Hello, we are traveling to London for our first time. We are traveling with 1 adult, 1 Senior and a 16 year old. (what a combo)
I would love some help with this itinerary.
Hmm I would revise it to be :
Sunday- Check into your hotel. Buy train tickets and regular tickets to Windsor Palace. Download uber for the UK. Visit the Shard. Have dinner at a nice place...
Monday- Get up early, take earliest possible ticket to Windsor. Visit Windsor palace (3 hours approx). Use your uber app and hire a cab to take you from Windsor to Hampton Court Palace (they are about 20-30 minutes apart from each other or 12 miles (approx). Visit Hampton Court Palace. The maze is....prob not worth your time.. The grounds are amazing and you can get lost in those just as easy .. :) Hop the train back to London, get on the tube, visit Picadilly circus and eat there.
Tuesday- Visit Westminster Abbey and Big Ben (this will take you probably about 5 hours). Please be aware the 9 3/4th platform is 1) hard to find (rather-hope you have a gps on your phone) and also you will wait in line for probably 2.4 hours to get a picture. Now maybe if you go there really off hours (like late at night or early in the morning its not like this....but I went during the day on a week day in May and it was crazy). If your 60+ year old is quite spry you could walk to Trafalgar square (its about 2 miles).
Wednesday- Buckingham Palace (I'd do this early before it crowds up if feasible-you might be able to get tickets online ahead of time), Changing of the Guard.
Thursday- Stonehenge-Bath tour..(cut Windsor or you will see none to little of Bath). I'm also half hesitant to say get a Bath tour... I'm wondering (though not sure) if its feasible for you to take the train yourself to Bath in the AM visit the Abbey and Baths before noon, then hop on a tour of stonehenge in the afternoon that dumps you back off in London via Bath...that would be the most time-effective.
Friday- Tower of London (AM--get there when it opens), Tower Bridge, Tower Hill, Clipper
Yes do get the Oyster Card..its very useful. I'd recommend putting around $35 on it...you can always add more later if needed.
I hope you realize that your itinerary will be rather trying.. things in London take time to get to, and lots of time to visit. You will probably be extremely exhausted by the end of day 3....0_o... If your 60+ year old is really spry I think its feasible. I did a less ambitious itinerary (and stayed up the street from Big Ben) where we were all under 35 and we were dead tired each day at about 7pm.