Hotel in Barbican, London
The Barbican Arts Centre
Barbican, built by the Romans and variously destroyed by plague, fire, WII bombing raids and general social disorder over the years, beneath the Barbican’s gleaming office fronts lies some of London’s richest history.
It’s now a centre for commerce like the rest of the Square Mile, but you can explore the past in the excellent Museum of London (150 London Wall, 020 7814 5530, www.museumoflondon.org.uk) including a glimpse at a surviving section of the London Wall itself, which fortified the city in Roman times. Parts of the museum are closed for redevelopment until 2010, but there’s still fantastic exhibits on the city’s origins and the double-whammy of Great Plague (1665) and Great Fire (1666), started by a baker in Pudding Lane, which killed 8,000 of the 11,000 inhabitants in this then-“populous and ramshackle” part of Restoration London.
William Shakespeare is a former resident of the Barbican, and the great dramatist would be proud of the Barbican Centre (Silk Street, 020 7638 4141, www.barbican.org.uk), Europe’s largest arts centre with three performances spaces including the huge Barbican Hall, two art galleries, three cinema screens, three restaurants and a rooftop tropical conservatory built around a profoundly ugly 70s Brutalist estate. It’s the home of the London Symphony and BBC Symphony Orchestras, and there’s phenomenal theatre productions as well as classical and world music and an outstanding cinema programme – it’s also quite easy to get lost inside. You can see talented young performers, usually performing for free, at the eminent Guildhall School of Music and Drama (Silk Street, 020 7628 2571, www.gsmd.ac.uk) also in the complex: as well as where Ewan MacGregor, Orlando Bloom and Daniel Craig learnt their craft, it’s one of the world’s finest music schools.
Visitors also s houldn’t miss Smithfield Market, an atmospheric meat and delicatessen tradepost beloved of top restaurateurs open from 4am each morning
Also Barbican is the site of the execution of William ‘Braveheart’ Wallace. Barbican is served by the Hammersmith & City, Circle and Metropolitan Underground lines.
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| HOTEL / APARTMENT | POSTCODE | MILES | STAR | 12 Feb | 13 Feb | 14 Feb | 15 Feb | 16 Feb | 17 Feb | 18 Feb | 19 Feb |
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| Malmaison London | EC1M 6AH | 0.21 | 4 | £234.00 | £234.00 | £246.00 | £246.00 | £234.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £234.00 |
| Citadines Barbican London | EC1M 7AH | 0.29 | 3 | £110.40 | £110.40 | £110.40 | £110.40 | £139.20 | £110.40 | £110.40 | £110.40 |
| Rookery Hotel | EC1M 6DS | 0.31 | 4 | £198.00 | £210.00 | £258.00 | £228.00 | £210.00 | £228.00 | £228.00 | £198.00 |
| The Zetter Hotel | EC1M 5RJ | 0.52 | 4 | £130.00 | £200.00 | £222.00 | £246.00 | £200.00 | £205.00 | £185.00 | £130.00 |
| Thistle City Barbican | EC1V 8DS | 0.89 | 3 | £62.40 | £70.20 | £70.20 | £70.20 | £70.20 | £54.60 | £54.60 | £54.60 |
| Threadneedles - The City's 5 Star Boutique Hotel | EC2R 8AY | 1.08 | 5 | £132.00 | £240.00 | £294.00 | £294.00 | £240.00 | £132.00 | £138.00 | £174.00 |
| Andaz London - Liverpool Street | EC2M 7QN | 1.21 | 5 | £300.00 | £324.00 | £324.00 | £324.00 | £324.00 | £174.00 | £174.00 | £348.00 |
| Chancery Court Hotel, London | WC1V 7EN | 1.40 | 5 | £240.00 | £276.00 | £248.40 | £248.40 | £420.00 | £360.00 | £360.00 | £240.00 |
| Citadines Prestige Holborn-Covent Garden | WC1V 6LF | 1.45 | 4A | £99.00 | £120.00 | £184.80 | £184.80 | £184.80 | £184.80 | £184.80 | £184.80 |
| SACO London - Holborn | WC1N 3LT | 1.47 | 4A | £156.00 | £156.00 | £156.00 | £156.00 | £156.00 | Full | Full | £156.00 |
| Mad Hatter Hotel | SE1 9NY | 1.52 | 3 | £75.00 | £95.00 | £95.00 | £150.00 | £95.00 | £115.00 | £115.00 | £75.00 |
| All Seasons London Southwark Rose Hotel | SE1 9HH | 1.54 | 3 | £112.00 | £142.00 | £162.00 | £162.00 | £122.00 | £122.00 | Full | £112.00 |
| Novotel London City South | SE1 9HH | 1.57 | 4 | £125.00 | £145.00 | £165.00 | £165.00 | £140.00 | Full | Full | £125.00 |
| Mercure London City Bankside | SE1 0JA | 1.60 | 4 | £129.00 | £165.00 | £190.00 | £190.00 | £165.00 | £129.00 | Full | £129.00 |
| Grange Holborn | WC1B 4AR | 1.64 | 5 | £114.00 | £191.00 | Full | Full | £191.00 | £131.00 | £155.00 | £114.00 |
| Novotel London Tower Bridge | EC3N 2NR | 1.72 | 4 | £99.00 | £184.00 | £184.00 | £184.00 | £124.00 | £114.00 | £114.00 | £114.00 |
| Mercure London Bloomsbury | WC1B 5AF | 1.74 | 4 | £99.00 | £149.00 | £149.00 | £149.00 | £139.00 | £129.00 | £149.00 | £99.00 |
| Grange City Hotel | EC3N 2BQ | 1.76 | 5 | £203.00 | £203.00 | £203.00 | £203.00 | £203.00 | £108.00 | £150.00 | £215.00 |
| Kingsway Hall | WC2B 5BX | 1.76 | 4 | £118.80 | £130.80 | Full | £166.80 | £130.80 | £130.80 | £130.80 | £130.80 |
| Chamberlain Hotel | EC3N 1NU | 1.77 | 4 | £75.00 | £125.00 | £145.00 | £145.00 | £120.00 | £70.00 | £120.00 | £70.00 |
| The Lancaster Hotel | WC1B 5JD | 1.78 | 3 | £48.00 | £60.00 | Full | Full | £72.00 | £84.00 | £96.00 | £48.00 |
| The Portland Hotel | WC1B 5JH | 1.84 | 4 | £96.00 | £114.00 | £150.00 | £150.00 | £215.00 | £114.00 | £126.00 | £96.00 |
| Strand Palace Hotel | WC2R 0JJ | 1.84 | 3 | £112.00 | £117.00 | £137.65 | £137.65 | £117.00 | £112.00 | £120.00 | £112.00 |
| Generator London | WC1H 9SE | 1.84 | 3h | £22.50 | £22.50 | £22.50 | £22.50 | £22.50 | £71.50 | £71.50 | £22.50 |
| The Kingsley - A Thistle Hotel | WC1A 2SD | 1.85 | 4 | £142.80 | £202.80 | £238.80 | £238.80 | £238.80 | £130.80 | £238.80 | £166.80 |
| Beauchamp Hotel | WC1B 5JH | 1.88 | 4 | £84.00 | £102.00 | £162.00 | £162.00 | £126.00 | £114.00 | £138.00 | £72.00 |
| Montague on the Gardens - A Red Carnation Hotel | WC1B 5BJ | 1.91 | 4 | £192.00 | £180.00 | £192.00 | £180.00 | £180.00 | £192.00 | £192.00 | £192.00 |
| Grange Blooms Town House Hotel | WC1B 5BP | 1.91 | 3 | £90.00 | £210.00 | £222.00 | Full | £162.00 | Full | Full | £78.00 |
| Hotel Russell - London, Bloomsbury | WC1B 5BE | 1.92 | 4 | £94.80 | £118.80 | £118.80 | £118.80 | £118.80 | £94.80 | Full | £118.80 |
| The Wellington | SE1 8UD | 1.99 | 3G | £60.00 | £94.95 | £94.95 | £94.95 | £94.95 | £85.00 | £94.95 | £60.00 |
| Macdonald Hotel | WC1H 8AL | 2.02 | 2G | £55.00 | £60.00 | £68.00 | £65.00 | £68.00 | Full | Full | £55.00 |
| Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street | WC1B 3QD | 2.05 | 4 | £162.00 | £162.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £162.00 | £198.00 | £162.00 |
| Radisson Edwardian Kenilworth | WC1B 3LB | 2.10 | 4 | £102.00 | £126.00 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £126.00 | £102.00 | £144.00 | £102.00 |
| Hotel Megaro | WC1H 8AB | 2.11 | 4 | £89.00 | £120.00 | £160.00 | £220.00 | £120.00 | £99.00 | £99.00 | £75.00 |
| Euro Hotel | WC1H 9EL | 2.13 | 3G | £57.00 | £57.00 | Full | Full | Full | Full | Full | £105.00 |
| Avonmore Hotel | WC1H 9EL | 2.15 | 2G | £39.00 | £75.00 | £69.00 | £69.00 | £69.00 | £75.00 | Full | £69.00 |
| Radisson Edwardian Leicester Square | WC2H 7HL | 2.22 | 4 | £202.80 | £202.80 | £226.80 | £202.80 | £202.80 | £202.80 | £226.80 | £202.80 |
| The Tower- A Guoman Hotel | E1W 1LD | 2.24 | 4 | £168.00 | £168.00 | £216.00 | £180.00 | £168.00 | £108.00 | Full | £168.00 |
| Staunton Hotel | WC1E 6HE | 2.24 | 4G | £119.00 | £169.00 | £185.00 | £185.00 | £169.00 | £179.00 | £179.00 | £89.00 |
| Radisson Edwardian Hampshire | WC2H 7LH | 2.26 | 5 | £198.00 | £198.00 | £228.00 | £228.00 | £228.00 | £262.80 | £262.80 | £226.80 |
| St Giles Hotel and Leisure Club | WC1B 3AS | 2.27 | 3 | £90.00 | £87.00 | £99.00 | £99.00 | £87.00 | £89.00 | £119.00 | £84.00 |
| The Bloomsbury Hotel - A member of the Doyle Collection | WC1B 3NN | 2.28 | 4 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £282.00 | £210.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 | £186.00 |
| The Academy, The Bloomsbury Town House | WC1E 6HG | 2.29 | 4 | £90.00 | £174.00 | £198.00 | £174.00 | £126.00 | £102.00 | £126.00 | £102.00 |
| Novotel London St Pancras | NW1 2AJ | 2.31 | 4 | £145.00 | £175.00 | £175.00 | £175.00 | £175.00 | £145.00 | £145.00 | £145.00 |
| Garth Hotel | WC1E 6HJ | 2.36 | 2 | £50.00 | £64.00 | £64.00 | £74.00 | £69.00 | £69.00 | Full | £64.00 |
| Royal Horseguards | SW1A 2EJ | 2.36 | 5 | £240.00 | £240.00 | £264.00 | £264.00 | £264.00 | £228.00 | £264.00 | £240.00 |
| myhotel Bloomsbury | WC1B3HD | 2.37 | 4 | £130.80 | £166.80 | £178.80 | £178.80 | £166.80 | £142.80 | Full | Full |
| The Bridge Hotel | SE1 0AJ | 2.39 | 3 | £29.00 | £79.00 | £95.00 | £79.00 | £45.00 | £39.00 | £49.00 | £29.00 |
| Park Plaza County Hall | SE1 7RY | 2.39 | 4 | £154.80 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £142.80 | £154.80 | £166.80 |
| Hotel Cavendish | WC1E 6HJ | 2.45 | 4 | £55.00 | £65.00 | £85.00 | £85.00 | £95.00 | £95.00 | Full | £75.00 |
Barbican: Tube (underground)
| Station | Zone | Line(s) | Distance |
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| Barbican Station | 1 | Metropolitan - Circle line - Hammersmith & City | 0.06 miles |
| Farringdon Station | 1 | Metropolitan - Circle line - Hammersmith & City | 0.51 miles |
| St. Pauls Station | 1 | Central | 0.57 miles |
| Moorgate Station | 1 | Metropolitan - Northern - Circle line - Hammersmith & City | 0.69 miles |
| Mansion House Station | 1 | District - Circle line | 0.89 miles |
Barbican: Rail (overground)
| Station | Distance |
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| Barbican Station | 0.05 miles |
| Farringdon Station | 0.53 miles |
| London City Thameslink Station | 0.55 miles |
| Moorgate Station | 0.61 miles |
| London Blackfriars Station | 0.99 miles |
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