Hello, I am wondering if anyone could recommend a bed and breakfast in this area (near Hampton Court, Kew Gardens, etc.) Thank you!
Holly,
Canada

Hello,
I don't have any personal experience, as we live close to Kew, but I hope the following suggestions may be helpful.
Here is a link in Chessington, rather than Kew or Hampton but have a look at this link to Stilwells B and B section. Kew is quite close to the bottom of the page.
This linkis a wondeful resource of the areas you are interested in.

Wendy

Thank you Wendy. The link to the Richmond resource is great. We are arriving in London a day earlier than our central booking and I thought it might be interesting to spend the first night in Richmond and then see Hampton Court before going into the city. It will be my husband's first visit to London. (Europe actually!)

Hello again,
I wish you all the best for your trip to the UK.
Here is another link that may be helpful if you haven't changed your plans.
I am so diappointed that there isn't somewhere that springs to mind in the areas you are looking for.
Many other visitors must have had the same plan as both Kew, a world heritage site, and Hampton Court are wonderful.
If you would like to give me an idea of budget via private messaging I will happily check out anywhere that appeals.

Wendy

Wendy, thank you the links you provided were helpful and I have found some available accomodation. We were hoping for a bed and breakfast rather than a hotel as will be in a hotel in London. Through one of your links I ended up finding Paddock Lodge http://www.paddocklodge.co.uk/ and have emailed them but have not had a reply. The Lodge looks lovely and could not be more convenient. I will try phoning them if I do not receive a reply from them. Another question I have is regarding a good place for tea near Hampton Court or in Richmond. Again thank you.

Hi,
Paddock Lodge looks wonderful. I hope you have had some success in contacting them?
Tea rooms,Hampton Court you might like to try the TiltYard or near to Kew Maids of Honour. I am little concerned thata the latter has not been open the last twice we've been to Kew,however. The catering in the gardens is only so so by the way.
This promotion
may help you out with 2 for the price of 1 to many London attractions if you are travelling by train to reach them i e even across London.
Wendy

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I seem to have been piggybacking on everyone elses topics of late, but I figure it makes sense to keep similar enquires together.

Rather than fly all the way from Boston to Sydney via London in one massive hit, I have decided to stop over in London from the evening of 16th October to midnight on Wednesday 18th. That gives me two full days. Rather than vanish into London, I was thinking of a couple of quiet days in a village near London (Pubs with open fires and a good book and brisk walks around the countryside.

We missed Hampton Court when in London two years ago and it was the first place that came to mind. Sound right to you Wendy or is there somewhere else you'd recomend?

Hampton Court isn't in the countryside anymore, and counts as a suburb of London. That's not to say there aren't plenty of pleasant walks alogn the river or in parkland, but you can get that in most of the riverside suburbs such as Richmond, Kew, Chiswick, Barnes and Putney.

Unfortunately I'm not up on the kind of place you have in mind, but there must be thousands that might fit the bill within a reasonably easy journey from London.

I remember noticing this one in my newspaper recently:
http://travel.guardian.co.uk/ecotourism/story/0,,1779193,00.html

The Isle of Wight could be a good place to look, too.

Hello Gavin,

As Patrick says Hampton Court is not the village is was,so make up your mind about whether you want to stay in that area or try somewhere like Cookham, Taplow, or even the Oxfordshire Cotswolds. Great Tew is a nice village with a good pub, The Falkland Arms, with accommodation, if a little off the beaten track.
We often walk along the banks of the River Thames at week ends and frequently start around Windsor.
Woodstock would also be a nice place to stay you could visit Blenheim and then maybe overnight in or around Burford or travel a bit further and try out
The Malt House but it's not the pub you are looking for.
Pauline will be the person to ask about good pubs when she gets back from this trip in the U K she has been to many but only at lunchtime for good food she tells me !

Anyway let me know what you want to do and I'll make some specific accommodation suggestions. A couple of weeks ago we stayed at Russells in Broadway in the Cotswolds where we met up with Pauline and Steve. It is a very good restaurant with rooms but not at all "Olde English" in any way, but the Cotswolds are really beautiful with lots of good walking.
My review will probably appear soon.

Wendy

If you decide to go with Wendy's suggestion for Woodstock I can fully reccommend The Bear. We stayed there in late April and really enjoyed it. I will get around to a review shortly!
Whilst there we travelled to Frilsham to the Pot Kiln (currently being featured on TV in Heaven's Kitchen) we had a WONDERFUL lunch there and a lovely chat with Mike Robinson the celebrity chef. It is quite difficult to find unless you have sat nav! but well worth searching out, real home cooked, home grown food. It is if I remember (I was not the driver!) about 30 miles from Oxford.

Take a look at Monkey Island Hotel in the village of Bray.

The island is very peaceful (just the hotel with nice grounds), the village is interesting, and if you want more then you are very close to Windsor.

Also easy access to and from Heathrow.