we went to England with no plan and just hit the Tourist Boards to find cheap lodging each place we were headed. In London, we wound up in a nice little place a couple blocks from Paddington. I think the most we spent was £34 a night in Penzance, except for the first night when we booked a hotel in London from the airport instead. Hooray for socialist government authorities! The one rather confusing part was when they asked us what price range we were looking for and came up with places twice as expensive as we wanted, because we were thinking per room and they meant per person.