Osterley Park from Heathrow, left luggage
Mar 15th, 2012, 08:31 AM
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Osterley Park from Heathrow, left luggage
I would love to see Osterley Park! I arrive at LHR around noon, mid June. Osterley is only 5 stops from LHR. Does it sound like a stretch to leave my bag at left luggage, take the tube to Osterley station, walk the 1 mile, visit the house, etc. return to LHR, collect bag, train to Paddington? I own an oyster card and am familiar with tube and train. Has anyone done this?
Mar 15th, 2012, 11:30 AM
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I am going in on the train to Paddington to spend a few nights in London. I'll take a taxi to my hotel from Paddington, probably during rush hour...
But as I will be so close to Osterley, it seems easier to see it when I am nearby rather than come out again from London.
But as I will be so close to Osterley, it seems easier to see it when I am nearby rather than come out again from London.
Mar 15th, 2012, 05:26 PM
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But if Osterley Park is 5 stops from your luggage at Heathrow and 5 stops back that's 10 extra stops so you might as well go into town, leave your luggage at your hotel and come back at your leisure. It seems to me less complicated to not have to go back & forth and possibly wait at left luggage twice besides.
Mar 15th, 2012, 11:37 PM
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<i>I am going in on the train to Paddington to spend a few nights in London.</i>
WHY? You have an Oystercard and know how to use it? You may as well use the Tube into central London, check-in then do whatever you want rather than subject yourself to the expense and unmitigated horror of travelling with luggage around Paddington during rush hour.
WHY? You have an Oystercard and know how to use it? You may as well use the Tube into central London, check-in then do whatever you want rather than subject yourself to the expense and unmitigated horror of travelling with luggage around Paddington during rush hour.
Mar 16th, 2012, 09:03 AM
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The Paddington Express (or even the cheaper Pad. Connect) are not good for getting into London <i>unless</i> you are staying right AT Paddington. Otherwise they are expensive and inconvenient. Add that to the schlepp LHR > Osterly Park and back and queueing twice at left luggage and paying £8.50 per bag (£17 if you also have a carry on) and this is more complicated and costly than makes sense IMO.
I'd head in to your hotel on the tube and drop your luggage. Then if you still want to see Osterly that day take the tube there.
I'd head in to your hotel on the tube and drop your luggage. Then if you still want to see Osterly that day take the tube there.
