london hotel

in case you are having trouble with medium price hotels in london, from a
friend, philip hazel, coming down from cambridge:

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> > Incidentally, I found a suitable 3-star hotel in London for only GBP 55
> > per night.
> wow!  how far from paddington, where i gather we will be?
Couple of blocks. Royal Eagle Hotel. Found it via www.hoteladvice.com.
It's one of the deals on their London Hotels page. Looks to be maybe 10
minutes walk from the Hilton Metropole, where IETF is. (The other side
of Paddington.)