Where to stay recommendations please

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Hi all

I’m driving to London with DS for an over night stay, we are planning to visit the natural history museum. Can anyone recommend an area to look at for hotels please? Parking essential. Happy to get on trains for museum. May also have a day at Lego Windsor.

thank you :-)

Are you sure you want to drive into Central London, with all the extra charges that will carry? Plus very few hotels will have parking, unless you want to try the £500+ per night options..

There are loads of places to stay in Kensington & Earl's Court, but if driving is essential, why not stay in Windsor or Eton and then commute into Central London?

Hi I’m happy to commute in, looking for recommendations on areas to look at for hotels as it’s just me & my 8 year old,

Somewhere like Chiswick would work, near a district line station (Chiswick park, Turnham Green or Ravenscourt Park) to get straight into south Ken, and then very easy to get out on the M4 to Windsor

Travelodge in Southgate in north London has free parking and you can get tube into central London. It might be better to look for similar in outer west London though as the things you’re doing are West or South West. Also it depends where you’re travelling in from.

I’d look at docklands as an option, you can explore the O2 and jump on a river cruise boat up to London central quite easily. https://www.travelodge.co.uk/hotels/697/London-Docklands-Central-hotel

This Premier Inn is nearby - says off-site parking but of course you need to check how far off-site!

https://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hotels/england/greater-london/london/london-kensington-earls-court.html?cid=KNC_B_Hotel:UKC_User:UKC_Lang:EN_Cat:BRD-DestinationT1|LondonZone1&mckv=s_dc|pcrid||kword|premier%20inn%20Earls%20Court|match|e|plid||pgrid|1316117985587763|ptaid|kwd-82258697861582:loc-188|&s_kwcid=AL!9693!3!!e!!o!!premier%20inn%20Earls%20Court!650421487!1316117985587763&ef_id=:G:s&BRAND=PI

You want to be in West London near either the District or Piccadilly line. Look at Ealing, Hammersmith, Chiswick or Richmond.

Book in advance for the NHM. The Science Museum, right next door, is great as well and currently has a T-Rex movie at the IMAX if it's Dinosaurs that he's into to it a gaming exhibition if he's into games/screens.

Thanks everyone, I’ll have a look, appreciate the ideas

If you're definitely having a day at Legoland, it makes much more sense to stay locally (for an early start) - so you could stay in Windsor itself (train to Slough, Elizabeth line to Paddington, then walk or Circle Line to the NHM). Or stay in a hotel near an Elizabeth line station in the area

Somewhere around Richmond could work well. You can get the District Line into South Kensington for the Natural History Museum and then you could catch a SW Train from Richmond to Windsor and get a taxi to Legoland.

A cheaper option might be to stay in Slough, as someone else suggested and catch the Elizabeth Line to Paddington and then change onto the Circle Line to South Ken and then you can easily drive from Slough to Legoland (it's less than 10 miles). There is a hotel in Slough right by the train station that has some parking spaces.