return down below to London. After that traveled about while to London that will come later.

We decided to reserve the train bills by the Line of Train of supplier of reduction as were located could save ourselves £30.00 compare to the site More rail, More national and more principal. The Deliberately National trainer is more inexpensive again but we could not do facing the seven trip of road of hour crushed in a small seat.

• Ask national Rail pieces of information £104 - This site is the manner more dear to travel to London.


• Trainline £70.00 - The site of Trainline is the friendly same user and they have a big characteristic of projeteur of Trip.


• The deliberately national trainer £50.00 - (7HRS travels hour. ....NO MANNER)!

Reverse 3 - To Separate To Reserve To Reserve or PacketSeparate To Reserve1) HotelWe found our hotel using the website of LateRooms. The choice hotel was "Islington of Inn of the Jury" as it gave us the good access to the west end without having the too removed trip at the end of the day. You can look at the big ones to look at pictures of piece and the price proved really reasonable. (To see below).

• The website of hotel £129.00 the night


• LateRooms £99.00 the night.

2) the Theater - My Jeff of husband is a massive fan of Queen if I wanted to take it really to see the musical comedy "We Will Balance Yourself" as the party of our pleasure of birthday. Apreds a little research I found there are two principal manners to reserve the bills of Theater of West End:

• Reserve by the website of principal spectacle £89.00 -If you clink "Bills" on the principal one We Will Balance Yourself the website then reorientated yourself to Tickemaster where you pay the full price and a small ones to reserve fresh:

• Discount the Theater website £50.00 - After typing "the Bills of Theater of London" in Google and hit a lot of canvass to look at the undesirable websites I fell at last on the DiscountTheatre.Com. They have a really professional feels and offers obtains to reserve online for the musical Comedies of London to the discounted prices. As can see you that they offer big reductions on the loads of spectacles of London and I could reserve in in time real by the system of reservation of West End.

• Take at the time of writing:
  

  We Will Balance Yourself - ETAIT £39.50 NOW £25.00

  Elliot bilee - ETAIT £60.00 NOW £45.00

  The sound Of Music - ETAIT £55.00 NOW £37.50

  The Lord of the Beeps - ETAIT £44.00 NOW £27.50

  Avenue Q - ETAIT £35.00 NOW £28.50

  Spamalot - ETAIT £55.00 NOW £37.50

  The Miserables - ETAIT £50.00 NOW £37.50

  Buddy - ETAIT £55.00 NOW £25.00

  Chicago - ETAIT £52.50 NOW £35.00

  Grease - ETAIT £55.00 NOW £37.50

• Cash machine of west End £50.00 - Another options reserve when you arrive from a cash machine in the square of Leicester. But this can be risked as often the spectacles are sold.

3) RestaurantDinner can be at London a dear matters with a three meals of course easily costing £50.00 a head. You need to do your duties and sniffs here out all the options if you want to save some under. I would suggest that you begin with a site called the Table of Summit where again you easily can enter details of your trip and your classifications of user of discovery and the magazines of an extraordinary number of small restaurants. The usage Summit Postpones decided us to reserve a restaurant close to the Theater of Domination called Bertorelli. The example magazine to the under:

• The options 1: Raise and Order £50.00 - This is the manner more dear to eat out in the capital as you will must choose of ordinary one of the "a cart of the" the menu and you would be lucky to pay less than £25.00 by the head.


• The options 2: Reserve in advance on the website of restaurants £39.00 - A lot of restaurants have at London them own website where you can meadow delivers it and chooses of a stationary discounted menu. Bertorelli offers a two meals of course for £19.50 by the head.

Separate To Reserve - the Total Price

• The hotel of London - Two nights £198.00


• The Theater of London Etiqua¨te - Better price £50.00


• The dinner - the Better price £39.00

Total left £287,00£13,00 for the trip and the attractions - Our budget is in the scraps!

Pack To Reserve Before to do my final purchases that I wanted to examine also another option as I noticed on the site of Theater of Reduction of a special offer. As you will read to the under of I am happy that I did because this revealed itself better than no other offers than I found:

• The global contract, the hotel LIBERE! - This was an offer running through January and through February this year and as the headline suggests when you reserve the theater bills obtain you the first night to the hotel LIBERE! Fortunately we should choose the Inn of the Jury of the list and add an additional night for just £55.00.


• The available spectacles to the time were:


• We Will Balance Yourself, the Brothers of Blood, Buddy, the cabaret Spectacle, Chicago, The Lord of the Beeps, Trample, 39 Etapes, Trample, THE Importance of Is Serious, the Sound Of Music, Mean Elliot and Bilee, The Miserables, Spamalot, The Boys of History, the Merchants Choice, the Rent, Unique of Absurd Person, Showdowlands, the Violoniste on the Roof.

• The additional night only £55.00 - I know that you think "here the taken one, they offer to the first night liberates then loads it triple for the time remainder"! Well to think again my lightly cynical friend; I could reserve an additional night for only £55.00 for us two, saving a massive £44.00 of the rate of normal hotel.


• Add a restaurant for £14.50 - The glaasage on the cake! - What's more there was also one chooses in to add a dinner before or after the theater and the adds to the reservation. This was the biggest Bertorelli saving I could find to £14.50 by the head.

=> THE Offer of packet - the Total Price

• The hotel of London - the First night liberates, and second in the evening £55.00


• The Theater of London Etiqua¨te - the Better price £100.00


• The dinner - the Better price £29.00

Total £184.00A massive economy of £118.00 to leave we enough money to cover the costs of transportation and a flight of bonus on the Eye of London!

=> To Reverse 4 - Attractions of online Book before you Travel

The houses of Parliament I was stunned hereby: The this is a fact little known to London that you can sit in fact in the public gallery and look at the questions of the free Prime Minister! All that you must does is the bend in top on a Wednesday before 11.00 am and register.

The stop of Aquarium of London 25% online one

This will come directly after the Houses of Parliament as the this of Aquarium is just on the Bridge of Westminster and is the half price entry with the cards of Oyster. The advantage I like tortoises.

*The bonus* THE Eye of London saves 10% online one

Having saved £118.00 on to reserve it hotel decided us to go a not very wild one and we treat to a rotation on the Eye of London. The better economy I could propose was a simple one 10% economy of the website of Eye of principal London.

The museums Liberate

The Natural Museum of History, the Museum of Science and the V&A all is in five minutes walking the distance of the one the other, and again it this entered it free if this will help with our stretched budget.

The town Market Liberates

We are the two massive fans of Jamie Oliver and the cook of his recipe reserve every night, therefore evidently when we planned the Market of Town of trip was a duty. (This is where Jamie obtains all sound fruit, veg and the fish). The advantage can go you in round and try the the whole food that meant that we could jump the lunch and let us save a more of types of little. (Stingy)!

*To reverse itself for the security of payment of Internet*

Jeff always is been concerned to give his credit card details out online, therefore a thing that I let the direction do that a little more comfortable was to open another counts in bank separates of our principal one a just one for the transactions of Internet. We keep a small quantity of money there inside for the things of eBay of the childlike and the trips to London.

=> To Reverse 5 - the Trip around London

The oyster Card - the Friends that were at the capital returned recently with the histories of price horror of trip of astronomical tube if you do not type a Card of Oyster. I decided to take the initiative on this one and is involved itself before of transmits although we do not live in London. There is not rule against to do this, and once you engaged also can visit the attractions of a lot of Londons to the discounted prices.

Google Does the card of - Creates your clean guide of city

The something else that I did was to go on the Cards of Google where you can create a personalized card with all the places that you have the intention to visit if you are not lost. (I always am lost)!

=> The Final one To Spend

If that can we learn from this astonishing one rather and the comparison of manner experte price well directed? ; -p

Well in the words of a Chav; you would must are "a little a Muppet" not to go counts that I was able to totally eclipses it economy of a separated reserve could offer, after stumbling fortunately through this global contract. I would guess that there are batches more saving on the just canvas as this the one, and also as this type of thing would be a lot more frequents around the party seasons when the big men of money of cat try to take advantage of your generous heart! (I think that I obtain the paranoiac)! The Easter, Valentin Day, the vacation of Christmas and school should be a home of MONEY EPARGNANT MADENESS. .... Keeps if your threadbare eyes and your collection card practices for the next big offer, and do your flexible projects if you can jump in when the economies are at their better one.

At last we can see if the it is possible to spend a weekend to London for £300 even with all the reductions that I found? (The drum roll please).

• Travel to London - £70.00


• Aquarium - £13.50


• London Eye - £30.00


• The theater + the Hotel + the Dinner - £184.00

= Total £297.50 - In the budget by the skin of our teeth and an absolutely fabulous weekend in the perspective!