Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should spend a whole day at the British Museum.

As others have said, please do see a show. Much better experience than Broadway, not to mention less expensive.

A football match sounds like a wonderful idea too.

The rest of your list is skippable.

I want to amend my list. It's great to see many of the other things on the list, but you can easily see them on the way from one thing to the next. London is pretty small. You will see the tower, big Ben, Trafalgar Square, shop windows. You can see them all in a morning if you do a hop on hop off buses. It's not that they are bad things to see, they just aren't really things you put on the list of things to do.

Also, if this is your young adult daughter, are you sure she wouldn't rather see the Tate and walk over the millenium bridge rather than go to the middle of nowhere for a harry potter "studio" tour?

My young adult daughter is more interested in the Harry Potter stuff than my teens. HP was SO big 15-20 years ago that it really defined her childhood and she was very very into it. My teens are sort of “meh” on HP—more into Percy Jackson or anime or whatever.

Also, on the Globe, if she’s a Shakespeare fan at all, I think it’s worth it especially if you can see a show. It’s just don’t so differently there — we saw a comedy and it was like a totally different thing than how it’s done in America. More raunchy, more playing to the rafters, more interactive.

But for a non Shakespeare fan, it might not be top of list.

For the British museum, I liked the rock Steve’s audio tour. There may be better ones but that one wasn’t bad. It was a 90 minute tour but I paused it a lot to look at other things as I went so took me more like 2 hours.

I assume she’ll want to ship also but I honestly don’t know where to suggest for that.

The Uber boats are fun on their own, even if you’re just riding it to ride it .

Anonymous wrote:You should spend a whole day at the British Museum.

As others have said, please do see a show. Much better experience than Broadway, not to mention less expensive.

A football match sounds like a wonderful idea too.

The rest of your list is skippable.

Broadway is closer. I've enjoyed myself both on Broadway and West end.

Agree with adding Tate Modern to the itinerary. Then walk across Millennium Bridge to St. Paul’s Cathedral and do the self-guided audio tour; it’s an incredible building.

Both would work well with your Wednesday plans, as you’ll be in the general vicinity.

+ to allocating more time for Tower
+ to Tate Modern
+ if the soccer match is at Wembley, are you planning to take the tube? It will be VERY busy and crowded. It will take you 2-3 hours to get back to downtown/Aldgate
+ if it’s your daughter’s first time do a hop on hop off bus tour with Red Bus (not any hop on/off) for a nice feel of the city.

London is wonderful and it all depends on what you want to do and what your interests are. A few suggestions off the beaten path:

London Transit Museum does walking tours of the closed/abandoned underground stations. We did one and my 15-year old loved it because of the history and the mystery element in it. If Baker St tour is still running, do that!

There are monthly, I believe, tours that bring you INSIDE the Big Ben at the precise moment when the clock strikes. These have to be booked way ahead of time , and if the stars align, that's worth it.

Look into the London Walks. These are 2-hr tours done by legit historian guides and you learn so much!

I notice you don't have St Paul on your list. Definitely do that and do climb the stairs to the very top!

In Kensington there is a small house museum called The Leighton House. Beautiful collection of oriental furniture and turquoise Syrian/Turkish tiles.

Portobello Rd market is worth a visit.

Chislehurst Caves in Bromley area of London are fun!

If you like history, consider a day trip to Bletchley Park, the headquarters of the codebreaking team during WW2 that intercepted German communications.

Check the schedule for shows. You’ll find a few shows running on Monday, but will have more of a selection on other days.

Where's the football match?

Any particular reason you want to go to Spitalfields? Not sure if you realize but it’s not a market anymore, it’s a nice shopping/restaurant area but not sure that it needs to be a specific destination unless you were in the area for some other reason. If you want an actual market then Camden (for vintage, weird/cool stuff) or Borough (food) are the ones to go to. Or Columbia Road on a Sunday only for flowers and some cool shops.

NP planning a spring break trip. Anyone have great restaurants to recommend?

Definitely do a show. I’d consider skipping the Globe. I agree on the Tate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Harry Potter can be an all day event. It takes a while to get out there. Also you may want to add Camden Market to your itinerary, its a funky market, but worth a visit.

DP. I agree, Camden Market is fun. I may have spent nearly a whole day there with my DS who was 10 at the time.

I recommend Camden Market over Spitafields.

Anonymous wrote:You should spend a whole day at the British Museum.

As others have said, please do see a show. Much better experience than Broadway, not to mention less expensive.

A football match sounds like a wonderful idea too.

The rest of your list is skippable.

I want to amend my list. It's great to see many of the other things on the list, but you can easily see them on the way from one thing to the next. London is pretty small. You will see the tower, big Ben, Trafalgar Square, shop windows. You can see them all in a morning if you do a hop on hop off buses. It's not that they are bad things to see, they just aren't really things you put on the list of things to do.

Also, if this is your young adult daughter, are you sure she wouldn't rather see the Tate and walk over the millenium bridge rather than go to the middle of nowhere for a harry potter "studio" tour?

You should spend a whole day at the British Museum.

As others have said, please do see a show. Much better experience than Broadway, not to mention less expensive.

A football match sounds like a wonderful idea too.

The rest of your list is skippable.