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Apple Store, Regent St.

The Express by Holiday Inn at Kings Road has a nearby pub that offers free wifi. It can be used from the hotel lobby.

Any Wetherspoons pub (http://www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/) - you'll probably need to buy a drink but they do have soft drinks (including coffee) and they're cheap and fairly comfortable in the daytime. Lots of them throughout London - some are called Lloyds Bars.

The British Library café (near Euston station): http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/visits/wifi.html The interior of the building is amazing, and there's no need to buy drinks or use the library.

Ray's Jazz Cafe in Foyles - good coffee, great jazz.

Now you can get free wifi at Pret a Manger everywhere in London.

Level 2 of the Royal Festival Hall, part of the South Bank Centre has free wifi and a couple of good cafes and bars to grab some food and drink while you're there.

If you're lucky you might catch a free performance while you're there.

Hummus Brothers Holborn

Cafe specialising in good tasty hummus. Coffees for 50p, free wifi, lots of power sockets and tables. You can book out the upstairs for meetings too

I stayed at the Shaftesbury Metropolis London Hyde Park Hotel and they offer free wi-fi throughout the hotel. The hotel's in Paddington and worth considering if you want the wifi without the hassle of having to buy drinks etc.

Joining BT FON (http://www.btfon.com/) may gave you some more wifi spots (may need a BT account, so this is one for UK people)

Most McDonalds offer free wifi

Buy yourself a pay as you go SIM card and use it with a unlocked iPhone. For example one from three.co.uk. That gives you internet for 50 pence a day ;-)

The Apple Store is excellent for powering up dead laptop batteries too - the seats at the back of the first floor have a mains socket per seat.

The cafe at the Welcome Collection on Euston Road (http://www.wellcomecollection.org/) has very good wi-fi

There are several ways for tourists to get internet for their iPhones.

Four main ways (in order of recommendation):

1. Unlock your iPhone and buy a local sim card. Top up for internet.

2. Rent a local iPhone. For example, http://www.aziphone.com

3. Download a free wifi-finder app for where you’re going and try to pick up free wifi.

4. Call your mobile network to go on their travel roaming plan. Use data for emails mostly.

This one might work for those bold enough.

Rack up an inane amount of roaming charges upwards of $300 and then call your carrier afterwards. Be shocked and apologize. Ask it to be wiped out. I’ve heard stories of people having $600 being written off.

more advice from

http://azitravel.com/blog

You can take a Mobile Wi-Fi from www.fonmigo.com. Its a pocket sized wireless router that gives you Wi-Fi anywhere in the UK. Its amazing.