Katxing

We have a 10 hour layover at Heathrow Airport. We were wondering if anyone offers a sightseeing tour that will pick you up at the airport, take you sightseeing and return you to the airport in time for your next flight.

janisj

If there is it would cost a fortune and you'd spend 2.5 hours of your approx 6 free hours just driving into London and back. It would be faster and cheaper to just head into London on your own and either jump on one of the hop-on-hop-off tour buses -- OR -- take the tube to Westminster, come up out of the tube station directly under Big Ben, to your right a block is Westminster Abbey and to your left 1/2 block is the Thames and the London Eye. You can got to the Abbey if you like, but definitely walk across the river and buy tix to the Eye and ride it for an amazing view of the entire city. Then have a nice meal on the south bank and head back out to LHR.

You could take the Heathrow Express to London in only 15 mins - but it only gets you to Paddington Station and that is quite far from any sites other than Hyde Park

blightyboy

I disagree
Is cost a major issue ?
If not then yes you could get a car and driver/guide to do exactly what you want.

http://www.ichauffeur.co.uk/tour/london/full/

It does say pick up from hotel but I am sure they would do so from the airport.
http://www.britishtours.com/day-tour...FRGsGgodbCDv6w

http://www.londonmagicaltours.com/lo...ondaytour.html

All the above are in businesses to look after people like the OP. I know that you want collecting from the airport - ask and see.

The advantage of doing it this way and not as janisj says is that if you do it with a guide you will learn one hell of a lot more than going around with your nose in a guide book and wasting time getting lost or missing places of real interest that you are unaware of as you pass by when travelling to the various sites that you will be visiting.
Be interested to hear what you do

blightyboy

found this specialist layover tour company that does collect and deliver back to the airport.
http://www.londonmagicaltours.com/lo...porttours.html

janisj

The tours blighty boy just linked are from £58 per person for pick up and collection in central London - I'd expect it to be an additional £25 - £35 per person extra from LHR.

When I researched this sort of tour a couple of years ago for some friends (after trying to talk them into the itinereary I mentioned above) and the going rate for LHR > London > LHR was over £400 for 3 people.

The tube to Westminster, flight on the eye and tube back would cost about £30 for two (plus meals) . . . . .