Changing tubes at tube stations

marisco_2

Everyone has given you great advice. Just wanted to say I hope you all have a great day. Covent Garden is wonderful and I can highly recommend the transport museum as a fun place to take kids.

pollyanna24

Thanks everyone. Could stay on train to Charing Cross as it's a Northern Line from Edgware train.

Everyone has indeed been very helpful.

I know bits of London quite well and can picture Leicester Square station, so hopefully will be able to walk in the right direction.

I hardly ever venture into London as I don't like so many people, although when my kids' dad has them, me and Mum have started just jumping on a tube and wandering around London by the river and such like.

Hopefully everything will go fine tomorrow (have only started venturing out without pushchair - I know, I know, they're 4 and 6!), so if all goes well, it might be a trip into London every other weekend for various free things.

Cornucopia

I would definitely suggest Charing Cross over Leicester Sq or Covent Garden for the Transport Museum. Alternatively, any bus down Kingsway and get off at Aldwych. (91 is ideal as this carries on to the Strand).

If you go to Leicester Sq, you want to get to the east side of Charing Cross Road when you come out of the station, and then head east.

Confused now about Kings Cross. Trains from Edgware to Charing Cross do not go via Kings Cross.

pollyanna24

Cornucopia wrote: »

I would definitely suggest Charing Cross over Leicester Sq or Covent Garden for the Transport Museum. Alternatively, any bus down Kingsway and get off at Aldwych. (91 is ideal as this carries on to the Strand).

If you go to Leicester Sq, you want to get to the east side of Charing Cross Road when you come out of the station, and then head east.

Thank you very much. I've looked on the map and see that Leicester Square and Charing Cross are similar distances away. Just wondered why you would suggest Charing Cross instead.

Never have I spent so much time working out a way into London, haha!

Cornucopia

Charing Cross is just easier (possibly slightly shorter, too, to the Transport Museum, which is on the SE corner of Convent Garden plaza).

Come out of CC tube onto the Strand, north side, walk along the Strand (completely straight), and then turn left up one of the streets that go straight up to Covent Garden. (Ignore the tube station exit(s) marked Covent Garden).

bylromarha

I find Covent Garden hard with my 2 kids. Will go Leicester Square everytime if the connections work. Have been taking my kids into London since they were 1/3 years old. They're now 8/10 and will still prefer Leicester Square!

Wantobeasaver

pollyanna24 wrote: »

Hopefully everything will go fine tomorrow (have only started venturing out without pushchair - I know, I know, they're 4 and 6!), so if all goes well, it might be a trip into London every other weekend for various free things.

Don't forget the staff at stations are normally helpful if you get a bit lost. Have a great day!

LilElvis

Have you got Google maps on your phone? Just type in the name of the museum, select that you are walking and off you go, whichever tube station you get off from. Simple!

maman

Cloudydaze wrote: »

Covent Garden doesn't have escalators - it's either stairs or lifts. When it's busy, you can wait a while for lift and it gets quite congested. I'd get off at Leicester Sq.

queen_of_cheap wrote: »

Give your kids the choice- walk from Leicester square or climb the 193 steps out of Covent garden tube station!

I didn't know about the steps until I got off the tube. My god that was hard work!

I went to Covent Garden station once and the lifts were out of order. Never again!!

notanewuser

I'll be in that area tomorrow with my 4 year old. I'd definitely walk up from Charing Cross (walk down the Strand and up Henrietta Street and the transport museum will be on your right).

If you walk past the Punch and Judy bar afterwards (it faces all of the street entertainment) and turn left onto King Street you'll find Muffinskis which serves the most amazing coffee and muffins.

Just to warn you that Leicester Square/Chinatown will most likely be even busier than usual as it's Chinese New Year.