55 Wedding Anniversary

In January of this year, I organized a weekend in London for my husband and myself on the occasion of our twenty-five year marriage. (Wow, I'm getting old!) Not having been to the capital from our honeymoon every year, it seemed the perfect time to visit again. But with a modest budget of £ 300 and want to spend the nights in a hotel rather than a hostel, I decided it was finally time to become familiar with our laptop in the newly formed family and unearth the best offers that I could find on the interweb for travel and theater tickets ;-)

The following article is a detailed account of my progress and what I discovered while you might see other technophobes few shortcuts when planning your next trip to the capital.

During the search of my first stop was usually Google, plus a few sites suggested by some of my friends more geekish computer. These are the four main research areas:

• Transport


• Accommodation


• Site seeing and Attractions


• Theatre tickets

=> Tip 1 - Get advice from Real Travelers start with the first - I'm on Trip Advisor and is a great list of all the things there are to do in London. (Soooooooo many!) Trip Advisor is a great site because you are able to enter details of your next trip and then read the opinions and points on five real people who have been there and brought the t shirt. Opinions on the right is typical of site.Hopefully this list will give you some inspiration as I have also included links to reviews, descriptions and characteristics of each.

A long list of attractions in London

They say if you make a great first decision you must choose to be a little anal, I advise a trip to find all possible attractions that sounded vaguely interesting. Without further ado here is what I came up with:

Dungeons Tower of London / National Gallery Tussauds London Eye / / Tower Bridge Exhibition Madam / London / Kensington Palace / London Zoo / Hampton Court / Globe / Shakespeare / Dali Universe Buckingham Palace / / Cabinet War Rooms / Chinatown Trafalgar Square / / Princess Diana Memorial Fountain Wales / Aquarium Speakers' Corner in London / / Sherlock Holmes Museum / Nelson's Column / Oxford Street / Museum of Natural History Science Museum / / V & A Marketplace / Portobello Road / Gallery Cathedral St. Paul / de / Tower of London Westminster Abbey / / District Markek / Apsley House / British Museum / St. Pancras Station / Covent Garden / Abbey Road / Camden Market / Houses of Parliament / Imperial War Museum.

Now, obviously if we had tried to bypass all these attractions in one day we would keel over from exhaustion and spent our life savings. So the next step was to get on the Internet and find the best prices and deals you can. We also need to make serious priorities to make the most of the day.

=> Tip # 2 - Travel gear for London

There were two aspects of a travel plan and the first was to find a return ticket cheap train down to London. After this has been traveling around London, which will come later.

We decided to book train tickets through the online provider of discount train we found we could save £ 30.00 compared to the main site from National Rail. Coach National Express is cheaper yet, but we could not cope travel seven hours by car crashed into a small seat.

• National Rail Enquiries £ 104 - This site is the most expensive way to travel to London.


• Trainline £ 70.00 - The Trainline site i.