Is there any cinema near British Museum
 

Hi Friends, Can any one please tell me any nearby cinema of British Museum, and please tell me also parking place nearby British Museum.

Many Thanks in Advance.

Hi Fergus, have a look for NCP car parks if you need a parking, but if you can, use public transport.
If you are coming from outside of London, park your car at Westfield Shepherds Bush and take to Central Line to Holborn for the British Museum.

A simple search on internet will turn up cinemas near the British Museum. There are several on Leicester Square, a few underground stops on the Piccadilly Line.

Nearest is on the corner of Tottenham Court Road and New Oxford St, an Odeon.
http://www.odeon.co.uk/cinemas/tottenham_court_rd/135/
There is also a Curzon in Brunswick Centre, near Russell Square tube station: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/cinemas/bloomsbury/

It's not a good idea to bring your car into Central London Monday to Friday. There is congestion charge of £11.50 between 7 am and 6 pm. In the evening and at weekends, there is some free street parking, but check the little plate posted nearby for details, as rules vary. You can't normally park on resident parking bays, though some allow at off-peak times. Good areas to look for include Bedford Square and Tavistock Sqaure, a few minutes' walk north of BM.

Fergus - you can use google maps to do lots of things including finding cinemas and car parks.

if you search for the British museum, once it comes up, put cinemas or car parks into the search box [where it says hotel/ restaurants]. press go, and there you are.

you can use this to search for lots of things : supermarkets, launderettes, hospitals... anything you like. it's showing an Odeon on Tottenham court road and a curson cinema just off High holborn. i'll leave the car parks for you to find.

While relying on Google map and search is useful, I am speaking from experience of actually going to those cinemas and parking my car over a weekend last summer.

Parkopedia is a good source of parking information

Alex - you and I were posting at the same time so I didn't see your post when I was writing.

your experience [which you didn't mention] and my google came up with the same cinemas.

you're right about the congestion charge of course - and with traffic etc being what it is in London, there would have to be a vey good reason to want to use a car in central London, even at weekends.

The west side of Russell Square is one big car park - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Free from 1830, and all day Sunday. For most people, it's downright absurd to mess around with places like Westfield Shepherds Bush, which is scarcely in the same time zone as the British Museum.

For accurate, unbigoted, information: http://maps.camden.gov.uk/parkingbays/

Among the many excellent reasons for driving in central London are:
1. With a tiny bit of research if you're nervous, or just driving round, free parking is plentiful at weekends
2. Driving in central London, which has Europe's most disciplined drivers, can be a pleasure compared with all alternatives other than walking. Or compared to the bad road manners so common in our provincial towns.
3. It irritates the "public transport only" dictators.
4. Even when the congestion charge applies, it's cheaper than two all-day public transport passes.

Russell Square also has the advantage of a large, dog-safe, expanse of greenery much patronised by sociable dogs and their equally sociable human staff. Being urban, though, it has all the pavement smells rural dogs adore. So you can give the pooch a run, leave him in the car, inhaling the urban exotica, while you're checking a new acquisition or exhibition at the BM, give him another run on your return then pop off to your next collective appointment.

Among the favourite spots on earth for successive Flannerpooches.

I'm wondering if this is legit and if the OP will come back :?

. . . because according to his profile he lives in London, and links to a large/well known hotel . . .

jj - his contribution to this thread does not suggest that he's got much of an idea - well - about anything, and certainly doesn't give me the impression that he's an advertiser.

BTW, that hotel that he links to in his profile - the Montcalm - gave us one of the best meals we have ever had in our lives, when we won dinner there in a raffle. It was a good 30 years ago, but I still remember what was probably my first [and very nearly my last] taste of "fine dining". They comped us an excellent bottle of wine too!

oops - I forgot to add the link to the thread I was talking about:

http://www.fodors.com/community/euro...rd-england.cfm

Thank you all, it's helpful for me.

Just out of curiosity, though, why a stock image for your profile photo, Fergusbrandon?