Stay at the Jury’s Inn or Croydon Park hotel and you’ll be fine

Yep and there’s a couple of new hotels on/just off Dingwall Road…barely any distance to the new side entrance to East Croydon station to get up to London, 20-odd mins to London Bridge/Victoria

I had no opinion on Croydon until I cycled through it last year. What a dump! Endless queues of traffic and utterly soulless.

Rewski, Howley Road old boy here. 96-99.

The bad press is a bit unfair really as Croydon is massive and a city within it’s own right. Any city has good and bad areas, Bristol, Manchester etc.

Even coming from Manchester I still avoid the A23 😀

One option is the Selsdon Park Hotel http://www.selsdonparkcroydon.co.uk/

It’s a 5 min bus ride from South Croydon station and a much nicer place to stay and avoids the worst of Croydon traffic for the morning drop off.

^^ yeah but, yeah but, yeah but… it’s still grey shit no matter what brush you use to try and paint over it.

Sorry, but it is.

I do know it has redeaming features, the exits. 😆

The bad press is a bit unfair really as Croydon is massive and a city within it’s own right. Any city has good and bad areas, Bristol, Manchester etc.

It’s a massive car park, certainly…

Zippykona – Charles Street round the corner, I’ve heard they’re going to turn old Tower in Overton Yard into a craft brewey? Bloomin 12 years too late 😉

Worked in Croydon for 2 years driving a 128 mile round trip from near Guildford

How on earth did you eek Guilford – Croydon out to 64 miles!? It’s half that!

I saw some sort of gang war/car jacking outside the Jury’s Inn, and once had to be escorted through the police cordon to our office oppopsite after someone jumped out of the window. Nice place.

Every town has it’s rough bits.

Yup, you’re right, London has Croydon. 😉

Is The Ship still the alternative pub of choice?

Is The Ship still the alternative pub of choice?

The Oval Tavern was my favourite. Nice little local boozer and I lived within sight of it!

I lived in Oval Road too. 100 I think it was, there would have been an xj 650 on the path.
Not been to Croydon for ages but it used to have a real alternative community and I do miss how it was.
It was so good for record shops, The Underground when it was open was a top venue and then there were trains all night up town.
There was biking on your doorstep so you could ride out to anywhere have a pub lunch and lots of beer then a train home.
I think there is a mega rejuvenation project in the offing.

oval pub just been redone new owners, no bad some nice ales at last.

a22 to purley no go as flooded. a23 carrying even more traffic. best bet stay further out on mainline to victoria, reigate/redhill? area or epson.

ps i live in croydon well purley and yes hate croydon central now. was ok when was young 20 years ago. but not many places in uk with good riding road and off road, 2 main uk airports within 1 hour away and the coast also 1 hour away so it makes up for it a bit

Guys, I wasn’t actually looking for a hotel IN Croydon..

Cobham Hilton? Couple of miles from trains into Waterloo and easy from the M4.

Used to meet a friend at East Croydon for a pint (due to train connections), we used to head to The Builders Arms to the east which seemed alright, even did some nice food.

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Is The Ship still the alternative pub of choice?

The Oval Tavern was my favourite. Nice little local boozer and I lived within sight of it!

used to go there from work for lunch time pizzas – every flavour came with extra chillis in a bid to make people drink more 🙂 The older lags at my place used to frequent the Porter and Sorter

IF your prepared to go for a hotel that far out I’m sure there must be one in West / south west / Northwest London. Even the holiday Inn Brent cross would be better. Easier to get to as well.

And as of 15 mins ago thats 4 stabbings……!