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Popular Tourist Traps | Miscellaneous Tourist Traps Tips | All Tips (495) Avoid the bottom end of Oxford Street / Tottenham Court Road. Its nasty and dirty and the shops are full of over-priced tat. Try not to trip over the beggars!
If you are in that area and are looking for a decent restaurant (or if you have been to see a show at the Dominion), carry on further up Tottenham Crt Road and turn left into Goodge Street by the Tube Station (about 10 minutes walk). There are a number of good places along Charlotte Street and you won't have to dodge beggars and drunks etc. (Thai Metro was pretty good last time I went) Leave a Comment
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Yes, Harrod's! Oh it's a lovely department store and you can get pretty much anything you want there. But it's VERY expensive. The food halls are an attraction but Fortnum and Mason has just as good. The cafes are pricey (but, ok, the food is pretty good). The whole store is so big and it's difficult to find things with various different escalators and lifts around corners and then walking through many departments to get to the one you want or to a cafe. http://www.harrods.com
They do have some lesser priced items like their own brand tea and coffee and they have some reasonably priced Christmas decorations in the fall. The food halls are interesting to look through, the Egyptian escalator are is worth a look as well though it does also have the Diana/Dodi memorial shrine at the bottom.
Fortnum and Mason's on Piccadilly is an equally nice (and expensive) department store with a good food hall and nice cafes and far less crowded. Fortnum's was founded in 1707, more than 150 years before Harrod's. F&M also supplies the Royal Household by Royal Warrant which Harrod's does not have anymore so if it's prestige you want, it's there too. You can also order goods online at Fortnum's just as you can Harrod's so you aren't losing out there either. http://www.fortnumandmason.com Leave a Comment
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Many visitors like to go for a drink at the bar of the OXO tower as it's a fashionable hang out ,however despite overcharging for the drinks the like to tack on a extra fiver for " bar snacks " which are the little bowls of nuts on the bar even if you haven't had any.
Eat everything on the bar ,the second they put a new bowl out ,eat the bloody lot.
Go somewhere that doesn't despise the paying public so much that they feel the need to rip you off. Leave a Comment
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