Do any of you travel to & stay in central London from Newcastle often? Or have advice?

I need to get to London for 2 nights on the weekend of Feb 18th. 2 adults, one room.

Train: £146
Travelodge: £171
Theatre: £136 (these are pretty much the best prices you can get unfortunately)

Anyone know if it's possible to get the price down? I'll consider anything other than the Megabus because I heard it's awful. I don't have a passport, but I believe a driving license is ok when flying within the UK, but I don't know if it's going to be the same typical fuck on as it is whenever you're flying out of the country. I'd rather not spend hours sitting around in the airports.

Alternatively, is there anywhere else you'd recommend for a decent 'couples' weekend away? Not interested in a country cottage type things as I live in one anyway. Center parcs caught my attention but I'd still really prefer London. I was hoping to book up in the morning but seeing as I'm covering all costs, I was a bit chocked at £452 as a 'bargain' lol

Try superbreak.com. Can normally get return train and hotel for around £120 per person. Might be pushing it slightly though with it only being a month away.

Going to London mid-week if much cheaper

What about Edinburgh - cheaper than London but still great to visit with loads to do?

Defo try superbreak. They have really good deals. Dont worry about staying out of the centre of London aslong as its near a tube station.

http://www.superbreak.com/rail/east_coast-2.htm

Or if you book your own train tickets which sometimes you can book say a train to stevenage or peterborough and then a ticket from there to london but stay on the same train can work out cheaper. We stayed at -

http://www.premierinn.com/en/checkHotel/HARTRA/london-harrow

in the summer. If you book it now for them dates it's only £100 for 2 people 2 nights. Tube just over the road, twenty mins into the centre. If you booked it for the first weekend in March it's only £78

Last couple of times I've been we stayed near Kings Cross first in a Travelodge and then in a hotel at Russell Square. Both were really handy though as they were less than 5mins from the tube stations so could get around easily. Think the ones in Russell Square are the ones that often come up with superbreaks too. Hotel we were in wasnt anything flash - was a bit old fashioned and outdated but for where we were and the cost, we really couldnt argue.

I know last year for a mates stag do he got a deal from thomas cook for about £120pp for 2nights accomodation and train there and back. I heard someone else from work saying they were going to the theatre too for an extra £40 quid on top of that so may be worth having a check with them and see if the deals still going

That sounds as though its actually a superbreaks deal. I know the majority of travel agents I've used in the past for city breaks have used that website. We went to Edinburgh a little while back through Hayes Travel but the booking went through Superbreaks. Think we were offered the theatre option too the last time we went to London but turned it down in favour of looking for tickets when we got to London. Ps. I'm not on commission with superbreaks...honest, I just think that 9 times out of 10, their deals can't be beaten especially if you're considering booking everything separately.

For the theatre as well, thats quite a lot of money mentioned in the first post. If you're not massively fussed over what you want to see and are willing to risk leaving booking till the day before or on the day, I'd suggest just going to one of the ticket offices in Leicester Square. You can usually get a reasonable discount on most of the shows doing it this way but obviously just depends on what tickets are available at the time.

Superbreaks is a mint website. My lass gets a raker discount on it too.