Premier inns are good I grant you, and many of them usually have a deal (for want of a better word) going with a local pub/restruant of providing a breakfast/evening meal as part of the package. Travelodge have the same thing I believe. which does help, a bit.
If you stay in London be prepared to pay big buckeroos for it. The Day’s inn places aren’t bad either, but they will provide breakfast only in their price.
Try these sites: (hope they work)
http://www.premierinn.com/en/f…..room_rates.
http://www.travelodge.co.uk/
http://www.daysinn.com/

Bob You are quite right about Day’s Inn the choice is limited to where you can stay, but I will admit that the one we stayed at in Peterbrough wasn’t bad. However if the OP is intending to stay more than a few nights, either a Premier Inn or a Travelodge would be a better option.
As for your sexual requirements I have no solution or advice about that one sorry LOL.

oh god yes, by all means ‘do’ London – but go to Lincoln, and York, and Ludlow and Edinburgh, take the west highland line from Glasgow to Mallaig and have a paddle at Arisaig, go to Bristol and walk all around the harbour and do a pub crawl (eat at The Cottage if you’re feeling flush, the Nova Scotia if you’re not), take a magical mystery tour in the Yorkshire Dales and the eastern Lake District, get the train up Snowdon and visit a village called Tresaith in Ceredigion and stay at the pub there, go to the hill fort at Maiden Castle in Dorset and have chips and tea at the harbour in West Bay, and then trapse through the saturday market in Bridport or go to Corfe Castle. then go to Salisbury.

do not, please, think that the Tower of London, Windsor Castle and Westminster is the UK – its not, they are fantastic places to visit, but you’ll be utterly sick of them in 3 days, and paddling in the sea on the south coast, or up on the Northumberland coast, will be the very tonic of life.

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Boleyn said

Not forgetting Dover Castle, Rochester Castle and Cathedral. Hever Castle, Canterbury Catherdral and Peterbrough Catherdral.
Rochester is also Dickens land, so to speak. Although his early life was spent right here in Chatham, all good.

We want to do it ALL! Hever is a MUST and I’d love to visit York as that is where my great-great grandparents are from. I may even have family there I don’t know about!
Thank you all for your helpfulness with regard to lodging. I will check further using the info mentioned. I am traveling with a childhood (female) friend and as we a both hetro-women, sleeping in the same bed is not appealing to either of us!

I’ve not been to Hever Castle although i only live about an hours drive from there.. Rochester is literely 5 minutes down the road, got married in the registry office which is within the ground or what was the grounds of the castle in it’s hay day. Beautiful place.
Dover is beautiful at night when it’s all lit up. My grandfather was involved with the war effort there during WW2 and flew planes in the first WW1 not many that can say their grandprents served in both WW’s plus one of my great uncles was the first person to swim the channel, Captain Matthew Webb dove in the sea to swim to France from Dover, and did it in 21 hours.
I hope you have a lot of fun in good old blighty will look forward to hearing about you adventures Anne.

That woud hack me off intencely too, and like you I would have challenged him too. But to be honest, here many tourists from abroad, haven’t really got much of a clue when it comes to British History, so the Beefeaters, can and do get away with some downright outragious poetic lies. The more dramatic and bloody the Beefeaters/tour guides can make a story, the more money can be made, so to speak.
I would love to see how our benefactress Claire Ridgeway would react if she heard what the Beefeater had said. I’m guessing he would have walked back to his home within the Tower grounds, like a croquet hoop, and be singing soprano in St Peter’s ad Vincula’s choir in the Sunday service.
This would be like telling me (who I must admit doesn’t know an awful lot about American History other than George Washington telling King George to P*** off in 1776. and that ironically being today is the 4th of July is the very day it happened.) was a cross dresser who married a goat and fathered an elephant. I believe the words spitting feathers would come to mind if I had been told that load of hogwash, and certainly I would feel extremely upset that the little of what I know of American history, which is very chequered and eventful, would have been bastardised by someone who calls themselves a American citizen. In comparrison to the size of America, England isn’t much, just a small island in the great pond of life, but hey it’s my home, and I am proud to be who I am, and equally so I would be proud to visit such a wonderful and diverse country, and experience all that America and it’s people have to offer.
As far as I know there is no mention anywhere of Anne having a 6th finger, there was also another outragious rumour that she had a 3rd nipple, this of course is also C***, possibly made up by either Henry or Cromwell to convince the people she was a witch, although she was never formally charged or convicted with witch craft,Henry mud slinging at her didn’t stick when it came to the ridiculous charges against her. The 3rd nipple idea comming from the fact that witches or warlocks had a nipple or teat which the devil sucked the blood of the person from.
It is said that she had a rather large mole on her neck however.