Whiteleys.Queensway,
London
W2 4YN
United Kingdom
http://www.whiteleys.com/contact/contacts/contact-us-at-whiteleys.html
Wednesday, 25 March 2009
FOOD FOOD FOOD
places for the restraunts that could be used during the trip-
- Burger king
- pizza hut
- mc donalds
- Mr fish
- KFC
Wednesday, 18 March 2009
The total cost
The total cost is 5496
I did the spreadsheet
I'm putting the additional visa costs, what passports need visa and stuff
K?
I did the spreadsheet
I'm putting the additional visa costs, what passports need visa and stuff
K?
POWERPOINT THING
1st slide- introduction
2nd slide- map of london
3ed slide- cost:
Torquay hostel cost- 12 pounds per night
Fights- using British airways
The departure time from HK on 3rd Oct: 00.35 (Friday night)
Arrive at: 6.35 (in the morning) - check cost for the transport
The coming back on 10th Oct:
18:35 on 10th Oct from Heathrow
we arrive in HK at:13:25 11 OCT (Next day )
*The total cost would be : $5881 HKD
Extra money needed- $750 - $1000
* The cost of flights will have a 60% discount
4th slide- torquay hostel information
Our group has decided to use the Torquay hostel as our accommodation for this week in London. Since our budget is tight and we would like to keep the spending rate as low as possible we decided instead of staying in an expensive hotel we would instead stay at a hostel which is built to accommodate students during camps , study trips etc.
Cost-
12 US dollars per night
HKD 93 per night
5 nights- $ 468 altogether.
5th slide- natural history museum - creativity
As part of the creativity- we choose the natural history museum, which is well visited all over London.
To get to the museum we would take:
Paddington /Eastbound Terrace line (tube)
To interchange at : Paddington Underground Station
Where we would arrive at: South Kensington Underground Station which would lead us to the museum (time – 13 min)
Entry is free!
(There is a charge for some temporary exhibitions)
Opening times
Open every day 10.00 - 17.50 Last admission 17.30
[The museum also provides special courses for visiting schools]
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/index.html
6th slide-action regent's park
To get to regents park you can take the underground train (tube) from Paddington which is where the Torquay hostel would be.
Regents park would be two stations away from the hostel so this would make it convenient and easy for the students to travel from one destination to another.
Within the park students can look at the exotic wildlife animals such as rare birds etc.
Besides this the park also facilitate tennis courts, badminton courts, sports centers etc.
7th slide- visit elderly homes kensington
As a part of service we have decided to visit Kensington elderly home.
How to get there:
Take the bays water tube rail
Arrive at Kensington elderly homes
5 minute walk to elderly home
This elderly home allows all types of volunteers (schools, families etc.) to visit
http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/page.php?page=volunteer&gs=1
8th slide- sight seeing pictures of the london eye
9th slide-timetable
day one- arrive at london
day two- take train to regents park
day three- take train to brighton beach then to orphanage
day four- sight see and shop
day five- more sight see then go back to hong kong
10thslide- transportation- map of tube line
11th slide- end thank u for watching
2nd slide- map of london
3ed slide- cost:
Torquay hostel cost- 12 pounds per night
Fights- using British airways
The departure time from HK on 3rd Oct: 00.35 (Friday night)
Arrive at: 6.35 (in the morning) - check cost for the transport
The coming back on 10th Oct:
18:35 on 10th Oct from Heathrow
we arrive in HK at:13:25 11 OCT (Next day )
*The total cost would be : $5881 HKD
Extra money needed- $750 - $1000
* The cost of flights will have a 60% discount
4th slide- torquay hostel information
Our group has decided to use the Torquay hostel as our accommodation for this week in London. Since our budget is tight and we would like to keep the spending rate as low as possible we decided instead of staying in an expensive hotel we would instead stay at a hostel which is built to accommodate students during camps , study trips etc.
Cost-
12 US dollars per night
HKD 93 per night
5 nights- $ 468 altogether.
5th slide- natural history museum - creativity
As part of the creativity- we choose the natural history museum, which is well visited all over London.
To get to the museum we would take:
Paddington /Eastbound Terrace line (tube)
To interchange at : Paddington Underground Station
Where we would arrive at: South Kensington Underground Station which would lead us to the museum (time – 13 min)
Entry is free!
(There is a charge for some temporary exhibitions)
Opening times
Open every day 10.00 - 17.50 Last admission 17.30
[The museum also provides special courses for visiting schools]
http://www.nhm.ac.uk/visit-us/index.html
6th slide-action regent's park
To get to regents park you can take the underground train (tube) from Paddington which is where the Torquay hostel would be.
Regents park would be two stations away from the hostel so this would make it convenient and easy for the students to travel from one destination to another.
Within the park students can look at the exotic wildlife animals such as rare birds etc.
Besides this the park also facilitate tennis courts, badminton courts, sports centers etc.
7th slide- visit elderly homes kensington
As a part of service we have decided to visit Kensington elderly home.
How to get there:
Take the bays water tube rail
Arrive at Kensington elderly homes
5 minute walk to elderly home
This elderly home allows all types of volunteers (schools, families etc.) to visit
http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/page.php?page=volunteer&gs=1
8th slide- sight seeing pictures of the london eye
9th slide-timetable
day one- arrive at london
day two- take train to regents park
day three- take train to brighton beach then to orphanage
day four- sight see and shop
day five- more sight see then go back to hong kong
10thslide- transportation- map of tube line
11th slide- end thank u for watching
Regents park---
Getting there:
Tube:Regent's Park - Bakerloo line
Great Portland Street - Hammersmith & City
Circle & Metropolitan lines
Baker Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle, Jubilee, Metropolitan & Bakerloo lines
St John's Wood - Jubilee line
Camden Town - Northern line
Bus:
2 Marylebone Station - Crystal Palace
13 Aldwych - Golders Green
18 Euston - Sudbury
27 Chalk Farm - Turnham Green
30 Marble Arch - Hackney Wick
74 Baker St Station - Roehampton
82 Victoria - North Finchley
113 Oxford Circus - Edgware
139 Waterloo - West Hampstead
189 Oxford Circus - Brent Cross Shopping Centre
274 Angel Islington - Lancaster Gate
453 Marylebone Street - Deptford Broadway
C2 Oxford Circus - Parliament Hill Fields
Tube:Regent's Park - Bakerloo line
Great Portland Street - Hammersmith & City
Circle & Metropolitan lines
Baker Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle, Jubilee, Metropolitan & Bakerloo lines
St John's Wood - Jubilee line
Camden Town - Northern line
Bus:
2 Marylebone Station - Crystal Palace
13 Aldwych - Golders Green
18 Euston - Sudbury
27 Chalk Farm - Turnham Green
30 Marble Arch - Hackney Wick
74 Baker St Station - Roehampton
82 Victoria - North Finchley
113 Oxford Circus - Edgware
139 Waterloo - West Hampstead
189 Oxford Circus - Brent Cross Shopping Centre
274 Angel Islington - Lancaster Gate
453 Marylebone Street - Deptford Broadway
C2 Oxford Circus - Parliament Hill Fields
Thursday, 5 March 2009
JESSICA PUT THIS ON THE POWER POINT...
Jessica: plz, finish the ppt by monday and bring it to school so we can transport it to our respective thumbdrives. I'll do the newsletter and the spread sheet thingy and seraphim can do the video. Put the total cost in the end.. I'll double check the ppt with you later... Lolz. ^.^
Seraphim: all the info you need will be on the ppt, so kindly post all the info (onlye where we ARE going and how, travel cost etc. on the blog so that she can assemble the ppt)
FLIGHT COSTS
British airways... this is the page...
The departure time from HK on 3rd oct:
00.35 (so thats friday night at midnight I think)
we arrive at HEATHROW airport at
6.35 (in the morning) - check cost for the transport
The coming back on 10th Oct:
18:35 on 10th Oct from Heathrow
we arrive in HK at
13:25 11 OCT (thats the next day!)
The total will be 5881 HKD but with the gropu discount thingy it will be 3528.6 (THIS IS CHEAPER THAN THE PRICE B4, PLZ NOTE!)
YOu only have to put the second price on th ppt.
Guyz, i put a comment on ur transportation post... can u plz check it put? I think it might be of some help... I'll try and see if I can find any more info abt the regents park and post it
PS!
We needa get to gether sometime to decide the script for the ppt..
YOu know, its not supposed to have too much text
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Well well well! I found there is this site where they leet volunteers to go and have many elderly homes in London!!! Here are where they listed they have it:
Town/Borough
GREATER LOND0N -
Barking and Dagenham x 2
Barnet
Bexley x 2
Bromley x 5
Camden x 3
Croydon x 2
Ealing x 3
Enfield
Greenwich x 3
Hackney x 2
Hammersmith and Fulham x 2
Haringey x 2
Harrow x 4
Havering x 2
Hillingdon
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames x 3
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Newham & Tower Hamlets
Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark x 2
Waltham Forest x 5
Wandsworth x 2
Westminster x 6
The nearest one to Paddington is these few:
Kensington and Chelsea
Lambeth
Islington
The webstite is - http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/page.php?page=locations
I hope this will work out! :)
Town/Borough
GREATER LOND0N -
Barking and Dagenham x 2
Barnet
Bexley x 2
Bromley x 5
Camden x 3
Croydon x 2
Ealing x 3
Enfield
Greenwich x 3
Hackney x 2
Hammersmith and Fulham x 2
Haringey x 2
Harrow x 4
Havering x 2
Hillingdon
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Kingston upon Thames x 3
Lambeth
Lewisham
Merton
Newham & Tower Hamlets
Redbridge
Richmond upon Thames
Southwark x 2
Waltham Forest x 5
Wandsworth x 2
Westminster x 6
The nearest one to Paddington is these few:
Kensington and Chelsea
Lambeth
Islington
The webstite is - http://www.contact-the-elderly.org.uk/page.php?page=locations
I hope this will work out! :)
maybe we can go to regents park?
I havent really found any info...
but the park has excellent sports facilities, and its really close by so we can go there easily...
http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/regents_park/
please consider
Tube:Regent's Park - Bakerloo lineGreat Portland Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle & Metropolitan linesBaker Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle, Jubilee, Metropolitan & Bakerloo linesSt John's Wood - Jubilee line Camden Town - Northern line
its just 2 stations away from paddington on the underground
but the park has excellent sports facilities, and its really close by so we can go there easily...
http://www.royalparks.org.uk/parks/regents_park/
please consider
Tube:Regent's Park - Bakerloo lineGreat Portland Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle & Metropolitan linesBaker Street - Hammersmith & City, Circle, Jubilee, Metropolitan & Bakerloo linesSt John's Wood - Jubilee line Camden Town - Northern line
its just 2 stations away from paddington on the underground
Monday, 2 March 2009
Service!?
Okay....I was checking and checking and checking - but there's no orphanage in London!!! I even asked people on yahoo answers but they say orphanages are no longer common anymore and there are hardly any in where we are planning to go!
So...they say those childrens there are either in foster homes or adopted already. Now I'll have to think of another way of doing 'service' - help in schools? Help in elderly homes? I am leaning toward the idea of helping in schools but seriously I don't think London would have much schools need help, yet I think the idea of having STC students meeting people at same age would be a great one. Helping elderlys is not bad, just not as fun~ :P
I hope I'll find some useful info. soon! :)
*Oh, and I'll probably add a song here :D*
So...they say those childrens there are either in foster homes or adopted already. Now I'll have to think of another way of doing 'service' - help in schools? Help in elderly homes? I am leaning toward the idea of helping in schools but seriously I don't think London would have much schools need help, yet I think the idea of having STC students meeting people at same age would be a great one. Helping elderlys is not bad, just not as fun~ :P
I hope I'll find some useful info. soon! :)
*Oh, and I'll probably add a song here :D*
Sunday, 1 March 2009
Transportation in london!!!
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/9444.aspx - goverment website about transtations in london
TAXIES-
Taxi fares
The table shows typical fares and journey times based on distance for three types of tariff. Fares and journey times may be higher if there are delays or heavy traffic.
Distance
Approx journey time
Monday to Friday 06:00 - 20:00(Tariff code 1)
Monday to Friday20:00 - 22:00Saturday and Sunday 06:00 - 22:00(Tariff code 2)
Every night22:00 - 06:00Public holidays(Tariff code 3)
1 mile
5 - 12 mins
£4.40 - £8
£4.60 - £8
£4.80 - £8
2 miles
8 - 15 mins
£6.80 - £10.60
£6.80 - £10.60
£7.40 - £11.60
4 miles
15 - 30 mins
£11 - £18
£12 - £18
£14 - £21
6 miles
20 - 40 mins
£17 - £27
£18 - £27
£23 - £32
Between Heathrow and Central London
30 - 60 mins
£40 - £70
£40 - £70
£40 - £70
There is a minimum fare of £2.20 at all times.
How it works:
The meter calculates the maximum fare based on:
Time of day
Distance travelled
Taxi speed
The passenger will be expected to pay the full fare displayed on the meter at the end of the journey unless the driver and passenger agree on the final fare to be charged before the start of the journey.
What you can expect from the driver:
Unless they have a good reason not to, drivers must:
Accept any hiring up to 12 miles or any hiring up to one hour duration, if the destination is in Greater London
Accept any hiring up to 20 miles if starting at Heathrow Airport
Accept any hiring up to one hour duration, if the destination is in Greater London
The driver does not have to accept a hiring if the destination is outside Greater London, if the driver does accept the journey, the fare can be negotiated with the passenger.
---------------------------
Extra charges
Extra charges must be added on the meter at the start of the journey. There are no extra charges for luggage, additional passengers or carrying of assistance dogs.
Telephone Bookings
There is an extra charge of up to £2 if the taxi is booked by telephone.
Heathrow extra
There is an extra charge of £2 for journeys that start from Heathrow Airport ranks.
Christmas and New Year
There is an extra charge of £4 for journeys made between 20:00 on 24 December and 06:00 on 27 December or between 20:00 on 31 December and 06:00 on 2 January 2009.
Bank cards
Some taxis accept credit or debit cards, typically with a surcharge of between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of the metered fare.
Soiling
The driver may charge the passenger up to £40 for soiling if it requires the taxi to be taken out of service for cleaning.
All taxi fares and tariffs information shown on these pages is effective from Saturday 5 April 2008.
----more information coming soon!!!---
TAXIES-
Taxi fares
The table shows typical fares and journey times based on distance for three types of tariff. Fares and journey times may be higher if there are delays or heavy traffic.
Distance
Approx journey time
Monday to Friday 06:00 - 20:00(Tariff code 1)
Monday to Friday20:00 - 22:00Saturday and Sunday 06:00 - 22:00(Tariff code 2)
Every night22:00 - 06:00Public holidays(Tariff code 3)
1 mile
5 - 12 mins
£4.40 - £8
£4.60 - £8
£4.80 - £8
2 miles
8 - 15 mins
£6.80 - £10.60
£6.80 - £10.60
£7.40 - £11.60
4 miles
15 - 30 mins
£11 - £18
£12 - £18
£14 - £21
6 miles
20 - 40 mins
£17 - £27
£18 - £27
£23 - £32
Between Heathrow and Central London
30 - 60 mins
£40 - £70
£40 - £70
£40 - £70
There is a minimum fare of £2.20 at all times.
How it works:
The meter calculates the maximum fare based on:
Time of day
Distance travelled
Taxi speed
The passenger will be expected to pay the full fare displayed on the meter at the end of the journey unless the driver and passenger agree on the final fare to be charged before the start of the journey.
What you can expect from the driver:
Unless they have a good reason not to, drivers must:
Accept any hiring up to 12 miles or any hiring up to one hour duration, if the destination is in Greater London
Accept any hiring up to 20 miles if starting at Heathrow Airport
Accept any hiring up to one hour duration, if the destination is in Greater London
The driver does not have to accept a hiring if the destination is outside Greater London, if the driver does accept the journey, the fare can be negotiated with the passenger.
---------------------------
Extra charges
Extra charges must be added on the meter at the start of the journey. There are no extra charges for luggage, additional passengers or carrying of assistance dogs.
Telephone Bookings
There is an extra charge of up to £2 if the taxi is booked by telephone.
Heathrow extra
There is an extra charge of £2 for journeys that start from Heathrow Airport ranks.
Christmas and New Year
There is an extra charge of £4 for journeys made between 20:00 on 24 December and 06:00 on 27 December or between 20:00 on 31 December and 06:00 on 2 January 2009.
Bank cards
Some taxis accept credit or debit cards, typically with a surcharge of between 10 per cent and 15 per cent of the metered fare.
Soiling
The driver may charge the passenger up to £40 for soiling if it requires the taxi to be taken out of service for cleaning.
All taxi fares and tariffs information shown on these pages is effective from Saturday 5 April 2008.
----more information coming soon!!!---
REVIEWS REVIEWS REVIEWS!!!!
Although these reviews aren't written by me i thought i would be nice for u guys to see what people thought of the hostels i talked about so far!!
Comments on the torquay hostel-
Comment by Anonymous
May 2005
This is basically a hostel, a so so hostel. I guess for the price I shouldn't complain. The bathrooms are fairly clean, there as a huge kitchen on every floor (so we were told), which is great. We did have a fridge in our room as well. The staff were fine. There is a common room but no one uses it. The bad sides include the area (its close to the tube but first stop of zone two) and the fact that the hostel sits on an unpleasant highway, next to a gas station. This makes it noisy and not pleasant out the door. The mattress was terrible, really terrible. Some sort of a worn away box spring - and really, I'm not fussy. The girl at the desk suggested I sleep on the floor instead. They did try and exchange the mattress when I complained, but I guess they didn't have anything better.
Comment by AKRW
February 2004
I've spent there 3 nights with my boyfriend and we really enjoyed being so close to the tube station. It was great to have a bathroom of our own and we saved a lot of money by cooking in "our" kitchen. Bring some stuff like washing-up liquid along...
Comments about hostel 63-
Awful!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
Everything in this hostel was filthy. There were crochrockers in some rooms. The showers and toilets were dirty and very small. In some rooms and in the kitchen were broken windows. The beds looked like they weren`t washed for 4 weeks. They smelled terrible.You also couldn`t close the windows, because there were no interlocking at it.
don´t give it a try
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
we were at hostel 63 in september 2007 on our class trip. it was just awful, the dirtiest place we ever have seen, the kitchen ... better not talk about it.our beds nearly broke down as we lay in, and everywhere we looked we saw mildrew. into one shower was a great hole in the wall so everyone could watch us as we took a disgusting shower .SO ALL IN ALL: DONT ENTER IT OR YOU GET CLOSE TO THE COKROACHES
Comments on the torquay hostel-
Comment by Anonymous
May 2005
This is basically a hostel, a so so hostel. I guess for the price I shouldn't complain. The bathrooms are fairly clean, there as a huge kitchen on every floor (so we were told), which is great. We did have a fridge in our room as well. The staff were fine. There is a common room but no one uses it. The bad sides include the area (its close to the tube but first stop of zone two) and the fact that the hostel sits on an unpleasant highway, next to a gas station. This makes it noisy and not pleasant out the door. The mattress was terrible, really terrible. Some sort of a worn away box spring - and really, I'm not fussy. The girl at the desk suggested I sleep on the floor instead. They did try and exchange the mattress when I complained, but I guess they didn't have anything better.
Comment by AKRW
February 2004
I've spent there 3 nights with my boyfriend and we really enjoyed being so close to the tube station. It was great to have a bathroom of our own and we saved a lot of money by cooking in "our" kitchen. Bring some stuff like washing-up liquid along...
Comments about hostel 63-
Awful!
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
Everything in this hostel was filthy. There were crochrockers in some rooms. The showers and toilets were dirty and very small. In some rooms and in the kitchen were broken windows. The beds looked like they weren`t washed for 4 weeks. They smelled terrible.You also couldn`t close the windows, because there were no interlocking at it.
don´t give it a try
By A Yahoo! Contributor, 09/21/07
we were at hostel 63 in september 2007 on our class trip. it was just awful, the dirtiest place we ever have seen, the kitchen ... better not talk about it.our beds nearly broke down as we lay in, and everywhere we looked we saw mildrew. into one shower was a great hole in the wall so everyone could watch us as we took a disgusting shower .SO ALL IN ALL: DONT ENTER IT OR YOU GET CLOSE TO THE COKROACHES
Total dump! Filthy kitchen and bathrooms.I backpacked through Europe for three weeks. This was absolutely the worst place ever. It was filthy and the bathroom was beyond unsanitary!
Comment by Ripped off
July 2007
The worst ever!!well for a start, the secure store is not secure, we ourselves found it wide open one day with people's belongings there for us to help ourselves, and the manager didn't even seem bothered when we told him of this. the other comments of the mice and the bedbugs obviously haven't been listened to because they are both evident. we came home one night to see two girls in reception rubbing themselves with cream for their bites, should have been a warning sign! As for drunk people, they were vomiting everywhere and when we complained to reception, nothing was done about it. also if they overbook the hostel, they put you at their worse "sister" hostel around the corner! just don't even bother paying for a place like this, you'd be better spending your money to go to a club then sleep in a park the next day!
Comment by Simon G
October 2006
Bedbug alert! (I'm not kidding you.) It certainly is the filthiest hostel I have ever stayed in, but the real nightmare of this place is its apparent bedbug infestation. My girlfriend and I stayed at a super cramped and dirty eight-person mixed dorm for two days. She got lucky and only got about ten bedbug bites on her hands, but I was bitten sixty-nine times (I counted) all over my body. If you have never been bitten by a bedbug before, and I for one haven't, I can tell you that they itch worse and last longer than mosquito bites. I had a dermatologist look at mine and she identified them as bedbug bites. Furthermore bedbugs are suspected of spreading diseases such as hepatitis and may cause allergic reactions and what's worse, you may end up bringing the infestation to your own home if a bug should end up in your bagpack! If you want to see how they look -- just make a google image search for "bedbug." The thing about bedbug bites is that the skin eruptions can be delayed as long as nine days, so you might not even put the two together if you stay at an infested place. Although we didn't actually see the pests (they only come out from nests inside the mattresses at night to suck your blood while you're sleeping) our itinerary made it unequivocally clear they came from Hostel 63. And considering the filthy state of this hostel, I'm not surprised. I'm just thankful I didn't wake up to see them crawl around in my bed in the middle of the night. My advice, stay far away from this hostel.
PLEASE NOTE NONE OF THESE REVIEWS AREN'T WRITTEN BY ME!! THIS IS JUST A REFRENCE!!!
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