We family of three ( parents and 15 year old ) are visiting London in August . Our hotel budget is around 350 -375 -pounds max . We will be flying in and out of Heathrow .
We are not keen about renting an apartment.We would very much appreciate if anyone can suggest good hotels with family rooms.

In that price range you should have lots of options.

We always try to stay as close to the center as possible in order to be able to walk to quite a few sights.

Suggest you to go a couple of the discount booking sights: booking.com, trivago, etc and search for your dates, your budget, bed requirements and the following areas:

Bloomsbury
Covent Garden
Mayfair
Knightsbridge
Picadilly
Park Lane

London is a very large, spread out city and the key is to avoid being somewhere you have a 10 minute walk to the tube and then a 30 minute ride to get to anything you want to see.

First get a good, detailed map of London and mark on it the places you are most interested in seeing - then put a circle around that to help you judge the location of hotels.

Thank you. I plan to go to AAA to get some maps and follow your suggestions.

We are interested in museums and historical places.
How difficult it is to get a cab to airport ?
our flight back to US is early and we thought it will be better to take cab rather than tube.

you need a "car service" rather than a cab (you say tomato, we say tomato etc) janisj will be along hopefully with the right name

Definitely use a car service. Two of the best are www.justairports.com and www.blackberrycars.com.

You don't need to go out and buy maps. If you look on any booking site (e.g. hotels.com) you can view places of interest and hotels, they are already plotted on the maps. When you search for London + your dates, then view the results on the map rather than a list. Then you can see the hotels and the landmarks (eg Buckingham Palace, British Museum etc) on the map. You can see railway and tube stations. You won't be near to all the sites anyway, there will always be some travelling involved, if it is only 30mins, you will be lucky.

It is very easy to get a cab to Heathrow, just don't take a black cab from the street, rather prebook a service. There are various service providers eg Parkers, Justairports which is the most often recommended one here on Fodors.

Thank you for all your suggestions.
AAA usually give out free travel packets .
I also noticed that we need to pay for wifi in many UK hotels

mom - it is a strange aspect of modern living, that the dearer the hotel, the more they charge for wifi.

Some chains offer it for free - Best Western for example, but few of the bigger ones do. it's like the huge breakfast charges - the more the room costs, the more you have to pay for breakfast.

certainly when I go to London, I stay in £80 to £120 a night and get free wifi and berakfast comes in at say £10, whenever my company booked me in the prices went up and the wifi costs went up and the service down. I think the solution is clear aim down someone like premierinn will be fine unless you need a butler

Is your hotel budget per night or the total you'd like to pay?

Lee Ann

Bilbo, can you provide the names of the hotels? I'd like to check them out too.

premierinn dot com ?

http://www.premierinn.com/gb/en/hote...er-london.html

Just make sure you get one that is located within the circle line and don't pick the cheapest option and spend time and money in transit every day to get to the centre...

Since your child is 15, definitely check out Premier Inn since it will be the same price for a double or triple. (they allow up to 2 children aged 15 or younger in the parent's room) Look at the property at County Hall - it os more expensive than most Premier Inns because of the location/popularity but will be well under your budget.

But it is a VERY popular location and August is a VERY busy time so I'd book immediately if not sooner.

our budget is for per night.

Have a look at the Hotel Rembrandt on Thurloe Place. A good location across from the V & A, 10 minutes from Harrods and about 4 minutes to Circle Line tube station. They offer connecting rooms as well as rooms that accommodate 3.