Thanks all for your kind replies. Some good info there.
However, after some mooching around on the internet, I've decided (it's my hard earned, after all), to avoid Dodge. 3 decent nights with the family in tow would set me back a grand, at a conservative estimate. For what? With kidz 4 and 2, they'll not remember a thing, and I doubt the wife would let me saunter out at night. So I'm just gonna book a cross-town taxi to Euston, ride a cheap virgin, get up north and avoid the plague.
Kudos to any Latix that live in That London, but it ain't for me, not even for a day.
Thanks again, all,
KC