RMT strikes

where is the hotel?

There may well be a step free journey possible but you haven't said where you are going.

The hotel is near the London Eye, and recommended on another RS forum.

Okay, when I look at the map of the underground, the dark blue line has wheelchair access symbols. This line crosses the green line at Acton Town (wheelchair symbol). The green line runs to Westminster (wheelchair symbol). The Westminster stop is closest to our hotel but on the wrong side of the Thames. We could switch to the grey line to be on the correct side of the river. When I went to the underground site and clicked on "plan a journey" and selected "no steps" it did not choose this route but rather had me on one train and multiple buses. Shouldn't the wheelchair mean "no steps"?

I understand. I was vague about where we are staying for the obvious reasons.

Thank you for taking the time to think about and respond to my questions!!!

Emma, thank you! I didn't think about the time change-your point is well made :) your suggestions as to route are noted in our travel plans.

Emma,
Since you work near the area would you please venture an opinion? The "London with Kids" 2010 guidebook (not a RS publication) commented, "If you're looking for accommodations, Victoria, just south of Westminster has lots of moderately priced and cheap hotels because of the train station, though the area can be noisy. (Although many of the hotels along Belgrave Rd. are occupied by welfare recipients.)"
The statement in parenthesis the guide book writers felt the need to add worries me. There is almost an implied warning. What is your opinion? would you consider this a family friendly area? Or maybe I should start this question as a new thread?
Thank you again for the time you have devoted to helping me with our travel plans! We are so looking forward to our visit to your country.

Cheap hotels and B&Bs have been used for years by government to house people waiting for housing, and they are all over London not just in one place, and the places change over time, and government is trying to cut down their usage.

But I don't see your concern. You are making it difficult to help you by not saying where your hotel is but from your description about the London Eye and being on the wrong side of the river from Westminster station you must be in Lambeth. But you are asking about Belgrave Road near Victoria and being south of Westminster (Westminster is the name of a whole city not just a station) which is completely across the river and around the corner. I wouldn't worry about that comment in the book.

We don't know what you look like other than having a child with you, and we don't know when you are going, so sharing the location - don't need the name really - of where you are staying can't hurt you and can help us provide much more focussed answers to help you.

By the way, the walk across Westminster Bridge is one of the most scenic walks in London. You're lucky to be starting that way.

We stayed in the Belgravia area of Victoria Station and I found it very nice and safe, lots of great places to eat. Short on places to stay, the Lime Tree Inn looked really great. We stayed across the street at Morgan House and we just felt it was a bit too small for us. Also there is a manned ticket booth at Victoria Station and they were very helpful with getting us set with our Oyster Card and out lining on a map how to get to where we wanted to go and then we caught on after that.
Also we booked a Taxi because when we came into Heathrow they were having Tube Strikes, but the Taxi never showed up and we ended up picking up one on the curb and cost us a bundle.

Nigel,
Thank you for your patience. I freely admit I am an overly cautious mommy. Still without disclosing our location, we will be staying near the sea life aquarium. In the city in which I live in the US, an old hotel has been turned into short term housing for homeless and it is not a safe place to be or be near. I wanted to make sure I wouldn't be near something similar in my choice of sleeping location in London.

Judy, thank you. The lime tree house was booked for our dates when I contacted them a few weeks ago. The Morgan House didn't have a safe in the rooms so I had ruled it out. The same for the Blades hotel-no safe.

Thank you, Emma! Thanks to everyone (Nigel, Judy, Marco and Keith as well) who devoted time to this thread in the England Travel Forum. I am at peace with my London lodging choice. (Although I cannot bring myself to step away from the guidebooks just yet. I will be back with new questions- no doubt.) Shelly

Thanks, all.

Oddly this is an occasion where using a very old guidebook might help from the days before the underground went to Heathrow let alone the train.

Back in those days one of the recommend ways from Heathrow to central London was a bus to Feltham station then a train to Waterloo. In your location this old fashioned route might still have something to commend to it, at least if you are not travelling at commuter time.

I'm going to put this out there on the off-chance you are staying at Premier Inn County Hall, because we stayed there in May. When you cross the bridge you'll see the aquarium on the front-side of the building facing the river. continue walking straight ahead and you will see a pedestrian-only street on the back-since of the building. Turn left and walk down this street. The entrance to PI County Hall is at the far end. There is a small market across from the entrance.