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Create your perfect break with 1000s of hotels to choose from (with special package discounts), fantastic deals on rail and coach travel from any UK train station or National Express coach stop, and all the top London theatre shows and UK attractions.

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Really easy to book theatre break

Really easy to book theatre break, good choice of great hotels and theatre choices.

I would like to thank Hotel Direct

I would like to thank Hotel Direct for ensuring that I had another excellent trip to London again.I`ve travelled many times with Hotel Direct and cannot recommend them highly enough.The train and hotel booking is straightforward and simple, there is a large range of hotels to choose from, with all the information about the hotels at hand.

Fun Trip to London

Thank you, Hotel Direct. Travel went smoothly this time with no Rail strikes (that I realise are totally outwit your control). Appreciated your call prior advising me that there were no anticipated issues with my train times. President Hotel, Bloomsbury fantastic location, clean hotel with lovely staff. Great service from you and your team. Thank you.

Booking was straight forward

Booking was straight forward and e tickets and rail tickets arrived promptly. I particularly liked the detailed itinerary that was emailed to me. I would book through this company again.

Brilliant from start to finish

Brilliant from start to finish, everything went completely smooth, we booked a package with hotel direct, coach, hotel and theatre break in London, I was worried incase things didn`t go to plan but I needn`t have been, our lovely coach was waiting for us, the journey was very smooth into London, we done some sightseeing before checking in to our hotel, the room was perfect for us, very spacious and had everything we needed, then we went onto see the lion king in the theatre, it was fantastic, we had another full day sightseeing the next day, to be picked back up on the Sunday night with another smooth journey home, can`t thank hotel direct enough for making our trip a memorable one, highly recommend using and taking the stress out of everything.

Booking with Hotel Direct was easy

Booking with Hotel Direct was easy and stress free. All booking information and tickets were emailed to me quickly and had all the relevant information.

Easy to book

Easy to book and communication was efficient. Good value for money

Great Value for Money

An excellent package put together with first class travel, a top quality hotel and an excellent show.

First class service all the way!

Worry free booking and planning our trip to London. Travel and hotel definitely exceeded our expectations. Will definitely use Hotel Direct again.

We`re ready to book our next trip!

So convenient and simple to arrange the show, hotel and travel all in one place - and for a good price.When I did have to phone with a query they were so helpful!

Booking with Hotel Direct

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