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Popular Tourist Traps | Miscellaneous Tourist Traps Tips | All Tips (496) There's rarely a problem on the Tube. But nevertheless be aware of the pickpockets and beggars. Keep your money / mobile phone very close to you especially during busy periods on the tube.
Avoid the tube during rush hours ( 8 am to 10 am and 5 pm to 7 pm). It can be very crowded and hot - and pickpockets are on way. So try to avoid - if you can - this busy time ! Leave a Comment
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I'm putting this in my tourist trap tips for a couple of reasons. First is the cost, a whopping L13 for an adult admission, the highest admission price for any attraction that I saw in London on this trip. For a top notch zoo, like the San Diego Zoo, I can see paying a sum that high, but not for this zoo which is much smaller and not state of the art. Second is the fact that it's really not close to a tube station or centrally located, I think it took us at least 10-15 minutes to get to the nearest tube. But if you are in Camden, you can enjoy a walk along the Regent Canal path to get to the zoo.
If you have the London Pass and are near Camden or Regent Park, it was worth a brief stop just to see the two resident Kimodo dragons and the lovely playful otters who put on quite a show. But I would have been very disappointed had I paid the admission charge. My apologies to the otters pictured in the attached photo, they really were quite a treat to watch.
If you are traveling with children to London, I think the best place we visited that children would enjoy as well as adults is Warwick Castle, filled with activities and exhibitions, tales of knights and kings, ghosts and dungeons. Leave a Comment
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It's not really a trap, but I know several people that have not been impressed with the London Card which gives you access to the different tourist places around town. The problem is, with the one day card, that you can't physically go to enough of the places that constitute the price of the card. As my friend said, after spending several hours in the Globe Theatre, she really didn't feel like going on the Eye, Westminster Abbey, and the Tower.
Days without transport prices 1 £23 2 £36 3 £44 6 £61 Some attractions that you can visit: Chislehurst Caves Cutty Sark HMS Belfast Kew Gardens London Aquarium London Wetland Centre London Zoo Shakespeare's Globe Theatre Tour and Exhibition Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Vinopolis Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum Eton College French Brothers River Cruise Hampton Court Palace Jewel Tower Kensington Palace and The Orangery Kenwood House Royal Mews Southwark Cathedral St Paul's Cathedral The Banqueting House The Monument The Tower Bridge Exhibition The Tower of London The Wernher Collection at Ranger’s House Wellington Arch Windsor Castle
It would be worth it more if you were to buy the 3 day card or the 6 day card. There's only so much you can do in 24 hours. http://www.londonpass.com/ Leave a Comment
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Now don't get me wrong. I ADORE shopping. I love clothes, shoes, bags, make-up, PERFUME (HUGE perfume collector) and maybe sometimes even HATS! I read and re-read in all my guidebooks (I'm a guidebook fanatic) that Oxford Circus was THE place to shop, with stores galore. Sorry, but Selfridges was a Bloomingdales look-a-like and when I tried finding Vivienne Westwood all they had was her Red Label! (same as Harrods...just her Red Label!) Anyway, avoid Oxford Circus. It's filled with very loud and obnoxious tourists wearing ugly white trainers (I thought people were seriously kidding about white trainers! I didn't think anyone still wore white trainers!) Now, they're not even nice and loud tourists...they're obnoxious! Seriously, when you see the public loos/bathrooms, please don't scream and point out that it says "Toilet" in public. It doesn't look very pretty. But Oxford Street has outrageously priced clothing, outrageously priced restaurants, and outrageously priced touristy booths. I tried shopping there one weekend and I had the worst headache of my life being pushed and shoved. Blech. I mean, they DO have Laura Ashley's flagship store, but the atmosphere is way too "Times Square" for me. :-/
Go when its less crowded to do your shopping in peace. Unless you like huge crazy crowds of really, really loud people, go during the weekdays or something. And keep your bag close by.
Markets! Markets don't sell just antiques and food/fruit/meat. They also sell clothes! Really nice clothes too, sometimes you find designers! And they're so much fun and the things you see are just so random and cool. Notting Hill is obviously one of the more popular ones (CRAAZY on saturdays) but there's also one down in Elephant-something (southside of Thames) and up around the Angel station. Also check out the Spitalfields Market on the East End or the meat markets at Smithfields. Covent Garden, although very touristy, is quite nice, i think. There are a lot of performing actors/actresses and singers and musicians. Saw an AMAZING opera girl singing there one weekend. Absolutely loved the short little concert! There's plenty to see in Covent Garden, but if you're taking the Tube there on the weekend, don't get off at Covent Garden. Alight at one of the nearby stops. Seriously, everything's within walking distance in central London and there's no need to bury yourself underground. Walk around. Walking is seriously underrated. Leave a Comment
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The trap referred to here is the Clink museum in Clink Street, SE1 on the site of a medieval prison. Purely in the interests of VT research, I went there one day this week. Actually, I'd fancied a look round it for ages. I paid my £5 entry and was very disappointed. There are a few rather uninspiring tableaux, it's small and much of the historical information is regurgitated in display after display. They haven't even bothered to check the grammar and spelling on the display descriptions. I spotted a number of errors. There are very few exhibits directly connected to the site, most are of the "this is the type of X, Y or Z that may possibly have been used in this area" variety. Whilst it's not particularly scary for any but very small or nervous children, parents should be advised that there are a couple of displays detailing the execution of a bishop for homosexuality and another detailing making illegal of "the vice of buggerie", There are also numerous references to prostitution and brothels.
Just don't go.
Any one of the (free) proper museums is better. If you must have your dose of ghosties, ghoulies and things that go bump in the night, try the London Dungeon instead, it's relatively nearby. Leave a Comment
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