DEL.ICIO.USPublished on: 01/06/08
1. Several chain stores such as Boots, Marks & Spencer and Pret a Manger offer a wide selection of takeaway foods at affordable prices.
2. Museum lovers should take advantage of free admission at 238 museums and galleries in London, 11 in Scotland and eight in Wales.
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| Exhibition Road, one of London's more prominent streets, is the main road serving the Science Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the Victoria & Albert Museum. Many of London's museums are free. | ||
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3. The Original London Walks at www.walks.com offers more than 300 informative walking tours throughout London as well as Explorer Days, one-day sightseeing tours to places such as Bath, Cambridge, Canterbury and Oxford. A regular London walk costs about $12.
4. BritRail (www.britrail.com) gives visitors exceptional value for money and the flexibility to explore by train within Britain.
5. Walk around Harrods, London's most famous department store. Just don't buy anything. The bastion of luxury items sits on 41/2 acres in the Knightsbridge neighborhood. Make sure you hit the Food Hall and the toy department.
6. Always ask for tap water at restaurants because waiters will automatically bring bottled water, and it isn't cheap.
7. For discount tickets to London shows, go to the TKTS booth in Leicester Square (www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/tkts). Most shows are discounted to half-price. Check www.16to25live.co.uk for discounted theater tickets for ages 16 to 25 (through Feb. 8). Children ages 6 to 15 get in free at the theater when one adult pays full price and two more children can go half-price during Kids Week the last two weeks of August (this year Aug. 15-29). www.kidsweek.co.uk.
8. Check out Last Minute for dinner deals or dinner and theater combo deals at www.lastminute.com/site/entertainment/restaurants.
9. The Web site www.london-footprints.co.uk/walkslist.htm has self-guided walks.
10. For a few pounds you can take a river boat cruise from the Tate Britain museum to the Tate Modern museum (called the Tate to Tate). The route takes you by Parliament and the London Eye (observation wheel) to the Tate Modern, where you can visit the museum or go to St. Paul's Cathedral across the Millennium Bridge.
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