London Bed And Breakfasts (B&Bs)

For a cozy alternative to impersonal hotel rooms, B&Bs (private homes with rooms available to travelers) range from the acceptable to the sublime. B&B owners sometimes go out of their way to be accommodating, giving personalized tours or offering home-cooked meals. Some B&Bs, however, do not provide private bathrooms, and most do not provide phones. London also offers B&B-style accommodations—hotels that offer much of the intimacy of privately owned B&Bs (Bloomsbury has many of these).

The British tourist boards operate a B&B rating system, using a scale of one to five diamonds. Rated accommodations are part of the tourist board’s booking system, but it costs money to be rated and some perfectly good B&Bs choose not to participate.

Any number of websites provide listings for B&Bs; check out Bed & Breakfast Inns Online (www.bbonline.com), InnFinder (www.inncrawler.com), InnSite (www.innsite.com), BedandBreakfast.com (www.bedandbreakfast.com), or Pamela Lanier’s Bed & Breakfast Guide Online (www.lanierbb.com).

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