transport from Central London to Southampton
#2
There are shuttles and I will look the site up for you. We are cruising in October and are taking the train.
www.silver-fleet.co.uk is just one possibility; there are others easily found using Google
www.silver-fleet.co.uk is just one possibility; there are others easily found using Google
#4
I responded on your other thread.
The train takes 1 hr 20-ish minutes w/o any stops. Then it is a 1.5 mile cab ride.
A car service would cost more and take about 2.5 hours (or more on a weekday).
Stay near Waterloo and take the train (or spend the night near Southampton)
The train takes 1 hr 20-ish minutes w/o any stops. Then it is a 1.5 mile cab ride.
A car service would cost more and take about 2.5 hours (or more on a weekday).
Stay near Waterloo and take the train (or spend the night near Southampton)
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Use this tool
http://www.traveline.info/ for joined up public services
http://www.traveline.info/ for joined up public services
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Take a look at Londontoolkit also, we took a transfer with them in July 2013 with a stop at Stonehenge en route.
But do check your bags are offloaded at the correct cruise terminal, DH's bag went on a Princess cruise to the Baltics, though we were reunited with it on our return from Iceland and Norway a fortnight later!
http://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/..._transfers.htm
But do check your bags are offloaded at the correct cruise terminal, DH's bag went on a Princess cruise to the Baltics, though we were reunited with it on our return from Iceland and Norway a fortnight later!
http://www.londontoolkit.com/travel/..._transfers.htm
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Trains also go from London Victoria to Southampton. Particularly handy if you are flying into Gatwick.
Buy tickets in advance on...
http://www.southernrailway.com/
...will often get a good discount, whereas I'm pretty sure you can't get discounted tickets on South West Train [from Waterloo to Southampton].
Buy tickets in advance on...
http://www.southernrailway.com/
...will often get a good discount, whereas I'm pretty sure you can't get discounted tickets on South West Train [from Waterloo to Southampton].
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LL - you've made that suggestion before but it's only fair to point out that the direct train from Victoria to Southampton takes <b>2h32m</b> compared with as little as 1h15m on the SWT lines from Waterloo to Southampton (PS: Janis, I think you meant to say this is a <i>direct</i> service, it certainly isn't <i>non-stop</i.
Wordsmith is apparently staying in London for a couple of days prior to the cruise so the Gatwick bit is not relevant in this case.
Personally, I'd want to be a whole lot closer to the docks the night before my cruise departed (i.e. within a 30 minute taxi journey), just in the unlikely, but not implausible, event of a problem on the railway line.
Wordsmith is apparently staying in London for a couple of days prior to the cruise so the Gatwick bit is not relevant in this case.
Personally, I'd want to be a whole lot closer to the docks the night before my cruise departed (i.e. within a 30 minute taxi journey), just in the unlikely, but not implausible, event of a problem on the railway line.
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@Gordon_R<<<LL - you've made that suggestion before but it's only fair to point out that the direct train from Victoria to Southampton takes 2h32m compared with as little as 1h15m on the SWT lines from Waterloo to Southampton.>>>
I posted it as an alternative, not as a positive recommendation. And I'll continue to make it tvm!
If it's not the right route for the OP, then so be it.
But it might be a more convenient route for anyone staying near Victoria, or as I stated, just landing at LGW.
I commuted by SWT trains between Waterloo and Portsmouth for a couple of years, and getting stuck around the Wimbledon area [which the Southampton train goes through] was a regular occurrence.
Tbh, the time the journey could take is never a dead cert.
I definitely agree with your last paragraph about where to spend the night before the cruise.
I posted it as an alternative, not as a positive recommendation. And I'll continue to make it tvm!
If it's not the right route for the OP, then so be it.
But it might be a more convenient route for anyone staying near Victoria, or as I stated, just landing at LGW.
I commuted by SWT trains between Waterloo and Portsmouth for a couple of years, and getting stuck around the Wimbledon area [which the Southampton train goes through] was a regular occurrence.
Tbh, the time the journey could take is never a dead cert.
I definitely agree with your last paragraph about where to spend the night before the cruise.
#13
The "cruise company" usually provides ONE thing: the option to use the transfers which IT provides. I have yet to see any cruise line telling people about other company's tours, transfers, or anything else which is going to siphon revenue away from the cruise line. Get real!