Places to visit in London?

Well very soon my family and I are visiting London for a long weekend and wondered if PPers had any ideas on what to go and visit there.

In the past we've done Tussauds, Windsor Castle, the shopping thing Oxford St etc, History Museum, London Tower, Southall, London Eye etc

Any ideas folks ?

Regents Park Mosque
Lords Cricket Ground - [Free Entry on Aug 14 for Eng.V. Ind womens match]
Kufa Gallery

London Zoo
Green Street
Thorpe Park
Science Museum
Canary Wharf

Saj, Canary Wharf at night is well worth the trip. It looks absolutely amazing.

I would also recommend going to a Shisha Cafe, possibly on Edgware Road.

Edgware road - nice evening atmosphere this time of the year..
Hyde Park - might be a bad idea, too much totti..
Chessington or Thorpe Park..
& The Salman Manor - more then welcome for a cup of chai... I'll send my driver...

be careful on edgware road though, the waiter's in the cafe "The brown one with no name & shiny interior" tried to rip me off by a £100...

go to the museums( natural history, A&V & Science) in south kensington..diff displays/ exhibitions +science museum has a IMAX now.

canary wharf- good set of shops now (200 +).

london dungeons (london bridge)

british museum (pay entry but worth it), tate modern or national gallery ( europes best gallery)

go to green street (upton park), east ham/ ilford or even tooting(broadway) or wembley.

boat ride on the thames.

kings rd, chelsea (shops)

there loads of shopping centres in and around london - lakeside and bluewater in particular.

buckingham palace..normally open in the summer.

SLONE STREET for shopping
BLUEWATER, biggest shopping mall in London
WATERLOO, go to london eye and see a film at IMAX
Leciter square, check out chukadero and picadly circus
Tottenhum court road, get bare cheap stuff
canary wharf, big towers there, also check out millenium dome across the river.
Tooting, little pakistan

you can also go to other shopping areas like wimbledon, kingston, sutton, croydon.

here's a visit:

http://uk.visitlondon.com/

u should be chilling on independance day not goin to a poxy womens game

WATERLOO.
London dungeons .
picaddly circus.

Lake side

Thorpe park is well worth a visit if you are a thrill seeker.

Tower Bridge
Leicester square has some entertainment options
Buckingham Palace
Hyde Park
Westminster abbey is interesting to have a look round
The Art galleries are good if you're into it

i personally recommend the mall i.e.from buckingham palace to trafalgar sqaure

its nice

also that diana memorial fountian is nearby

any London paypoint - for paying your conjestion charge..

Thorpe Park is great went their last week had an excellent time, good family day out.
Madame Tussauds
London Eye
Oxford Circus/Piccadilly for shopping
DLR Trains
Buckingham Palace

unless come over the weekend..no charge.

you could go greenwich...visit the maritime museum and see the cutty sark.

see where meantime (GMT) imaginary line lies..

Saj,

If your with the family than I would recommend visiting the London aquarium which is by the london eye on the river thames. Very good family day out and some sharks to see too! From tgheir you can go to london bridge and visit the london dungeon of horrors! Very good, especially for under 18s.

For eating, head towards the city of london and get off atr Farringdon tube station. There you will find a 24 hour american diner called 'Tinsel town'. They sell gigantic burgers and have probably the best milkshakes in London and the best thing is that all the meat is HALAL!

Other thougts are a trip to buckingham palace when there is a state visit. You will get a glimpse of the queen and the parade and band is an awesome sight.

Finally dont forget to have a quick coffee at covent gardens. There is an old tradition which still happens there, where street performers are performing maging tricks on every street corner and they are good. I guarantee the kids will love them!

And whenever I visit I alwas go to a great Pakistani restaurant that has three locations in London called "Lahore Kebab House"

http://www.tinseltown.co.uk/pages/halal.asp

Halal eateries are all over the place though.

Is that on the road itself or is that situated on a road off the main road? If not where abouts is it?

Check out the Science Musem, it is apprently fantastic, am planning a trip there myself, I think it is in Kensington.

Did it last year - it was OK, but the British Museum (next door) was AWESOME

I wasn't impressed by it to be honest. From what I had heard about it, it was a huge let down. The only high point was seeing the actual Rosetta Stone.

Oxy, Oxy Oxy

thats the natural history Museum.

A & V is good too! Islamic exhibition section..all @ south kensington

British museum is awesome. paid admission (aint been for yrs though - any museum).. nr station... russell square or tottenham ct rd.

british museum is worth seeing albeit not with family.... manuscripts over 2300 yrs old. The Magna Carta is housed there too etc. etc.

Waterloo is Good i work in Waterloo and it is good near the Millenium Eye also.
Canary Wharf is good (as i work for BT) Canary has a gret view from inside!!!
St Pauls is also an idea. Go for the Bridges London , Waterloo Blackfrias, Westminster.
Go to out skirts of london a bit to see the real london. too much time in central takes the sheen off of it

The one on the main road with the marble effect... slimey slimey people

The BP station on the corner of my road...damn good ploughmans sandwiches they have

Are you trying to say northern folk only eat ploughmans?

My aplogies...a chip buttie?

OK Londoners...

I'm off to London with family from tomorrow for a looooong weekend.

Friday is Chessigton all day.

Saturday is Central London.

I'm going by car, so:

1) Is the congestion charge applicable on Saturday?
2) Parking - can you park anywhere on Sat?

Any cheap halal places to eat in CENTRAL London?

No congestion charge on the weekend.

London zindabad!

How about parking - can you park in resident bays etc (not dbl yellows/red lines etc) on Saturdays? I know you can on Sunday

I dont know about parking too be honest, but I doubt there will many resident bays in central London.

Sorry but no free parking on saturday anywhere in Central London, sunday you will have better luck...

Thanks gents.

I will park in Slough and catch train and underground for Saturday

Leaves all day Sunday to try somethig.

Perhaps the Lords Tour.

Apart from Southall, are there any 'Pak' areas that I could take family for food? Areas preferably that are 'family friendly' - away from Gangsta Asians?

Ealing road in Wembley is also another asian area to browse like southall, more Gujrati population though..

Hounslow is 15 minutes from slough, you could park here and avoid the train part.. park all day at the station carpark for £3

Park in Hounslow - and how would I get into Central London?

oxy, tooting, upton park (tube station)- have a good selection.

Waltham Forest(walthamstow , leyton) is predominately pakistani(20000+)...but family restaurants are all spread over the place..but many , many takeways and chicken shops. Roti is good.

tayyabs in whitechapel. there are another couple. in that vicinity as well as bengali restaurants.

The brick lane/whitechapel area is famous for its selection of subcontenitent food, thats somewhere you would defo go for food.

other than tayyabs..its not that good,

ilford (lane) is alright.

Brick Lane/East End - whats the closest tube station?

Dont go to Ilford Lane and Walthamstow, there just average sort of places you find everywere, suggesting going to roti is like suggesting to come london just to go to dixy.

I think whitechapel station on the district line is the closest to brick lane, but check on the web.

P.S Tayabs has gone down hill in the last couple of years, it too packed and the food is nothing speical.

lol- true up to a point..but there dinners arent that bad.

maybe i spend too much time in those parts.

also agree about tayyabs... but isnt that bad.. if u take their staple naan kebab!

there isnt much where i can say it amazing in east london of pakistani origin which doesnt look cheap..but personally believe its better than southall.

our dixy has opened, the fillet meals are niiceee

You can Park in Housnlow West, and take the Piccadilly Line stright to central London, about 30 minutes on the tube.

I used the underground the whole time while I was in London

Then, on the very last day of our visit, I lost my Oyster card

Funny though, that the station at Edgware road, theres 2 of them, and they're 30 meters away