On the western side of the Tottenham Court Road, between Hanway Street and Stephen Street at 9-16 Tottenham Court Road, is the familiar orange and white branded Easy Internet Café with about 470 internet PCs.
They are open very late and have a prepaid voucher machine system to buy internet connection time. You are less likely to have your email or blog publishing or internet banking authentication credentials snarfed by password sniffers etc. from viruses or spyware, as each machine has its software rebuilt from central server images after each customer's session.
Next door, is another useful Sainsbury's supermarket for the purchase of food and drink (including alcohol at farless than the pub and bar prices)
N.B. it is illegal to openly drink alcohol in the street in this central area of London, either in the City of Westminster or the Borough of Camden - you can have your drinks confiscated by the Police or the Police Community Support Officers (who go around in pairs) and face a fine etc.
GPS grid coordinates:
Latitude: (WGS84) N51:31:03 ( 51.517405 )
Longitude: (WGS84) W0:07:54 ( -0.131581 )
There are other EasyInterentCafes branches at:
- Trafalgar Square (between Charing Cross station and the southern end of the Charing Cross Road
456 - 459 Strand
London WC2R 0RG
(Trafalgar Square end)
Number of PCs: 393
Opening hours:
Open 08:00-23:00, 7 days a week. - Oxford Street
358 Oxford Street
London W1N 9AG
(opposite Bond Street Underground station).
Number of PCs: 268
Opening hours:
Sun-Wed: 08:00-22:00
Thurs-Sat: 08:00-00:00 - Camden
Post Office
112-114 Camden High Street
London NW1 0RR
Number of PCs: 18
Opening hours:
Monday 08:30-18:00
Tuesday 09:00-18:00
Wednesday 09:00-18:00
Thursday 09:00-18:00
Friday 09:00-18:00
Saturday 09:00-17:30 - Kensington High Street
160-166 Kensington High Street,
London W8 7RG
Number of PCs: 394
Opening hours:
08:00-22:00, 7 days a week. - King's Road - Chelsea
Unit G1
Kings Walk
120 Kings Road
London SW3 4TR
Number of PCs: 98
Opening hours:
Mon-Thurs: 09.30-19.00
Fri-Sat: 09.30-20.30
Sun: 12.00-18.00 - Whiteley's Shopping Centre - Queensway, Bayswater
Kiosk 4
Second floor
Whiletelys Shopping Centre
London W2 4YN
Number of PCs: 18
Opening hours:
Mon-Sun: 08:30-00:00
Visited this cafe in April 2008; first trip, only one vending machine worked, second, all were broken. As were most of the workstations. The place is unmanned, and didn't feel all that safe. There's a cheaper internet cafe just a bit south and across the street. It's busier, cleaner, and all the computers work. Avoid this dump.