London visit

[Ichy]

Not much of one but in July I will be working in London for a few days. While there I will have most of a weekend to myself and would like to visit the Natural History Museum and possibly other stuff.

To keep costs down I've been told to chose a Premier Inn. I know nothing of locations in London so I'm looking for advice in which to choose that is close enough to a tube station to get me to the museum and is within walking distance of other stuff to keep me occupied for a few hours without being a too much of a struggle to get to Teddington in the morning.

Two I have at the moment are Kew and Putney Bridge.
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[CaNsA]

[Ichy]

[Ichy]

[mistergixer]

[G]

If you really want to keep costs down, some uni halls of residence are rented out to the public during their summer holidays.
I've used this before and it seemed a decent enough option.

[The Artist]

Science museum is where its at. Some awesome stuff in there when I went a few years ago.

[Ichy]

[Ichy]

[MinhDinh]

The Science museun in London is ten times better than the one in Birmingham, and I haven't even heard of that one. It is fantastic, but going alone you may look like a pedo.

The natural history museum is Ok, however you don't havr much interaction, thus if you want to be occupied, then it is the Science one to go to!

Both have naughty kids!

I am not sure on parking if i am honest though!

Best bet is to try hotel booking websites on deals. Some have offers that are fairly random.
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[The Artist]

[Marmalade]

[MinhDinh]

[Frost]

"I've got 7 kids with ADHD... what shall i do with them? I know! i'll take them tot he natural history museum."

Also go see HMS belfast, Buckingham palace, houses of parliament etc etc
Basically as long as they are all in zone 1 or 2 on the tube you can go round them all day and it won't cost more than a fiver.

[sickpup]

[Tarmacsurfer]

[The Artist]

Most of the posts in this thread have turned to talking about trying to avoid looking like a pedo.

[MinhDinh]

[MinhDinh]

Oh and Tarmac surfer, I have been to Birmingham oce andvisited tye sea life centre. It was really cool, and the turtle there looked so intelligent and it was sad that they are dying out.

I heard the London aquarium is crap.
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[Ichy]

[Kickstart]

[Ichy]

London weighting Keith.
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[D O G]

Boris bikes FTW.

Sod the tube - too crowded & you don't get to see anything.

Boris's rent-a-bike scheme is pure genius.

[Frost]

The biggest risk of injury in london isn't being happy slapped, mugged or shot or whatever, it's getting knocked off a bicycle. South kensington tube station has an underground passage to the natural history, V&A, Science museum. Also in that area is harrods, hyde park, albert hall, albert memorial. There is also london zoo, national gallery, the tate galleries, london bridge, tower bridge, the tower of london, big ben, london eye, imperial war museum, st pauls, westminster abbey, trafalgar square, etc etc.
They're all in Zone 1&2. You buy an oyster card for £5 with £2 credit on it and top it up at the machines. Trips in zone 1 cost about 1.80, but once you reach the 5-6 quid cap it stops charging you. That cap is the same price as an all day travel card for zone 1 + 2. So if you go to zone 3 at all, it then moves the cap up to a zone 1-4 travel card which is like a tenner.

[Pete.]

As said the two museums are right next door to each other. It's all gridlock central right now as they are doing extensive works in and around the nat history and the roads are all half shut. Only parking I know of is very close, in Holy Trinity Brompton.
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132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good