Covent Garden Hotels

Covent Garden is a district in London that is dominated by shopping, street performers and entertainment facilities and contains an entrance to the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, which is also widely known simply as "Covent Garden", and the bustling Seven Dials area.

The area is bounded by High Holborn to the north, Kingsway to the east, the Strand to the south and Charing Cross Road to the west. Covent Garden Piazza is located in the geographical centre of the area and was the site of a flower, fruit and vegetable market from the 1500s until 1974, today it is a popular tourist attraction with pubs, cafes and shops selling largely novelty items. Covent Garden is home to the UK's first food Night Market where over 35 stalls sell fresh produce.

Nearby areas include Soho, China Town, St James's, Bloomsbury and Holborn.

 

Piccadilly Hotels

Piccadilly is a major London street, running from Hyde Park Corner in the west to Piccadilly Circus in the east. Piccadilly is famously the location for the Ritz Hotel and the Royal Academy, but when many people think of Piccadilly they think of the bright advertising lights, neon displays, videos and sounds of the major traffic junction of Piccadilly Circus.

The Circus is close to major shopping and entertainment areas in a central location at the heart of the West End. Its status as a major traffic intersection has made Piccadilly Circus a busy meeting point and a tourist attraction in its own right.

Piccadilly adjoins St. James's, Green Park and Mayfair.

 

Leicester Square Hotels

Leicester Square is a pedestrianised square in the West End of London, it is a major tourist attraction and meeting point surrounded by cinemas, cafes, bars and several nightclubs which means that it is a particularly busy area at night. It is the centre of London's cinema land and many of the biggest movie premieres in the UK take place here.

Leicester Square is about equal distances (about 400 yards or 300 metres) north of Trafalgar Square, east of Piccadilly Circus, west of Covent Garden, and south of Cambridge Circus.

In the middle of the Square is a small park, in the centre of which is a 19th century statue of William Shakespeare surrounded by dolphins. The four corner gates of the park have one bust each, depicting Sir Isaac Newton, the scientist; Sir Joshua Reynolds, the first President of the Royal Academy; John Hunter, a pioneer of surgery; and William Hogarth, the painter. The most recent addition is a statue of film star and director Charlie Chaplin. On the pavement are inscribed the distances in miles to countries of the former British Empire.


A large number of underground stations serve the Covent Garden/Piccadilly/Leicester Square area:

* Covent Garden (Piccadilly Line)
* Charing Cross (Northern Line, Bakerloo Line, National Rail)
* Leicester Square (Piccadilly Line, Northern Line)
* Holborn (Piccadilly Line, Central Line)
* Embankment (Circle Line, District Line, Northern Line and Bakerloo Line)