Introduction
This is everything you need to know to go to London. Alright, let’s go. The first thing you need to know is a little background about London. London, initially founded by the Romans about 2,000 years ago as Londinium, is now the vibrant capital of England and the United Kingdom. It’s a city that effortlessly blends ancient history with modern-day energy. It is a cosmopolitan hub teeming with cultural attractions, iconic landmarks, and a diverse array of neighborhoods, each offering a unique experience and its own flair.
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1. Iconic Landmarks
You might be familiar with some of the iconic landmarks you’ll wanna check out while you’re here. First is the Tower of London—no not the Tower Bridge. We’re gonna get to that in a second. The Tower of Londonis right next to it. It’s served as a royal palace, a prison, and an execution site. But honestly, I think evthe bridge right next to it is en more famous than the tower iThis is probably London’s most prominent landmark.
You see it on the postcards, in the snow globes. In addition to just going across it, you can also take tours inside, but we’re gonna talk more about all these things to do when we get to things to do. Now, there’s another bridge that sometimes people confuse with this one, the London Bridge. You’ve heard the song London Bridge Is Falling Down. That one is quite ugly. The pretty one you want to go to is the Tower Bridge.
Now, probably the second most iconic landmark in London is Buckingham Palace. This is the home of the British monarchy, renowned for its changing of the guard ceremony. Do note thatt the chang of the guards doesn’t happen every dayo do check the schedule to make sure it’s actually going on when you want to see it. London’s famous clock, Big Ben, is right on the Houses of Parliament.
It’s a symbol of British democracy, and these two iconic structures are also located right along the River Thames, the River Thames that I’m standing on right here, which runs right through Central London. Now, you would think the Big Ben actually refers to the tower, but it turns out the Big Ben is actually the name of the bell inside the clock. The tower itself is called the Elizabeth Tower.
In London, you’ll find historic churches galore. The two most famous are St. Paul’s Cathedral, a magnificent baroque masterpiece with a breathtaking dome, and Westminster Abbey, a gothic church where many British monarchs have been crowned and buried. You’ll also find a vast array of cultural attractions and museums, probably the most significant being the British Museum.
This is one of the world’s largest and most comprehensive museums. And, you know, one of the best things about the museums in London is that most of them are free. We’ll talk more about the other museums and other things to do when we get to the section on things to do. By the way, each scene in this video will be shot in a different part of London, so you’ll get to see the city as we go. Alright, let’s go on to number two.
2. Getting Oriented
The second thing to know is some information to help you get oriented to London. London is located in southeastern England, and the area known as the City of London itself is this one-square-mile neighborhood right behind me, where you see these high-rise buildings. Only 8,000 people technically live in the city of London. It’s the business capital, hence all of the high-rise buildings.
However, in the metropolitan area, larger London has about 8 million residents in 32 boroughs, and the metro area has about 15 million people. So,, definitely one of the world’s biggest metropolises.
The most defining feature of London is the River Thames right here. This river splits London into two. This iconic river flows through the city’s heart, dividing it into north and south banks. Most tourist attractions are on the North Bank, and around the Waterloo Bridge, which tends to be what most people consider to be the center of touristy London.
Now, London is definitely a city with two centers:: the city of London and Westminster. Westminster is home to politics and ceremonies, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, and the Houses of Parliament. And yes, they do still wear powdered wigs in the government here in the UK.
Now, another area you might be interested in as a visitor is the West End. Oddly, this neighborhood is between the two city centers, so it’s not out west of everything. It’s a vibrant district known for its theaters, shopping, and nightlife. Soho is a Bohemian neighborhood with trendy bars, restaurants, and art galleries. Camden Town is a market district with a diverse mix of shops, stalls, and live music venues.
Now, throughout this article, you’ll hear me talking about the United Kingdom, England, and Great Britain. So let’s go ahead and make sense of these terms. The country itself is called the United Kingdom, abbreviated the UK. England is a part of the UK. Great Britain is an old name,, when it used to be called the United Kingdom of Great Britain.
3. Getting to London
The third thing to know about getting into London is that there are six major airports that serve the metropolitan area. Probably the most famous, biggest one that most people enter is Heathrow. We’ll talk a lot more about that as we go. The second biggest one is Gatwick. It’s a little further out and a little less convenient. And the third one even further out is Stansted. This is where a lot of the budget carriers fly into, like Ryanair and easyJet.
Be aware that if you’re flying into Stansted, it’s quite far from the city center. So factor in the cost of transport to get you into the city to add to the price of your uber-cheap flights.
Now let’s go back to Heathrow, the major airport and my favorite airport to fly into London. Heathrow is home to British Airways, the primary carrier, which operates over 40% of the flights at London Heathrow. The fastest way to get into the city from London Heathrow is to take the Heathrow Express. This is a rapid train to parts every 15 minutes from the airport and brings you into London Paddington Station. It costs about 20 British pounds.
It is not cheap, but it is quick. Now, a more affordable way to get into the city is to take the London Tube, officially known as the London Underground, but the locals call it the Tube. That’s the subway, the trains that run underground. It’ll take you right into the city. Doesn’t take 15 minutes. It takes about an hour, but it costs a lot less.
If you want the utmost convenience to get into the city, take a taxi from Heathrow. There’ll be about 70 to 100 pounds, depending on your destination. And they’ll take somewhere between 30 and 60 minutes to get into the city. Do you know if you’re taking a taxi back to Heathrow, it’s gonna cost you an extra five pounds. There’s a five-pound vehicle drop-off charge if you’re getting dropped off at the airport in a vehicle.
Alright, so you’re flying into London Gatwick, the second major airport in London, and it turns out to be the world’s busiest single runway airport. The best way to get into London from Gatwick is to take the Gatwick Express train. They go twicean houry, and they take 30 minutes to get youtoo London Victoria Station.
Now, if you’re already in the UK, chances are you’re not gonna fly into London, you’re gonna take the train into London. Some of the major stations you might be coming into include London Paddington. That’s the one you’d come in from Heathrow. It’s also good for the West of England and Wales. Waterloo Station, located on the South Bank of the Thames near the London Eye, is the busiest train station in the UK, and it’s the busiest in all of Europe.
Waterloo Station serves destinations in southern England. Euston station in the north serves northern England and Scotland, and the last big station is a combination of two: King’s Cross and St. Pancras Station. This one’s useful if you’re coming from the rest of Europe. The Eurostar trains from Paris and other points of Europe will pull into this station. The trains from Brussels or Paris to London are just about two hours.
Do note,, though, that rail fares into, out of, and around London can vary in price enormously, dependinonon how far out or how closn you book it. I would advise booking your train tickets at least 30 days to secure the cheapest prices. Sometimesyou might want to avoid, if you’re looking for cheap train ffares would be Friday night coming into London or any day on Sunday. Those tend to be the busiest times for train travel into London.
So pick a different time, Friday morning, Saturday morning, or aidday. And whatever you do, don’t drive—driving into London is pretty maddening. You’ll find almost no places to park. This is a city where you need to take some public transit to get yourself around. Oh, and just a final interesting note. If you see distances from London, those distances are always measured from Trafalgar Square,, where the original Charing Cross stood.
4. Getting Around London
The fourth thing to know is about getting around, and in Londo,,n getting around is all about the Tube, officially known as the London Underground. This is the world’s oldest mass rapid transit system. Two prices are based on the distance traveled. They start at about three pounds and can go up to six pounds. You no longer need to buy an Oyster card or a ticket to ride the Tube. If you have a credit or debit card with a tap, you can ride the Tube just with that card.
It’s super convenient. You tap in and tap off, and that’s how you get charged the fare. Yes, you can still buy an Oyster card and single-faretly, if you have a tap, credit or debit card, there’s no reason to. You can also use your Android phone, Apple Pay, or a few other digital payment options to tap in and out of the Tube to ride as well.
Now, don’t just end at the Tube. The buses are also really great in London, particularly the double-decker ones. Those can be a sightseeing tour all of themselves if you ride up on the top. When you’re riding buses and trams, you only tap in. You don’t need to tap out. Oh, but do know that you’ll want to use whatever form of payment you’re usinghe whole trip.
You want to tap in and out with the same credit card or phone, and you’ll want to use it for the whole day. Why? Well, because they have some daily caps, you won’t get charged won’t get charged when you reach a certain threshold. And so there’s also no real reason to buy these unlimited ride tickets because the maximum daily caps are pretty similar to what you would pay if you purchased one of those unlimited, all-you-can-ride passes. But they only work if you’re using the same payment method all day.
And yes, you can pay for someone else. You need to make sure you’re using different forms of payment. So for example, when OC Girl and I are riding the Tube, I give her one of my credit cards and keep the other one so we can ride the Tube. She taps one card. I tap the other.However, be mindful thatl you can’t tap the same card for two people toentern. They have to be different cards or different forms of payment.
Traveling around London’s also really kid-friendly because children under 11 travel free on the Tube and bus. Though, do be aware that the National Railway is also a big transit system around London. And it’s only kids under five whotravel free on the national rail.
Now, if you want to avoid the crush when it’s really busy on the Tube, avoid Monday to Friday from 6:30 AM to 9:30 AM and between 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM. By the way, those peak times are really busy, so they charge you a little bit more to ride the Tube. It’s not like a big extortion fee, but it’ll cost you less if you ride during other times of the day.
Now, a great way to navigate and find Tube routes or buses is to use Google Maps. You click, like, Directions, and then it’ll say Do you want walking directions or driving directions, or do you want, you know, public transit directions? And from where I am right now,, it says the fastest way to get to the London Eye would be actually to take the bus 381, or I could take the Jubilee line. Like, it gives you many different options so you can sort through those and decide which one you want to take.
Do be aware, though, that oftentimes the fastest way between two points in London is not the Tube, even though I might tell you that because you’ll have to walk a lot to get to the Tube. You’ll get to the station, and you’ll have to walk a lot within the station. If it’s a 20-minute walk, usually just walking is the best answer.
Now, if yoy want to dive into all of London Public Transit’s’s intricacies, Citymapper is the app that you wish to. This one gives you Tube things, get me somewhere. I mean it’ll be detailed here where you say, hey I wanna take this. It’ll even go as far as the Citymapper app to tell you what train car to get on, what train car to get off, and what exit to get the closest to. So Citymapper, if you want the real local knowledge.
Another great way to get around the city that you shouldn’t discount is the London black taxis. They are world famous for being some of the best taxis and taxi drivers in the world, though officially, you would call them cabbies here. In the taxi I was in earlier, I chatted with the cab driver, and he said it took him five years to study and pass the test to become a cab driver.
The cab drivers are super knowledgeable about the city. They don’t have to use any apps. You just say like, hey I want to go to the Marriott County Hall. And they’re like alright, let’s go. They know this city just like they know the back of their hand.
Couple things to know about riding the taxis is there’s no trunk. Instead, you’ll bring all your stuff with you inside of the cab. Generally, let the cab driver open the door for you. They have a button to do that, and inside there will often be three seats that face forward and three kinda like jump seats that face backwards. So in the big cabs you can fit six people. Sometimes they’re smaller cabs, and you can only fit three. But you bring all your stuff in the center area, luggage, baby strollers, things like that, which is super convenient if you’ve got lots of stuff.
You should also know there’s three different rates for taxis in London. Rate one, two, and three. The main rate, the cheapest rate is basically during regular working hours. That’s gonna be week days from 5:00 AM to 8:00 PM. The second rate that you’re gonna pay is essentially weekday nights from 8:00 to 10:00 PM and weekends. And then there’s a third fair, which is even more expensive, which is late night from 10:00 PM to 5:00 AM and on major public holidays.
How much do these taxis cost? For a one mile ride you should expect to pay somewhere between eight and 13 pounds. And for a six mile ride you should expect to pay 30 or 40 pounds. And you might be thinking Chris, a six mile ride? Where I’m from in Los Angeles it’ll take me six minutes. That’s crazy. A six mile ride in central London’s probably gonna take you about 30 minutes.
Now, unlike in the USA, taxi drivers in London are not dependent upon tips. So don’t feel like you have to give them a 20% tip to make their day. 10% would be like quite generous. Or you can just round up to the nearest pound or two if it’s a short trip.
There are also ride sharing services here in addition to the cabs. Uber is an option. Though, note that Ubers are gonna take longer to get around because Ubers can’t drive in the taxi and bus lanes in the city like the official. And you’ll also find a bunch of like these dockless bicycles and scooters strewn around the city.
Honestly, use those at your own risk because traffic here can be pretty heavy just like I recommend avoiding driving if you’re not familiar with the biking situation around here and how traffic goes ’cause you know like if you’re from the USA, then they drive on the other side of the road than what you’re used to. You should definitely pay attention to that. They will have on the cross walks…
Hi there, how’s it going? Good?
- [John] Yeah, you’re famous, yeah?
- Yeah, what’s your name?
- John.
- John. Where you from, John?
- London.
- What’s the number one tourist spot you think people should visit on their first trip?
- [John] The London Eye or something.
- [Chris] The London Eye?
- The London Eye I reckon, Sir.
- What’s your favorite cheap eat?
- Literally anything Chinese.
- Anything Chinese. Alright, that was pretty funny. John, there’s your three seconds of fame.
One thing I found spending time in London is actually the Londoners are pretty quite friendly so easily strike up a conversation. The cabbies definitely are very friendly. If you’re taking a cab, chances are like, conversation, is something that cab drivers often expect they might do with you. If you don’t wanna talk to them, you don’t have to, but you’ll find they might be some great tour guides or share some information.
Oh, but as you are walking around the city, definitely beware of the look left and look right signs. You’ll find them on every single crosswalk. It’ll tell you which way to look to make sure you don’t get run over by the cars ’cause they might be coming a different way than you’re used to. Oh and by the way, I forgot to mention the place I was sitting along the river, that little dome that you saw right there, that’s the dome of St. Paul’s Cathedral. That’s a huge dome.
One mode of transportation you should be aware of are these petty cabs or rickshaws. They might look like they’re a lot of fun, and they probably are. They’re notorious for overcharging tourists, so beware.
5. Weather and When to Visit
The fifth thing to know is about the weather and when to go. London definitely has a reputation for being rainy and gray. And as you can see today, a perfect gray day to do this. Now, actually the weather in London turns out to be better than in the rest of the UK, if you can believe it. A little bit drier and a little bit warmer in London. It’s really only about one out of every three days that is in fact rainy.
And when it does rain it’s often a light drizzle, but it’s probably one where when you’re coming to London, you’ll probably want to bring an umbrella with you because, well, rain is probably gonna be in any week-long forecast.
Now, let’s talk about when you should go. The high season when most people come, definitely is summer. Think June, July, August. The days are the longest. The weather is the warmest. Daytime highs in London, typically around 75 degrees Fahrenheit, 24 degrees Celsius. Quite pleasant. Although when it’s really hot in the summer, the city can certainly bring some humidity and just kind of, eh.
Do be aware of poor air conditioning in many hotels because they are old. So if you are coming in summer and air conditioning’s important to you, do check that in your hotel.
The low season definitely for the cheapest hotel rates is gonna be in January, February. This is when the days are the shortest and the weather is the coldest. London never gets like really cold. The daytime highs in winter January, February, will be in about the mid 40s or about 8 degrees Celsius. So you’ll want a warm jacket, but you don’t need to get like super bundled up, as if you’re going to the North Pole.
And the shoulder season may be the best time to come if you want that mix of cheap hotel rates. Not too busy, but still okay weather would be spring and fall, so think March or April or October and November. This is a fine November day, and I can be out here just in a kind of a fleece like this and some long pants and, you know, pretty pleasant out here.
Now, it’s your first time visiting London, and you wanna know how long to go for. I would recommend at least five days to truly explore the city. There is so much to see and do. And with five days you can really get a good feel for everything this metropolis has to offer. If you’re just here for one day, you’re probably just gonna be on the double-decker bus, seeing it from the windows.
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6. Money Matters
The sixth thing to know is about money, and in London they use the great British pound, the pound sterling, also known as the quid. One Great British pound at the time I’m doing this article is about $1.30 cents US, or about $1.20 euros. One pound is made up of a hundred pence, also known as pee. A $5 bill is known as a fiver, and a $10 bill is known as a tenner. Although, ever since COVID you’ll find digital payments are becoming much more accepted throughout London.
In fact, many businesses don’t take cash at all and only take cards. In fact, card payment has become so prevalent that you’ll find the street performers, the buskers to have ways to give them tips on credit cards. You’ll find many of the public toilets that require payment to also take credit cards too. This is not to say that everybody takes credit cards or accept digital payments. You will find there are still many restaurants and small shops that do take cash. So it’s worthwhile to have some cash on you.
Where should you get your cash out? Get it to the ATM. You’ll find ATMs to be plentiful about London. Though, do not fall prey for the dynamic currency conversion scam. What is that? That’s when you put in your ATM card, it detects it’s a foreign card, and then it says, hey, would you like to withdraw this in your local currency instead of actually in pounds? Never do that. It’s never a good deal.
Same thing if you’re shopping in a store and you get that prompt on the card machine. Don’t accept it. Take the payment always in Great British pounds. It’ll be a much better exchange rate.
Now, another thing you should know about money is about tipping. And tipping, not a big common practice in the United Kingdom the same way it is in the US. The one place that tips are nice are in restaurants. For good service, a 10 to 15% tip is nice or customary, though many restaurants already include a service charge of 10 to 15%.
If they do that, you don’t need to leave a tip. In bars and pubs, you generally don’t tip if you’re just ordering drinks. Only tip if you’re ordering food. At your hotel, if you’ve got doormen or people are helping you with your luggage, you can maybe offer them a pound.
The tax rate in the UK for items is 20%. That’s the value added tax, the VAT as they call it. The, UK when it was part of the EU, the European Union, used to have a tax back scheme where you could get some of that back. Since they left the EU, there is no longer a tax back scheme, so don’t expect to get any of that 20% tax money back.
And also the nice thing though about prices and things like that here, the price that you see advertised is the price that you pay. The taxes are generally included in the price. So you don’t have to do a whole bunch of extra math as to how much it’s gonna cost you unless you’re at a restaurant and you need to factor in the service charge.
7. Safety Tips
The seventh thing to know is about safety. And, generally, London for a big city is relatively safe. The thing you do have to be aware of, though, is that London does have a thriving network of pickpocketers, scammers, and thieves. Be aware, pickpockets operate in many of the major toursisty areas, particularly around Buckingham Palace.
If you’re there to see the changing of the guards, there will be all of these signs that’ll tell you to keep your eyes on your stuff because other people likely have their eyes on your stuff. When you’re riding the Tube, there will be announcements at the Covent Garden Tube. There’s an announcement that says, “Pickpockets operate in this Tube station. Please be careful of your stuff.” Like literally, that goes over the overhead.
There are also all these things like stickers on the floor to say watch your cell phones because apparently people are stealing cell phones. Not just apparently. I ran into a fellow explorer earlier today, and turns out she enjoys Yellow Productions. She’s also a London police officer, and she said, “Watch your cell phone because cell phone theft is very high here.” So don’t let the like, “Oh, I’m on vacation,” make you put your stuff anywhere and have people take it.
Be particularly vigilant if you’re dining outside like in a streetside cafe like this. The one time I’ve had my stuff stolen in all of my travels was at a streetside cafe in London where I had my bag next to my leg, not on me, but next to my leg, and someone stole it. I didn’t even notice that they took it.
If you are eating in a streetside cafe like this, like when I do, I keep my bag absolutely on me, or I put the bag, like I loop it around the leg of the chair or something like that to make sure they can’t take it. I got a whole article to dive deeper into London scams. Keep yourself safe. You can check that out at the end of this article. Also in the London playlist in the description.
Oh, a note on stealing things, though, having just talked about safety, inside this pub, they have a sign to say don’t be distracted because thieves don’t just steal stuff on the outside out here. They actually go into restaurants and steal things inside too. So don’t let your guard down just because you are actually inside a restaurant.
8. Public Toilets
Alright, fellows explorers, I wanna talk about something really important now: toilets. You need to know where you can go when you’re in London, and what you should know is that I feel like London, as a big city, has a lack of public toilets. The reason why… None of the Tube stations, none of the subway stations are you gonna find public toilets. You will find free public toilets in all of the National Railway stations.
You’ll generally find free toilets in the museums, in department stores, in hubs, not necessarily in small restaurants. For example, Shake Shack at Covent Garden, no toilets there or at least no free toilets. Covin Garden has toilets, but they’re To The Loo luxury toilets. One pound, 50 pence to use the toilets in Covent Garden. So it is worthwhile to carry some change with you, some coins so that you can use the loo, as they call it.
That’s the word here for the toilet. And the other thing you should know is that there’s actually some people that have set up a website, toiletmap.org.uk. You can use it from your mobile phone, and it’ll show you where the nearest public toilet is to you. So keep that one handy ’cause you never know you might need it, and it’s better to know it before you need it than to need it and not know it.
9. Food Scene
The ninth thing to know is about food, and London has another one of these like famous reputations for having bad and awful food. And, yes, we kind of all know that classically British food is a little bit meh, but London has a really big multicultural immigrant population, and the food scene is definitely on the rise. Related to some of that multicultural food, like some of the best food you can get in London is Indian food.
My favorite Indian food I’ve had anywhere in the world is here in London at Dishoom. Dishoom is kind of a UK chain Indian restaurant. They’ve got seven locations across London. It’s truly delicious. I love the curries, the biryanis, and the unlimited refills on the chai. That’s Indian style tea. It’s not chai tea. It’s just chai. If you want to go there, it’s popular. They take reservations. I’d suggest you make one ahead of time and not just for Dishoom.
London is definitely a reservation kind of town. They might call it a booking here, but if you are planning to dine in at a popular restaurant, do make a reservation or a booking ahead.
Now, if you’re interested for something a little bit more on the casual side, check out a cafe in the crypt. I mentioned there’s a lot of churches in London, and in many of these churches to make a little bit of extra money to support the church, they’ve built cafes in the basement, in the crypt. One of the most famous and most popular is The Cafe in the Crypt at the St. Martin’s in the Field Church.
This church is right next to Trafalgar Square across from the National Gallery. To get in here you find this little glass dome that says Crypt. You go down the staircase and you get right here into the crypt and this great cafe. Generally open for kind of late breakfast, lunch to early dinner. They close around 6:00 or 7:00 PM. Pretty solid mains. You know, fish and chips, classic British Eats. They’ve got really good desserts too. Prices are reasonable for Central London. You know the fish and chip is about 18 pounds.
Now, if you feel like you need a little, pick me up. Hop into a London cafe for a little bit of afternoon tea with scones, clotted cream and jam. You’ll find cafes that serve that all over the city. Afternoon tea does not have to be a two-hour affair. You know most of the Londoners, if they do have their afternoon tea, that’s simply just what it is. A tea and a quick dessert. But it’s a great way to break up a big day of walking or rest your feet for 30 minutes with a hot beverage and something sweet.
And if your trip to London is gonna be your first time in the UK, you should definitely get a full English breakfast, whether at your hotel or at another restaurant. What are you gonna find in a full English breakfast? You’re gonna find a breakfast consisting of eggs, bacon, toast, baked beans, and a baked tomato. If it’s full English, then you’ll often get mushrooms, hash brown, sausage, and if it’s really legit, black pudding.
Alright now, if you’re feeling like a hamburger, you’ll find outposts certainly of the golden arches, McDonald’s, Five Guys, and Shake Shack. The coolest location of Shake Shack, though, I think is this one here in Covent Garden. Why? Well, because you can eat where they have all these, like art decorations in the ceiling. Just a couple days ago it was clowns. Today, it’s ready for Christmas. Pretty cool. Though, Shake Shack in London, definitely gonna cost you more in the USA. My burger, fries, and drink, once I did the currency exchange on my credit card, $24. Ouch.
While you’re at Covent Garden, if you’ve got a sweet tooth like me, definitely check out the gelato from Venchi. This is an Italian chocolate chain, and I’m gonna go this way so the lighting works out better. They specialize in their hand-scooped gelato. I’ve got the regular with three different flavors, salted caramel, hazelnut, cremino chocolate, and pistachio.
And then if you want it like the luxury way, then you get it with this chocolate and nuts around the cone. Chocolate on top. Mmm. Just delicious. Soft, just the right temperature. The way gelato should be. Not hard and yucky. Soft and creamy. (people chattering)
Now, if you prefer your chocolate of the drinking variety, rather than the eating or ice cream variety, check out Knoops. This is like a coffee shop, except they don’t sell any coffee, and what they sell is hot chocolate, and ice chocolate, and chocolate milkshakes. You can pick your percentage of how much chocolate you want in it. This some of the best hot chocolate I’ve ever had.
Now, also in Covent Garden, if you like tea, check out Mariage Freres. I’m not sure if that’s how you pronounce it, but that’s what it’s called. You can see the sign right up there. This place is a tea shop from France. OC Girl and I love this tea so much. These were our like party favors at our wedding reception. We gave out these teas. Every time we come to London we stop in and get some tea here. you can have it here to drink or you can take some tea leaves home.
Now, if you wanna try some classic British food like meat pies, bangers and mash, that’s hot dogs and mashed potatoes, you can find them probably at any of the classic pubs in London. But if you want something a little less pub feeling, checkout Mother Mash. They’re purveyors of fine mashed potatoes, meat pies, and sausages to go along with.
Oh, but speaking of pubs, definitely don’t discount them as places to eat because actually the food in pubs can be pretty good. They’re not just places for drinking. The procedure for eating at a pub generally works as follows. You go in or you go outside, you find a table, you find the number on the table, then you go in, and you go to the bar, and you order your food at the bar, and you give them your table number.
You need to remember it. Then, you’ll pay at the bar, and they will give you your drinks while you’re at the bar, and then they will bring your food to your table.
Alright, if you walk up to the bar, and you haven’t found a place to sit, then you’ll have to get in line again ’cause they’ll be like, “What table I’m bringing it to?” You’re like, “I don’t know ’cause I don’t have one.” What I don’t really understand, though, is how this works with one person in busy pubs. Because if you’re one person, how do you save your table? I guess put down like an umbrella or something that’s not very valuable.
Now, you may have heard that in London beer is served warm in pubs, and this is untrue. Beer is totally served cold in pubs. This rumor comes from that if you are getting an ale, ale is generally served at cellar temperature, which is about 10 degrees Celsius. So it’s not like cold, but it’s also not warm either. Drinks in general in London, though, I will say are often served warmer or with a little less ice than I would expect in the USA.
If you want ice, just ask for it. They might not give you a lot of it. Typically, you’ll get one or two cubes when you ask for ice. Why? ‘Cause it’s cold most of the time in London. So don’t expect your drinks to be too cold because, well, you might want warm drinks. That’s why they like their hot tea, to warm up.
Oh, and on the note of tea, if you like iced tea, particularly unsweetened iced tea, you’re really not gonna find much of that in London. Generally not a thing here. Tea is generally served warm, and if it’s cold it’s generally already sweetened and maybe even flavored like peach or lemon inside. Oh, and the tap water in London, perfectly safe to drink right out of the tap.
Now, some fellow explore, Jake said he likes Chinese food. Where are you gonna get it from? Well, Chinatown right here near Leicester Square. This is a really bustling district that really is more deservedly called Asia Town than Chinatown. Sure, you’re gonna find your great Chinese eats, including your roast duck in the windows and boba tea, but you’re also gonna find Vietnamese food, Singaporean food, Korean food, Japanese food, and much more.
If you’re looking for food late into the night, Chinatown is gonna be your spot. Oh, and if you’re looking for cheap eats, this is gonna be your spot too. They’ve got all these like all you can eat buffets. This one behind me, 15 pounds, all you can eat. Or if you just wanna shove as much as you can in a single takeaway box, eight pounds. Pretty good price for London. Oh, do be aware, though, many of these restaurants in Chinatown cash only.
Now, when I’m in London, I really enjoy Malaysian food. One, because Malaysian food in London is pretty good, and, two, because California really doesn’t have any good Malaysian food. On this trip I ate at Laxsa Soho just a couple blocks outside of Chinatown. They specialize in Malaysian laksa. It’s a spicy curry, coconut-based soup with rice noodles, shrimp, really quite delicious.
Also the roti canai, which is this kind of flaky bread that they hand make with a dipping curry sauce, and also their three layer Malaysian tea that has palm sugar, evaporated milk, and tea. Quite tasty.
While I was walking around Chinatown, I ran into fellow explorers, Elijah and Stephanie from Los Angeles, and they were just telling me about some great foods they had to eat in Chinatown. What were your favorite restaurants here?
- The Super Eight. It’s right around this corner. It’s at the entrance of Chinatown. They have this Peking duck hanging from the windows. And it looked really cool, so we stopped by. It was really good. There’s a dessert place right here where it turns into little Japan town, I think it’s called Kota. They have this crepe cake. It’s a matcha and taro tea. Really good.
- Awesome. Elijah and Stephanie, pleasure to meet you.
- Yeah.
- Thanks for the tasty treat tips.
- Thank you.
- All right.
- Thank you.
For some delicious Japanese fresh moji in Chinatown, check out Sakura-Do. They make it fresh in the window right there. You can see you’re making it right behind me. I got two flavors. I got the mango one, which was really good. And now I’m gonna dive into the matcha strawberry, about 5.50 for one of these, but well worth the price.
Now, some of my favorite places to eat in London are absolutely at the street markets and London has a lot of them. Some of my favorites include Borough Street markets, Spitalfields, Camden Town. If you wanna know more and dive deeper into those street markets, I’ve got a whole article all about them. You’ll find a link at the end of this article or in the description. And if you wanna see more of Borough Market, which is probably my favorite, I’ve got a whole walking tour of just that market too.
10. Language Differences
The 10th thing to know is about the language, and they speak English here in London. It’s definitely the British English. And so British English, as opposed to American English, has some different words that they use here. And so let me just share some of those that you might want to familiarize yourself with. Instead of saying thanks, they would say cheers.
Instead of going to an elevator, you’ll be taking the lift. Instead of standing in the line, you’ll be in a queue. Instead of looking for a trash can, you’ll be looking for a trash bin. Instead of trash, it’s rubbish.
So it’d be a rubbish bin. Instead of the trunk of a car, it’s the boot of a car. Instead of an ATM, it’s a cash machine. Instead of a pedestrian crossing, it’s a zebra crossing. Instead of a drug store, it’s a chemist. Instead of a cookie, it’s a biscuit. Instead of french fries, they’re chips. Instead of potato chips, they’re crisps. Instead of ketchup, it’s tomato sauce. Though, if you say ketchup, they’ll generally know what you mean.
In many buildings, instead of the first floor, it’s the ground floor. First floor, ground floor, like ground floor being the lobby, and then one being the next floor above it, though in many hotels that cater to Westerners, they’ve like gotten rid of one, and they do ground, and then they do two just to not confuse everybody under the sun, but if somebody tells you that your room, you’re gonna meet them on a first floor, you might want to make sure whether that’s the ground floor or whether that’s the first floor above the ground floor.
If you’re rent a car, you won’t be getting gas, you’ll be getting petrol. You’ll be going to a petrol station. And then just some pronunciation of names of places around London that you should familiarize yourself. It’s not Gren-which, it’s Gren-itch. it’s not Lee-Chester Square, it’s Leicester Square. It’s not West-minister, it’s Westminster. It’s not a minister, it’s a minster. And it’s not the River Thaymes, it’s the River Tems.
11. Shopping in London
The 11th thing to know is about shopping, and London has a lot of shopping. If you’re a shopaholic, you’re going to enjoy London. The premier street for shopping in London is Oxford Street. It is the busiest shopping street in London. In fact, it’s the busiest shopping street in all of Europe. Oxford Street takes in four Tube stations stretching from Marble Arch to Tottenham Court Road via Bond Street and Oxford Circus, which is just behind me right here.
There are around 300 stores on Oxford Street, including major high-end department stores, Marks & Spencer’s, and Selfridges. The Curious Princess, she really loves Selfridges. We’re gonna talk a little bit more about that when we get to London with kids in the next section.
You’ll find Oxford Street to be really busy on Friday, Saturdays, and Sundays. It’s kind of the least busy if you come in the morning, just as the shops open, usually around 10 or 11:00 AM. And yes, this is the kind of place where people actually wait in line to get in the stores when they open.
If you’re looking for more of a typical shopping mall experience, you’ll find that at the Westfield Shopping Mall near Shepherd’s Bush. It’s the biggest shopping mall in Europe with over 300 retail outlets, and it’s still pretty easy to get to via public transport.
Now, the biggest ultra luxury department store in London is Harrods. World famous. This store in Knightsbridge has 330 different departments, including a perfumery hall, a toy kingdom, and a great writing room. 15 million customers a year come to this store, spread across seven floors on four and a half acres. They have 5,000 employees here, and they do have a dress code. If you’re coming to Harrods, no shorts or flip flops.
Now, if you’re looking for more of a street market, flea mart experience, head over to Camden Town. Camden Town has tons of kind of stalls and little shops from Moroccan leather to Middle Eastern goods, to rugs, to Ethiopian food, to Pan-Asian cuisine, to places that you can get rave gear. It’s really an eclectic mix, and you will find it to be a much more lower end, much more affordable place to shop than you will on Oxford Street.
Now, over in Covent Garden where we talked a lot about a lot of food things, there’s also a lot of stores over there. You’ll find Covent Garden, a great neighborhood for stores to be open late. Many of them are even open until 8:00 PM Thursday night tends to be one where actually a lot of stores stay open until 8:00 PM. Also, the stores around Leicester Square you’ll find open late in the night, but most of the stores in London tend to close 6:00 PM, 7:00 PM. It’s pretty late if a store stays open until 8:00.
Now, one of the newest shopping areas in London is the Battersea Power Station. This is a shopping mall that’s built into, yes, an old power station. It’s a really neat old brick building across multiple different floors. Tons of restaurants, shops. There’s a playground over here and there’s an outpost of our favorite Indian restaurant Dishoom. And you can even go up to the top of the, like, steam plant kind of things like that. The tower up there where you can get some amazing views of London. It will cost you money to go up on the tower.
You know, another great souvenir to bring back from London is tea. And there’s no place more iconic to get your tea in London than at Fortnum and Mason. This is basically like a department store for tea. You will find four floors of tea goods, not just tea leaves, not just tea bags. You’ll find tea ware. You’ll find teapot. So if you wanna bring back some high quality tea goods for your friends that are teetotalers, definitely check it out.
If you’re looking for souvenirs to bring back home that are kinda London, Great Britain, UK themed, then check out Cool Britannia. It’s a chain. They have a number of stores around London, but I find the souvenirs here to be higher quality than the usual made-in-China tourist crap that you’ll find at many souvenir shops around the city.
12. London with Kids
The 12th thing to know is about London with kids. And people often ask me, “Chris, is London kid-friendly?” And my answer’s gonna be sort of. If your kids are still in a stroller, if you’re just out on the street, there are a lot of great like ramps and things like that. So the accessibility to move around the street pretty good. Where it gets a little tough moving around with your kids, particularly in the stroller, is if you have to go on the Tube.
Not all Tube stations have easily accessible escalators or elevators, and so you’re probably gonna be going down a lot of stairs if you’re riding the Tube, which makes it pretty inconvenient with strollers. Also, when you get on the Tube, if it’s busy, hard to put them on there. The pro is that taxis are pretty good with strollers. The reason why is since the taxis don’t have a trunk, you can just bring all your stuff right inside.
And we were doing that with our stroller, just putting the stroller right inside the taxi, which means you do have to pay a little bit more to get around. But the other pro riding taxis with kids, you don’t need car seats or anything like that in the taxi. If you are taking an Uber though, you will need a car seat.
Now, one of the Curious Princess’s favorite activities while she was here was definitely the Peppa Pig Afternoon Tea bus tour. If you’ve got kids that are maybe like five and under, particularly ones that love Peppa Pig, definitely check this one out. It’s like an hour and a half bus tour that runs around London, and they’ve like narrated it with Peppa Pig. They’ve actually got the Peppa Pig voice actors to do the narration.
The tea and the snacks are not that great, but it’s the themeing that the kids enjoy. And again, our daughter’s most memorable and favorite thing from her trip to London was Peppa Pig Afternoon Tea.
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Alright, the final thing I wanna mention about kids, I told you I’d get back to this, is the Selfridge’s department store. Our daughter also loved the toy store at the top floor. It’s an FAO Schwartz, which you know, used to be big in the USA and New York City. This one is reminiscent of the great days of FAO Schwartz. It’s got the like big keyboard that kids can jump around on, lots of things they can experience.
In particular, it’s also got a Jellycat store. Jellycat is like the quintessential UK stuffed animal brand and only at this location they have a fish and chips experience where you can go and you can buy fish and chips stuffed animals that they will then wrap for you to be in like fish and chips. It’s kind of like a play sort of thing. So my daughter enjoyed getting herself a fish and a lemon to go home with her.
Do note that if you wanna do the fish and chip experience, it’s really popular. And at the time I was here, you still had to make a booking online to do it. If you didn’t make a booking, be like us and turn up right when they open. Lines won’t be long and they’ll let you in.
Oh, and there’s one more toy shop that your kids might enjoy between Piccadilly Circus and Oxford Circus, Hamleys Toys is another quintessential London toy shop. And if your kids like Paddington Bear, then you should definitely go to Paddington Station. There’s a really big Paddington the Bear store, and you can even meet Paddington the Bear and take a picture with him on the side of the platform.
13. Mobile Data
The 13th thing to know is about mobile data. People often ask me, “Chris, what do you do in these places to get data to your phone?” And where I might have often bought a SIM card in the past, wow, that’s a really loud garbage truck. By the way, like in London when they put out their trash, they don’t put it out in the day. They put it out at like at night, and that’s when the garbage trucks come to pick it up. And so right now it’s about garbage o’clock. I think that’s the time it is. 10:00 PM walking around here.
Alright, so SIM cards, you’ll find SIM places that sell SIM cards all around London. We used to do that in the past. Then, I got like a T-Mobile unlimited data plan that included international data everywhere, but really slow. Like it’s capped at like 256K a second. We recently discovered this company called SIM Local. They specialize in eSIMs, particularly in the UK. And so OC Girl and I, we both got eSIMS from SIM Local on this trip.
I got the Lyca SIM for $12.50, and OC Girl got the EE SIM for $19 for our whole trip. This covered our data, and it was super easy to set up. If you have a phone that supports eSIMs, I’d highly encourage you to do this. The whole purchase process took less than five minutes from the comfort of our house and we had data when we landed. If you want to check out SIM Local with a discount, you can use code Yellow for 10% off your SIM local purchase.
14. Where to Stay
The 14th thing to know is about hotels, where to stay. And the first thing you should know about hotels in London is that they’re expensive. London is a very expensive city for hotels, and the hotels are small because most of them are in very old buildings. So don’t expect to get a grand luxurious room for cheap prices. Expect to allocate a significant part of your travel budget to your hotel room.
Now, there’s always a question of then where in London should you decide to stay? Should you decide to stay in the city center where it costs you more money? Or should you stay outside the city center where it’s cheaper and you have to take the Tube in? I definitely lean on the side of staying in the city center, someplace where you don’t have to travel all that far.
That way if you buy stuff and you want to bring it back to your room, you wanna change, you wanna take a nap, or something, you are just a hop, skip, and a throw away from your room.
So I would absolutely advise you to find something in the center of the city. I would set your map on Trafalgar Square, and I would look out from there, as that’s a great center spot for touristy London. Most of the tourist attractions are on the north bank of the Thames, the river that runs through it. So if you’re staying on the north part of it, you’ll be closer to all of the tourist attractions.
That doesn’t mean you should avoid the south part of the Thames, but just know that if you’re staying on the south bank of the Thames, you’ll probably be spending a lot of your time walking over, tubing over or taxiing over to the other side of the river.
You should also know that because many of the hotels are small, that the maximum capacity in many London hotel rooms is two. And so if you’re staying with more than two people when you’re searching for hotels, it’s very important to change how many people are in your room when you’re searching. Put it up to three so that you actually get rooms that are big enough for you. You’ll probably want to be looking at rooms that are called family rooms.
Those are ones that are typically bigger than the standard small room so that you can come with a few more people into your room.
You should also know that parking is not a given in London hotels. Most London hotels don’t have any parking facilities at all, self parking or valet parking. If self parking is important to you, make sure to check that out before you book.
Now, if you want some specific recommendations on hotels that I like, that I’ve personally stayed at, I’ll work from the most expensive down to, you know, the medium price budget option. My favorite hotel in London is the Marriott Park Lane. I love the Marriott Park Lane Hotel. It overlooks Hyde Park. It’s really beautiful. It’s near the upscale shopping districts. It’s expensive. I’ve stayed there on Marriott points and in the low season. That how I’ve been able to afford it.
I also enjoy the Marriott County Hall. It’s along the south bank of the Thames River right next to the London Eye. You can see Big Ben if you get a window facing the Thames. That’s a great hotel. Also, I’ve really enjoyed the Hilton Paddington Station. If you’re coming in from London, Heathrow Airport, it’s really convenient ’cause you just take the Heathrow Express and you are literally right there at the hotel. It’s actually built into the train station itself.
There’s not a lot of tourist attractions right around it, but it’s super convenient for coming or going. Another train station hotel I really like in London is the Renaissance of St. Pancras Hotel. This one is right connected to St. Pancras Station. That’s where you can take the Eurostar Rail to Brussels and Paris. It’s another old school, really classic hotel. It’s got an old side with classic rooms, a new side with new rooms.
It’s got a staircase where the Spice Girls actually filmed one of their music articles, and it’s got a really cool restaurant. That’s actually part of where they used to sell tickets in the original old school train station. Neat historical hotel.
And, then finally of the more budget variety where I’m actually recording this right now, the Club Quarters Hotel, Trafalgar Square. This one is not an American chain. This one is a local chain, and so the price is a bit cheaper, a bit more reasonable. The hotel rooms are gonna be a bit more European. What do I mean by that? They’re going to be smaller. They’re gonna be a little bit more Spartan. But because of that, you’re gonna pay considerably less.
When the week that I was here, the Marriott County Hall was going for 600 pounds, and this hotel was 275 pounds. So significantly less price. Still, not cheap. I think you should look at spending probably at least 150 pounds to have a decent hotel in Central London. If you’re here on a busy week, you might be spending 400 pounds to have a decent hotel in London. It really depends how busy or unbusy it is.
But if you want the best deal in London, I’d highly encourage you to check out my new favorite hotel booking website, plannin.com. They offer some great insider deals, often up to 30 or 40% off hotels. To see them, you do have to sign up for an account on plannin ’cause the hotel deals are just too good to share it with the general public. But the good news is that the signup is free.
If you wanna check out plannin, I’ve got a link in the description below to it. I’ll give you the link actually that links to my favorite hotels in London. So you can just click through to those hotels that I talked about right here. And you can find my article reviews for all of them as you click into those hotels on plannin.
15. Things to Do
Alright, now let’s talk about things to do. Now, if this was a really commercial travel guide, I would start by telling you all the costly things you could do in London. But what’s really great about London as a city, there’s tons of free stuff to do. So start with the free stuff and then work your way up to the really expensive things like taking the river boats along the Thames. But probably one of my favorite things to do is just to walk along this river.
Some paths go along both sides. It’s a great way to get out of the hustle and bustle, outta the touristy parts of things. And you know, it’s also a great evening walk, like, when all the stores close and you’re looking for something to do between then and dinner time, take a nice sunset walk along the Thames.
Now, another one of my favorite things to do in London is to visit some of the amazing museums. Many of them are free. The National Gallery right behind me in Trafalgar Square, free. And the British Museum, London’s most popular and turns out to be the second most visited museum in the world, absolutely free.
The Curious Princess, our daughter, really enjoyed the fantastic Natural History Museum. It’s got tons of like dinosaur bones and really great attractions in there, even an animatronic T-Rex. And if you’re looking for Regal finery, you can head over to one of OC Girl’s favorite museums, the Victoria and Albert Museum, which is right across from the Natural History Museum. Or do what we did, split up. I took The Curious Prince to the Natural History Museum while OC Girl went to Victoria and Albert.
Now, over the years, the United Kingdom has been involved in a lot of wars, and so there’s a lot of museums in London related to war, particularly remembering World War I, World War II. Here at the Imperial War Museum, admission is free to this museum, and you can really learn about the UK history in these battles. Oh, and you might think Chris, War Museum, ah, sounds so boring. It’s gonna be really stodgy. Actually, have done a really good job of making this thing immersive and interesting to walk through.
One of the coolest things here, particularly if you’re a cryptography nerd, is they’ve got an original enigma machine. Neat. Definitely do pay attention to the museum closing times though, because like at this museum, when they say they close at 6:00, that doesn’t mean the whole place close at 6:00. They actually start closing many of the galleries at like 5:30. So get to these museums well early and good, not at closing time, not if you wanna see the whole thing at least.
If you’re in the military history, check out the HMS Belfast. This is located right next to the Tower Bridge. It’s a former Royal Navy ship that was originally constructed in 1938, and now it’s open as a museum. And in true British style, yes, there’s also a bar right on top of the gift shop.
We heard about this one earlier. The London Eye. It’s one of the most popular attractions in London. It is the world’s largest cantilevered observation wheel. If you do wanna ride this, make sure you buy your tickets online ahead of time. It’s really popular, and you get a time ticket. Your time ticket for about 30 pounds gets you a time window as to when to get in line. Lines can be about 30 minutes to get on this and then it takes at least 30 minutes to go around.
So I’d allocate about 90 minutes here for your ride on this wheel. But the views are pretty swell. And you might be thinking to yourself, world’s largest cantilevered wheel. What does that mean? Well, do you see this little post over here that holds it up? Do you see how it’s not on both sides? It’s just on one, and the wheel actually floats over the water. That’s the cantilevered part.
Visit one of London’s famous circuses, the most famous being Piccadilly Circus right here. Chris, Circus? Where are the lions and the elephants? You know what turned out? There’s no lions or elephants in Piccadilly Circus. They call a circus like a circular street or a circular plaza. This one has bright screens. Another great place for buskers and street performers. Lively all night. I consider Piccadilly Circus to be kind of like the London equivalent of Times Square in New York City.
By the way, while you’re here, Piccadilly Circus, if you want to check out my favorite luggage shop in London, you’ll find it just down the hill that way. Carl Friedrik, great upscale leather luggage for half the price of Rimowa. And this is where you’ll find their flagship store. I actually traveled here with one of their suitcases on this trip.
Enjoy the buskers. London has a lively and vibrant street performing community. The music you hear right now, that’s not something I added in. That’s a performer singing right back here. Covent Garden is probably one of the number one places to see street performances. Like every 30 minutes, a different performer comes up here. Right now it’s someone singing. It could be someone with puppets. It could be a juggling act. You never know what you’re gonna see here.
Take in a show. London has a really impressive theater district in the West End, kind of the hub of it being Leicester Square. We talked about this before. Lei-Cester is how it looks like it’s spelled. It’s called Lester Square. I think that like London, when it comes to like English language performance theater, is probably second destination to Broadway in New York City. So you’ll see lots of popular stage shows and musicals here. Also, if you’ve got kiddos, they’ll probably love the Lego Store in Leicester Square and also the M and M store.
Oh, and between those two there’s the Glockenspiel It’s this like bell clock that does like musical performances a few times a day. You can check out the showtimes to see it, but, I like that as a big kid, not just a little kid.
Oh, now you might be thinking Chris, Glockenspiel? That doesn’t sound very British. You know, it’s not. The Glockenspiel was actually given as a gift to the city of Westminster ’cause that’s where it is, City of Westminster, not City of London. Again, all these different cities or boroughs. It was given to the city of Westminster by the people of Switzerland and Lichtenstein in 1985. Still rings its bells today. (clock chiming)
I already told you there’s a great theater district, so you might want to see a musical or a stage show while you’re in London. If you do and you want to get some discount tickets, there is a discount ticket booth in Leicester Square. You can show up there the same day or the day before and get discounted tickets. I’m going to go see “Hades Town” here, so I’ll let you know how it is.
And yes, we got the tickets. (upbeat big band music) Intermission time here in the show. So far so good. Music, entertaining. I don’t quite understand the story. Something about six feet underground: Maybe it’ll become clear as the show ends, but the theater itself is cool. Built in 1888. Pretty much every seat is up close. I think that’s a cool thing about seeing theater in London. None of these theaters are huge, which means every seat is a good seat.
So if you can only see one show in London, make it “The Book of Mormon.” I just got out of seeing it. This is my fifth time seeing “Book of Mormon.” And this is an excellent rendition here. And if you’ve run out of things to do in London, you can take a day trip. There’s a lot of great day trips from London ’cause there’s great trains that’ll take you outta the city. I’ve really enjoyed Oxford, but my favorite day trip out of London is definitely to visit the old Roman city of Bath. It’s not in Rome. It’s here in England.
It’s famous for its natural hot springs. I’ve got a whole travel guide on it that you might want to check out right here. Or if you wanna see more of my London guides, you can find that in the playlist right here. As usual, I won’t say goodbye ’cause I’ll see you in the following article.