Few days out in London

sam1974_2

Going to London next week for a few days with other half and want to visit some of the attractions and wondering if anyone knows the cheapest way of getting combined tickets etc.

The things we would like to do are:-

Madame Tussauds

London Eye

London Aquarium

Buckingham palace tour

Tower of London

London Zoo

We arrive Tuesday am and leave some point Friday. Well .... we have to check out of the hotel friday by 11 but if we can find somewhere to store our suitcases then we can stay all day Friday aswell.

Any recommendations on which is the best way to buy tickets, combined or otherwise

Klug

Not sure of current prices but we did a similar thing a few years ago.
Our local rail company did reduced price tickets to London attractions when you bought your rail ticket. All you had to do was produce your train ticket at the attraction for reduced entry.
Hope this may help a little.

Sharon87

You can sometimes get 2 for 1 vouchers for London Eye/Madame Tussauds/London Aquarium (Sealife) and for London Zoo I got 2 for 1 with a train ticket deal I think that's the same with the Tower of London. No idea about the Buckingham Palace tour.

If you can't get vouchers for the first 3 I've mentioned they do combined tickets as they're part of the Merlin group.

Mk14:37

99.99% certain you won't get any deals on Buckingham Palace as it's Crown Estate.

Here's the 2 for 1 link that has been mentioned time and again on these threads.
http://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/2for1-london

minerva_windsong

Tussauds, London Eye and the Aquarium, and I think the London Dungeons as well, do a combined ticket which can make considerable savings. Definitely go for the 2 for 1 tickets as well, I know you can get those for the zoo but not sure about the Tower. If you can't, the Tower and the Eye give 10% off if you book online in advance, as does the zoo, but you run the risk that the weather will be poor.

sam1974_2

Hi, thanks for the replies

I found late last night the 2 for 1 vouchers re the train tickets and luckily we are going on the train Have printed them all off today!

They are valid for Madame Tussards, London Tower, London Aquarium and Zoo.

Have pre-booked and paid for Buckingham Palace tickets today as never been before and thats the one thing i really really want to do as we dont usually visit London in the summer with all the crowds, so its usually not on when we visit! I know its means you beat some queue's but dont really like booking the day and time of going somewhere in advance cause its easy to get held up with tubes etc and miss the allocated slot, dont you think ?

Cant find any discounts for London Eye yet .... seen some on ebay but not sure how legit they would be.

McKneff

There is a 3D experience for the London Eye, go in there (free) before you go on the eye, its amazing,
I almsot guarantee you'll want to go in again when you come off the eye.

sam1974_2

Ahh yes ive seen that advertised somewhere We are also going to try and get to the Imperial War Museum ... other half keeps watching the history channel

gingerdad

we found with most of the attractions if you get there early its usually very quiet.

sam1974_2

any idea what the best time to go to Madam Tussauds is ? other half happened to be working in London today and he drove past and said the queue's were huge and that was at 10.45 this morning

carlislelass

London Eye does 2 for 1 as does St Pauls.