HW: places to stay near brixton

[michael blackman]

I phoned the ebenezer and I couldn't make any sense out of the guy who
answered.  Except that there were not any rooms?

They sereve a lovely vindaloo thou....

8>)))




----- Original Message -----
From: Jill Strobridge <jill at THETA-ORIONIS.FREESERVE.CO.UK>
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Sent: Friday, September 08, 2000 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: HW: places to stay near brixton


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Arin Komins <akomins at MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU>
> To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:21 PM
> Subject: HW: places to stay near brixton
>
>
> > I finally found a reasonable airfare to get over to the Hawkestra.
> > What are people doing for hotel/crash space? ...
>
> I've been phoning round places listed in the London Yellow Pages that
> are reasonably close to the Brixton venue and have come up with the
> following responses based on two questions:
>
> 1.  What is your price for a single room for one night (you can probably
> add £10 pounds to the price for a double room)
> 2.  How many rooms do you have in the hotel?
>
> New Dome Hotel  51 Camberwell Church  SE5 -         Rate £35
> rooms 35
> Novotel London Waterloo, 113 Lambeth Road, SE1 - Rate £125
> rooms 137
> Parkside Hotel, 48-52 Clapham Common North Side, SW4 - Rate £40
> rooms 150
> Travelodge, 200 York Road, SW11 -                         Rate £69.95
> rooms 87
> Marbella Hotel, 29-33 Camberwell Church St.  SE5 - Rate £60
> rooms 37 (though I have to admit this lass sounded so vague I'm not even
> sure she was aware it was a hotel she was working in!)
> Comfort Inn, 87  South Lambeth Road, SW8 -  no reply
> Dudley Hotel, 80-81 Clapham Common South Side, SW4 - Rate £45
> rooms 10
> Belvedere Hotel, 90 Clapham Common South Side, SW4 - Rate £45 (though he
> could have been saying £35 - I was having trouble with the accent)
> rooms - "many many" of all different sizes.    This is the only place
> that was curious enough to ask who I was phoning on behalf of!
> London Castle Hotel Ltd., 86 Walworth Road, SE1 -         Rate£35
> rooms 30
> London Park Hotel, Brook Drive, Elephant & Castle, SE11 - no reply
>
> The only hotel in the Brixton area is the Ebenezer Hotel Ltd, 90-92
> Angel Road, Brixton, SW9.
> I didn't phone it because not everything listed as a Hotel in Yellow
> Pages is always intended for tourists and something called a  "Hotel"
> may be functionally a doss house.     I don't know if this is the case
> here but as it is the only hotel in Brixton I am a tad cautious about
> it.
>
> I have to say that Parkside Hotel, Clapham Common North Side sounds like
> probably the most reasonable of all (balancing room cost against room
> numbers) and might be worth investigating further.
> Are there any London folk who can offer opinions or who would be willing
> to spend a Saturday wandering around to check some of these places out?
>
> cheers
> jill
>
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