The Perfect 7 Day London Itinerary: How To spend A Week In London

London is simply a immense metropolis with truthful overmuch to spot and do, truthful congratulations connected choosing a bully magnitude of clip to walk successful the metropolis to bask its apical attractions and neighborhoods.

In our opinion, you tin ne'er enactment excessively agelong successful London! I lived determination for implicit 2 years and person visited aggregate times, and support uncovering caller things to research and love.

London Eye from the northbound bank

I’ve utilized my experiences to trade the perfect, amusive and absorbing 7 time London itinerary to amusement you the champion mode to walk a week successful the city.

Leave the hard worldly to our adept hands, and alternatively walk much clip (and money) connected enjoying this imagination London vacation.

This itinerary tin besides beryllium chopped down to 5 days, if you are abbreviated connected time, oregon privation to walk much clip exploring different parts of England.

How to usage this 7 Day London Itinerary

Edinboro Pub Camden

We similar to walk much clip connected London experiences, alternatively than connected the London Tube oregon waiting successful lines. Unless we’re walking from A to B, arsenic that’s an invaluable accidental to link to London’s pulse.

It’s indispensable that you program decently truthful the regular attractions are adjacent to each other, reducing your clip successful transit. Our itinerary is planned that way.

I’ll stock approximate timings based upon our experience. And see recommended places to eat, (important) java spots, and hidden gems. If these don’t entreaty to your tastebuds, swap them retired with thing that does, conscionable marque definite to take thing adjacent to wherever you’ll be.

Good news, successful London there’s a pub and a pastry store connected each corner, truthful you tin easy find determination to devour betwixt exploring.

Lamington and coffee

We besides ate meal astatine our edifice each greeting arsenic it was provided with our room, which we highly urge you look for erstwhile choosing accommodation.

Not lone are English meal buffets astatine your edifice mode amended than immoderate American 1 you’ve experienced (sorry, yanks!) but they support you afloat until the precocious afternoon. So, bask and capable up! If it’s not included, I urge you devour astatine a section edifice to your edifice instead, oregon conscionable drawback and spell from a bakery.

For this London itinerary for 7 days, we person included precise champion of London (from a tourer perspective) connected time 1 & 2. The remainder of the days determination much into section experiences and are tailored to idiosyncratic interests similar the Magical World of Harry Potter.

Regents Park

If you lone person 5 days successful London, spot which days retired of the 7 suit your interests much and program for those! If you person 7 days successful London, travel this itinerary for a fantastic premix of apical London attractions, much section experiences, and spare clip to roam.

You tin besides articulation our email community, wherever we stock much adjuvant question plans and inspirations. You’ll besides get entree to our escaped printable London Bucket List and this printable itinerary successful a one-page outline.

Day 1: Royalty, Politics, London Eye & The West End

Your archetypal time successful London volition instrumentality you to the apical attractions successful the Westminster area, experiencing immoderate of the champion views of London and the exploring the vibrant West End.

Morning: The Royal Life

In beforehand of Buckingham Palace

• 9:30am Westminster Abbey Tour: The Royal Church of England is 1 of the apical attractions successful London. Do the self-guided audio circuit of Westminster Abbey truthful you tin larn much astir the artwork, Gothic architecture, history, and notable monuments wrong the gathering wherever Royalty gets joined and person their coronations.
• 10:30 Walk done St James’s Park: The 58-acre St James’s Park is location to the Mall and Horse Guards Parade and offers quiet, meandering quality with manicured, blooming gardens; ponds, ample birdlife, hundreds of shady trees. Depending connected however overmuch clip you walk successful Westminster Abbey, you whitethorn person to skip done present to get to the Changing of the Guards astatine Buckingham Palace connected time. It volition beryllium waiting erstwhile you’re finished.
• 10.45am Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard. Buckingham Palace has been the royal residence of the British Royal Family since 1837. Most visitors adjacent done the gates, but you tin tour the palace from July until October, connected Thursdays until Mondays. While I’d alternatively walk much clip successful St James Park, and other things to bash successful London than spot the Changing of the Guards, others spot this 45 min ceremonial arsenic an unmissable London attraction. If you don’t attraction astir the changing of the Guards, swap Buckingham Palace with Westminster Abbey for time 1 of this London itinerary.
  • Changing of the Guard times (10:45am)
    • June – July: Daily
    • August – May: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays.

Afternoon: Politics and Views

Great presumption of the Houses of Parliament from our River Cruise

• 12.00pm Big Ben and Parliament House: While you tin circuit The Houses of Parliament during prime days and times, astir sojourn conscionable for photos of the outside, and of Big Ben, the 13.5 code iconic timepiece tower. It’s worthy seeing the statues of well-known governmental leaders successful Parliament Square adjacent to Westminster Abbey.
• Lunch: There are restaurants and cafes on the embankment, crossed Westminster Bridge connected the South Bank side. OR, moored connected the Thames is the Tattershall Castle, a erstwhile rider ferry turned pub with views of the London Eye.
• 2.00pm Whitehall Gardens: Right adjacent Westminster is these beauteous (and small) London gardens. You tin bask beauteous views of the Thames and the London Eye arsenic you locomotion to your adjacent halt – crossed the Jubilee Bridge to the London Eye.
• Coffee/ beverage break: Under the Jubilee span is the colorful creator 10ft shipping container, which is the location of Beany Green, an Aussie Cafe concatenation successful London. Their java was amazingly mediocre, but their lamingtons were divine and volition substance you up for the day activities.
• 3.00pm London Eye: Time to spell up is the tallest reflection instrumentality successful Europe for beauteous London views including the Big Ben and Houses of Parliament. While you publication a clip slot for the London Eye, you inactive person to enactment up. The lines determination beauteous quickly, but I person heard of agelong waits. To debar that, get the fast-track ticket. We person a full reappraisal of the London Eye and Thames River Cruise here 
• 4.00pm River Thames Cruise: The Lastminute.com London Eye River cruise is a 40-minute circular circuit of the Thames connected a tiny open-top ferry with guided commentary. You’ll larn galore stories astir the iconic Landmarks you’ll walk similar Big Bend, London Bridge, HMS Belfast, The Shard, Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe Theater, the Tower of London, St Paul’s Cathedral, and Tower Bridge

Evening: Explore the West End

Street amusement successful Covent Garden

The remainder of time 1 volition beryllium roaming the West End. Here are a fewer suggestions for things to bash successful the West End of London:

• Walk astir Trafalgar Square the gathering spot for Londoners whether to protestation oregon celebrate.
• Piccadilly Circus is similar a mini Times Square in New York. Full of neon lights, monolithic flashing advertizing billboards, and radical getting selfies. I find it overrated, but inactive worthy an I was present photo! From present you tin easy locomotion to Piccadilly, Leicester Square, Shaftesbury Avenue, the curving Regent Street, and Covent Garden.
• Soho is the arrogant LGBTQ country of London. It has a amusive artsy vibe with a batch of cafes, stores, bars, and restaurants and theaters. It’s besides the champion spot successful London for nightlife and is filled with vibrant bars and nighttime clubs.  The House of MinaLima in SoHo is simply a indispensable sojourn for each Harry Potter fans. You tin work much astir it successful our teen’s usher to London.
• Covent Garden is of the astir well-known places to sojourn successful London for it;s endless restaurants, bars and retail stores. Wander the cobblestoned areas surrounding the cardinal marketplace, which had its beginnings arsenic a convent plot successful the 1500s. 
• Eat meal astatine the Lamb & Flag is the oldest pub successful Covent Garden. (This was 1 of our favorite London pubs). The Seven Dials Market besides has a divers offering of cuisines to suit immoderate tastebud.
• Finish with a Theater Show: There are over 40 theatre venues in the West End performing a assortment of shows to implicit 14 cardinal visitors each year. They person shows passim the day, but astir evening shows statesman astatine 7:30pm. On our household abrogation to London, Kalyra, Savannah and I went to see Matilda successful the Cambridge Theater.

Day 2: Ancient Meets Modern London

The Shard and River Thames

During the 2nd time of your London journey, delve deeper into Britain’s intriguing history, with a absorption connected its darker aspects astatine the Tower of London.

Visit the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral, and past traverse the Tower Bridge to acquisition the city’s modern and creator atmosphere.

Immerse yourself successful vibrant marketplace atmospheres, research creation galleries, and soak successful breathtaking views during this breathtaking exploration! You’ll person a much casual clip schedule, truthful accommodate arsenic you spot acceptable to wander.

Morning: The Towers

The Tower of London

• 9.00am Tower of London: As 1 of the best attractions successful London, The Tower of London is notorious for its agelong lines, which tin widen into hours, that’s wherefore we’ve scheduled it successful first. Tickets volition besides beryllium cheaper online. Don’t miss the escaped Yeoman circuit with the red-coated Beefeater (Yeoman Warders) guides entertaining with gruesome stories of its macabre past from its erstwhile years (and I mean centuries) arsenic a Royal residence, armory, treasury, and zoo
• 12.00pm Tower Bridge: Walk crossed the iconic Tower Bridge for escaped and get large views overlooking the Thames and backmost implicit the Tower of London. Check for times erstwhile the Tower Bridge volition rise up its span arms truthful boats underneath tin walk by (usually doubly a day). Check opening times here. The champion views of the span (taking into relationship sun) volition beryllium connected the southbound broadside of the bridge

Afternoon: Markets and River Thames

Wobbly Bridge and St Paul’s

• 1.00pm Lunch astatine Borough Markets: Whether you’re bare for strawberries dipped successful chocolate, brushed section cheeses, bowls of Vietnamese pho, sausage rolls oregon a refreshingly saccharine peach Prosecco, you’ll find it astatine the Borough Markets connected the southbound broadside of the River Thames. Don’t Miss: Coffee from Monmouth and a cupful of the saccharine peach prosecco.
• 2.00pm Walk on Southbank Promenade: Enjoy the views and attractions on the 2.5 miles / 4 km South Bank River Thames promenade. Stop astatine these points on the mode for much sightseeing.
• 2.30pm Visit Tate Modern Art Gallery: Any creation person volition person the FREE Tate Modern Art assemblage and its implicit 78,000 works of creation connected display, connected their London bucket list. Don’t miss the views of the Thames, Millennium Bridge and St Paul’s Cathedral from the enclosed 6th level Kitchen and Bar successful the Natalie Bell Building.
• 3.30pm See the Shakespeare Globe: We were blessed capable to locomotion by and springiness a motion to the Globe Theater. If you privation to person a unsocial acquisition and spot thing quintessentially English, you tin drawback a Shakespeare production but enactment it’s lasting only!
• 4.00pm Afternoon Drink Break: I urge 2 pubs on the Thames successful this country to halt for a Pimm’s & lemonade with a view: Founders Arms and/or The Anchor are large places on the Thames for a drink.
• 4.45pm Cross the Millennium Bridge – the Wobbly Bridge: Harry Potter lovers volition privation to know, this was targeted by Death Eaters successful Harry and the Half-Blood Prince. This futuristic span besides has gorgeous 360 views arsenic you locomotion across.
• 5.00pm St Paul’s Cathedral: It’s worthy touring 1 of the astir celebrated cathedrals successful the satellite and 1 of London’s astir magnificent buildings. If the apical of the dome is unfastened (closed connected our visit) marque definite you spell up to look astatine the unthinkable views of London (I did this erstwhile I lived successful London). Ask the attendants if they tin instrumentality you to the spiraling Harry Potter staircase. This staircase successful St Paul’s was utilized arsenic the “Divination Stairwell” located successful the North Tower of Hogwarts Castle for the Harry Potter films. Check prices and availability for tickets here.
• The Viaduct Tavern, adjacent St Paul’s Cathedral is rumored to beryllium built connected the tract of a erstwhile prison. This gin palace inactive has 5 cells disposable successful the basement. 

Evening: River Thames Sparkle

Top presumption from the Shard

You person rather an unfastened ended day and evening successful London connected Day 2. You whitethorn privation to prevention the day portion from supra to much of an evening one. It each depends connected what clip of twelvemonth you are visiting and sunset clip arsenic well. Here are immoderate suggestions:

• Sunset Views from The Shard: While a pricey London attraction, the 244m precocious sweeping views from the 72nd level open-air level marque it worthwhile. It’s the tallest gathering successful Western Europe. Aim for astir an hr earlier sunset truthful you tin acquisition the dusk aureate airy views, sunset panoramic views, and nighttime views erstwhile those London lights sparkle. You indispensable reserve your tickets successful advance, (plus it volition besides prevention you money).
• This Thames River cruise leaves arsenic the prima goes down and begins with a solid of sparkling vino and canapes arsenic you cruise and look astatine the lights of London spell by!
• You tin ever caput backmost to Covent Garden and the West End to research more.

Day 3: Artistic Adventures from Camden to Kings Cross

Camden Town

Camden Town is London elective and alternative. Known to ever beryllium the location of punks, artists, and musicians, it’s besides a spot for large shopping, amusive pubs and cafes, and fantastic unrecorded music.

This time volition besides see the British Museum and a sojourn to Kings Cross Station – some located adjacent successful the country northbound of cardinal London.

Note Camden is liveliest connected the weekend, which whitethorn origin you to swap the days of your itinerary around. It depends connected what you similar – bigger ambiance oregon less crowds.

Morning: Camden Town

Regents Canal

• 9:30am Coffee and Lamingtons from Beany Green: There is thing amended than a java and lamington arsenic you cruise Regents Canal. Right adjacent the Canal departure constituent astatine Little Venice is Beany Green. (they person gluten escaped lamingtons!)
• 10:15am Regent’s Canal Cruise: While the canals are soiled (it’s London), I inactive enjoyed the relaxing and picturesque 40-minute canal ride along Regents Canal, done the 248m Maida Hill tunnel, and past the exclusive neighborhoods of Maida Vale and Primrose Hill. It volition driblet you disconnected close successful the mediate of Camden Markets.
• 11.00am Explore Camden Town And Camden Market: Here you’ll find loads of stalls selling each kinds of wares including an abundance of nutrient stalls representing cuisines from astir the world. Don’t miss walking up and down the main streets of Camden Town and the broadside streets for fantastic thoroughfare art, shopping, and unthinkable radical watching. 
• 12.30pm Lunch Stop astatine Edinboro Castle Pub: You tin devour astatine the markets, but we urge this adjacent London pub for it’s large outdoor brew plot and precocious prime food, particularly for a accepted Sunday roast.
• Option: From here, you could locomotion disconnected that luncheon backmost on Regent’s Canal to Regent’s Park, Central London’s largest park. Its quality unravels arsenic you locomotion crossed grassy meadows, past h2o sculptures and topiaries; done colorful, blooming gardens; and crossed aggregate playgrounds and sporting fields. Primrose Hill, conscionable northbound of Regents Park has bonzer views of the metropolis skyline from the 63m summit. If you can’t acceptable it into today, possibly connected 1 of your different days successful London!

Afternoon: British Museum & Kings Cross

Platform 9 3/4 astatine Kings Cross Station successful London

You tin locomotion to Kings Cross (20 mins) from Camden, oregon drawback the tube. After that, you tin research the pursuing attractions successful the area:

• 2.00pm Kings Cross Station and Platform 9 ¾: If you’re a Harry Potter instrumentality you whitethorn privation to see this successful your London itinerary. Otherwise, I wouldn’t worry. You are conscionable walking up to the fake cart against the partition to instrumentality a picture, and typically lines are long. We were blessed with conscionable a 10-minute wait. Across the roadworthy is St Pancreas which is the inheritance mounting for the flying car country successful the 2nd movie.
• 2.30pm Visit the British Museum: We lone ever program for 1-2 museums successful our itinerary, and I’m gladsome we included the British Museum. It is outstanding. You could easy walk hours here, for america conscionable 1 was capable to spot the highlights. It’s England’s largest depository and known to beryllium 1 of the oldest and finest successful the satellite with immense collections that span Egyptian, Greek Roman, European, and Middle Eastern cultures and histories.
• Enjoy a pin astatine the historic Plough Pub. Right adjacent the depository is this refined yet precise cozy Victorian pub.

You person escaped clip now! You’re adjacent to Oxford St if you privation to bash immoderate shopping. You are besides adjacent to the West End, if you privation to research much of Covent Garden and Soho!

This could besides beryllium a bully evening to bash a West End Show, if it was excessively overmuch for you connected Day 1,

Day 4: Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour

Fun interactive stations

If you’re a Harry Potter fan, you won’t privation to miss the circuit of the Warner Bros Studios, 1 of London’s apical attractions.

These are the moving studios wherever the films were made – it’s the closest you tin ever get to walking done this magical world.

Our household perfectly loved it, and I got tears successful my eyes seeing the replica of Hogwarts Castle, conscionable similar I did erstwhile I walked upon it successful Hogsmeade successful Universal Studios.

It takes astir 3 to 4 hours to locomotion done the full self-guided tour, which features sets, costumes, props, and butterbeer from the films. Plus, determination are interactive exhibits to acquisition from greenish surface broomstick rides to jumping successful a fewer of the conveyance props.

You volition request astatine slightest fractional a time for the workplace tour, factoring successful the clip it takes to get retired and backmost (at slightest an hr 1 way.)

hogwarts

Plan the remainder of your time astir your workplace circuit time. You volition astir apt beryllium rather tired, truthful don’t docket thing in.

I’d permission it unfastened for exploring much of an country you fell successful emotion with, visiting attractions you ran retired of clip for (or we haven’t mentioned), oregon conscionable sitting successful an English pub eating, dinking and watching football!

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Now that you’ve covered astir apical tourer attractions of London, we’re going to question into the outer portion areas and research immoderate chill neighborhoods and areas to observe a much section vibe, but inactive with a fewer apical landmarks successful London sprinkled in.

Your docket volition beryllium a small much fluid connected these days.

Day 5: The Royal High Life successful Kensington

Diana Memorial Kensington Gardens

Ready to spot the much affluent vicinity with a dash of Royal?

Kensington (including South Kensington) is 1 of the astir beauteous places successful London with elegant streets lined with play architecture, beautifully landscaped gardens and parks, good museums, and elegant stores.

You’ll besides find restaurants that scope from casual pubs and bakeries to upper-class good dining. We stayed present for 4 nights and loved exploring the neighborhood. Here are a fewer ideas for this time successful London.

Morning successful Kensington & Notting Hill

Kensington Palace

• Morning java astatine Farm Girl. Right adjacent present are a plethora of bakeries. So drawback a meal to go!
• Kensington Gardens: Take your java and pastries to devour and unbend successful the gorgeous Kensington Gardens.
• Tour Kensington Palace Kensington Palace is the authoritative residence of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge (i.e. Prince William and Kate) and their children. Most famously, it was beloved Princess Diana’s home. This is besides wherever the legendary Queen Victoria was born. You tin travel her Royal footsteps connected a circuit done her re-imagined puerility rooms and the King and Queen State Apartments. and the magnificent King’s State Apartments and Queen’s State Apartments. I thoroughly enjoyed our circuit here. There are much gardens to research with memorial to Diana. Get your tickets present successful beforehand for the palace.
• Go buying successful Notting Hill – a speedy locomotion on Portobello Road successful Notting Hill and you’ll consciousness similar you’ve been transformed into a full caller city. This affluent country is known for its antique, vintage and boutique stores and is wherever you tin prime up immoderate unsocial finds. This volition beryllium a large spot to bask lunch.
• Hidden Gem to consider: If you person clip (its a flimsy detour person to Notting Hill) see Kyoto Garden, a serene Japanese-inspired parkland successful Kensington’s Holland Park. It’s lone small, but unsocial and beautiful.

Afternoon successful Knightsbridge and South Kensington

Afternoon beverage astatine The Ampersand Hotel successful South Kensington was fantastic!

• Stroll done Hyde Park On the different broadside of Kensington Gardens is Hyde Park, 1 of the largest royal parks successful London . It’s a tranquil place successful London to visit if the sound and chaos of the metropolis is starting to get overwhelming.
• Shop successful Harrods, an infamous luxury section store successful Knightsbridge. I find it overwhelming and overrated and our sojourn was short, but galore would see it a apical happening to bash successful London.
• Afternoon Tea astatine the Ampersand Hotel: We loved our day beverage acquisition astatine the Ampersand Hotel successful South Kensington. We chose the award-winning Science Afternoon Tea successful the Drawing Room, which featured aggregate experiments you can do with your food. You tin marque your ain lemonade, look for fossil biscuits, and bask the billowing fume arsenic a waitress pours h2o implicit the adust crystal that is connected your dishes. They besides had gluten escaped versions!
• The National History Museum oregon Victoria and Albert Museum – if you emotion museums, these 2 are arguably the champion successful London. Head implicit to South Kensington to decorativeness a time astatine 1 of the museums. Kids volition emotion seeing Dippy the Dyoplosaurus and the Giant Blue Whale skeleton of the Natural History Museum, oregon spot manner trends astatine the V&A.

Evening successful South Kensington

Da Mario Restaurant

You tin ever caput backmost into Central London for evening amusement oregon dinner. But if you privation to enactment successful Kensington determination are plentifulness of places to devour and drink. You’re besides adjacent to Chelsea, Shepherd’s Bush and Earl’s Court, truthful you person options.

We loved our Italian repast astatine Da Mario, Kensington. The nutrient was delicious and affordable. It’s besides colorful, beauteous and paired with bully service.

Don’t conscionable instrumentality our connection for it though – Princess Diana ate pizza present each the time, arsenic person galore different celebrities. Go aboriginal arsenic it gets busy. We had to hold but popped implicit to the The Gloucester Arms for a portion portion we waited.

Other options for pubs to visit:

• The Churchill Arms was the regular haunt of Winston Churchill and is known to beryllium 1 of the prettiest pubs successful London with its flower-clad façade.
• The Hereford Arms had rather a refined, cozy charm astir it with its rustic woody interior, quirky mismatch of furnishings and partition hangings, and achromatic exterior with angiosperm boxes connected the windows. It is rumored to beryllium the drinking haunt of Jack the Ripper,
• Dishoom Kensington came highly recommended for Indian food. They person a fewer locations successful London.

Day 6: Exploring Time successful Greenwich Village

Straddling time

I person ever and ever volition beryllium enamored with Greenwich. I see it successful my London itinerary whenever I visit.

The Home of Time a beauteous English village feel yet sits connected the borderline of royalty with its expansive architecture and palace heritage. Greenwich is simply a UNESCO World Heritage Site and 1 of the astir historical areas of London.

It’s located astir 40 minutes southeast of Central London on the Thames and is casual to get to connected the Thames Ferry.

Here are our suggestions for this beautiful, and relaxed, time exploring Greenwich, England.

Morning successful Greenwich

amazing view

• Arrive by Ferry: You tin either bash a guided stream cruise with commentary oregon instrumentality the faster Thames Clipper. If you bash different Thames River sightseeing cruise, I’d skip the guided commentary to Greenwich and conscionable get the ferry. Of, if you haven’t yet get via a sightseeing cruise on the River Thames.
• Stop for java and pastry astatine Gail’s Bakery
• Visit the Royal Observatory, the spot of time! It’s present you tin larn the fascinating past of however the Royal astronomers experimented and studied the stars to travel up with today’s modern mentation of time. Be definite to straddle the Prime Meridian Line (the borderline betwixt Eastern and Western hemispheres). The Royal Observatory is besides an included attraction connected the Go City Pass. You tin bargain abstracted tickets here
• Soak up the views. Look retired crossed the leafy greens of Greenwich Village, and Greenwich Park, the aged hunting park, the stunning buildings of the Queen’s House, The National Maritime Museum, and the Old Royal Naval College, with London’s Canary Wharf skyscrapers successful the background.
• I loved visiting the picturesque Queens House more than I thought I would. It’s the erstwhile royal residence built betwixt 1616 and 1635. Be definite to creation connected the achromatic and achromatic tiled Great Hall!
• The National Maritime Museum is the largest of its benignant successful the satellite and has been likened to the architectural splendor of the Palace of Versailles. A trove of maritime treasures await successful its galleries and exhibitions. It’s a favored London attraction for kids.

Afternoon successful Greenwich

With Hand Luggage Only astatine Grind

Now you’re escaped to research Greenwich Village

• We enjoyed luncheon at Grind with our friends Yaya and Lloyd from Hand Luggage Only. It’s an all-day edifice and cocktail barroom successful historical Greenwich, adjacent to the marketplace and the Cutty Sark. They had large food, bully java and a beauteous floral vibe. WE besides had java astatine the Grind adjacent London Bridge which we liked a lot.
• The Greenwich-covered market dates backmost to 1737 and is the lone successful London located wrong a World Heritage site. It has stalls & shops for antiques, creation & different goods, and food.
• Cutty Sark is different apical attraction for kids and vessel lovers. Jump aboard and research the celebrated historical sailing ship, which was the fastest of its time. You tin adjacent person day beverage beneath the hull.
• Afternoon portion astatine the Gipsy Moth, named aft the tiny vessel successful which Sir Francis Chichester sailed single-handedly astir the world. With its acheronian bluish interior, woody floors, expansive bar, woody partition lining, and nautical artwork you’ll consciousness similar you’re astir to acceptable sail beside the celebrated Cutty Sark you tin spot from extracurricular the model oregon from the brew plot retired back. 
• Cutty Sark Pub is simply a Greenwich institution. It’s much than 200 years aged and has a large riverside terrace and views crossed the Thames.
• Emirates Air Line Cable Car: Return to the different broadside of the Thames by mode of this 10-minute cablegram car thrust going supra the Thames from Greenwich to Royal Victoria Dock (the upwind forced a cancel for us). You tin wage with your oyster/contactless card.

Day 7: Arts & Garden Views successful Shoreditch

Welcome to Hip Shoreditch! Since I lived successful London, this East London vicinity has sprinted past Camden and Soho arsenic the hippest, astir alternate portion of London.

Time your sojourn for a play if you tin erstwhile it’s much live with its buzzing markets and thoroughfare activity.

Morning: Shoreditch & Brick Lane

shoreditch Art Wrok

• Coffee astatine Ozone Coffee: You tin adjacent person meal here. And of course, since its Aussie, bid yourself a lamington!
• Shoreditch Street Art tour: Shoreditch epicenter of London’s thoroughfare creation scene as they combat backmost against the vandalism statement and amerciable presumption of graffiti. The astir well-known concealed thoroughfare creator of each clip – Banksy has near his people successful Shoreditch respective times. Either locomotion astir and spot the creation locomotion connected show everyplace OR articulation this highly recommended Shoreditch thoroughfare creation tour.
• Vintage Shopping: Running done Shoreditch is Brick Lane, notorious for large vintage buying and outstanding Indian restaurants. The Old Truman Brewery is present a abstraction for edgy markets, vintage stores, bars, and unrecorded euphony venues. Columbia Flower Market connected Sundays is meant to beryllium phenomenal and fragrant
• Indian Lunch Gone are the five-pound curries from erstwhile I lived successful London, but the rich, aromatic flavors and smells are ever-present connected Brick Lane. You person truthful galore choices, but we followed a proposition from a section Indian to devour at Monsoon and it was a large choice!

Afternoon/Evening: Leadenhall Markets / Sky Garden Views

Sky Garden views from 120 Fenchurch

You’ll astir apt person a batch of escaped clip this day and evening truthful locomotion dilatory and set arsenic you spot fit.

Here are immoderate ideas arsenic they are adjacent by to Shoreditch. You tin besides take immoderate alternatives for the database astatine the extremity of the station (for those with longer clip successful London to bash instead)

• Leadenhall Markets successful Central London: These beauteous covered markets were originally established successful 1321 as a marketplace for butchers and fishmongers (However past says it was the halfway of Roman London arsenic a bazaar country successful the 1st Century!) Much of the ornately decorated interior and cobbled laneways that you spot preserved contiguous are from a redesign successful 1881. It’s present a buying precinct with trendy bars, cute cafes, boutique stores, and a mates of taverns. One of the reasons tourists travel present is that it was utilized arsenic the exterior for Diagon Alley successful the archetypal mates of Harry Potter films. The Lamb Tavern is a large pub here, successful cognition since 1790.
• The Garden astatine 120 Fenchurch St is simply a precocious emergence successful London with a entity plot and an awesome 360-degree views that is wholly free. We heard astir it from the doorman astatine the Sky Garden arsenic it was closed and we could not get up to their rooftop. It’s worthy doing this and the Sky Garden. They’re lone a artifact apart.
• Sky Garden views (and possibly dinner) Finish your 7 Day travel to London with unthinkable views from Sky Garden. Known arsenic the Walkie Talkie gathering for its shape, it is presently the 5th tallest gathering successful the metropolis of London astatine 160m tall. I emotion however it faces the Shard connected the North broadside of the Thames. It’s known arsenic being London’s highest nationalist garden and has an open-air terrace with lush plants and uninterrupted panoramas of the city’s skyline. You indispensable reserve a summons successful beforehand (free) to sojourn the Sky Garden. (Reserve your tickets here.)
• Eat astatine Darwin Brassiere: A extremity we received astir Sky Garden was to reserve a array successful the edifice for a peculiar eating acquisition with views. This besides gives you entree to the Sky Garden. The prices aren’t excessively atrocious erstwhile you comparison it to London restaurants connected thoroughfare level.

Have longer than 7 Days successful London?

If you person longer than 7 days successful London (yay!), present are a fewer much ideas for however to walk your time. You tin besides adhd immoderate of these to the supra regular itineraries.

• Take a hop-on/hop-off autobus tour – if your feet are tired, and they astir apt are, instrumentality successful the last sites of London connected an unfastened apical double-decker bus.
• The National Gallery is 1 of the apical places to sojourn successful London due to the fact that it is location to the 1 of the largest collections of Renaissance paintings (outside of Italy, of course). You’ll find pieces by 15th to 19th period painters, including notable works by Giovanni Bellini, Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Claude Monet, Raphael, Rembrandt, and Vincent Van Gogh.
• As we were visiting London with kids connected this trip, we did not bash the Jack the Ripper walking tour. But that was 1 of the archetypal things I did erstwhile I moved to London. I LOVED it! Yes. It volition freak you out. 
• One of the champion ways to experience Harry Potter locations successful London is done a walking tour. I privation we did this conscionable truthful we could person heard much stories and felt much connected to each location. Doing it ourselves didn’t person rather the aforesaid magic and was much conscionable a “well this is it,” drawback a photograph and past leave. 
• Take successful a sporting match: You tin either spot a unrecorded lucifer astatine 1 of the galore shot stadiums astir the city, oregon simply from wrong a pub, oregon outdoor large surface erstwhile large matches are on. 
• Oxford Street stretches 1.5 miles from the country of Hyde Park each the mode down to Tottenham Court Road and is filled with stores selling fashion, beauty, tech, and homeware. It is 1 of the busiest streets successful London, particularly connected a weekend, truthful beryllium prepared for enarthrosis rubbing. It conscionable gets excessively aggravated for me. 
• If you similar going beneath the earth, present are immoderate ideas for quirky underground tours successful London.
• Richmond is an country galore first-time visitors to London (or those with little time) whitethorn not get to experience, but it’s 1 of my favourite places successful London to visit. You tin research the fashionable and beauteous botanical gardens, Kew Gardens. You tin besides spell cervid spotting astatine Richmond Park, locomotion on the Thames river, and research the Tudor palaces of Hampton Court, location of King Henry VIII.

What astir a time travel from London?

Out the beforehand of Christ Church College

Good news! London is accessible to different fantastic adjacent locations. You could sojourn for a time even, though we urge making it an overnighter if you can!

• On our travel we visited Oxford for 2 nights and fell successful love. Our youngest present wants to be Oxford University and that’s a large supportive wherefore not? from us. You tin work each astir our travel and the best things to bash successful Oxford, UK.
• And we had 2 nights successful the 2000-year aged Roman metropolis of Bath. From exploring its fascinating Roman Baths to admiring the architecture of the Bath Abbey and Pulteney Bridge, you’ll ne'er tally retired of attractions successful Bath to support you engaged for a weekend. See our guide connected what to bash successful Bath here. (You’ll emotion our Bridgerton-esque accommodation)
• Other top places to sojourn successful England close to London see Stonehenge, Brighton, Cambridge, and the Cotswolds.

Where to Stay successful London

We urge booking your London accommodation near a London Underground (Or Tube Station arsenic the Brits telephone them) in zones 1-2. It volition prevention you truthful overmuch time, cost, and hassle.

It doesn’t truly substance wherever you basal yourself, since London is truthful large you volition request to usage the London Underground regardless, nevertheless we urge you enactment connected the conduit lines with the astir attractions.

The champion Tube lines to get you astir to the large tourer attractions successful London volition beryllium the:

• Piccadilly Line (dark blue)
• Circle Line (yellow)
• District Line (green)
• Central Line (red)
• Northern Line (black)

The 3 hotels we stayed successful during our London travel were each conscionable minutes’ locomotion to conduit stations and it was heaven. 

We person stayed astatine the pursuing places which each had fantabulous locations:

• Millennium Gloucester (Kensington – adjacent Gloucester Road Tube),
• Hilton London Kensington (near Shepherds Bush and Holland Park tube)
• Holiday Inn Camden Lock (near Camden Town tube)

Getting Around London

Craig acceptable to research connected the conduit

The creation of maximizing your clip successful London, is learning however to get astir .Good quality is, it’s truly easy.

We highly suggest walking everyplace erstwhile you can. We’ve designed this week successful London itinerary truthful astir attractions are wrong walking region to each other. Otherwise, you tin easy get the tube!

Our regularisation is if it’s little than 20 minutes to walk, we walk. Because by the clip you get heavy into the Underground and hold for a conduit (although they are frequent), and past instrumentality the ride, 20 minutes could easy beryllium consumed.

I’d alternatively usage that clip seeing the streets of London determination astir me. There is ever thing fascinating to see.

Itinerary London Map for each day

I person created a representation of each the stops for each time of this 7 time itinerary of London, including walking routes and directions. To usage click connected the apical near fastener to spot the assorted attractions and stops. You tin besides marque a transcript and edit arsenic you spot fit. Click connected the apical close “View Larger map” Square. It volition unfastened successful a caller window. Then click connected the 3 buttons and prime transcript map.

Final Thoughts connected your 7 Day Trip to London

Westminster Abbey

Quite frankly, you are going to person an astonishing time. You couldn’t inquire for a amended London itinerary successful presumption of clip and experiences.

If you travel our ideas for visiting London successful 7 days, you’ll acquisition the attractions is astir celebrated for, arsenic good arsenic gaining a amusive penetration into London beingness and British culture.

Don’t hide to permission clip successful your docket for a London ale, a Pimm’s & Lemonade, beverage and scones, and chit chat with a local.

We’d emotion to perceive successful the comments what you’re astir excited astir for your London trip, and immoderate recommendations oregon questions you whitethorn have.

Don’t miss these different adjuvant guides to London, which volition spell successful much extent to experiences mentioned supra with tons of photos to assistance you spot if it’s the close attraction oregon enactment for you!

• Best things to bash successful London
• Top places to sojourn successful London
• Essential things to cognize earlier visiting London
• Best experiences successful London for teens
• Great pubs successful London to visit
• Why we loved our travel to London

Happy London travels.