London Transport Museum - anyone been yet?

[RedSonja]

Thinking of giving it a try tomorrow. What's it like (used to go lots before it closed down for ages)

I don't know but please let me know if you make it tomorrow. I thought the website was a bit crap but i still wnat to go..my dc loved it before the renovation.

Ooh! We went yesterday. Ds1 aged 4 and Ds2 aged 2 really liked it. Ds1 especially liked the card for stamping at different points as you go round.
Good idea to go on a Monday I reckon. Yesterday it was packed.

it had better be worth the wait. was fine as it was

report from someone who knew it before the refurb please . ds loved it, & dd is just the right age now. personally i like the proximity to shops!

apparently the building needed refurbishment.

seemed ok to me. i'm peed off with the amount of time it's taken. we went there alot

Yep, went on Friday. Good value for money as kids free. Very different to how it was before, very much in the modern style of museum design (all the stuff I find interesting like photos and old tickets 'displayed' in drawers!) but still lots of buses and train carriages to sit in and all my kids aged 4 to 13 enjoyed it. Especially the stamping machine! And we were there for about 3 hours.

Oh, thought most of the high tech interactive stuff was shite though, hate those 'educational' things with buttons as the younger kids just press the buttons randomly and wander off...

What was the cafe/ food situation like. It used to be a cramped Cafe Nero which was hopeless when you had a pushchair. Am now puschair free and am hoping that its not too pricey.

Didn't go in the cafe, it was upstairs above the gift shop but I expect there's a lift, there were lifts everywhere else. Looked spacious enough, with seats in that dreadful bus seat fabric! Don't know about prices though.

Don't give those seats much of a chance then - they'll be ingrained with squashed choc cake by the end of the week (that's if they have choc cake - here's hoping).

Will investigate and report back. No longer need lifts as no longer have pushchair (gloat gloat emoticon)

Went today - its absolutely fabulous. Its reatined all the good bits from the oldmuseum e.g trains/buses to climb on with lots of new updated bits e.g. great kids play area with buses/ trains you can "drive", motorbike you can sit on, dressing up outfits. Picnic area much biggere too. Cafe - very small and packed so went to another place nearby but seems you can re enter on your ticket so not a prob.

I give it a massive thumbs up compared to the Museum of Childhood which was shut for ages and then re opened looking pretty much the same except for giant out of character new front porch.

Thoruoughly recommended esp for boys aged 2-10 years.

oh brill. we are going tomorrow .