Berlin, Lisbon, Budapest and Bruxelles are some of those cities where you can stay at a 5-star extremely cheap. London's the worst for it; I have never been ha

Berlin, Lisbon, Budapest and Bruxelles are some of those cities where you can stay at a 5-star extremely cheap. London's the worst for it; I have never been happy with the cheaper 5-star (less than 260 GBP/night) hotels there. Maybe if you stay at Mandarin Oriental... On the other hand the restaurants are a great value, especially lunch menus: save the 100 GBP on the 5-star hotel and spend 55 GBP (+12.5% "optional" gratuity) on a 3-course lunch menu, with 2 glasses of wine and coffee at an amazing 2-Michelin-star restaurant like "The Square". You'll still have enough for a last-minute good half-price theatre ticket at tkts.co.uk in the evening.