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Popular Tourist Traps | Miscellaneous Tourist Traps Tips | All Tips (496) The lines are long, it's around £11 for a ticket, but if you do any tourist trap activity, I'd go for the London Eye. The view is really nice.
If you go just before the eye closes, there may not be much of a line and you may even get a carriage to yourself.
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If you're a gourmand of a curd or white cottage cheese, you won't find it in London shops, as I couldn't find either. But if you see somewhere around the corner Baltic, Lithuanian or Russian food shops, get in. There you'll get what you need. Leave a Comment
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Visiting Oxford Street is one of the least enjoyable things one can do but probably one of the things the majority of visitors end up doing. Its full of hawkers and priced for tourists. Above all, its teaming with visitors who will return home whose impression of London will be developed after a visit there. I would avoid it. If you are a shopaholic, visit the Kings Road instead or a smaller alternative area eg Spitalfields Market, Covent Garden or Portobello. Vote with your wallet, boycott the chains is what I say. Give your hard-earned cash to the little guy. You will not only have a unique item, you will be putting a smile on someone face and bread on the table for their family!!!!
Avoid buying fake perfume, never buy items whose packaging you cannot recycle, keep a firm hold of your wallet and handbag (Oxford Street is generally safe but there are pickpockets). Do not be drawn in by the glitzy window displays!!!! If you have to go, I would only recommend putting up with this in the January sales when you may be able to pick up what you NEED for a bargain!!! I can hear the ladies thinking - Stop me if you can!!!!!
Kings Road (Quiter but still full of chain shops). Full of wealthly Sloane Rangers. Recommend the Markets of Portobello (Saturday only), Camden (Sunday) or Spitalfields (Sunday). Also Covent Garden Market (although does get very busy).
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China Town, Gerrard Street, yes, it has a whole bunch of "Chinese" restaurants, and certainly many are very good. But I wouldn't say they exhibit a good example of what is available in China. Perhaps a reasonable shot at Hong Kong and (maybe) Beijing. Some lay claim to Shanghai roots and others Szechuan, and even Vietnam, Malysia and Japan (China...?). maybe I'm spoilt, but I'm rather disappointed by it. But it does have phone booths with pagoda style fibreglass rooves!
I moan about the lack of diversity, but I suppose if something is good and there is market for numerous outlets of the same product, then why not. The food in each place may be the same, but it's the same for good reason- it's popular and it sells. Try some.
Otherwise, you could of course cross Shaftesbury Avenue and go into Soho. Here can be found a rather more vaired choice. Off to the left, towards Picadilly are plenty of OK Japanese places. There's Melate for Indonesian, all over there are good Thai restaurants (Chinag Mai near Bar Italia was good years ago, haven't been lately). And so on, and so on. Leave a Comment
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