Just booked the Hotel Russell for Friday through to Monday via Super Breaks.

Super Breaks advantage is the cheap rail ticket which is only £36 return (Standard Class from Wakefield Westgate). Super Breaks has an offer on for the Russell, for those of you that are going to stay through till Monday from Friday, and you get the Sunday night half price. So it was £89.50 per person per night Friday & Saturday and £44.75 per person per night for Sunday.

Then we got an additional 12% discount on the whole lot through Mrs Armadillo's corporate discount.

So, for a Bank Holiday weekend in August, in a good quality, well located 4* hotel, it is quite a good deal.

We are staying at the Strand palace hotel in central London, any ideas on parking?

Really struggling for parking ideas.

It is not that near the Strand, so you would have to drop off and then get the tube (or walk, maybe 15 mins) back, but Bloomsbury Square underground car park is very good and cheap for London as it is operated by Camden Council. It is around £25 for the day and they have a great evening rate of about £7 IIRC. Most of the other car parks in central London are operated by commercial companies and you are looking at £35 to £40 a day at least.

Specially for McF - Bloomsbury Square car park has a double helix design and it is quite sort of 'trippy' to get your head around!

Thanks for that I will have a look.

Break/clutch, Hand break on, into neutral, engine off, lock car, walk away from your car, don't look back.

Cross your fingers it's still there when you get back.

Ok?

What about the congestion charge, would it apply if you stayed here?

Yes mate, unfortunately, but you can pay it on a pay machine in the car park. That said, you don't have to pay after 18.00 and on a weekend (& Bank Hols), so if you arrive in the Zone on Friday after 18.00 and then head back before Tuesday at 7.00 then you don't need to pay anything.

If you arrive before 18.00 on Friday, don't forget to pay the bloody thing before you leave the car park or before midnight... or you may get a fine!

We are staying at the Strand too. Not sure on parking as we are going down by train, hate driving in London.


Ooh and just a note we are not bandwagoners, some have other commitments - we get to games when we can and the last tim Leeds wjere at Wembley I was 8 1/2 months preggers jumping up and down with the rest of em!

Stayed at the Strand for the last 20 years (when the final's been in London of course) and unless you wanna pay an absolute fortune in parking costs i really suggest you find alternative way of getting into Central London

I've been invited to stay at Buckingham palace for the night. Lizzie didn't want the place empty over bank holiday weekend so she asked me to house sit.

Can Tony Soprano park his car there then? Not that far from the Strand and there is plenty of room to on the front court-yard!

In fact, you could throw the place open for parking at a fiver a time while you are there... it would reduce the Civil list payment a little!

Aye that little car park out front will make a killing. Do you think Dave & Nick will mind if i dont declare the income?

Heck make it a tenner and i'll use Lizzie's horses to give you a free trip to the stadium.

Well Dave's party is quite good at making sure its 'rich mates' don't pay tax so I would give it a go.

So, it will be like a secure and eco-friendly park & ride? Big gates and those blokes with guns and tall hats to watch the cars, while you run people back & forth to Wembley in horse drawn carriages.

Thinking about it, as its is a green initiative, Dave & Nick might give you some relief... and maybe let you off the tax too!

Aye, cracking idea this. Making money whilst living it up in that small house of HMs. Securest carpark in Britain?

Watford ha.

Nights out round there will be fun that weekend

Chapel Allerton

Regent?

Fail

Epic isnt it

We are staying at the Heathrow Sheraton (4*) for £40 a night.

Check your inbox.

We've got a room at an Etap between Wycombe and Slough.

We know how to live the high life, we do.

Certain people in that area of the world would class it as a biblical fail. Far worse places in Chapel Allerton to watch sport though. TBH can't think of anywhere else I would go..

I'm staying at my house. Wembley is loads easier to get to from here than Headingley is. Direct trains from Leamington, £18 return. Happy days.