London Vacation

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I'll be taking a trip to Europe and will be visiting London. Just curious to hear from people who have visited or live there.
Any suggestions on where to stay?? Good areas? Bad areas?
Suggestions for activities would great, too.

There are also tickets left for the British GP. If transportation from London to Silverstone and back isn't too big a hassle... I'll look into getting tickets for the race. I took a quick glance at ticket availability and there are seats available. Just gotta read what the differences are for each ticket group.

Anyone ever done car factory tours? Fun? I'd imagine they'd get boring at some point...

Thanks!
 
I don't know where you are originally from but if it's America bring lots of money. London is expensive to begin with I found but with the stupidly low American dollar against the strong British pound it's even more expensive.
 
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I'll be taking a trip to Europe and will be visiting London. Just curious to hear from people who have visited or live there.
Any suggestions on where to stay?? Good areas? Bad areas?
Suggestions for activities would great, too.

There are also tickets left for the British GP. If transportation from London to Silverstone and back isn't too big a hassle... I'll look into getting tickets for the race. I took a quick glance at ticket availability and there are seats available. Just gotta read what the differences are for each ticket group.

Anyone ever done car factory tours? Fun? I'd imagine they'd get boring at some point...

Thanks!
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Hi SouL,

I'd recommend staying within the zone bounded by the Circle Line (Yellow line on the London Underground)... http://www.bulgarianlondon.com/bg_lon/bg/images/tube_map.gif - "The West End" is basically anything to the left of Holborn and there is tonnes to see and do... Your best bet is to get yourself a day pass for the Tube/bus and just go exploring, but you can cover plenty of ground on foot.

A nice on-foot tour of London starts at St. Paul's Cathedral on the Central Line (red line), and from there, you can head South to the Thames and cross over it via the Millennium Bridge, which takes you straight to the Tate Modern (fantastic modern art gallery, well worth a visit and it's free) on the South Bank. Walk along the South Bank of the river towards Westminster and you'll get to the Houses of Parliament etc.. From there, you can cross back over the river and head up to Trafalgar Square and up into Soho, where there are tonnes of great restaurants and some interesting sights! (Soho is the area bounded by Tottenham Court Road, Oxford Circus, Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square). A nice place to visit is Greenwich (bottom right), and you can get there on the DLR (Docklands Light Railway), which will also take you through Canary Wharf. If it's trendy bars and restaurants you are looking for, try Shoreditch to the east of the centre of town (nr. Liverpool Street/Old Street). As for good and bad areas, London is a real mix - there really isn't that many places you could describe as a 'bad area', since even the dodgiest parts of town have some nice bits.
 
And when your finished in London, get a train down to Brighton takes 45 minutes nd your at a great seaside resort with loads of restraunts, beach, seaside stuff and the pier:D
 
I absolutely hate to say it, but go see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. I declined to do so - I deemed it way too touristy - but now I regret having missed it.

Visit the Tower, and walk across the upper deck of Tower Bridge.
 
As Joey said, assuming you're from America, bring lots of money - prices here are about double what they are on t'other end of the Atlantic. All the museums and art galleries here are free.

Check YSSMAN's thread on a possible Eurovisit - there's some useful stuff in there.
 
Thanks for the suggestions. Yeah I'm from the US. I'll be sure to keep spending light.

How many days would you guys suggest staying in London to see "most" of what's to see?
It's hard to gauge without having been there. I'm sure there's enough to do... but I'd like to set aside an appropriate amount of time to see the "must sees." If I finish early, then great, I can have extra time to see/do other things.

I will check that thread out, thanks!
 
I probably spent six days in total there and barely scratched the surface, the British Museum alone took a day to walk through.
 
If you want to see a lot you'll need a week and thats just to see a lot, you could see a lot more in a second week. It depends just how much moeny you have and how active you are. Prices are very high for London and that's coming from people who live in the UK, to compare US prices to London prices might seem instane. You will need money. If you plan on visiting other parts of England then prices will still be high comapred to the US but not as much as London, which is really the big downside or that place. It's a great city to visit but it almost has it's own economy system in terms of what people earn and what things cost, they arn't on the same level as the rest of the UK.
 
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And when your finished in London, get a train down to Brighton takes 45 minutes nd your at a great seaside resort with loads of restraunts, beach, seaside stuff and the pier:D
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There's beaches in England?
 
More commonly known as 'rubbish bins', 'gravel pits', or from time to time 'oil storage facilities', but yes, we have sandy bits between the land and sea that you might, at a stretch, call a beach.
 

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