London midterm

[the7Vabo]

Im travelling to the UK to visit London at midterm with my DS(6).

Would really appreciate any tips.

Id like to fit in the major sights on a budget - changing of the guard, Big Ben, Tower Hill

Itinerary so far, staying in Air bnb beside Tooting Bec tube.

Day 1) visit family in Forest Hill at lunchtime, they are
taking us to a robot exhibition locally
Day 2) have Paddington experience booked at 5.
Day 3) have science museum booked at 1045 and natural history booked at 1315.

Otherwise nothing booked.

Would really appreciate any tips on how to best fit in the sights - geography mainly as my main concern is DS will complain about being tired and not enjoy it

A river boat trip could be fun - will take you down the river and you can see things like Big Ben and Tower of London that way while resting little legs. You can do the tourist ones or (to save money) take the uber/thanes clipper commuter ones which are cheaper.

Along the route, South bank is good for kids and often has stuff on - near the London Eye as well.

if weather is nice, the Diana memorial playground in Hyde park or Coram field good for outdoor fun. Both are free.

You could walk from Buckingham Palace (bearing in mind day/time for changing of the guard and getting there early to get a view) then walk to Westminster via St James park for Big Ben and pick up Thames Clipper at the pier to Tower. Return via Southbank.

Thank you so much, so helpful. Think we will try to see the changing of the guard on Monday morning, walk to Big Ben and then go to the river.

Glad I asked!

It depends where you live I think to some extent what they will enjoy. My DS at that age loved different things to home (we lived in Italy then). Small things he liked - a double decker bus on the top deck, DLR (he loved trains fish and chips, the underground
Bigger things - the London Eye, Covent Market buskers, HMS Belfast, science museum, Cutty Sark

He also loved watching Tower Bridge being raised. You can check on their website times when it will be raised to allow bigger boats to go through. Combine it with something else in the area. I think his favourite day was HMS Belfast and watching that on the same day. Probably we had fish and chips as well.