Kent & London - days out for relatives. Help me please! :-)

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Hiya everyone!

I am a regular user of MSE but I'm not sure if this is the right place to post.

I have 3 relatives visiting me for the next 2 weeks from Mauritius, ranging from 20s to 60s in age! I would like to be as savvy as possible but show them together the nice places in Kent and London. Any recommendations where to take them and any money saving tips?

For some of the trips it will be my 3 rels from Mauritius plus my mum and on other trips I will join them, if I can get time off work. Your advice and tips welcome!

Cheers,

Vijay :beer: :j

Katgoddess

Rochester is a lovely day out. Has a castle, cathedral, and lots of little shops and places to have lunch. Just down the A2. Also Canterbury.

Hever Castle or Leeds Castle.

Hall Place, Crayford.

The Danson Festival is on next weekend, and the Tour De France the weekend after! Both free.

A day trip to France.

A trip to Bluewater and Lakeside.

I'm also from Dartford (near Bluewater)

davsidipp

canterbury is nice and you also have whitstable on the way as well.

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Katgoddess wrote: »

Rochester is a lovely day out. Has a castle, cathedral, and lots of little shops and places to have lunch. Just down the A2. Also Canterbury.

Hever Castle or Leeds Castle.

Hall Place, Crayford.

The Danson Festival is on next weekend, and the Tour De France the weekend after! Both free.

A day trip to France.

A trip to Bluewater and Lakeside.

I'm also from Dartford (near Bluewater)

Thanks! :beer: Any tips on the best value day trip to France for them? My mum wants to go to Paris as well but I think she is stretching my budget! :rotfl:

ibelongtoguy

Greenwich is a good day out. I work at the National Maritime Museum and it has free entry to the main museum and Royal Observatory (home of the meridian line/Greenwich mean time).

You have the beautiful park - good for a picnic (weather permitting).

Poor old Cutty Sark.

The river, views across to Isle of Dogs/Canary Wharf.

Good markets as well as a few good pubs which will be made all the better by the smoking ban!

I also live just outside Dartford.

noe0504

First time I've posted a reply....

I live on the Romney Marsh which is a lovely part of Kent, you have the worlds smallest public railway, Port Lympne wildlife park, & Dungeness. Very underrated and worth a visit.

Dover castle is also woth a visit

carolbee

I live in Whitstable, so am biased towards that. Broadstairs is lovely to visit, Charles Dickens connections with there and also Rochester. Howletts Zoo park (near Canterbury) if they like animals, and Leeds Castle near Maidstone is beautiful. A lot depends on the weather doesn't it?

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

Question... Which museum...? Science Museum or Natural History Museum...?

VIJAY_FROM_KENT

vjain wrote: »

Question... Which museum...? Science Museum or Natural History Museum...?

Anyone?

chmmy

I'd do both..... the dinosaurs in the NHM, then walk round to the ground floor of the science museum for cars and space. The blue whale gallery in the NHM may still be closed, worth checking before you go. They are both free to get in.

aloiseb

If you can travel by car and think they will like this sort of thing, there are some fantastic National Trust places in Kent...2 especially spring to mind from when we lived around there...

Chartwell, where Winston Churchill lived, (which appears to be staffed largely by volunteers who remember him!)

Ightham Mote - traditional English Elizabethan half-timbered house,with moat, ducks and all

Might be worth joining NT,especially if you see a 12 months for price of 9 coupon - they seem to fall out of glossies such as Good Housekeeping -then you get a whole year's worth of free outings for the price of maybe 3 visits to other similar places

(no, I don't work for them, in fact I have a bit of a love/hate relationship, but they do have some nice places in Kent)