To visit London with a 4 year old

[anditwasallyellow]

I've always intended to take him but was thinking when he's older. However was chatting about it with some work mates in the week and I'm now considering taking 4 year old ds to London for a couple of nights, perhaps October half term or the week before Christmas (thinking Christmasy city break).

But not sure if I like the idea more than he will actually enjoy it me being the city chick that I am.

Was thinking may see a show heard 'Lion King' and 'Gruffalos child' are on, go to the science and natural history museum to see the dinosaur display etc. Go on the London eye and see Buckingham Palace (where the queen lives!), he's quite into all this since he had a jubilee party at nursery. I hear you can have photo with the guards? Visit Hyde park. I need to do a bit more research.

We live a couple of hours away by train or car, may drive if boyfriend wants to join us. And travel by tube once we're there.

I've only visited once pre ds and the tube was so busy so this could be a problem, not sure how interesting a 4 year old would find it but I've asked him and showed him photos and now he's asking everyday when we can go to London, he's like me quite outgoing and loves an adventure.

Or wait until he's a bit older?

Yy, the Museum of Childhood is terrific.

After reading this thread I bit the bullet and took DD 3.5 to London today... it was BRILLIANT!!

We started off at the Natural History Museum - got there 20 mins before opening, the queue was already about 100 deep - ten mins later was around the block! Once inside we headed straight to the dinosaurs and DD's face was like Christmas morning... she loved them, and the whales, and the creepy crawlies - especially the huge scorpion - and the Human Biology section was a huge hit. After coffee and an ice lolly we caught the Tube to Westminster to see Big Ben, then had sushi on the South Bank before a whirl on the Eye... followed by a boat trip to Tower Bridge and a bus ride to the train station for our trip home. She's fallen asleep already, clutching her glow-in-the-dark Stegasaurus with a huge smile on her face - Result!

The one thing that made it super-easy for me was our Ergo baby carrier - when she was tired she could hop on my back and get a rest, which also made it miles easier in the busy underground stations... although I'm now completely knackered and have burnt off about a million calories from all the carrying! anyone??

We'll definitely do it again...

That's fantastic, Gigaflops .

Really glad you both had such a good time.