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[quote=Anonymous]I fly into London Sunday at 9:30 am with my kids and my plan is to take the stansted express to Liverpool st. and transfer on the tube to the Postal museum.  We will have just some carry-on's.  I plan to store our carry-on's near the museum at one of those "luggage hero" spots (obviously keep important docs, meds on me).

It looks like it will be rainy on and off (basically the whole week-- I suppose it wouldn't be london if it didn't rain!).  There is the St. Patricks Day festival that is highly recommended as a family activity but it looks like it will be packed with an estimated 50,000 people coming and that feels overwhelming having JUST arrived and being jet-lagged.  My older child LOVES Irish stepdance and does actually take a class so I feel bad depriving them of that experience but I'm thinking something lower key would be best....

It looks like it could take 30 min-1 hour roughly to get through security/customs and the express train runs every 30 min (we already have flexible tickets) and take 50 min.  I'm not sure if they have a separate customs/immigration for families with young children but I know many countries do...does anyone know if this exists?

I've estimated that I need to budget probably 2-2.5 hours from landing to the Postal Museum so that would have us arriving 11:30-12.

I need to pre-purchase our tickets, ESPECIALLY for the "SORTED!" play area (this is our priority).  The two options are 1300 or 1500 for the play time. I don't want to risk getting all the way out there and there not being a tickets available! I saw that they have a nice cafe where we could grab lunch and "cream tea" and per the map, we should be able to go there first and have lunch before heading into the museum.

Would you book the SORTED ticket for 1300 or 1500?? Our plan is to probably head to our apartment after that, check in and then maybe playground if it's not too rainy and some dinner nearby.   Our apartment is another 40 min from the museum so it makes more sense to go straight there than wasting 2 hours.

Trying to figure this piece out.  I hate that I can't just buy a ticket for the day and use it whenever we get there. [/quote]

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