London

London

This grand city of the world is the tourist mecca of the UK and as cosmopolitan as it gets. Split by the Thames- the best way of getting around is still the world famous Underground.

Country : United Kingdom

Area : 130,423 sq km

Population : 50.089.000

Language : English

Major religion : Christianity

GNI per capita : $28350

Internet domain : .uk

Currency : Pound

Phonecode : # 44 # 20

Hotels : The Ritz, St.James's ; The Savoy, Covent Gardens ; Claridges ; The Stafford ; Soho Hotel ; Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park Hotel ; One Aldwych ; The Berkeley Hotel, Knightsbridge ; Millenium Britannia, Mayfair ; Brown's Hotel , Albermarle Street ; Sanderson Hotel, Soho ; Chester Grosvenor ; The Hoxton Hotel, Shoreditch ; Rough Luxe Hotel, Kings Cross ; St Pancrass Renaissance Hotel, London ; Firmdale Group of Hotels including the Haymarket Hotel, Suffolk Place/The Soho/ Covent Garden Hotel/Charlotte Street Hotel/Knightsbridge Hotel/Number 16 ; Metropolitan London, Old Park Lane ; The Goring ; The Connaught ; The Capital Hotel ; Claridges ; Four Seasons Hotel London ; The Stafford ; The Langham ; The Athenaeum, on Picadilly ; Hilton Tower Bridge ; The Lanesborough, a St Regis Hotel ; The Dorchester ; Melia White House ; Hazlitt's Sloane Square Hotel ; Harlingford Hotel, Bloomsbury ; Darlington Hyde Park Hotel, Sussex Gardens ; Dean Street Townhouse, Soho ; St Pancrass Renaissance ; Sofitel Heathrow

Restaurants : The Krug Room Dorchester Hotel ; Alounak, Bayswater ; The Belvedere, Holland Park ; New Piccadilly, Soho ; Maeson Touareg, Soho ; Dinner, Heston Blumenthal, Mandarin Oriental ; The River Cafe ; Captain Kidd Pub, St Catherines Dock ; One on One , Knightsbridge ; La Poule au Pot, Knightsbridge ; Zuma, Knightsbridge ; Beach Blanket Babylon, Notting Hill ; The Ivy ; Maze, Grosvenor Square ; The Ledbury, Notting Hill ; Nobu Berkeley ;  Bibendum, Michelin Building ; Nobu at the Metropolitan, Mayfair ; Below Zero, Mayfair ; The Square, Mayfair ; Sketch Gallery ; The Anchor & Hope, Waterloo ; Nahm (Thai)  London ; Tapas Brindisa, Borough ; The Providores ; Fifteen Trattoria, Shoreditch  ; Chutney Mary, Chelsea ; Gordon Ramsay, Claridges,Chelsea ; Eight Over Eight, Chelsea ; Brinkley's, Little Chelsea ; Hakkasan ; Bibendum , Fulham Road ; Pied a Terre ; The Wolseley on Piccadilly ; The Grill, Brown's Hotel, Albermarle Street ;  Spoon (Sanderson Hotel) ; The Square (2 Michelin Stars) ; Four Seasons, Bayswater ;  The Wapping Project, Canary Wharf ; Zizzi Restaurants (Chain) ; Thames Foyer, Savoy ; St John Bar & Restaurant, Smithfield ; St John Bread & Wine, Commercial Street, London; Eco, Clapham High Street ; Canteen, Spitalfields ; Rivington Bar Grill, Hoxton ; Barrafina (Tapas Bar) ; Fishworks, Marylebone ; Pierre Gagnaire's Etch ; Mimmo d Ischia (Italian) ; Tamarind  (Indian) ; High Street Brasserie, Chiswick High Road ; Brick Lane's BYO curry houses ; Upper Street Islington, Nth. London ; Fire and Stone, Covent Garden ; Pacific Otiental, Threadneedle Street ; La Trouvaile, Newburgh Street ; Brasserie Roux, Heathrow ; The Capital, @the Capital Hotel) ;

Bars : Home, Match EC1, Alphabet, Momo, Met Bar, Milk & Honey, Absolute Ice Bar (next to Below Zero Lounge & Restaurant) ; 150 Bar, Mayfair Hotel ; Long Bar/Purple Bar (Sanderson Hotel) ; Loungelover, Whitby Street ; Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese, Fleet Street ; Shoreditch/Hoxton ; Boombox, Hoxton Bar & Kitchen ; Gordon's Wine Bar, Embankment ; O'Neill's, Great Marlborough Street ; The Clachan, Kingly Street ; White Horse, Newburgh Street

Attractions : London Eye ; Buckingham Palace ; Big Ben ; Tower of London ; Westminster Abbey ; Madame Tussaude ; Hyde Park ; Royal Albert Hall ; British Museum ; National Gallery ; Tate Modern (Salvator Dali exhibition) ; Design Museum ; Wallace Collection ; East End-once to be avoided, now chic. ; Carnaby Street

Tips/Shopping :  Sales start immediately after Christmas-earlier than the rest of Europe. Shopping at Andrew Martin, Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Liberty, Peter Jones, Selfridges, Saville Row, Topshop (Oxford Street), Jermyn Street; Fortnum & Mason, Piccadilly ; Carnaby Street ; Neal Street, Covent Garden ; Crockett & Jones shoes ; Paul Smith (seconds) outlet, Mayfair, Avery Row ; Lillywhites for sporting goods, Piccadilly Circus ; Taylor of Old Bond Street (the world of shaving) ; Portobello Road markets ; East End ; Camden markets ; Dover Street Markets(5 floors of designer fashions) ; Hatchard's book store ; Austique, Kings Road, Chelsea ; Rockit, Brick Lane ; 10 Gales, Shoreditch (vintage) ; Hurweundeki (vintage furniture), Shoreditch ; Arch 389, Shoreditch ; Shopping village(factory outlet) in Bicester Village-one hour from London.

Airports: Heathrow(LHR)- 22 km west of central London, Gatwick(LGW)- 45 km south of central London

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