Car journey from Scotland to London - any frequent travellers willing to share tips?

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On places to stop with kids?

Have done journey once before and found a great restaurant with soft play just off motorway at lancaster...

Any other good recommendations?

TIA

Ikea Birmigham is literally a mile at most of the M40 - cheap food indoor and outdoor play equipment, local petrol station very nearby if you would need to refill.

Ooooh, will keep an eye on this thread. We will prob be doing this journey in the near future....

great tip cargirl! thank you!

Tebay Services, just south of Penrith.

It is the only independant motorway services in the UK,and was voted the best. Has a farm shop, lovely shop, cafe, lake with ducks, you can easily spend a couple of hours there if the weather is nice

now, i had heard of that place. if it was just a wee bit further south... we'll only be 2 hours into our journey.... heard it is fab tho'...

yes tebay services

someone recommended in mn
really nice break

It would be a nice place to stop for breakfast though, then another stop at birmingam (3 hours), then another 2-3 into London?

Perfect

yes I imagine they do a lovely breakfast
nice play area
and beautiful view

What we do (Fife to London) is:

leave super-early. Give dd some bread or whatever she'll take in the car.

Stop at Tebay for breakfast. Doesn't matter how early it is in the journey, it's the BEST on the route.

Then stop again at the services on the M6 toll road. They can be busy, but they're pretty good.

oh, pretty much what Geordieminx suggested, I see!

I was going to say Tebay too!

geordieminx - thanks for that. think that's what we'll do...

xxx