Anyone ever stayed at the Cumberland Hotel "a world class class hotel." THOUGHTS? gOTN IT FOR JUST UNDER $100 PER NIGHT INCLUDING TAXES ON priceline.

If this is the Cumberland Hotel at Marble Arch in London, we stayed there during renovations a few years ago. We had no phone service for the duration, and the breakfast had been relocated to the pub. The location is great! I would try it again myself if my husband would go back to London, but he won't...

I stayed there about 5 years ago, before renovations started. It was fine for the ridiculous low price I paid for it. Location was great, Speakers Corner/Hyde Park/Marble Arch right across the street and a tube stop right outside the door.

how did you get it on priceline --what did youy search for etc and offer?
K

Capetown:

Went onto priceline .com and specified star value of hotel and area I wanted. My accepted bid was $98 per night + tax/fees of 99 total. So for five nights the bottom line is $589.37. The hotel's webb site indicated a total charge of $1,379 total for those same 5 nights. I would say that I am getting a pretty good dealfor a 4* hotel so well located in London.If you want to use priceline you should also go onto www.biddingfortravel.com. It is here where you will get a pretty good idea of what to bid on priceLine.
Good luck.
Jay

Hopefully the renovations have been completed but even if they haven't I don't think you can beat the location (if you are interested in being next to a tube stop) for that kind of money.

Voyager,

I'm pretty positive the renovations have been completed. That is why they bill themselves now as a "world Class Hotel."

We didn't end up staying during our last trip on '02, as the renovations had managed to leave the hotel without power just before we arrived. They ended up putting us up in a Jr Suite as Grosvenor House just down the street (nice surprise). But the location, I agree, is excellent.

On sort of a weird tangent bit of trivia, the Cumberland the location of Jimi Hendrix's demise I found out later. No idea which room.

He had a room at the Cumberland but had stayed with a girl in her flat at another hotel.

&quot;<i>how did you get it on priceline --what did you search for etc and offer?</i>&quot;

You cannot bid on Priceline and expect to get a specific hotel. Before trying PL, definitely study biddingfortravel.com. They spell out which hotels are being &quot;won&quot; and even give you bidding strategies.

Just because jaydh got the Cumberland doesn't mean you would get the same place.

Ah, is that how it went? That'll teach me to listen to a London cabbie!