Royal Lancaster Hotel

After a ride from Heathrow into London in a Range Rover we arrived at the Royal Lancaster Hotel at 7:00 am and were able to check into one of our rooms!  Michael put his luggage in our room and we headed out to explore - working on the adage of ...

Today we said goodbye to the Lancaster Hotel and headed to the Royal National Hotel, our home for the next night and also our meeting place for CONTIKI!!! Looked like the biggest tourists lugging all our crap around London. Once we were able to check in, ...

... an hour. This is not a lie. He deserves payment for his services. At the Palletforce annual awards last year we stayed at the Royal Lancaster in London. I mention it because some of you wouldn't know that. The man who took my bags to the room, got ...

... 2 metres away from the A6 with artics pummeling past all night.  It poured with rain all night; so much so that the Royal Lancaster Show which was scheduled for Billsborrow was cancelled.  Phil woke us up at 8am (when we said we would be ...

... as several of the conservatories, but did not have energy for the Temperate House which is the largest one. We returned to the hotel with very sore legs.  Tom and Ruth had dinner with a friend in a nearby French restaurant which had some nostalgic ...

... also very good and there were only 4 on it so we were able to set the pace.   Once again we returned to the hotel after a delightful day - feeling tired, but not too tired for a dinner at a nearby pub.  Tom and Michael drank the local Fullers ...

... our hotel. After a long and winding trip through London as we dropped off other passengers we arrived at the hotel, Thistle Lancaster Gate. After checking in we went to Lancaster Gate tube station and activated our London Travel Cards before ...

... to think very highly of the English and I hadn't even been there more than two hours!     We finally arrived at our hotel probably around noon. I quickly changed and we headed to the Tower of London. We were both quite shocked that the Tower of London ...

... New Hampshire than we were out of it again. However, we did find enough time to stop at Christie’s Maple Farm in Lancaster, New Hampshire. They take pride in the fact that their maple syrup is not from Vermont. We found the service to be ...

... as tourist attractions, Bangkok doesn't really have things you have to do like most places I've been. We went to the Royal Palace, the main marketplace PatPong, and some Buddhist temples... mostly it was fun just to walk around and observe ...

... After the bombs went off in London in 2005 we called in there for a drink and a rest on our walk back to our hotel in Lancaster Gate – walking being the only means of transport.  That time they told us they could not serve us food as their ...

... after a good nights sleep we awoke to go have a little breakfast and hit the streets. Started out by taking the tube from Lancaster gates to Tottenham Court Road. I had almost forgotten how efficent the tube is on getting around London. We headed for the ...

... . When I got to the Dorm, there was only one guy in there, Dan from near Nottingham. It turns out that Dan went to Lancaster University from 2001-2004 so our time there overlapped - small world once again. He was from Fylde College and played for the 2nd ...

... , I ate fish and chips for lunch. Once we finished lunch, we continued our Thames north bank stroll, turning north on Lancaster Place and heading up Wellington and Bow streets to Covent Garden and the gift shop of the London Transport Museum. I toured ...

... of Sibelius and Beethoven at Royal Festival Hall. Then Friday morning I met up with Mom and Dad at their hotel, conveniently situated by the Lancaster Gate tube station. Even though they'd just arrived and hadn't slept for many hours, they were gamely up ...

... Hill to Buckingham Palace. Katherine opted for the Tube instead, and I can't say that I blame her. Since we were starting from Lancaster Gate, we walked over to the parks for a few minutes, but the Italian Gardens are hidden by hoardings. In fact, there ...