The circuit: twelve venues between the Piazza and the river

Covent Garden holds WC2E, the Piazza, Seven Dials and the stage doors along Floral Street. Strand and Aldwych curves below it in WC2R, between the Lyceum and the water. Leicester Square sits four minutes west in WC2H with its premiere carpets, and Charing Cross drops south into WC2N under the Coliseum globe. If you cannot place your hotel among the four letters, the WC2 guide sorts the streets out.

Holborn takes WC1V and WC2A, quiet the moment chambers empty. Bloomsbury keeps WC1B, its garden squares and its townhouse rooms behind the museum. Tottenham Court Road covers the W1T junction where the Elizabeth line surfaces, one stop from the stage doors.

Kings Cross and St Pancras share N1C, one for the yard and the canal steps, one for arrivals under the Barlow shed. Euston sits a few hundred yards west in NW1, where a stopover often has an early start behind it. All three are ordinary weeknight ground for the company.

Waterloo carries SE1 and the South Bank, ten minutes on foot from the north side. Rooms facing back across the river are booked from this page more often than any other.

That changes nothing. Zones 1 and 2 are reached with the travelling already counted into the fee, which takes in Marylebone, Clerkenwell, the City and Westminster without a page each. Past that boundary the cab is priced both ways and totalled for you before you agree to anything, and an airport evening runs to three hours at minimum with the journey inside them. The figures are identical at every venue on the circuit; see the rates page.