Labret:
London is a fantastic town, very cosmopolitan, fucking expensive but fantastic all the same.
Where you're staying is on the northern edge of the centre. From there it's a short hop skip and a jump to places like the British Museum, British Library and Tottenham Court Road / Oxford Street for shopping.
Dunno what you're into but here's a few thing to see & do:
Buy and A-Z and an umbrella when you get there. See-through plastic pac-a-macs are very last year. Walk or go on the bus when you can, you'll get to see much more than on the Tube.
Art:
Go to the Body Parts Exhibition along Brick Lane which is just down from Spitalfields Market. Or check out the Tate Modern.
Food:
Avoid the over-priced shitty tourist trap restaurants around Covent Garden / Leicester Square like the plague. There's a lot of very good restaurants in London that won't quite break the bank.
Depending on what you like: Rasa on Church Street, Stoke Newington (Southern Indian), Moro's in Clerkenwell (Moroccan / Spanish), head to Hoxton for Vietnamese, Kensington area for Lebanese, Chinatown in between Wardour St & Soho has some good restaurants but be picky. A lot of pubs now have Thai restaurants tacked onto the side of them. The Churchill in Notting Hill is a good one.
History:
Ask your hotel about guided walking tours and take one. If you're into it, they're usually pretty interesting but can be cold and wet.
Drinking / Clubbing:
Theres' too many good places to list. You can get our versions of US beer over here, but our warm stuff actually tends to taste of something. Fuller's London Pride and Young's Special are two good beers. The bars can be cool on a Thurs / Fri / Sat night but the rest of the time you want to drink in a good honest pub.
One other thing.... if you're walking round Soho and some chap comes up to you touting a strip club... don't believe him - they all go to the same shithole.
"When a man is tired of London, a man is tired of life".
Enjoy your stay
