About London shows and hotel deals London shows and hotel deals are usually offered as a package by the theatre break agencies, some of them will let you add in train tickets (usually at a considerable discount). You can also add a variety of extras including pre-theatre meals, sight seeing trips and entrance to many of the major London tourist attractions. London Shows You can choose from a huge number of London shows including first class musicals, serious plays, side-splitting comedies. If none of these take your fancy you can opt for ballets, operas and even concerts. Three of the most consistantly popular London shows in the last year have all been musicals. Wicked (London) has had a spectacular year with record box office takings. The story of what happened before Dorothy got to Oz goes from strength to strength and looks set to continue it’s run at the Apollo indefinitely.

Oliver has had an amazing first year and continues to be popular. If you want to see Jodie Prenger (I’d Do anything winner) as Nancy you need to go before the end of March. Those of you who wait for the summer will also get a treat as ex-Wicked star Kerry Ellis moves into the role of Nancy. Fagin is currently being played by Gryff Rhys Jones. We Will Rock You is a great show for rockers of all ages. The show is full of energy and the music of Queen meshes beautifully with Ben Elton’s witty plot line. I just loved We Will Rock you. It is a wonderful ‘feel good’ evening and a perfect and popular choice of show. Hotel Deals Show and Stay have a great hotel deal on at the moment. They are offering a free one night hotel stay in selected 3* hotels when you buy your tickets for a choice of 13 shows. The deal is available for Mondays to Thursdays only and runs until March 31st. London shows and hotel deals are available all year round but special offers like this one are limited and tend to get snapped up fairly quickly. If you want to be sure of getting the show and dates you want you will need to act fast. With prices starting from only £umptyup per person and limited availability this offer will not hang around. Check now to see if your dates and show are available. ** Free Hotel Offer with London Shows and Hotel Deals ** a

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Theatre Breaks Agents Theatre breaks agencies come in many shapes but here at the London Theatre Breaks blog we like to work with three in particular. We get a small commission from each reader who books a theatre break through our links and that helps to fund our blog. The theatre breaks agents offer somewhat differing services and the best one for you depends on what you are looking for when you start searching for a theatre break package. You need to decide what your priorities are first before you look at the various deals on offer because you are not really comparing like with like. (If you need help with this have a look at this post on our sister site Theatre Breaks Magazine.) The agencies specialise and offer various options, they often work with particular hotels or a particular level of ticket. Some agencies have offers on rail fares which you can bundle in with the cost of your tickets, other optional extras like meals can also be added. Often agencies offer discounts on London attractions when they are booked with your theatre break. We only work with reputable agencies where we can be sure that not only will you get a good deal but that your tickets and hotel room will be honoured. Some of the other theatre breaks companies add lots of hidden extras, like booking fees, on to your final bill. We think this is not acceptable so we only recommend the following package deals: Show and Stay Theatre Breaks

Show and Stay is a long-established theatre package company. They are part of the larger Holiday Extras group and we have been working with them for the last 2-3 years. Feedback from customers has been very positive and we continue to recommend them. Show and Stay really specialise in getting you top quality tickets at a good price and combining them with a good choice of 3 or 4* hotels. They also offer a very good deal on rail tickets, with up to 40% discount as standard. Show and Stay often has the hot tickets that no one else has. For example when Jodie first appeared and Oliver! London was the hottest ticket in town, Show and Stay was able to offer Saturday night, best seats, when there was no other way to get them and everyone else said the show was sold out. Now despite what I’ve said about them offering top quality tickets don’t assume that Show and Stay only do expensive theatre breaks. Their breaks are very competitive. For example someone just booked a midweek evening at Oliver! and 1 night in a 3* hotel for 2 people for only £213.96.

Superbreak Theatre Breaks

Superbreak is where you go for bargains. They offer a range of ticket prices so if you don’t mind being in the Upper Circle you can get a very good price indeed. They have more limited availability sometimes, than Show and Stay but if you are looking for particular dates rather than a specific show they can be very good value. The hotels they work with are just as good as Show and Stay and are usually 3 or 4*. Superbreak are a large company and they do all sorts of London breaks and breaks to other cities too. They are less specialised than Show and Stay but they still offer a good service. Their web site can be a bit harder to find your way around, as it is so large, but if you persevere you can definitely get some great deals. TheatreBreaks.com

TheatreBreaks.com is a smaller company established thirty years ago. They’ve been online for over ten years. They have pretty good availability, work with good 3 and 4* hotels but where they really excel is in their personal touch. They are they people to go to if your needs are at all outside the ordinary. Maybe you want to do a large group with an odd number to see Dirty Dancing on a specific weekend. Perhaps you have limited mobility and need to know that your hotel, and your theatre seats, are fully accessible. They are the best people to help you. You just phone them up quoting your reference number from the website and they will go out of their way to make sure your problems are sorted out. a

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Sometimes, especially if you’ve a busy schedule taking a whole weekend away from work is difficult. So you take the laptop with you and hope for good hotel broadband… Book a 5* Hotel and get a free upgrade Friday, Saturday and Sunday overnight stays you can book the 5* Andaz Hotel by Hyatt and receive a free upgrade to a King size room. The Andaz is a mix of Victorian opulence and state-of-the-art technology. The Andaz was the old Great Eastern building near Liverpool St station and it’s been very stylishly updated. Andaz by Hyat hotel deals Your upgraded King room is 29-sq.-metre. It features a plush king bed, oversized work desk and bath with ecologically friendly shower, fast-fill tub and hot towel rail, air conditioning, and a gorgeous modern design. Enjoy complimentary amenities such as healthy mini-bar, local phone calls, wired and wireless Internet access, iPod dock and the luxury of yukata robes. You might think this sort of luxury would be horribly expensive and normally you’d be right! To stay one Friday night in June at full price would cost you £270! But book it as a hotel deal as part of a theatre break and prices start from just £92 per person including your show ticket (one night stay plus tickets for Woman in Black - many other great shows and musicals also available ) I often see this hotel as I walk out from Liverpool St Station and it looks so inviting. It would be a great place to stay for a weekend theatre break and what with the desk and the great connectivity one of you might even get some work done! Personally, if I stayed Saturday night I’d be off down to the nearby Columbia Rd Flower Market next morning. You can often find me there on summer Sunday mornings browsing through all the gorgeous shabby chic garden accessories, drinking in the atmosphere (and the great coffee!) and even buying the occasional plant. If I can’t stagger down to the flower market there’s always the very trendy, recently totally refurbished Spitalfields Market just across the road from Liverpool St Station. It’s lovely down there on a Sunday morning with a real buzz, lots of unique craft and fashion, some ‘antique’ or vintage stalls and some interesting shops. There are some nice places to lunch there too. Of course you might never make it out of the luxury of that wonderful king sized room… and that’s good too! ** Book your 5* upgraded hotel and theatre deal **

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Hotel deals - a guide to hotel deals and theatre breaks available through the year

Hotel deals, a guide Hotel deals that are offered by the theatre breaks agencies vary through the year in a fairly regular pattern. Knowing this can help you plan your theatre break so that you get the best hotel deal possible. I’m going to explain 5 hotel deals that you might be offered and give a rough idea of when in the year these might be available. If you can take advantage of these special hotel deals by being flexible with your days & dates you can often save quite a bit of money or get more for what you do spend. Hotel Deals, including a hotel restaurant dinner Hotel deals are sometimes offered that include some meals, this can be as simple as a full cooked breakfast or occasionally a pre-theatre dinner the hotel restaurant. These are usually very good value and worth snapping up as they often have limited availability. These are usually offered in late spring and summer when London hotels have more free restaurant space at weekends. For example the Friday Dinner, Theatre and Hotel Offer from Show and Stay is an excellent hotel deal. You’ve got the choice of 27 top shows and 4 great 4 hotels, all with good restaurants. It is a limited offer. You have to book tickets and have your pre-show dinner on a Friday on or before June 26th and you must book on or before May 31st 2009 Hotel deals, luxury upgrades Often in the late spring and summer you can get hotel deals that allow you to upgrade from a 3 to a 4* hotel, from a 4* to a 5* or to a more luxurious room for a small amount or even for free. For example at the moment (valid for stays up to 29th August 2009) for Friday, Saturday and Sunday overnight stays you can book the 5* Andaz Hotel by Hyatt and receive a free upgrade to a King size room. The Andaz is a mix of Victorian opulence and state-of-the-art technology. The Andaz was the old Great Eastern building near Liverpool St station and it’s been very stylishly updated. Andaz by Hyat hotel deals Your upgraded King room is 29-sq.-metre. It features a plush king bed, oversized work desk and bath with ecologically friendly shower, fast-fill tub and hot towel rail, air conditioning, and a gorgeous modern design. Enjoy complimentary amenities such as healthy mini-bar, local phone calls, wired and wireless Internet access, iPod dock and the luxury of yukata robes. You might think this sort of luxury would be horribly expensive and normally you’d be right! To stay one Friday night in June at full price would cost you £270! But book it as a hotel deal as part of a theatre break and prices start from just £92 per person including your show ticket (one night stay plus tickets for Woman in Black) Book your 5* upgraded hotel deal. Hotel deals, midweek discounts These midweek discount hotel deals are usually offered in the early spring and autumn. You can sometimes save up to 50% on the price of a weekend theatre break. In general, even when there isn’t a special offer on prices tend to be cheaper for certain week nights. However, this can be because some of the leading roles are taken by understudies on a couple of the quieter nights. If this doesn’t bother you, and very often it shouldn’t as many of the understudies or ‘alternates’ are just as good as the ’stars’, then these hotel deals can be a real bargain. Hotel Deals, with an extra night free or reduced rate. Hotel deals like these can come up at just about any time of year. It just depends if some of the London hotels have excess capacity. They are often weekend deals giving you 3 or even 3 nights in the city and allowing you to turn a theatre break into a mini holiday in the capital. When you are booking any theatre break if you can manage an extra night or two it’s usually worth checking to see if there’s any rate reduction for extra nights, even if it’s not been advertised. You’ll usually see an option to ‘extend your stay’ once you’ve chosen your hotel. Hotel Deals, one night hotel free with show ticket Hotel deals where your hotel room comes free with your ticket sound to good to be true but they are offered at some times of the year, for some shows. This can sometimes be for the less sought after shows or if it is for a popular show it might be for less popular dates and times. They are good value if you can be really flexible about what you want to see and when you want to go. Often these hotel deals peak in July and August.

Announcing a new Theatre Breaks Magazine at http://theatrebreaksmag.co.uk With interesting articles and useful categories such as Hotel Deals London Breaks News Theatre Breaks Things To Do West End Guide Definitely one to watch.

London Theatre Breaks Bargains London Theatre Breaks just got a lot more affordable with offers that include a Free Hotel for a long list of top west end musicals. These are for for Monday to Friday performances of Billy Elliot, Blood Brothers, Buddy, Chicago, Sound of Music, and We Will Rock You throughout January, February and March 2009 and also for Monday to Thursday performances of Carousel, Grease Hairspray Joseph Wicked and Zorro Theatre Breaks Special Offer

Free Hotel Theatre Breaks

This Theatre Breaks Special Offer includes top seats in the stalls or dress circle of one of London’s famous old theatres and a free night in a three star central London hotel. You can even upgrade to a four star hotel for only £10 extra per person. To take advantage of this fantastic offer and have something really special to look forward to, all you have to do is book a theatre break with free hotel now over the internet for two people seeing a show before 26 March 2009. Here’s the list of shows again: Monday to Thursday offer:

Wicked theatre breaks Zorro theatre breaks Carousel theatre breaks with Lesley Garret Grease theatre breaks Hairspray theatre breaks with Michael Ball Joseph theatre breaks

Monday to Friday offer:

We Will Rock You theatre breaks Billy Elliot theatre breaks Blood Brothers theatre breaks Buddy theatre breaks (before Feb 7th)

Chicago theatre breaks Sound of Music theatre breaks

** Check Availability for these shows with the Free Hotel Offer ** Theatre Breaks Offer with discount Rail The Free Hotel offer gets even better when combined with up to 40% off return rail tickets when booked in advance with theatre breaks. The form below will allow you to check out the offer and dates for your favourite show, with free hotel and inclusive rail tickets.

a Free Hotel Offer with London Theatre Breaks