What do you think of the Shepherd's Bush area

I live closeish to Shephard’s Bush. Lots of buses, plus overground and Central Line (the best) tube line. Close to Holland Park so you could be in the nicer bits but there are less nicer bits. Huge Westfield shopping centre there, loads of shops and places to eat. If you like the hotel, there are far worse places. Hard to be specific without knowing the hotel. Not a dangerous area, of which there are few in London anyway.

Please share the name of the hotel you are considering.

Easier to provide an answer to your question.

7 years ago stayed in an Air BnB in Holland Park. Liked the area. Often strolled into the Shepard Bush neighborhood to meet up with friends.

We liked the music at The White Horse near the Shepard's Bush Market.

We have a reservation at the Hilton London Kensington on Holland Park Avenue. We typically stay in Kensington when we visit, so when the hotel had a Kensington name, I thought it was close to the area we like. But then I saw this was aways away. I like the idea of trying a different area as long as it's close to a tube station and with restaurants, etc. in the area.

Also, has anyone been to the London Wetlands. It looks like it's close to this hotel (?). Sounds good and, if you've been there, is it worth a visit? Thanks so much.

Kyoto Gardens are 15 minute stroll from the Hilton.

Design Museum. 20 minutes away.

Lovely Castle pub 10 minutes away.

Sharon, I’ve had the London Wetlands on my “to-do” list for a few years! I’d love a report if you get there this trip!! I am a birder and it looks excellent.

That Hilton is pretty much the hotel i thought you’d be using… and they don’t say it, but it’s West Kensington, which isn’t any of the usually fancy Kensingtons.

That said, the location is just fine and as a base to reach elsewhere, pretty good. Hotel is quite old and right on a busy road, not a pretty location.

Across the street from the hotel is a crescent where I used to park my car when I wanted to avoid paying the extortionate parking fees at the Westfield when I wanted to go for a lunch there. It would be walking distance to the Westfield Centre except for the huge roundabout next door to the hotel. I have never tried to walk through that roundabout and never will. I always took a bus a couple of stops to the Centre. The roundabout is for the West Cross Route, a major road feeding the Westway.

I think that the hotel tries, as many do, to capitalize on a couple of better sounding names. It is on Holland Park Road but it is by no means in Holland Park, if you know what I mean. When Claudia showed the walking time to Kyoto Garden, that is in the Holland Park and I consider Holland Park to be in the general vicinity of the (very special) Holland Park.

They also invoke the magic Kensington, but there are better parts and less better parts of "Kensington". The now still burnt out shell of its former self, the Grenfell Tower, is in North Kensington. The folks who lived there (RIP) wouldn't have thought of Kensington as posh.

With the leapfrog of the roundabout you're really closer to Shepherd's Bush than anything else.

Hiltons generally do a good job. You have two tube lines quite close. Holland Park on the Central Line is convenient and the opposite direction from the roundabout, closer to the hotel just across the roundabout is a big bus station and the Overground train line (probably not much use to you) and the Central Line Shepherd's Bush tube station; and then further on past the Shepherd's Bush market is Shepherd's Bush Market station with Hammersmith & City and Circle Line tube trains. As I said, I would likely cross the roundabout by bus. Just outside the hotel you have a stop for the 31, 94, 148, 228, 295, 316, N207, and the Oxford Tube to Oxford.

I live in the area and you can walk to Shepherds Bush station or Westfield from the hotel without getting a bus. There are sidewalks and crossing points. Shepherds Bush has a lot to offer - the big shopping mall Westfields, the street market, restaurants and pubs. London Wetlands is not that near, it's South of Hammersmith Bridge, which is closed to traffic. Public transport would get you there somehow with a number of changes.

Thanks on your comments. I have decided to look elsewhere for a hotel.

Sharon, You wrote:
"We typically stay in Kensington when we visit, so when the hotel had a Kensington name, I thought it was close to the area we like. But then I saw this was aways away."

I'll bet the area you are referring to that you've stayed in before is South Kensington.

I recommend two hotels to look at in the South Ken area.
Doubletree by Hilton London South Kensington,
100 Cromwell Road,
if you are trying to stay with the Hilton brand.
If that is not a factor, look at:
Radisson Blu Edwardian Vanderbilt Hotel London,
68-86 Cromwell Road, South Kensington.
Both of these hotels (and many others) are just steps away from the Gloucester Road tube station, which has the Circle, District, and Piccadilly tube lines.

You are walking distance to the V&A Museum with either one.
This area is well-served by the bus system as well as the tube (underground).
Many good restaurants in this area.

These are my suggestions, since I noticed your last comment was "I have decided to look elsewhere for a hotel."