Hi Friends, it’s generally told that too many choices leads to too many confusions and London is one such place. A city that’s rich in iconic structures, museums, pubs, shopping centers and busy streets etc. So here I am with some tips to hang around London with minimum cost in an effective way. For people who are very new to London will be aware about very few places like London Bridge, Buckingham Palace and Big Ben as attractions. I was one among those people.

Unless we don’t have a bucket list and a plan to execute it, we usually tend to postpone the plans. If it’s only one spot or destination, Google should be sufficient to guide us, but when the intention is to explore a city like London, then it’s always good to have answers for the questions, what are the attractions in the list? And how to reach?

Here I am with the answers for the questions, along with the few tips that helped me and may help others to explore London.

Food and drinks in London

Since my focus was attraction I was ready to compromise on the cost of food but not on food :). As far as I am not intended to explore various cuisines, below options should satisfy the need.

• Mc Donald’s
• Subway
• Pret a Manger
• COSTA

London Passes/Tickets/Travel cards

The below given are my collective knowledge from experiences and collected from internet which may help you to plan easily. To visit the paid attractions we can any options below as per requirement/situation/no of people/interests.

1. London attractions passes, which includes four attraction, can help you to save 35% on an individual ticket with a validity of one month, which was opted by me while exploring London.
2. 2 for 1 discount tickets are generally suitable for couples are available online and even in rail stations. Few attractions might not be part of it because the attraction may not come under the zones from which the tickets are taken. Please confirm from the ticket counters/online as the policies and fares gets updated. Also confirm the validity of the ticket.
3. 2 for 1 attraction passes are also available online and may not be subjected to zones because it’s not a collected along with the travel ticket. Rates may vary as per the validity and number of attraction selected.

Below are the reference links that will give an approximate estimate of the passes and type of the attractions included in pass.

• http://www.discount-london.com/money-saving-attraction-packages-london
• https://www.londonpass.com/
• https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/2for1-london/london-attractions

Below links help you to plan journey to London.

• https://www.thetrainline.com/
• http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/

What are the attractions? How to reach?

Attractions in London are easily accessible from its Underground tube stations. I usually prefer tube services over bus and just in case of any closure in underground stations due to its maintenance, then buses comes to play. Generally people avoid using cars for getting around London unless and until it’s a big shopping.

One of the best thing that I loved in transportation of London is its night tubes, which makes the London night life easy. I generally prefer striking out the paid attractions during day time from the bucket list because they are time specific and some free attractions in the night are 24 hours open like: view of Tower Bridge, London Bridge, Big Ben etc. which are worth watching at night with its illumination is a stunning view.

Below are the few attractions that generally found in the bucket list item of the people visiting London.

First thing to make sure before packing the bag to explore London is to install the TUBEMAP application or similar apps into our phones which would make the tube travel easier and don’t forget to re-charge your phone with the data pack.

Sl No	Attractions	Nearest Tube Stations	Paid/Free
1	Oxford street	Oxford Circus	Free
2	Piccadilly Circus	Piccadilly Circus	Free
3	London Bridge	London Bridge	Free
4	Tower Bridge		Free
5	The Shard		Paid
6	Emirates airline	Canning town tube station to Canning town DLR station to Royal Victoria DLR station	Paid
7	Big ben	Westminster	Free
8	London Dungeon		Paid
9	Sea Life London Aquarium		Paid
10	Shrek Adventure		Paid
11	London Eye		Paid
12	Westminster Abbey		Paid
13	Thames River Bus	North Greenwich	Paid
14	Greenwich Park. Visiting the Royal Observatory in Greenwich is one of the option, but chargeable.		Free
15	Westfield Mall	Stratford	Free
16	Millennium bridge	St Paul’s	Free
17	St Paul’s Cathedral The top view of London from St Pauls Cathedral is chargeable		Free
18	Natural History Museum	South Kensington Station	Free
19	Science Museum		Free
20	British Museum	Holborn/Tottenham Court	Free
21	Trafalgar Square	Charing cross	Free
22	Buckingham Palace Tour within Buckingham Palace is chargeable.	Victoria	Free
23	Madame Tussaud	Baker  Street	Paid
24	Lords stadium (Tickets to be booked Online)	St Johns Wood	Paid
25	London Zoo	Camden Town	Paid

Hope this information helps you.

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