Sorry, bit confused here. Do you mean, “you can't leave for London”?
The Crewe hotel info I shall definitely follow-up. Crewe's always looked like a grim place to have to stay to me, but I've just paid a cool 350€ to spend two nights in the Ibis on Pollard St for next w/e. It's nuts, really. It is certified insanity. I won't do it again. Not even to see my beloved blues. Of course, as I've found to my cost in the past, spending Saturday nights at hotels in town is horribly expensive, because all the young ’uns are out on the lash, naturally, and they need a place to stagger into and keel over into bed at 1 a.m.!