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More than just a railway station
You’re either arriving from Bristol Temple Meads and moving swiftly on – or waiting for a train back home, ensuring that you have the correct ticket, waiting to see which platform your train is leaving from, joining the polite scrum as the platform number is announced and showing acceleration worthy of a 100m runner on the blocks in order to get a seat.
But it needn’t be like this. Within an easy walk of Paddington are a huge variety of things to do, enticing a visitor to the station to do more than just wait for a train.
A variety of canals that used to transport goods are now popular spots for office workers and visitors alike on boat trips and narrow boat cafes. Little Venice marks the point where the Regent’s Canal and the Grand Union Canal meet. Known as Browning’s Pool after poet Robert Browning, the pool sees the annual Canalway Cavalcade each May Bank Holiday weekend.
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Around Paddington, there is an antiques market, stand-up paddleboarding, restaurants and bars, museums, art trails.
And then there is Hyde Park – covering an area of 350 acres (only a few dozen fewer than the Downs) right in the heart of London, offering both world-class events and concerts together with plenty of quiet places to relax and unwind.
And when you’ve done all of that and you’re ready to turn in for the night, find your way to Mercure London Hyde Park Hotel. This boutique hotel is tucked away in a beautiful and peaceful garden square between Paddington Station and Hyde Park.
Four Victorian mansions originally built in the 1850s as grand family residences have been reinvented, with Mercure London Hyde Park Hotel now offering 72 newly furnished bedrooms.
For more information about Mercure London Hyde Park Hotel, visit www.mercurehydepark.com
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