You have 7 hours in London with a six year old...

[itslondontime]

What would your plans look like?

We arrive and leave from kings cross, I've been to London but not with kids, 6 year old has never been.

Extra points for step by step plans. We arrive at just after 10am, we'll probably get a picnic for the train home, so just lunch to cater for in London.

Definitely an open top bus tour!

Like others have said, it really depends what he's into

I would do Kensington Gardens, the Princess Diana Memorial playground is a paradise for kids, then walk to the Natural History Museum, if you've for time go across the road to the science museum. Notting Hill is 20 minute walk away from the park for street food or there is a cafe next to the playground. You can hire pedalos in Kensington Gardens too. Though I wouldn't stretch yourself too think if you do decide to do NHM.

London Transport Museum is great for that age.
Emirates Airline Cable car across the Thames

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Really can't see what a six year old would get out of seeing Buckingham Palace. We live in London and we've never been.

My 6yo likes it. We just look at it, look at the flag to see if the Queen's home, see if the guards move, admire Queen Victoria's statue and then go off to St James Park for pelican-spotting and ice cream. There's a lot of king / queen narratives in books at that age group and younger so 'where the queen lives' counts as a landmark.

I think the river is magical and in so many films.
I'd do China Town, walk through trafalgar Square, maybe even dive into the art gallery there, then down to Westminster and over the bridge.
Walk along past the wheel, play area perhaps.... Keep walking down past the globe and then cross back over, walk up to St Paul's and go to the museum of London

Or go the other way and end up with dinner in China Town?
You could tweak stops with tate modern as well S that's also in St Paul, musuem of London area

They see St Paul's, the globe, houses of Parliament... The wheel...

And China Town.. Which is so unique and buzzy. Its one of our favourite routes.

Also agree with nhm and Diana playground combo...

And opening top bus

Get on the 91 bus outside King's cross - free for 6 yrold.
Go up stairs and look out the windows - it will take you to traflagar square via the strand.
Get off at trafalgar square and from there you can wither get another bus and go down whitehall to houses of parliament or go along the MAll to Buck house.

Or get on tube at Charing cross to waterloo and go to the thames, from there on the pedestrian bridhe you can point out loads of the sites.

That is thecheap version without paying for lots of tourist trap stuff.

From Westminster bridge pier you could catch the river bus to tower of london and back - buses, tube, boat, thames, traf square, big ben, houses of parliament, the eye, tower of london.

All on an oyster card!

Emough for a 6 yr old!

A quick update after our fabulous day!

We got the tube from kings cross to bank, walked to see the great fire of London monument, then to tower bridge to do the trip up, glass walkway etc.

After then we got on the hop on hop off bus (used Tesco Clubcard vouchers), rode that to Buckingham palace, watched the guards then walked across green park to Piccadilly. Had lunch just off Piccadilly Circus, then walked to Leicester Square to look in the window of the Lego shop (way too long a wait to get in!).

We then took the tube to South Kensington to the science museum. A good 2 hours there but we still have 40 mins so we had a whistle stop tour a round the dinosaurs in the natural history museum before the tube back to kings cross.

Very busy day but fab! He's already planning the next trip!