London Transport Question

[davidjenkin]

Ok here goes, I'm in London for two weekends, attending a level 4 personal training course at St Thomas' hospital, Westminster Bridge Road. Accommodation in London is either £4.3million a night, scabby hostels or bed-bug ridden hellholes, so I am commuting from a nice B+B in Ilford each morning/evening.

The main reason for that is I am driving up and they will park my car for free too, it's only £32 a night which is all I need to spend on a basic room and it's got 100% positive feedback from 46 reviews and so I'm not likely to get mugged, drugged, or bedbugged. It's also only 40mins to Westminster or Victoria tubes where I need to get to and there are trains from Ilford every 10mins so commuting won't be a problem.

Now here's the question

On the last day, the sunday, it will be an almighty ballache when I finish to commute 40mins the wrong way to Ilford to have to go right round the M25 (even though it will be a sunday night and no rush hour). I was toying with pulling my arse out of bed early-early on the sunday morning and driving round to west london to a tube station with free parking all day and get the tube back in to central London for my course. That way, I just do the return leg on the way out, dodging all the M25 and cutting about an hour and half of my travel time home.

Does anyone have a list of tube stations ideally west london or west-central london with free parking all day? I'm guessing congestion tax still doesn't apply at weekends so driving to a more central station wouldn't be a problem?

Thanks

 

[StroudGrecian]

Why did you choose to get a B&B in Essex rather than say Uxbridge?

 

[Jaffacake]

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/tubestationcarparks/default.aspx

 

[Poultice]

You don't have to go out west, you can park for nowt most places Up Lundin on a Sunday.

 

[davidjenkin]

Why did you choose to get a B&B in Essex rather than say Uxbridge?

Cost mate. Basically. Everywhere I found that end of the woods was either out of my price range or a sh*thole


Jaffacake - Thanks for the link, will check it out


Poults - Want somewhere on the way home really so somewhere near or west of Victoria would be preferred

 

[Hants_red]

The 507 bus stops right outside the hospital. Goes between Waterloo and Victoria. This might help on planning tube stations.

 

[Jason H]

Usually plenty of parking around Osterley on a Sunday - right on the A4 so handy for a quick getaway out west.

 

[Mr Jinx]

Don't see why you had to stay all the way out there. Have you not heard of TravelLodge/Premier Inn, etc etc?

You can get something fairly decent for just short of £100 a night. Probably more that you'd pay out in Ilford, but much much less of a ballache.

 

[Grecian2K]

Don't see why you had to stay all the way out there. Have you not heard of TravelLodge/Premier Inn, etc etc?

You can get something fairly decent for just short of £100 a night. Probably more that you'd pay out in Ilford, but much much less of a ballache.

Prices out around Ilford/Romford way have been pretty high for the last year or so, due to the demand for accomodation for contractors woking on the Olympic site!

 

[Ashford Grecian]

Usually plenty of parking around Osterley on a Sunday - right on the A4 so handy for a quick getaway out west.

That would be my shout, you don't have to use the station car park roads nearby would suffice although I don't think its too pricey...