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Bloomsbury is a fine place for visitors with plenty in the district itself and strategically positioned within walking distance of Covent Garden, Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square etc.

The area is dominated by 3 big institutions, the British Museum, Great Ormonds Street Children's Hospital and the University of London.

The north of the district around Tavistock Square and the Holiday Inn is village like with small community shops, launderettes etc.
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Tavistock Square is just one of many small parks in the area, all attractively set out with plenty of seats, tame squirrels and birds, even a cafe at Russell Square.
If you have kids Coram's Fields is the largest with some facilities to amuse children.
Around Russell Square and Holborn there is a lot of large hotels and more commercial activity. There are several small Tesco and Sainsburys mini-supermarkets spread throughout the southern part of Bloomsbury.
In the UK shops are open 7 days a week, until late in this area - with a slow start on Sunday.
Bloomsbury is famous for its literary past and there are lots of small book and collectors shops all around. Some are there for the University of London just north of the British Museum. Most of the bookshops are around an area stretching from around the British Museum and Holborn to Leicester Square.

Charing Cross Road is the hub of the bookshops immortalised by the play and film 84 Charing Cross Road. Foyles is a famous large bookshop by Tottenham Court Road, one of the largest with 5 floors and often visiting authors.
Shops and Restaurants
The area of Bloomsbury from the British Museum south has a maze of narrow streets containing lots of interesting specialist shops, pubs and services. As you walk south you come into the West End with many theatres.
Here there is every kind of restaurant for every budget. To the west of the district is the Tottenham Court Road, the focus for electrical goods - every other shop selling electrical gadgets of one kind or another.
Public Transport
The Bloomsbury is area is serviced by three underground stations, Tottenham Court Road, Holborn and Russell Square through which the Central, Piccadilly and Northern lines run. One of these will take you most places you will want to go very quickly from about 05:00 to about midnight.

We have full details about using the London Underground on a detailed page.
Do remember stations are quite close together, for Covent Garden, Leicester Square, Oxford Street its normally nicer to walk.
London Buses are an attractive means of transport for visitors, especially perched up on the top deck of a bus. If your accommodation is in Bloomsbury, you're very central and buses are a very good alternative for the short journeys you will be making to the crowded Underground.
There is a very economical day pass you can purchase.
If you stand still on one of the main roads at any time in the Bloomsbury area there are probably two or three buses in sight, such is the frequency.
In Central London you have to purchase tickets before getting on the bus, there are ticket machines at most stops which also sell the day passes.



Hotel accommodation (blue circles)
1- Tavistock Hotel 11- Bonningtons Hotel 21- Jurys Inn
2- The Generator Hostel 12- Bedford Hotel 22- Gresham Hotel
3- Holiday Inn Bloomsbury 13- Lonsdale Hotel 23- Staunton Hotel
4- Royal National Hotel 14- Montague on the Gardens Hotel 24- Acadamy Hotel
5- Guildford + Grenville House 15- Ruskin Hotel 24- Langland Hotel
6- Hotel Russell 16 - Renaissance Chancery Court 25- Regency House Hotel
7- President Hotel 17- Citadines Holborn 25- Hotel Cavendish
8- Imperial Hotel 18- Thistle Bloomsbury Hotel 26- Hazlitts
9- Waverley House Hotel 19- Radisson Edwardian Kenilworth 27- St Giles Hotel
10- Bloomsbury Park Hotel 20- Radisson Edwardian Marlborough 28 - St Athens Hotel

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Popular Bloomsbury Accommodation
The Generator Hostel London Bloomsbury
Holiday Inn London Bloomsbury
Citadines Apartohetel Hotel Holborn
Thistle Hotel Bloomsbury