3 days (full) in London? Quick and itinerary!
God Save the Queen!
This is true, but it is also true that, in addition to the Queen, it is right to save our time, avoid going around in circles in a big city like London.
Useful to arrive prepare an itinerary, trying to make the most of your day (that, species in December, as when I went I, has very few hours of daylight!).
Suppose we have 3 FULL day in London (excluding, Then, flights), as in this guide.
The metropolitan, “The Tube”, is definitely the fastest way to move, although damn expensive, than the standard continental and American!
A very good friend of “Tube” is the public transport of surface, represented by the double-decker bus iconographic (two-storey). I got to try it at night and… their punctuality is awesome!
It, come me, over the three days, you have two more half days and you also need to get to the airport, Board of buy a weekly pass (Weekly travelcard Zone 1-2) at a cost of £ 30, because it has a price of almost 3 NON-day tickets and off-peak, Then, is convenient if you are in London for more than three days.
Regarding the attractions included in my itinerary, which provide for the’buying a ticket, I invite you to do like me, jumping queues, and purchasing them online (london eye, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, but also the wax museum Madame Tussaud's, I have not yet had the opportunity to visit).
I leave you a video that I shot outside Buckingham Palace, during the changing of the guard: one thing that most tourist you can not, but you can not see at least once. 🙂
The photos of these 3 days in London are loaded, as always, in my gallery, to this address.
This is the route I created and followed, accompanied by a Google Map which lists all the places included in the itinerary.
N.B.: Three entries are marked as “Optional”. Having been in December, I had a few hours of light available, so I do not have time to visit them. Therefore, I postponed the route that I followed during the My next trip to London.
1 day (blue balls):
- North Eensington
- Notting Hill
- Portobello Road/Portobello Market (only open on Sat)
- Hyde Park (The Serpentine lake up to the statue of Peter Pan)
- Kensington – Exhibition Road (musei free Science Museum: The Science Museum – Victoria and Albert Museum – Natural History Museum)
- Piccadilly Circus
- China Town
- Carnaby Street
- Regent Street
- Oxford Street (.. viachesiva.it: Cupcake: The Hummingbird Bakery 155a Wardour Street, Soho Square… EXCELLENT!!)
- Trafalgar Square (where is the free National Gallery Museum)
- Charing Cross Road
- Harrods (Knightsbridge Tube Station)
- will: Chelsea area
2 day (green balloons):
- St. Paul Cathedral
- 30 St Mary Axe (skyscraper)
- Tower of London (stazione Tower Hill) – possible visit £ 20
- Tower Bridge (through)
- Shard London Bridge (skyscraper)
- london eye (18£)
- Westminster Abbey (meters after crossing tower bridge) 15£
- Big Ben
- House of Parliament
- Downing Street
- St James park/palace (optional, since it got dark early in December, and I did not have time to visit)
- British Museum (Free, meter station Holborn)
- Winter Wonderland (Christmas market, Main Railway Hyde Park Corner)
- will: Covent Garden/West End/Carnaby St.
3 day (Yellow balloons):
- Buckingham Palace (Victoria Station) – Changing of the guard (check your dates the official calendar). Arrive 1 hour before
- King’s Cross Station (anche platform 9 ¾, the track of Harry Potter)
- Camden Town (Take meter) (optional, since it got dark early in December, and I did not have time to visit)
- Emirates Stadium (Arsenal station)
- Highgate Cemetery (tombs of Marx and Faraday) (optional, since it got dark early in December, and I did not have time to visit)
- The Bishop’s Avenue
- Greenwich Observatory and photo exhibitions inside (10.00–17.00 daily, last admission 16.30) (walking time from Greenwich Stn or Cutty Sark DLR to the Planetarium is usually approx 20-25 mins) (.. travelstates.it: DLR scendete ad Iceland Gardens, cross the street and go to the little park. There you will find a small circular building with a dome, that marks the entrance of the tunnel. The walk is very strange and fascinating, Whereas you are walking through a tunnel of steel tucked under one of the most famous rivers in the world, and after fifteen minutes you will come out of the South Bank in front of the Cutty Sark.)
MAP ON THIS TOUR: link
Some most seasoned traveler will notice that some things are missing, as a visit in the National Portrait Gallery in Trafalgar Square, or see the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London, but, in three days, while running, it is impossible to do more than what I have listed in this guide.
Council to reserve for future visits to London all the rest!
Doubts about the British capital? Tips to add? How did you organize your three-day Londoner?