Royal Horseguards Hotel

... been an Anglophile. We took our shuttle to the hotel which was located in Central London, right near Trafalgar Square. Our hotel, the Royal Horseguards, was quite nice and backed up to the Thames. It was almost next to the Scotland Yard and appeared to ...

... the store.  It was then time to head back to the hotel and we decided to walk and have our pictures taken with the Royal Horseguards on our way.  When I got back to the hotel I made coffee and had some cookies while discussing the day with my ...

... held for the king, where elephants and soldiers would parade in front of him.  I suppose it’s not so different to Royal Horseguards Parade in London!  The rain doesn’t seem to have hindered the tuk tuks and people on bikes, as the ...

... had purchased tickets online through Golden Tours for a walking tour of the palace, followed by a high tea service at the Grosvenor Victoria Hotel.  The tour was okay; our guide gave us a brief intro to the palace, but she didn’t go through the ...

... .  He has had good luck with their shirts so he wanted to get more.  It was another 15-minute walk from the hotel, but in a slightly different direction.  That job done, we headed back to the hotel.  The only other store we planned on ...

... the Crypt.  It is at St. Martin’s in the Field which is just off the Strand and a few minutes walk from our hotel.  They were holding a jazz concert that evening so we had to pay a cover charge to get into the restaurant even though we ...

We arrived in London by train on Tuesday. Here are pics of King Cross Station, another Harry Potter site. Also our hotel, which was ...

... some of the city's history. Got to see some of the sights I hadn't seen yet. Our package also included afternoon tea at the hotel, so we took advantage of that as lunch. We stopped by Buckingham Palace. It wasn't a changing-of-the-guards day though. ...

Got up early and had an English breakfast at the hotel. We had to go over to Victoria Coach Station to catch our Evan Evans full-day tour. The station was ice cold. I nearly froze my butt off. I was never so happy to get on a bus. We finally got ...

... some of the gowns she wore in the photos. We had dinner at the Angela Hartnett Restaurant in the MENU Room at the Connaught Hotel. We had a drink first in the lobby. Then we were seated at a wonderful table right in the middle of the room. ...

... a 5 day state visit. After that excitement we climbed up the Archway and got some good shots from there including ones of the Horseguards going under it on horseback on their way down to do the Changing of the Guard Ceremony at St James Palace. A ...