Hotel features
Hotel features

Local Information

Arrive at the Cherry Court and it is now your home for the duration of your stay. Relax and feel comfortable whilst you’re with us and take a look around at what we have in and around Victoria.

Travel

We are only a 5 minute walk from Victoria Rail, Underground (the Tube), Coach and Bus stations. It is one of London’s greatest and busiest transport intersections.

The Rail station has routes to the South of London and beyond, including Ashford (Kent), Brighton and the South coast.

From Victoria Underground (tube) station you can catch the District, Circle and Victoria lines.

Victoria Coach station adds to the centralised concentration of travel facilities and has connections to multiple towns and cities in the UK and Europe.

The Bus station has many “red bus” routes directly to some of the capital’s major tourist attractions. In addition you can start many sightseeing bus tours (“hop on-hop off”) and day trips from Victoria.

Taxis are available by flagging one down from the surrounding streets, or there are taxi ranks located in the vicinity of Victoria Rail, Underground and Bus stations.

The alternative way to travel in central London is on one of the rented “Boris” bikes or Santander Cycle Hire Scheme. There are numerous docking stations in Victoria (minutes from Cherry Court). For more information go to www.tfl.gov.uk/roadusers/cycling.

As this is the real heart and centre of London, in terms of tourism and travel, there is a London Tourist Information Centre, many bureau-de-change offices and rent-a-car firms within the station.

Our hotel is not within the central London congestion area.

Travel Tips

  • Ask at Victoria Underground Station about the Visit Oyster card, which comes preloaded ready for you to see London by Tube, Bus, Trams, DLR and National Rail (within London travel zones). You can top-up as you need.
  • You can walk to many sights from our hotel including Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament and Hyde Park.
  • Bus route 390 (from Victoria) will take you to Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch and Oxford Street (popular shopping area).
  • Bus route 38 (from Victoria) will take you to Hyde Park Corner, Green Park and Piccadilly Circus.
  • Bus route 24 (from Victoria) will take you to Westminster, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Tottenham Road and Camden Market.
  • Bus route 11 (from Victoria) will take you to Westminster, the Strand, St Paul’s cathedral and Liverpool Street.
  • Bus route 507 (from Victoria) will take you to Waterloo
  • Bus route C1 (from Victoria) will take you to Sloane Square, Knightsbridge, Brompton Road (Harrods), Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington (Natural History and Science Museums), Earl’s Court, Kensington High Street (shopping area) and Shepherd’s Bush (for Westfield Shopping Centre).
  • Most sight – seeing and open-top buses leave from Victoria bus station.
  • There are day trips to Bath, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle, Oxford, Cambridge, York and many more. Evan Evans Tours and Golden Tours – these companies organise sightseeing around London and Britain. The pick-up and return points are very close to Cherry Court Hotel. For additional information visit www.evanevans.co.uk and www.goldentours.com

Victoria’s neighbours

Our neighbouring areas are Belgravia towards the West leading to Knightsbridge (home of Harrods department store), Westminster Abbey in the East, Ebury Village (home to one of London’s most famous antique streets – Pimlico Road) and Chelsea in the South-West, the River Thames in the South and Buckingham Palace and the many royal parks to the North.

Victoria Street connects Victoria Station and Westminster Abbey, the Houses of Parliament and Whitehall (Downing Street – the official residence of the Prime Minister). Buckingham Palace Road is where you will find Victoria Coach Station (to catch national and European coaches) at one end and Buckingham Palace at the other end.

The traffic from the south passing through Vauxhall Bridge, to Belgrave Road, to Victoria Station, is on the major inner London Ring Road, on its way to the West End and many major motorways.

Eating and Shopping

Within walking distance from Cherry Court you will find many restaurants, pubs, coffee shops, cafes and shopping. You will definitely find something to your liking!

The nearest supermarket (Sainsbury’s) is two streets away, and you can also buy essentials within the station shopping area (Sainsburys Local and Mark’s & Spencer) and there is a small convenience shop at the other end of Hugh Street.

Wilton Road and Warwick Way have many restaurants from Turkish, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, to good old fish ‘n’ chips.

On Hugh Street itself you will find the St George’s Tavern, a traditional pub, dating back to the 1800s, serving a ‘pint’ or any other refreshments, as well as decent pub breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

Victoria Street is great for local shopping and eating, as well as the main route to Westminster Abbey and Houses of Parliament.

Nova Victoria and Cardinal Place on Victoria Street are complexes where you will find many bars and restaurants open throughout the day.

Eccleston Yards is a new area very nearby full of quirky and delicious eateries.

The nearest big shopping area is Oxford Street and Covent Garden or High Street Kensington.

Local Restaurants -

  • Pimlico Fresh (breakfasts and lunch) – 86-87 Wilton Road
  • Nando’s (Portuguese peri-peri dishes) 107/108 Wilton Road and 17 Cardinal Walk (Victoria Street)
  • Siciliy (Italian) – 2a Elizabeth Street (opposite Victoria Coach Station)
  • Rodizio Preto (Brazilian) – 72-73 Wilton Road
  • Paradise(Indian) – 5 Denbigh Street
  • About Thyme (Modern European) – 82 Wilton Road
  • Seafresh (Fish and Chips & Seafood) – 80-81 Wilton Road
  • Kazan (Turkish) – 93-94 Wilton Road
  • Loca Mexicano (Mexican/Tex-Mex) – 65 Wilton Road
  • Ken Lo’s Memories of China (Chinese) – 67-69 Ebury Street
  • Oliveto (Italian) – 49 Elizabeth Street
  • Olivo (Italian) – 21 Eccleston Street
  • Wagamama’s (Japanese) – Roof garden level, Cardinal Place, Victoria Street
  • Zizzi’s (Italian) – 15 Cardinal Walk, Victoria Street
  • Pizza Express (Pizza) – 46 Moreton Street
  • Rosa’s Thai (Thai) – 25 Gillingham Street
  • Dim T (Dim Sum and Oriental) – 56-62 Wilton Road
  • Mango Tree (Thai) – 46 Grosvenor Place
  • Boisdale (British) – 15 Eccleston Street
  • Peggy Porschen (cakes and light lunches) – 116 Ebury Street
  • Thomas Cubitt (British gastropub) – 44 Elizabeth Street

Emergencies

Emergency medical help can be found by calling for an ambulance (999 or 911 or 112) or there is a walk in clinic in Victoria Station called Medicentre. Their details can be found on www.medicentre.co.uk/Medicentre_Victoria.html.
The nearest hospitals with Emergency Departments are St Thomas’s Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster Hospital.
The nearest police station is Charing Cross Police Station.

Banks & ATMs

There are many banks and ATMs located within a few minutes walk of the hotel and within the station. Please ask reception for directions.

Nightlife and Entertainment

Central London has great nightlife from bars, pubs to clubs.
Entertainment ranges from the theatre to comedy shows. Most of Theatreland is Piccadilly Circus, Leicester Square and Covent Garden (see www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/maps/index.htm).
Victoria has the Victoria Palace Theatre showing Hamilton and the Apollo Victoria Theatre showing Wicked.

Top tourist attractions

Buckingham Palace
Houses of Parliament and Big Ben
Trafalgar Square
London Eye
Westminster Abbey
Tower of London and Tower Bridge
Madame Tussaud’s
London Dungeon
Victoria & Albert Museum
British Museum
Natural History Museum
Tate Britain
Tate Modern
Royal Museums Greenwich
Royal Academy of Arts
National Gallery and National Portrait Gallery
Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square
Hyde Park
Green Park
St James Park
The Making of Harry Potter -the Warner Bros’s Studio Tour
Kew Gardens

Useful links

www.tfl.gov.uk
www.visitlondon.com
www.nationalexpress.co.uk
www.londontheatre.co.uk
www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/
www.medicentre.co.uk/Medicentre_Victoria.html
www.goldentours.com
www.evanevans.co.uk
www.londoneye.com
www.eurostar.com
www.gatwickexpress.com
www.heathrowexpress.com