Location

The location of our London vacation rentals location is simply unbeatable for your stay in London. They are located in central Kensington, Notting Hill and Knightsbridge, near to all of the best London shopping and famous sites. Each of these neighborhoods is famous for world-class shopping and site seeing. From Museum Row to Buckingham Palace to Harrod’s, Chelsea, King’s Road, Kensington Palace and more, you’ll find everything easily accessible by foot, subway or famous red bus from our London vacation rentals.

Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park are nearby, great for playing, running, walking, picnicking, bicycling, roller-skating, etc. A short walk or tube ride from our London short term vacation rentals find Kensington Palace, with its beautiful gardens and glass enclosed Orangery – wonderful for decompressing after a day spent in museums. Kensington Palace is open to visitors, housing the Court Dress Collection from Victorian times as well as some of Princess Diana's gowns. The Orangery is excellent for a light meal in the park or tea.

Our London vacation rental apartments are a short walk or red bus ride to famous Museum Row, including the Natural History, Science Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum and The National Geographic Society, from where Victorian explorers such as Livington set out to discover the World . The Natural History and Science Museum have been recently remodeled thanks to the generous pool of funds from the British Lottery. The displays are excellent and highly recommended for children. The V+A, as the Victoria and Albert Museum is called, houses important decorative arts collections and an unbeatable dress collection of garments and fashion dating from the 1300's to the swinging 60's. There are frequent special exhibitions all year long at all of the museums, from The Golden Age of Fashion at the V+A to Dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum currently. You are a short tube ride to Westminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace.

Walk or hop on a red bus from our London vacation rental apartments to Harrods, Harvey Nichols and Burberry's in Knightsbridge. Find the big designer shops and exclusive restaurants walking down Sloane Street , wherel you arrive at Peter Jone’s department store and the start of King’s Road.

Our London vacation rental apartments are a short distance to the restaurants and shopping in High Street Kensington, where there is a large Marks and Spencers store and numerous specialty stores. The neighborhoods surrounding our London vacation apartment rentals are served by many excellent English, French, Indian, Persian, Moroccan and Italian restaurants, brasseries and bistros Shop at stores such as Marks and Spencer, Barkers, Zara, Habitat, Muji, Lush, Monsoon, Accessorize, Mac, Urban Decay etc. Additionally, get your Starbucks latte at several locations around you, or eat at numerous good cafés and restaurants along the way. Your London vacation rental apartment is a few minutes walk to Christies South Kensington, the branch of Christie's which auctions more affordable antiques and collectables. Hop on the tube or a red bus to the designers shops on Sloane Street and the incomparable and trendy Kings Road. At the end of your stay, you’ll find you still haven’t explored everything you wanted to see and do! On Saturdays stroll to Portobello antiques market in Notting Hill and enjoy shopping for small antiques and souvenirs in a fun atmosphere.

Some companies offer London vacation rentals in suburbs of London such as Barnes, with access by train or the end of a long tube line. Geographically, London is enormous and the commute to the ‘burbs can be long and tiring, especially after you’ve spent a day in London visiting monuments and shopping. We want you to get a flavor for life in this incredible City, to step out and experience the local café’s, trendy shops and Sites. Whether you choose one of our apartments or another, staying in Kensington, Chelsea, Knightsbridge or Notting Hill are undisputedly where you want to stay.

We want you to get excited about visiting London, staying in one of our London vacation rental apartments and to hit the ground running when you arrive. When you reserve one of our London vacation rentals, we send you an information pack with information about the neighborhood, including locations of the nearest supermarkets, restaurants, brasseries and food stores. We recommend a car and driver who can pick you up form the airport and take you to your apartment – for less than a London black taxi. We include a list of our favorite London websites for theatre and museum ideas, along ideas of tour guides and ideas of fun things to do for you and your family.

Transportation

The London Perfect vacation apartment rentals are all served by nearby tubes including Gloucester Road, South Kensington, Sloane Square and Notting Hill Gate Tubes. The main streets near your London vacation apartment rental teem with the famous Red London buses which traverse London and take you anywhere you want to go – you can buy a weekly ticket which lets you hop on and off buses and tubes to your hearts content. From our London vacation apartment rentals, it is easy to get to the Theatre District, Piccadilly Circus, The Tower of London., Knightsbridge, Sloane Square, Chinatown, Fortnum and Mason (where the Queen buys her tea), Harrods and the trendy King's Road, St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Houses of Parliament at Westminster , the river cruises at Embankment, the Great Wheel and Aquarium at Westminster , even direct to Wimbledon .

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