How do I make London interesting for a 15 year old boy?

[lilibet]

Dh and I have been offered a friend's house for a week in early June half term, they are going to be on their honeymoon and we willbe looking after their cats.

You would think that we had told ds2 that we were off to a concentration camp for a week.

He doesn't want to go anywhere/do anything. All he wants to do is stay in their house for a week ad play on his playstation. I feel this is such a waste.

There must be something that I can suggest that he would like to do? Museums, theatre, dungeons, river trips have all met with a very teenage, sulky "no"

Any ideas?

all these things sound great- though he will pretend they're shit, if he's anything like my son (14)

we live in London- I make a point of dragging him places he says he doesn't want to go (the latest objection is that I'm "disgustingly middle class" if I make him look at anything vaguely resembling culcher)

I find the best way is to treat 'em like enormous toddlers. Ignore tantrums, give lots of crap snacks (Crackdonald's if you have to) and bribe bribe bribe

some of it sinks in. I promise you. Good luck

Oh, where's that really cool underground bowling alley? very Retro, has an American diner style cafe attached? in the basement of a hotel on Bloomsbury? the Brunswick?

Brixton Market is a good idea. The indoor arcades - Brixton Village - are packed with new cafes to answer every possible taste- the best pizza place ever (Franca Manca) though it only does about 4 types of pizza, a S American artisan ice cream parlour, Honest Burger, Indian, Thai, portuguese, Caribbean, Italian, everything, all in 'pop up' style market stalls. fab cake places, retro shops, great atmosphere. Open day times and Fri and sat eves. And then he can have his picture taken in front of the Foot Locker burnt out in the riots. In fact in early June you could also spend half the day at Brockwell Lido, also Brixton, which is v cool, and in a lovely park.

Bloomsbury Lanes, Blu. Great idea.

Oh no. No. No. No

I was made to go to London at this age and I fell in love. Camden was fabulous. I was living there within 4 years!

This is fab:

www.thamesribexperience.com/

Leave him in the house with the cats and the playstation, and you two go out and have fun.

Camden market?

DS16 had a week's work experience in the City. We live in rural Cornwall. He loved it.

He says, whatever you are doing now is boring (or he wouldn't be wedded to the PS). Take him out of his comfort zone. Whatever you fancy, the wilder the better.........

If I was 15 I'd like:
a Powerboat ride on the Thames (Rib boat experience)
Take a cable car to Greenwich and Walk across the Millenium dome
Chill out in Camden market and/ or Brick Lane
A trip to Madam Tussauds or London Dungeons
See a theatre show in London
Wander along the south bank and go to the viewing gallery at the top of TAte Modern
Visit borough market for the food experience
Shop God forbid in Oxford street
People watch in Hyde Park/ Knightsbridge/ south kensington

Oxford Street.