Clean budget friendly hotel steps from paddington blocks from paddington the recently refurbished ashley hotel is in a handsome victorian terrace in a garden square youll be a few blocks from paddington station for the underground buses heathrow express and trains to oxford and beyond hyde park and kensington gardens are a 5 minute walk shopping options take the tube to wood lane an 8 minute ride for shopping mecca westfield london dip in and out of the flagship stores along oxford