AIBU to ask for some really cool ideas of things to do in London?

[ImASecretLemonadeDr1nker]

2 adults with a teenager aged 16

Looking for more quirky and engaging things as opposed to the usual tourist traps

We've done Dennis Severs house, the Kusama exhibition (just me and DH - DS would have been bored stiff! ) and we watched Witness for the prosecution at the Jury House

Now I'm out of ideas. So PLEASE could anyone suggest some cool and fun ideas for me? Happy to consider anything but not London eye, stately homes, museums,'madam Tussaud's etc as done them all!

Thank you!

Silver vaults, borough market

The slide at the Olympic park in Stratford

I think there's a thing where you can climb over the O2 ...or the millennium dome as it used to be called!

Borough market for food

Crystal maze?

Highgate cemetery tour

https://oldoperatingtheatre.com/

Hire a rowing boat on the boating lake in Regent’s Park.
Van Gogh Immersive Experience.
Lifesize Monopoly.
The London Mithraeum in the basement of the Bloomberg building.
God’s Own Junkyard.
Explore Highgate Cemetary and Hampstead Heath.
London Underground ghost station tour.

Frameless

Sherlock Holmes museum (I know you said no museums but this gets overlooked).

Globe Thestre

Ride the Mail Rail

Walthsmstow Wetlands

Explore Little Venice.

Jack the Ripper tour

Swim in the serpentine

We did an interactive squid game which was really fun

Hampstead Heath ponds

Sensas (nearest tube Vauxhall or None Elms). It’s like an escape room with a difference. My 15 year old loved it when she went with friends recently.

Nine Elms! Not None.

https://thewaroftheworldsimmersive.com/the-experience/what-on-earth-is-it/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwb6lBhBJEiwAbuVUSo1Q9T-moqS0ORzzM6izPGODQfiTIDCfcvtgioivrugP8GXSqiHJpxoCZgIQAvD_BwE

this was really good

Hunterian Museum | Homepage

The Viktor Wynd Museum Of Curiosities, Fine Art & Natural History (thelasttuesdaysociety.org)

Home - The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (fothcp.org)

I think sometimes with London you can reach the point where you go full circle. When you know it and have done all the obvious and less obvious things already. Just being there and eating, seeing friends, walking, watching, popping to see a painting inbetween, a gig, fave river spot, fave niche shop, swim are enough for a while. I get with a 16 year old they may not want that but some would if they have already bonded as such with the places if that makes sense!. Do they or you have any particular interests to follow?

Rotating cheese bar if you like cheese.

Camden market
London eye
River boat from the London Eye to Greenwich

A friend of mine did a street art tour in East London which she said was brilliant - might be worth a google?

Things my teens enjoyed recently.

The Mithraeum
Cronuts and the amazon fresh store (near Angel IIRC)
The Automaton museum.

Sky garden

Neil's yard

Gorilla circus flying trapezein Kensington Gardens.

Royal observaty greenwich/cutty sark/Peter Harrison planetarium/Greenwich Market is all a 10 minute walk from each other and can get a taxi boat up the Thames to get there.

Alphaguns shooting range in Camden, then Camden Market.

And I LOVED the crustal maze and life sized monopoly as pp's sugested-so much fun!

Uber boat to stop near Borough market, lunch there.
Bermondsey high street.
design museum.
floating hot tub at Canary Wharf.

Viktor Wynd museum. Certainly eye opening 🤣 and you can have an absinth cocktail.

Globe theatre

@Houseplantmad I've always wanted to do the flouting hot tub!