London travel pass, is it worth it?

The walk Hyde Park to Churchill War rooms is a little over 1 mile on flat land; can you handle that in the summer?

That's no problem. Thank you!

The majority of museums in London are free. Places like St Pauls, Tower of London, Westminster Abbey all charge entrance fees. The 2 for 1 deal offered by the National Rail system can be a better deal. Use the search engine atop this page ( magnifying glass icon) as both the London Pass and 2 for 1 deal have been discussed before.

Secondly use the Google Maps satellite view to see how close and far the iconic London sites are from your hotel. Marvelous research travel tool. You can even plot walking routes.

Type in Big Ben London and use the zoom. You'll discover that the London Eye, Westminister Bridge, Parliament, Elizabeth Tower ( Big Ben) , Westminster Abbey, Churchill War Rooms, Horse Guards, 10 Downing Street, St James Park Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square are all within walking distance of one another.

The only way to answer this is for you to consider how long you will need the pass for, then calculate what you can reasonably see during each given day. If the value of what you would spend for each day is comparable or less than the cost of the pass, then I would say, No.

It has already been mentioned that many of London's sites are free. If you are there 5 days you could plan on using 2 or 3 of those days seeing the free sites then get the pass for the balance of those days and that is only IF the numbers crunch in the right direction. Perhaps not waiting in a ticket line for a paid site is worth a little extra as well. Using the London pass also gives you one day's use of the hop on hop off bus as well......factor that into the formula. That might be a great use of one of your first days of sightseeing (along with seeing some of the paid sites). I believe it also lends itself to the boat ride on the Thames.

I am toying with getting it for one day. I would use it for the Thames boat ride, entrance to the Cutty Sark, Royal Observatory (both in Greenwich) then entrance to the Churchill War Rooms. This comes to 58.25 pounds which is just short of the cost for one day at 62 pounds. But, in my mind it's worth the few pounds to not have to wait in line for tickets. Then if we wanted to run into the HMS Belfast for a few minutes, we could do that and the pass would be worth it. Or maybe we won't feel like doing all of that, which makes the pass a bad value. It's a consideration.

Thank you for your responses.

We looked at what we wanted to do, what the cost was and compared to the cost of the pass and for us, it was not worth it.

We have used them in many other cities though and they are great if they line up with what you want to see. The 'skip the line' alone makes it worthwhile sometimes :)