Been searching for an apartment in central London for June. Will be a Friday to Monday job. Can anyone recommend a decent website that they've used before?
Needs to sleep 6 possibly 7 so will prob need 3 bedrooms. All the ones in Camden, Holburn, Kings Cross, etc look tiny, any any that look ok have shocking reviews
Quote by Mersons BookieBeen searching for an apartment in central London for June. Will be a Friday to Monday job. Can anyone recommend a decent website that they've used before?
Needs to sleep 6 possibly 7 so will prob need 3 bedrooms. All the ones in Camden, Holburn, Kings Cross, etc look tiny, any any that look ok have shocking reviews
Stay away from the Camden apartments mate, like a shoebox
Yeah that's what I gather, looks like they're furnished with those small beds they use in show homes
We were down last summer and we ended the Kasabian after party at daft o'clock in the morning with around 10 people in our "apartment", like sardines in a tin
theres one of those cheapos at the top of moorgate/city road - travel lodge or something like that - and thats a great spot. close to the tube, close to shoreditch if you want some clobber shopping and expensive booze, walkable 'ap west' and it'll be quiet round there at weekends.
OK well you probably want to see Soho, right? Best to do that tomorrow (Friday) night. The Endurance is probably the only pub that stands out as being particularly good, the Old Coffee House is the best in terms of beer but there aren't so many younger people in there. You then want to head to the Soho Arts and Theatre Club on Frith Street, it's the only good place to go after hours in town, but it is really good, great drinks, good music and has the sort of female/male ratio people used to refer to Nottingham as having. I.e. there's loads of girls in there. Great vibes too, you can kind of get away with anything down there and everyone's up for dancing. You'll need to get there about 10-10.30PM to get in free and avoid paying a tenner. It's open til 3 or 4.
Saturday day you might want to do some tourist stuff or you might want to have a look round Shoreditch/Spitalfields for clothes shops, you have Albam, DS Dundee, Present, Goodhood, YMC, Son of A Stag, Barbour, and others all in close proximity. You could also head up to Broadway Market and get a drink in Off Broadway, The Market Cafe or the Dove. Don't head for Oxford Circus as it will be ridiculously busy and there is nothing there you can't get in Spitalfields.
On Saturday night you want to head for Dalston Junction, and work your way East along Kingsland Road from there. Look at Visions Video Club, Efes Pool Hall and Birthdays. Bar 23 and the Dalston Jazz Club are good stops along the way, as is Barden's Boudoir a bit further up, but just have a look in places on your way past and if you like the look of them drop in for a drink. All the places i've listed you can probably find on Google maps.
I'll drop you my number in case you need help while you're here.
Oh, and avoid Camden/Angel/Old Street/Kings Cross like the plague.
Quote: Niall wrote in post #19Fuck me when I lived in London I don't think I ever heard a person suggest Dalston as a spot for a night out. Times have changed.
they certainly have, I lived therd there and Hackney central for 10 years ,mid 90's, it was pretty shit, but cheap rent, good underground raves, lawless in a sort of good way :) but nowhere like what it is now. I visit my mate who still lives near the junction, and the place has changed big time...overspill from all the tossers and hipster cunts that can't afford to live in Shoreditch
Yeah it's fucking over, more and more clapham-looking cunts seem to be creeping into London fields and broadway market. Not really sure where to go now, clapton's good but it's a fuck of a long way out.
Quote: Niall wrote in post #19Fuck me when I lived in London I don't think I ever heard a person suggest Dalston as a spot for a night out. Times have changed.
they certainly have, I lived therd there and Hackney central for 10 years ,mid 90's, it was pretty shit, but cheap rent, good underground raves, lawless in a sort of good way :) but nowhere like what it is now. I visit my mate who still lives near the junction, and the place has changed big time...overspill from all the tossers and hipster cunts that can't afford to live in Shoreditch
I worked just off Old Street roundabout for 7 years from 87 on, down towards Liverpool Street, shoreditch was a shithouse then, complete unknown area. Couldn't believe it when I went back over from Dublin for a weekend many years later.
We used to live up by Manor House, local pub was a kip but you could get away with all sorts. Went back to it about 12 months ago when over for a football match and the barman called me sir and asked me if I wanted chorizo on my burger. Lovely burger mind you.
Quote: Pentonville wrote in post #21Yeah it's fucking over, more and more clapham-looking cunts seem to be creeping into London fields and broadway market. Not really sure where to go now, clapton's good but it's a fuck of a long way out.
I'm being a grumpy old man about it tbh, if your 20-30 now then its probably a cracking place to be...when I lived there in my 20s there was virtually nothing do apart from the raves...lockins in the Cock Tavern, Mare St...no decent birds, probably too scared to go there :) Upside was the cheap rents and lawless aspect, multiple free partys/raves & do what the f'ck you wanted. I managed to grow .5kg of weed in my back yard without anyone blinking...used to get tip offs of the old Rasta next dooer if anything was going down Remember once n an Uzi was found in the bin outside or flats
If you're out in Dalston be careful not to get lost and end up somewhere you shouldn't be. Used to drink at Arif's there a lot, proper horrible little late night drinking den in Dalston High Street.
Love the comment about 'more and more Clapham-looking cunts' - spot on and same can be said for Hoxton and fucking Shoreditch - far too many champagne socialist students and angsty, arty types!
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