Local attractions

Ace Café

A passion, based upon the authentic roots of motorbikes and rock n' roll, Ace café was originally opened in 1938 and designed to accommodate the traffic traveling on the then new North Circular Road. The cafe was rebuilt in 1949 after world War II air raid. Many young people started to meet at the cafe with their motorcycles and listen to Rock'n'Roll music. The cafe established itself as a cultural hub for rockers, and many bands and motorcycle enthusiast groups formed there. The Ace Cafe was refurbished and reopened in 2001, and has become also famous for its various classic and sports car gatherings. It is also currently used as the base for the Channel 5 programme "Fifth Gear"

Ace café was designed and built by riders and fellow petrol-heads, so make the most of the facilities and activities to ensure its history lives on. You will be surprised to know that Ace Café is just walking distance from the hotel.

www.ace-cafe-london.com
1.76 Km ( 3 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Fryent country park

Brent has in excess of 1000 acres of public open space, including a nature reserve, a country park, formal parks and many recreational grounds. The Grand Union Canal, which stretches from Birmingham to London, also runs through the area.

www.brent.gov.uk/parks.nsf/
5.76 Km ( 10 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Wembley Arena

The world’s most famous indoor music venue, Wembley Arena is a spectacular setting for events. With a maximum capacity of around 12,750, the Arena plays host to major music stars throughout the year.

Located in Wembley, the arena is opposite to newly rebuilt venture, the Wembley national stadium. The arena is London's busiest music venue and the second busiest in the UK in terms of ticket sales Although not the biggest of London's arenas, it is regarded as having the best sound quality and the best backstage amenities for touring music acts.

www.whatsonwembley.com
3.04 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Wembley National Stadium

It is currently the largest roof-covered stadium in Europe. The all-seater stadium is based around a bowl design with a capacity of 90,000, protected from the extreme weather by a sliding roof. It stands opposite Wembley Arena.

The new Wembley stadium is a significant part of the plan for the 2012 summer Olympics to be held in London. The stadium will be the site of several games in both the men's and women's football tournaments, with the finals planned to be held there.

www.wembleystadium.com
3.52 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Bridge Park Leisure Center

Bridge Park Community Leisure Centre, managed in house by Brent Council. It provides a range of facilities from sports, martial arts, fitness classes, and aerobics. It also offers women’s only sessions. Football, mini-tennis games for junior boys and girls. Function halls in the leisure center cater for functions and wedding.

3.04 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Wembley Conference Centre

The Conference Centre was the first purpose built Conference Centre in the UK and in its opening year saw more than 350,000 people visiting 300 events. Wembley stages events of all types, from conferences, AGMs, corporate hospitality and banqueting to prestigious sporting events. The conference centre has hall for hire facilities that can hold up to 2500 people with parking available. Now this is being rebuilt undergoing expansion.

www.wembley.co.uk
3.04 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Park Royal Industrial area

Park Royal is an industrial part of northwest London, partly within the London Borough of Ealing (W5) and mostly within London Burroughs of Brent. As well as many small industrial firms, Park Royal is home to some large company buildings, including McVities, Heinz, Guiness etc. Central Middlesex Hospital, ASDA are also in this area.

3.04 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Ealing Road – Fashion Jewelry

Ealing Road is nationally famed for Indian wares, from traditional steel kitchenware, to saris, suits and shoes. The jewelry shops specialise in 28 carat gold, and you can find heavy necklace sets for brides as well as simple rings. A variety of Vegetarian and non-vegetarian North & South Indian restaurants runs along the Ealing Road. Worship places like Hindu temples, churches and mosques also stands along the busy road.

4.16 Km ( 7 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

High street shopping

The high streets of Wembley and Kilburn house a large variety of tried and trusted chain stores for everyday needs like clothes, groceries, shoes, medicine, stationery, electrical items, books and CDs. There is also few large furniture shops along the main roads such as Cricklewood Broadway, Edgware Road and the North Circular, including an IKEA which attracts people from all over the area.

Argos, Tesco, ASDA, Marks and Spencer, Boots, WHSmith, Walmart, Mc Donalds are some famous shops along the Wembley High street. Major banks like Natwest, Barclays, HSBC, have their branches located in the high street.

2.72 Km ( 6 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

IKEA

IKEA furniture is well known for its modern, utilitarian design. Much of IKEA's furniture is designed to be assembled by the consumer rather than being sold pre-assembled. The company distributes its products through its retail outlets. The chain has 251 stores in 34 countries. IKEA site contains about 12,000 products and is the closest representation of the entire IKEA range.

www.ikea.com
20.32 Km ( 26 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

CAR GIANT

Cargiant is a Car Supermarket. The history of Europes' largest car supermarket began in 1977 and was originally founded as The Trade Centre. Cargiant spans an amazing 23 acres, row upon row of cars all makes, all models all at bargain prices. Cargiant is equivalent to an unbelievable 11 Wembley stadium football pitches.

www.cargiant.co.uk
3.36 Km (10 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Brent Cross

Brent Cross Shopping Centre was the first major indoor shopping centre to be opened in the UK. The first major difference was that most of the shops stayed open until 8pm every day except Sunday. Leading brands like Marks & Spensers, John Lewis, Fenwick, Top man are few brands to be mentioned. Variety of food stores, Fast food shops are there for your delight.

www.brentcross.co.uk
6.72 Km ( 12 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Mahogany workshop

Mahogany is a small and energetic organization in Harlesden with charitable status. It's aims are to explore and develop new ideas and design techniques with the aid of modern technology in the development of personal skills through programmes in the youth and community. Also a carnival design company designing costumes every year for Notting Hill Carnival and many other national and international festivals, special events and opening ceremonies.

www.mahoganycarnival.com
1.76 Km ( 5 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Church of St Andrew

Originally built in 1847 in Wells Street near Oxford Circus, it was moved brick by brick to its present location in 1934. Many of the original Victorian fittings survived the journey. A church of the same name, was built by James Brook in 1896 in Willesden High Road. It is an excellent example of Victorian style early English architecture, and also worth seeing.
4 Km ( 7 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Shri Swami Narayan Hindu Temple

The Hindu temple is "an enormous and exotic sight among the suburban houses of north-west London" proclaims The Times. Taking only three years from concept to consecration, this beautiful and astonishing Hindu temple was built with the use of 2000 tons of Italian marble and nearly 3000 tons of Bulgarian limestone.

The exhibition Understanding Hinduism at the temple is an attempt to explore the intricacies of this religion. The temple inspired by His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj is Europe’s first traditional Hindu temple and the largest outside Asia

This unique temple is the only traditional Hindu mandir outside India. Named the "Eighth Wonder of the World" by Reader's Digest; the temple was constructed by volunteers. More than 15,000 craftsmen did the magnificent carving in India, before being sent to London for assembly in 1995. School children visit this temple in groups. World religious leaders Archbishops, World leading politicians, members of Royal family have visited and wished the temples work.

ENRTY FREE
Brentfield Rd, Neasden, London, NW10
Underground: Neasden or Stonebridge Park
Bus: 16, 92, 112, 182, 232, 245, 297, 302, PR2
Daily 9:00am-6:00pm
www.mandir.org
1 Km ( 1 minute drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Staple Corners Retail Park

The Staples Corner Retail Park has got variety of shopping within.

Staple Office - one of the biggest retailers for stationeries. Cineworld - a cinema super chain Multiplex with six screens running. PCWorld & Currys – Massive retailers of computers and electronics. JJB – Sports shop that has special section for Golf and Wing Yip - a big Chinese wholesale shop.

5.12 Km ( 7 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Park Royal Leisure Complex

Gold Gym & 10- Pin Bowling leisure amenities are prominent at the huge leisure complex at the heart of the park. Walking beside its canal or rummaging through its weird and wonderful salvage center is refreshing. You can enjoy a genuine feast of Mexican, Portuguese, Chinese, Italian or English cuisine.

You will also find numerous good restaurants in this complex. Oriental Buffet, Pizza Hut, KFC, Chiquito, Burger King and Nando's.

3 Km ( 10 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)

Brentsouth Shopping Park

It is right opposite to the Brent cross shopping center. This park is filled with big shops such as Borders, Sports Shop, TK Max, Mamas & Papas, etc. Borders is a two story high book shop, where you can enjoy starbucks coffee and read your favorite books (refer website: www.bordersstores.com) In TK Max you may find designer labels for cheaper price. Mamas & Papas is a shop especially designed for newborn babies. The area is accessible either by car or bus, as there are plenty of parking spaces.
Nearby is the Toys R Us Toy mall, where you can find a great collection of toys for kids.
5.6 Km ( 8 minutes drive from Bridge Park Hotel)