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beanielou wrote: »

Bit it will show the booking was for two so you should still get the two for one?

Sadly I won't Beanie, for the 2 for 1 for work you need and orange rail ticket with the two arrows. Mega bus you use your confirmatkion email for your booking

greyfox

OK, PAP, back to Plan A! Get yourself rail tickets from Waterloo to Charing Cross (from the South West Trains website) for each day you want to use 2For1 offers. They'll cost you £2.20 each (from memory), so you'll still save money. Order them online - no booking/credit card charge - and choose the station you want to collect them from. (Bristol, for example!)

Our Americans left a week ago but I'm currently in France ( came over for my DH's god-daughter's confirmation) so probably won't be online again until back in the UK later this week. Happy to answer any other questions if I can.

postingalwaysposting

Greyfox, I hope you had a good time with your American friends and you are enjoying your unexpected stay in france, once again thanks for your help :j

Thanks Greyfox, I have just done some juggaling and with tickets/days I have here I only need 2for1 for the london bridge admission. The total will cost us £16 but the only train tickets I can find for that day (Wednesday) will cost is £4.30 each so I won't save anything The only way I will save money that way is if I don't win the zoo tickets I just bid on through ebay and do that the same day but it will be a jam trying to fit it all in what with traveling across London.

Many thanks for your help though London now looks like, everything in red I have tickets in hand, everything blue is free...

Mon – 8.50am train
Tues - River cruise + London Eye + Sites
Wed – Sea life 2for1 + London bridge + tate modern + Orange
Thurs – science museum + sites + Billy Elliott
Fri- Camden market + 4pm bus home

London zoo - unsure

So the budget for both of us (excluding B&B as thats seperate) is £500. I am paying and Mum will repay me I am thinking £100 attractions/orange wednesday/souviners, £200 spends (£100 each) and £100 food with a £100 buffer. Not too bad I don't think

greyfox

Hi, PAP,
Back from France (just!). It was planned but - in an ideal world - we could have done with a bit more time between sending the Americans on their way and setting-off ourselves as we sare now officially shattered!!

Re "the only train tickets I can find for that day (Wednesday) will cost is £4.30 each so I won't save anything", I've just been on the SWT site and "anytime singles" on the 8th June, Waterloo to Charing Cross would come to £4.40 for the two of you (£2.20 each), so would be worthwhile.

BTW, I think you mean Tower Bridge rather than London Bridge. Latter is a very dull bridge. Our US friends had the same confusion between the two - as did the Americans who bought the old London Bridge when it was replaced, had it rebuilt over there and wondered where the Towers were!! Tower Bridge is by the Tower of London and is on the no 15 bus route (which passes quite a few of the Sights and still uses the old Routemaster buses with the open platform at the back.)

Must stop and finish unpacking!

GF

postingalwaysposting

I am home Wish I was still in London though :j Gotta say I loved every minute of it, from the trip there to the show it was all amazing. The bits I loved the most the river cruise and Regents park. As it turned out our timetable was...

Mon – train, St Pauls, Millenium bridge and Tate
Tues - River cruise, Greenwich (love the painted room), Westminster & Abby, Buckingham palace, Trafalgur square, Tower of london and Tower bridge*
Wed – London zoo (over 5hrs, well worth the discounted entry), Regents park and Takeaway
Thurs – London eye, Sea life, science museum and Billy Elliott
Fri - Regents park and home

*We didn't go into most of those places btw, just Tower bridge and most of the free places in Greenwich.

We used the buses three times (it would have been twice but Friday it poured down). Once was planned after Billy Elliott and the other was Tuesday night, after all the walking Mum's ankles were killing her. We didn't make it onto the tube

So hears to saving to go in 2012 :beer: There is so much more I wanted to do and I can't wait to go back!

Emzilla

Glad you had a good time Pap . You packed an awful lot in.

Emz xx

tootallulah

I am so pleased that you enjoyed yourselves, you did a lot in a short time. What was the b&b like, would you stay there again?

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Thanks Em, it kind of happened like that. On Monday we got into London at about 1pm so decided to go for a walk and ended up at the Tate (it was a short visit as Mum doesn't do art) seeing St pauls on the way. Tuesday all we had planned was the cruise and eye but as it turned out the eye tickets were valid for use until March next year so we spent a lot of our time in Greenwich (amazing btw) at the first stop. We then got off at the Tower of London and went in Tower Bridge. We then got back on and got back off at the start point and worked our way up past Westminster towards Buckingham and then we just kept walking :rotfl:

We decided to do the eye on Thursday as it was near Victoria where Billy was so we did the zoo on Wednesday. Its huge compared to Bristol and very good value for money, we then stayed in Regents park but didn't manage to see the Queens gardens. So After visiting all we wanted on Thursday I decided Friday on the walk towards the coach station that we would go back to Regents park.

It was a lot of walking and I did question Mum as to why she didn't ask to use buses more but she was happy and we took a lot of breaks. Missed lots though as I wanted to do a few extra bits when I got there but as we/I am going next year :T

tootallulah, I liked the B&B and didn't see why some of the reviews on tripadvisor were there. The hotel was quirky it had slopes and stairs everywhere but as we didn't book a disabled room it didn't bother us. The room was quite big, it has two single beds a wardrobe, two bedside tables and a sink plus two huge windows. There were two showers and two toilets just to the right down the corridoor. The rooms were spotless as were the showers etc and I couldn't fault the staff on the desk. Breakfast was great buffett full english, toast, cereals, juice and tea/coffee. Certainly worth going to each day and only once did we have to wait for a table but that was because we didn't go down for breakfast until 8.30am, so understandable. That said when we go next year we will use another B7B but in a different area, if we were to go back to that area I would certainly stay again

beanielou

Glad you had a fabarooni time :j :j

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So payday today and I finally went and got my eyes tested. My eyes have actually improved but because my prescription was so long ago the optician suggested I purchased new glasses. So the test, glasses and lenses were £97. A hell of a lot cheaper than the £260 ish that it cost me in 2008.

After bills, Argos repayment and loan, plus car saves I have £266 remaining Now the bad bit is I have approx £290 on my CC This is because while in London I put my accomodation on it and Mum didn't save any money herself to take with us :mad: Don't know how to play this month now

That asside, Mum now owes me [FONT=&quot]£747.23 (excluding what she owes to Argos) so thats 5 overpayments to my loan :T Don't ask me when I will get that money though

Other than that I am ill, home from work and feeling sorry for myself. But on the upside I am completing my wedding gift cross stitch at some pace

Have a great weekend all...
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