Essential Information - Internet Access

Logging onto the Internet isn't a problem in London . If you have your own laptop you can go online with ease from your hotel room and if you don't you can drop into any Internet café throughout the capital.

The most important thing as a traveler with your own laptop is to buy an adaptor that slots onto the standard telephone cord to fit to the wider, thinner UK phone line. These are available in any hardware or electrical store. Some of the better known and centrally located Internet cafés are listed below, but these are a fraction of those available.

Buzz Bar

Address: 95 Portobello Rd W11
Tel: +44 (020) 7460 4906
Tube: Notting Hill Gate.
www.portobellogold.com/internet.html

Upstairs from the Portobello Gold Hotel, the Buzz Bar has six terminals available and has been pronounced 'the most relaxed internet café in London ' by the Evening Standard.

Cyberg@te

Address: 3 Leigh St WC1
Tel: +44 (020) 7387 3810
Tube: Russell Square
www.c-gate.com

Cyberg@te has another branch at STA Travel (Tel: +44 (020) 7383 2282; 117 Euston Rd NW1; hours 1000-1700 Mon-Fri, 1100-1700 Sat).

Cyberia

Address: 39 Whitfield St W1
Tel: +44 (020) 7209 0984
Tube: Goodge Street
www.cyberiacafe.net

Cyberia has 14 terminals and was London 's first Internet café.

easyEverything

Address: 12-14 Wilton Rd SW1
Tel: +44 (020) 7938 1841
Tube: Victoria
www.easyeverything.com

This chain of cybercafés is a division of the no-frills airline easyJet.

Other branches include:

Tottenham Court Road 9-16 Tottenham Court Rd W1; tube Tottenham Court Rd.
Kensington160-166 Kensington High St W8; tube Kensington High St.
Oxford Circus 358 Oxford St W1; tube Oxford Circus.
Trafalgar Square 7 Strand WC2; tube Charing Cross .
Baker Street 122 Baker St , inside McDonald's; tube Baker Street .
Piccadilly Circus 46 Regent St , inside Burger King; tube Piccadilly Circus .
King's Road Unit G1, King's Walk, 120 King's Rd; tube Sloane Square .

Internet Exchange

Address: London Trocadero, 1st floor, Piccadilly Circus W1
Tel: +44 (020) 7437 3704.
Tube: Piccadilly Circus
www.internet-exchange.co.uk

This chain has branches as ubiquitous as those of easyEverything.

Branches include:

Covent Garden 37 The Market WC2; tube Covent Garden ; Tel: +44 (020) 7836 8636.
Bayswater 47-49 Queensway W2; tube Bayswater; Tel: +44 (020) 7792 5790.

Internet Lounge

Address: 24a Earl's Court Gardens SW5
Tel: +44 (020) 7370 5742;
Tube: Earl's Court

Vibe Bar

Address: The Brewery, 91-95 Brick Lane E1
Tel: +44 (020) 7247 3479 / + 44 (020) 7377 2899
Tube Shoreditch/Aldgate East.
www.vibebar.co.uk

Seven terminals are available at no charge to customers.

Virgin Megastore

Address: 14-30 Oxford St W1
Tel: +44 (020) 7631 1234
Tube: Tottenham Court Road

This huge record store has access on 20 terminals.