LOndon travel after concerts

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Hello, I have got a couple of concerts coming up in august at Wembley and we are staying at north acton. I know we have to get the jubilee line to bond street and then transfer to the central line to go in the other direction. How long do the tubes normally run to as both dates are on sundays.

would it be better just to get an uber as there is 5 of us in august and where would be a suitable place

Many Thanks

Stadium or arena? You can be queuing 1-1.5 hours to get in the tube station for a stadium gig.

if you can walk to Wembley Central (20-25) minutes it’s much quieter.

At Taylor Swift last year I think it finished a little earlier on the Sunday.

putting it in city mapper it looks like there is a bus straight there - not sure how easy they are on a concert day though. It’s saying about 30 minutes by bus to North Acton.

Use the TFL website to plan your journey and it will give you the options at that time. Only variable will ge how it will take you to get out of the concert to the station.

So - in theory an Uber without concert traffic takes 15 mins and cost £8 (if you travelled right now at 6:40 in the morning 😂) but in terms of distances it definitely ‘wins’. However it’s nearly impossible to do so after a concert, when traffic will be mad and Uber prices will surge. It’ll also take you a good hour minimum to actually make it onto a train heading back into Central/Bond St, plus an hour to do that travel. Trains will be running on the Jubilee at least until the concertgoers have all moved through (they plan for event days) and on Central Line til about 00:30.

Personally what I would do would be walk in the direction of North Acton (possibly to Stonebridge Park, about 30mins away) just until the traffic clears, and then get an Uber. Realistically you’ll be waiting at least that long to get onto the train platform or find an Uber at the stadium anyway. I’ve done this before and although there was still a bit of surge pricing, there were plenty of Ubers around (Inc XL, which you’ll need with 5 of you!)

I agree about walking away from the stadium and planning where you’ll go. Either to pick up an uber or get a bus/train.

Even if you can get an uber, they’ll struggle to get to you. The roads become one way routes, there will be queues of traffic getting out.
Some leave early to avoid queues but I always want to stay until the end.

The only time I’ve had an easy time getting out was when I stayed close by.

North Acton is not so far from Wembley (in relative terms), and agree a bus or walk/uber is way forward, rather than going into London and out again