Duration of Walks

Q: I was wondering how long both your “Royal and Political Walk” and “South Bank Walk” are? I’m young, and walk fairly quickly. A: if you start the royal / political walk from westminster tube station (opposite Big Ben), it would probably take you 90 minutes or so to do (just how fast do you…

Travel Cards

Q: How much does the tube pass cost? For how much time is it valid upto? We would like to have the tube pass valid for 10 days. A: there are lots of different types of fares – have a look at this site. http://tube.tfl.gov.uk/content/tickets/quickFares_2004.asp _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _…

Pubs and restaurants

Q: Give us some suggestions of your favorite Pubs, restraurants, sidewalk cafe’s, or anyother places to go. A: One of my favourite pubs in central London is the Dickens Inn, at St Katherine’s Dock. A suggestion for you for a fun evening out: – get yourself some free tickets for a Saturday night to the…

Top 5 must see places

Q: hi, could you tell me what is the top 5 must see places in london ? A: depends on your interest really. But I believe the top 5 tourist attractions are currently: – the London Eye – the Tower of London – The London Dungeon – Madame Tussauds – Westminster Abbey _ _ _…

Bookstores

Q: I have a question concerning bookstores in london.There’s supposed to be a street near covent garden where there are ”only” bookstores. the problem is that i cannot recall the name of the street. A: are you thinking of Charing Cross Road? It runs parallel to Covent Garden. There are other stores in the road…

Black museum

Q: How does one see the Black Museum? A: check out their site for information on opening hours and location http://www.touruk.co.uk/london_museums/black_cultural1.htm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ London for Free FAQs (part of www.londonforfree.net)

Travelcards

Q: What kind of travel card would you recommend for the underground tube if we will be there for 3 days? Or do you have any suggestion for us to move around besides using the bus. Anyway thanks a lot for the bus info. A: suggest you buy one day travelcards for each day that…

Where to stay

Q: We are planning to come visit London. There will be 4 adults. Do you have any suggestion as to where we should stay???? We don’t want to stay in a bad place but we don’t want to pay a lot of money to stay either. We plan to do a lot of sight seeing…

London at Christmas – 2

Q: I would like to visit London between 26.12-3.01.05. I am asking you if and which museums are opened in that period? I really hope that I can visit anything without being afraid that because holiday they’ll be closed. What about stores? Are they opened? I also like to visit London’s surrowndings. Are the buses…