London - Hotel? Club?

Heading over on the weekend of the 8th January.

Anyone got a good hotel recommendation? Was told on another site that London hotels on the pricey side and not necessarilt that good, so best to stick to the standards like Premier Inn or Best Western.

And best club? Again, general reaction seems to be Fabric. What's best for house or deep house?

Don't know anything about hotels, Plastic People is a good club to look out for but their website is a bit shit so I don't know if there is anything going on that weekend.

cable have had some decent nights on recently, check them out. Saturday at fabric usually has deep house in room 3, but check the lineups as they do vary a lot.

yeah check the fabric line-up.

what kind of hotel budget you after? you can't go wrong with premier inns really, but I know a couple of good budget ones if you want cheap

go to an acid night at corsica studios in elephant & castle.

that was going to be my other suggestion, but the corsica website isnt always updated and currently shows nothing on..

cracking venue though

I would not recommend Fabric at all if you're looking for deep house nights, everytime I went to see house/deep-house DJs they end up playing harder stuff (even in room 3) and I left disappointed + it's expensive, the queue is massive, it's often too packed.

Coalbucket PI is right, Plastic People is cool. Try XOYO as well. Sometimes, they have really good nights at the Basement (CAMP) in Old street too.

Check also Village Underground, they sometimes have good parties there too.

The Hoxton hotel it great, rooms are excellent, the restaurant is very good too and it's quite popular for pre-parties drinks as well. Also they have £1 room offers regularly (check their website for T&Cs)

There are also cheaper options, such as Travelodge, allover London.

Maybe check the expedia website and see what offers they have?

also, ginglik in shepherd's bush has some good nights

  On 12/13/2010 at 10:10 PM, hydrozone said:

 

Coalbucket PI is right, Plastic People is cool. Try XOYO as well. Sometimes, they have really good nights at the Basement (CAMP) in Old street too.

Check also Village Underground, they sometimes have good parties there too.

 

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life bar can be good too, ritmo is a lot of fun when its on. corsica can also be great.

http://www.apexhotels.co.uk/

Thanks for pointers on clubs.

As for hotels, guess budget is £100 or so a night anyway.

Tried the Hoxton, but it is booked out.

If the Hoxton is booked out try https://www.malmaison.com?

That's a notoriously dead weekend in London but check as dontstayin.com http://www.datatransmission.co.uk/ and etc/ see whats on at Corsica/ Cable/ Eastern Electrics/ The Guardian Guide has a great clubbing guide on the week. Fuck Fabric. Don't go to any weekly, find summin special. √

It would make things much easier for me if you would all go away and confer, and come back with one club and one hotel...

But thanks for all the pointers. Gonna let the wife choose the hotel. But will let you know who she agrees with! Course that may also dictate the likeliest club to go to. Think I'm gonna draw a line through Fabric though.

  On 12/13/2010 at 7:21 PM, Conor74 said:

And best club? Again, general reaction seems to be Fabric. What's best for house or deep house?

For deep house.. I'd check out the 'Warm' nights at plastic people... also more recently at Corsica.

Get some good deep stuff there, like... Move D, Mark E etc, etc, etc... pretty solid.

There's always Gonjasufi at Rhythm Factory on Thursday 9th

A night of 'Psychedelic electronica'

Right here

  On 12/14/2010 at 8:03 PM, spratters said:

Thursday 9th

Sounds great. What month and year?

Reference to another thread, you could watch Stewart Lee then Jerry Sadowitz in the same venue straight after.

http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1273143780/Stewart+Lee

http://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/lqt/show/S1259244921/Jerry+Sadowitz

Edit: The Stewart Lee show is very funny, second half he comes across very warm, like Jasper Carrot or Dave Allen

fabric is redshape and ivan smagghe, so that could be an amazing shout.

plus room 2 is closed, so it will be a less intimidating size to party in. fabric when full can be a bit intense.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOkSbiO_AoU

  On 12/15/2010 at 11:39 AM, Conor74 said:

  On 12/14/2010 at 8:03 PM, spratters said:

Thursday 9th

 

Sounds great. What month and year?

I'm sorry. That's me being a dickhead.

I was at Fabric a couple of weeks back. No queue and not busy in comparison of previous nights.

the whole club scene kind of builds, peaks and fades in the 6 weeks surrounding christmas. everyone holds themselves back for the new years bender.

Ended up with some hotel in Aldgate. Was warned that it's a bit arsy/trendy around there. Not fond of clubs where business types stand around and compare mobile phones. Anything recommended?

hop on a bus to stratford and drink buckfast in my kitchen

I recommend the Alibi in Dalston for a club. No idea what is on that weekeend (a google search might throw something up), but I saw Remarc there a few months back and everyone went mental for the jungle. Was a good atmosphere and free to get in.

  On 1/6/2011 at 8:12 PM, Iain C said:

hop on a bus to stratford and drink buckfast in my kitchen

Stratford ... I understand why you'd need the Buckfast