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Planning Your Visit To London

Updated December 28, 2021 Eyal
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You can find plenty of information on visiting London, what to do when you are here and how to get around, all from our site, so take the time and review the menus at the top of this page.

In addition, we have prepared this page full of links and hacks in order to plan a great trip to London, including how to find the best or cheapest hotels, tickets to musicals, shows concerts, football matches, the best attractions around, booking restaurants, coupons and special promotions, transportation, travel books, reviews by other tourists and of course recommendations.

We have highlighted the sites and links we personally recommend and are fans of.

  • Flights
  • Hotel Chains
  • Hotel Booking Sites
  • Apartments For Short Term Rental
  • Tickets To Theatre And Musicals
  • Tickets To Shows, Concerts And Football Matches
  • Tourist Attractions – Tickets And Packages
  • Coupon Sites
  • Internet Shopping
  • Holidays
  • Local Telephone SIM Cards
  • Transport
  • Other Useful Sites

Flights

Opodo

Skyscanner

 easyJet

Hotel Chains

CitizenM Hotels

Britannia Hotels

Radisson Blu (UK)

Park plaza hotels (part of Radisson chain)

Hotel Booking Sites

Hotels Combined

booking.com

ebookers

Expedia UK

Hotels.com

Hotwire

lastminute.com

Priceline

– More about hotels in London you can find in our Recommended Hotels and Apartments in London page

Apartments For Short Term Rental

HomeAway – A site to rent large apartments all over Europe

HomeStay.com

Tickets To Theatre And Musicals

ATG Tickets

London Theatre Direct

LOVETheatre

More about where to buy tickets to show in London you can find in our page London show tickets

More about what is running now in London you can find in the London Musical and theatre page.

Tickets To Shows, Concerts And Football Matches

Expedia UK

Stubhub.co.uk – secondary marketplace for tickets to live events. Prices are set by sellers and may be below or above face value.

SportsEvents365 – A great site that works in multiple languages, where you can find tickets to most English matches. some of them are from the secondary marketplace. Prices are set by sellers and may be below or above face value.

Ticket Compare – Best website to compare price of second hand tickets for football games.

Ticketmaster UK

Viagogo – secondary marketplace for tickets to live events. Prices are set by sellers and may be below or above face value.

Tourist Attractions – Tickets And Packages

Alton Towers – Amusement park outside of London

Big bus

Discount London – A well-established site with many discounts and packages to London’s attractions

English Heritage – Membership

Golden tours – Our favorite

London Pass – A free pass to many of London’s attractions

Coupon Sites

Go Groopie

Groupon UK

Internet Shopping

Amazon – You can find almost anything here and it can be delivered to an Amazon Locker (they are all over London) or can be picked up from post offices.

Boots.com – A chain of Pharmacies

Clarks – Shoe shop

Simply Supplements – Vitamins and food supplements

Holidays

Fred Olsen Cruise Lines 

Holiday Extras

JustYou – holiday packages for singles.

Westend Theatrebreaks – Packages of hotel and a show

Local Telephone SIM Cards

giffgaff

3 (Three)

Transport

Megabus – Inter-city bus travel (UK and Europe)

minicabit – Minicabs/Taxis

RentalCars.com

Sixt rent a car GB

–More about transportation in London in the following pages:
Public transport in London
Transportation tickets
Bikes in London.

Other Useful Sites

Fastlane International – Courier services

TripAdvisor 


More in Ask a Local – London:

– London Musicals
– Where to get tickets for the shows in London.
– London tourist attraction page
– Football in London page
– The London Deal page
– Recommended Hotels and Apartments in London page
– Public transport in London and more information pages about transportation tickets in London and bikes in London.

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