Hi,

I am planning to visit these places in London for a 3 days trips. any comments:

Day1
- London Eye
- Trafalgar Sq

Day2
- Buckingham palace (for changing of Guard at 11.30am)
- House of Parliament

Day3
- Tower of London
- Tower Bridge
- London Bridge
- St paul Cathedral

Can someone pls tell me how is my planning and did i miss out any other places.

Thanks

Day1
- London Eye
- Trafalgar Sq>>>>>

This isn't much for a day. The eye will take you about an hour including getting on and off. Trafalgar Sq is just a public square. Once you've seen it you've seen it.

Why not do the eye, walk over westminster bridge (the one near the eye) and then you'll be at the hopuses of Parliament and Westmister Abbey - see them, then walk down Whitehall and you'll be in Trafalgar Sq.

Day2
- Buckingham palace (for changing of Guard at 11.30am)
- House of Parliament>>>

If you follow the advice above you'll already have seen the HoP. So you need something else for the afternoon



Day3
- Tower of London
- Tower Bridge
- London Bridge
- St paul Cathedral>>>

London Bridge is just a perfectly normal concrete bridge.

Can someone pls tell me how is my planning and did i miss out any other places.>>>>

You've missed out loads. You've got pots of time and you've missed out most of the good stuff. I can't tell where to go as I have no idea of your interests but have a shufti around this site and you'll get loads of good ideas.

Also you don't seem to have planned anything for the evening.

The Cabinet War Rooms were a highlight for me. I also liked the Verger's tour of Westminster Abbey and right next to the Abbey is St. Margaret's church.

Perhaps some walking tours with London Walks. They're great; very informative. One evening we did a pub crawl.

Do you not want any museums? There's lots in London and many of them are free.

I think you're missing out on the best of London.

Agree that London Walks are good. www.walks.com

The open air sightseeing bus is a nice first-time-to-London thing to do.

British Museum -- if you like museums you could spend most of a day here, or more. Also Victoria and Albert Museum.

Do you like theater? Lots of choices and discount tickets available at the kiosk in Leicester Square.

If you want to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, go early to get an up-close view; otherwise you'll likely see only the backsides of tourists.
More than the changing of the guard, we enjoyed watching the Horse Guards at Whitehall and their parade to Buckingham Palace. But then we were too late to get a good view of the actual ceremony of the changing of the guard.

Do you have a good guide book of London? If not, go to your library or large book store and read all the tourist tips for London.

Have fun.

British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum

I suggest you click on DESTINATIONS above here on Fodors. It will give you lots of ideas. What sorts of things are you interested in??

Many of the places you have listed are just "walk-by's" and take no time at all.

Trafalgar Sq is just a big square w/ some fountains. It is a good thing to see - but 15 minutes about does it. Now, if you go into the National Gallery along one side of the Square you could spend 2 hours to a full day looking at the art.

The Houses of Parliament/Big Ben is about 10 minutes worth and it is directly across the river from the Eye

London Bridge is a total "skip it" - it is just a modern roadway across the river.

bking

oh2doula: Instead of "bookmarking" these old threads, it would be better if you saved the URL to your favorites or whatever your browser calls them, or e-mail the thread to yourself.

Bookmarking here only serves to push current threads down the list and out of sight . . . . .

You've missed some of the most brilliant museums in the world:

British Museum
V&A
Museum of London
National Gallery
National Portrait Gallery
Take a boar tide - either a short one n the Thames - or a longer one - to Greenwich or Hampton Court Palace
Take in one of the Street Markets
Visit Covent Garden
Take in a show or two

There is enough in London to easily keep you busy for 3 weeks - never mind 3 days

nytraveler: The thread is six months old - and the OP has never returned to the forum after late June . . . . It was topped by a &quot;<i>bookmarker</i>&quot; . . . . .