HELP: London Trip next week - Rough itinerary
 

Hey ladies and gentlemen I need your help. I will visit London next week and here's my rough itinerary and your advice is highly appreciated.

June 18:
13:30: arrive at Heathrow Airport
16:00: hopefully get settled in hotel nearby Victoria Station
Evening: wanna go London Eye. OK?

June 19:
- British Museum
- get cheap tickets at TKTS for opera on June 20 (hopefully there's avaiable tickets for the evening session)
- St. Paul Church
- Tower of London
- Any cruise from Tower Pier to Embankment Pier?

June 20:
- Buckingham Palace + Changing of Guards
- Westmister Abbey
- Covert Garden - Jubilee Market
- Opera

June 21:
- open schedule but I would love to visit Oxford or Cambridge (can I do both?).

June 22:
- Stonehenge + Bath
(should I join local tour or go by myself?)

June 23:
- set off to Paris (flight at 14:05 from Heathrow Airport)
- anything I can do in the morning?

More question:
- any recommendation for where to eat?
- should I book tickets online in advance?

Thanks a million~!

Hello could anyone help me out?

June 21st - Oxford, Cambridge

You can only do one because they are in different directions from London. Cambridge is generally more interesting. Take train from King's Cross. Possibly Hop-on Hop-off bus. Visit colleges, punt on the Cam.

June 22nd

Probably a tour but you could take an early train to Bath, see the baths, take a walking tour. Hopefully someone can help you get from Bath to Stonehenge (and Avebury) and back and then take a late train back to London.

June 19 is a killer - you don't have enough time to do all 4. Given the other 3 are in the same area I'd drop the British Museum which means you can get the tickets when the booth opens and you won't lose too much time in the day. Any other way would take too much out of your schedule

I suspect you'll have enough time for a bit of the BM on the 20th especially if you drop the market

June 21 - EITHER Oxford or Cambridge, not both as there isn't enough time to do both

June 22, if you were overnighting in Bath I'd say do them on your own. As you aren't I think you'll have to do a tour

You could overnight at Bath and get a coach direct to Heathrow the next day but that leaves the problem of what to do with your luggage between London & Bath. AFAIK Salisbury - where you'd get the bus for Stonehenge - doesn't have any left luggage facilities so you'd have to haul your luggage about

I might also skip changing of the Guard. It's not all that special, and when you consider you need to get there early to avoid standing behind a horde of other tourists..it could use up most of a morning. Do from a nice walk from Buck down to Trafalgar Square instead.

Thanks so much...

I know I'm being too ambitious.

I was also considering going from Bath to Heathrow direct but don't know how I can make it....

British Museum, London Tower, Buckingham, Westmister are what I'd love to see. But still have to do some shopping for friends (in Covent Garden or somewhere else). I know it is a headache....

Cambridge is more my perference thank Oxford. But then it will take a day. Is it worth visiting or I should save time for somewhere else?

Hm....now I have to re-schedule it all....need some time and more brains :( and of course more of your suggestions :)

Bath to Heathrow - www.nationalexpress.co.uk - or just look at the "to and from our airport" section on the Heathrow Airport website

Just a quick comment - you can't buy tickets for the 20th on the 19th. TKTS sells tickets on the day of performance

And I'm not sure that TKTS would have tickets for either Covent Garden or the Coliseum. You could try, but the cheap option (if any) would be to try at the theatre on the day for standby tickets:

http://info.royaloperahouse.org/Tick...m?SubNavMenu=3
http://www.eno.org

We enjoyed Changing of the Guards--worth the wait to see it one time. You could also see the Royal Mews which would take no more than an hour. The Windsor Gray horses, Royal Coaches, uniforms museum are worth a visit. These are the cleanist stables you will ever see! Enjoy your trip to London.

With the amount of time you have, I would definitely drop at least one of your day trips, and give yourself another day in London.

The tower of London can easily take a 1/2 day, same as the British Museum.

Dear all,
So I guess I will skip the universities and here's the revised itinerary. Same as before, you advice is most needed.

June 18 (Mon)
1330 - Heathrow
1600 - Get settled in hotel nearby Victoria Station
Evening - London Eye

June 19 (Tue)
1000 - Get discounted opera ticket at tkts Leicester Square
noon - St. Paul Church + Tower of London
1730 - Cruise from Tower Pier to Embankment Pier
1930 - Opera

June 20 (Wed)
1000 - Buckingham Palace + Changing of Guards
Noon - Westmister Abbey
Afternoon >>> Tate Britain or Tate Modern or V&A??? Any advice?

June 21 (Thu)
1000 - Try to get discounted opera tickets again
1130 - Covent Garden
1430 - British Musuem
1930 - Opera

June 22 (Fri)
- Touring Bath and Stonehenge (Guess I will join a guided tour)

June 23 (Sat)
- Departure and start Paris trip :)

What do you think? Thanks~

Hello anyone around?
Plzzzz HELP!

Only thing I would say is that the Glastonbury Festival is taking place between June 22nd and 24th and all routes to it will be extremely busy.

If you plan on visting Bath and Stonehenge, whether by public transport or car you will be joining 150,000 people travelling in the same direction.

You may want to re-think the plan.