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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP back. I've done a lot of research and it seems that our only real option is to get a "day room" at an airport hotel. I can find them for $75-100 to have access to a room near the airport from like 8am-2pm. So if we got one of these and then napped/slept from 8am-12pm and then got up and went on with our day, would that screw up our adjustment to the new time? Or would it be better to just gut it out? The only other option I found which I don't think we want is switching to a Virgin flight with a connection in JFK, making our transatlantic departure much later again. But it seems really foolish to introduce a connection when we don't have to. We got really burned by a connection last summer and lost an entire day of vacation.

WWYD in my situation? [/quote]

OP, get the cheap day room.  It's okay if you crash/nap. As long as you're not planning to have a jam-packed AM on Day 2.

Also it sort of counts as sleep if you close your eyes for a long time and just relax instead of sleeping. Sleep scientists believe that long unbroken hours of sleep are a post-industrial-revolution cultural artifact.  Resting counts a little bit.  Just stay off bright screens.  Have the kids read paper books and stuff like that (travel guidebook?) if they can't sleep.

I responded to your other post.  If you are getting Oyster cards, you actually can ride around on red doubledecker city buses without an expensive guided tour.  They also go past the sights.  It just seemed like not a great value to pay for a tourist tour when your kids are sleepiest on Day 1.  (I love hop on hop off buses and they were my go to for US city tours when I had two young kids with less walking stamina.)

Here's the London transit agency's page.

https://tfl.gov.uk/travel-information/visiting-london/experience-london/bus-leisure-routes[/quote]

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