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[londonhelp]

Evening all!

Some help please.

We have a travelodge booked at Liverpool Street (chose this as it was a great price!) but it's had a refurb and they can't accommodate 4 of us in one room. It's non-refundable but they offered to move our booking to a hotel of our choice.

We will be travelling into kings cross and will spend one day at legoland. Hotel must be in London, not out to Windsor as we want to do other central activities (not yet sure what!).

2 adults and 2 kids aged 8 & 4.

are we best staying near King's Cross? Paddington? Victoria? I can't work out and not sure if best to have less travel after a 3 hour train journey, or just do it all and stay super central.

Help!

Yo do know it's a 2 hour journey by public transport to Legoland from king's cross?

Can you do one night to the west of London and the rest centrally?

No we can't. We have two nights and need to move the booking

I'm not sure how you're going to do a day or activities as well as a day in Legoland when you're only in town for 2 nights?

I'd be shattered! Especially carting kids around too, Legoland is really full-on...

Waterloo is fairly central, and you can get a train from there to Windsor then a bus/taxi to Legoland.

Literally all I want to know is if it's best to stay near King's Cross or Waterloo or somewhere else.

Thank you, this is really helpful. I presume it's easy enough to get there from King's Cross too!

I'd stay near Waterloo too. It's closer to most central things than Kings Cross is - yes you can get from there to Waterloo but realistically then you'd be doing tube-train-taxi to Legoland and vice versa. After a long day 3 types of transport may be too much!

From King’s Cross you’d have to go to Waterloo anyway! So depends how early you’ll start the day. I might go for King’s Cross to avoid carting luggage. But either area is fine. Both are walkable to very central areas like Covent Garden.

I think that sounds fine as legoland would be on the day we aren't doing national rail.

We would probably do London eye or something on day of arrival

Legoland day 2

Activity morning of day three then home that afternoon

@londonhelp How are you getting to Legoland?
(as you said you aren't doing national rail?)

Sorry - yes of course we will be for that. I meant as in not travelling from the north

I agree with pp that Waterloo is a good bet as that's where you'll probably get the train out to Windsor from.

Far better than Liverpool Street - result!

Very easy to get to from KX and more central for key sights on your arrival and departure days.

@londonhelp ok so are you going to Legoland from Waterloo?
If yes then that's your best area to stay.
The London Eye is next to Waterloo. It's got transport links to all over London and the embankment area is nice too.
I definitely say stay near Waterloo.

We went in the summer and stayed at Paddington. There's a train with a quick change over but it was shorter than the train from Waterloo and was really straight forward. Was a good base for lots of other sights too

There's a lovely hotel right by there called the Brewery. Change to that one? Also there is a premier in at Moorgate

As mentioned I can't change to a premier inn. I have a non refundable Travelodge which needs to be swapped to another Travelodge.

Thank you to everyone who made suggestions - Waterloo sounds ideal