Hotel in Brixton, London
Electric Avenue, Brixton
Hedonistic, intense, rough and ready, some Londoners won’t even go to Brixton; others wouldn’t consider living anywhere else.
The heart of Afro-Caribbean culture in the UK and with vibrant Portuguese and gay communities also firmly entrenched in Brixton’s cosmopolitan melee, it’s an intoxicating if edgy place with some of the capital’s best nightlife.
A middle-class country suburb in the 1850s, it was heavily bombed in WWII and rebuilt with mainly social housing.
The area’s character was then fully transformed as the Empire Windrush docked on the Thames in 1948, bringing 492 immigrants from Kingston, Jamaica, and launching what would become modern Britain first multi-cultural community.
Brixton became the centre of London’s Afro-Caribbean community and thus, the face of black Britain. Jamaican culture is as vivid here today as it’s ever been, from booming reggae along Coldharbour Lane to the half-London, half-Jamaican patois spoken by millions of the capital’s youths, and the near-ubiquity of cannabis smoke – indeed, the drug was temporarily declassified in Brixton for few years earlier this decade.
Brixton’s street markets are fantastic, a feast for the senses: Electric Avenue, immortalised by Eddy Grant, is the pick of the bunch, and there’s further stalls on Brixton Station Road, Station Arcade, Granville Arcade and Tunstall Market.
In Brixton is the Brixton Market, open every day selling a range of Afro-Caribbean products.
The 02 Academy Brixton (211 Stockwell Road, www.02academybrixton.co.uk) packs in 5,000 people for top gigs from major bands and comedians, and the nightlife is wild – star choices include Mass (St Matthew’s Peace Garden, 0871 332 4662), the Prince Albert (418 Coldharbour Lane, 020 7274 3771) and the inimitable Dogstar (389 Coldharbour Lane, 020 7733 7515), name-checked by The Streets’ Mike Skinner and one of London’s original DJ bars.
Though the area’s a world away from the tense melting pot which erupted in rioting in 1981, 1985 and 1995, it’s still worth exercising some street-smarts when navigating Brixton after dark.
Brixton tube station is the southern terminus of the Victoria line of the London Underground, which has trains operating to Central London. the next nearest tube stations are Brixton tube station, Stockwell tube station and Clapham North tube station.
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| HOTEL / APARTMENT | POSTCODE | MILES | STAR | 23 Feb | 24 Feb | 25 Feb | 26 Feb | 27 Feb | 28 Feb | 29 Feb | 01 Mar |
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| Park Plaza Riverbank London | SE1 7TJ | 2.97 | 4 | £178.80 | £118.80 | £190.80 | £166.80 | £178.80 | £202.80 | £202.80 | £178.80 |
| Peckham Lodge | SE15 5EU | 3.15 | 2 | £79.00 | £79.00 | £119.00 | £29.00 | £44.00 | £44.00 | £34.00 | £44.00 |
| Dolphin House | SW1V 3LX | 3.27 | 4A | £79.00 | £99.00 | Full | £99.00 | £195.00 | £239.00 | £185.00 | £105.00 |
| Carlton Hotel | SW1V 2BJ | 3.58 | 2G | £84.00 | £64.00 | Full | £64.00 | £64.00 | Full | £59.00 | £64.00 |
| Sidney Hotel London Victoria | SW1V 2BP | 3.62 | 4G | Full | Full | £165.00 | Full | Full | £165.00 | £165.00 | £65.00 |
| Melbourne House Hotel | SW1V 2BG | 3.63 | 3 | £99.00 | £110.00 | Full | £79.00 | £99.00 | £99.00 | £99.00 | £99.00 |
| Victor Hotel | SW1V 2BB | 3.64 | 3G | £55.00 | £75.00 | £99.00 | £49.00 | £55.00 | £69.00 | £55.00 | £65.00 |
| Huttons Hotel | SW1 2BB | 3.64 | 3G | £65.00 | £139.00 | Full | £50.00 | £120.00 | £70.00 | £60.00 | £60.00 |
| Central House Hotel | SW1V 2BB | 3.67 | 3G | £100.00 | Full | Full | £44.00 | £75.00 | £75.00 | £75.00 | £74.00 |
| LIDOS HOTEL | SWIV 2BB | 3.68 | 2G | £59.00 | £59.00 | Full | £45.00 | £49.00 | £49.00 | £49.00 | £69.00 |
| Novotel London Waterloo | SE1 7LS | 3.73 | 4 | £160.00 | £120.00 | Full | £140.00 | £160.00 | £190.00 | £190.00 | £160.00 |
| Wellington Hotel | SW 1P2 PA | 3.78 | 2 | £109.00 | £97.00 | £109.00 | £43.00 | £43.00 | £43.00 | £49.00 | £55.00 |
| Colliers Hotel | SW1V 1QL | 3.86 | 1G | £70.00 | Full | Full | £60.00 | £60.00 | £60.00 | £60.00 | £60.00 |
| Chester Hotel | SW1V 1JQ | 3.91 | 2G | £20.00 | Full | Full | £49.00 | £49.00 | £49.00 | £49.00 | £70.00 |
| Grange Rochester Hotel | SW1P 2PA | 3.98 | 4 | £140.00 | £80.00 | Full | £80.00 | £116.00 | Full | Full | £157.00 |
| Days Hotel Waterloo | SE1 7BJ | 3.99 | NC | £169.00 | £89.00 | £129.00 | £69.00 | £129.00 | £129.00 | £109.00 | £109.00 |
| Comfort Inn Buckingham Palace Rd | SW1V 4BJ | 4.01 | 3G | £99.00 | £89.00 | £89.00 | £69.00 | £65.00 | £89.00 | £85.00 | Full |
| Comfort Inn Victoria | SW1V 1QF | 4.06 | 3G | £80.00 | £99.00 | £124.00 | £60.00 | £124.00 | £124.00 | £139.00 | £139.00 |
| Park Plaza Victoria London | SW1V 1EQ | 4.08 | 4 | £202.80 | £166.80 | £196.80 | £166.80 | £226.80 | £250.80 | £214.80 | £202.80 |
| The Bridge Hotel | SE1 0AJ | 4.26 | 3 | £95.00 | £59.00 | £105.00 | £75.00 | £59.00 | £59.00 | £79.00 | £59.00 |
| Astors Hotel | SW1W 9QD | 4.32 | 4G | £86.00 | £116.00 | £135.00 | £76.00 | £106.00 | £136.00 | £136.00 | £109.00 |
| Belgravia Rooms | SW1W 9QD | 4.32 | B | £49.00 | £69.00 | Full | £39.00 | £39.00 | £39.00 | £49.00 | £35.00 |
| Lord Milner London | SW1W 9QU | 4.34 | 5G | £160.00 | £150.00 | Full | £115.00 | Full | Full | £125.00 | £155.00 |
| The Sanctuary House Hotel | SW1H 9LA | 4.45 | 3 | £140.00 | £125.00 | Full | £105.00 | £145.00 | Full | £150.00 | £125.00 |
| Tophams Hotel | SW1W 0LU | 4.46 | 4 | £134.40 | £134.40 | £176.40 | £87.36 | £151.20 | £193.20 | £134.40 | £151.20 |
| Park Plaza County Hall | SE1 7RY | 4.48 | 4 | £166.80 | £142.80 | £262.80 | £178.80 | £178.80 | £190.80 | £190.80 | £178.80 |
| The Grosvenor - Formerly Thistle Victoria | SW1W 0SJ | 4.51 | 4 | £94.80 | £94.80 | £142.80 | £130.80 | £130.80 | £178.80 | £154.80 | £166.80 |
| Thistle Westminster | SW1W 0QT | 4.55 | 4 | £118.80 | £118.80 | £118.80 | £142.80 | £166.80 | Full | £238.80 | £214.80 |
| Chesterfield Mayfair - A Red Carnation Hotel | W1J 5EB | 4.56 | 4 | £240.00 | £192.00 | £192.00 | £192.00 | £240.00 | £240.00 | £240.00 | £240.00 |
| Rubens at the Palace - A Red Carnation Hotel | SW1W 0PS | 4.57 | 4 | £178.80 | £178.80 | £178.80 | £178.80 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £166.80 | £178.80 |
| 41 Hotel - A Red Carnation Hotel | SW1W 0PS | 4.57 | 5 | £346.80 | £346.80 | £346.80 | £322.80 | £346.80 | £322.80 | £322.80 | £346.80 |
| The Goring | SW1W 0JW | 4.62 | 5 | £322.80 | £322.80 | £322.80 | £322.80 | Full | Full | £322.80 | £322.80 |
| The Bermondsey Square Hotel - a Bespoke Hotel | SE1 3UN | 4.70 | 4 | £190.80 | £106.80 | £118.80 | £106.80 | £190.80 | £214.80 | £250.80 | Full |
| The Durley House Hotel (Suites) | SW1X 9PJ | 4.79 | 4 | £189.00 | Full | Full | £189.00 | £202.00 | £199.00 | £199.00 | £199.00 |
| The Wellington | SE1 8UD | 4.79 | 3G | £94.95 | £80.00 | Full | £60.00 | £94.95 | £94.95 | £94.95 | £94.95 |
| Wyndham Grand Chelsea Harbour | SW10 0XG | 4.86 | 5 | £228.00 | £218.40 | £218.40 | £218.40 | £228.00 | £228.00 | £228.00 | £228.00 |
Brixton: Tube (underground)
| Station | Zone | Line(s) | Distance |
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| Brixton Station | 2 | Victoria | 0.18 miles |
| Clapham North Station | 2 | Northern | 1.06 miles |
| Stockwell Station | 2 | Northern - Victoria | 1.19 miles |
| Clapham Common Station | 2 | Northern | 1.55 miles |
| Oval Station | 2 | Northern | 2.28 miles |
Brixton: Rail (overground)
| Station | Distance |
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| Brixton Station | 0.30 miles |
| Loughborough Junc Station | 1.12 miles |
| Herne Hill Station | 1.27 miles |
| Clapham High Street Station | 1.28 miles |
| Wandsworth Road Station | 1.90 miles |
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