Our family of 3 adults will be traveling by train on a Saturday morning at 9:00 from Southampton to London at the end of a cruise to Norway in mid May We have reservations at an air b&b in S Kensington but may not have access until 16:00 We would like to check our luggage and use the time to walk & have lunch before taking the tube to Gloucester Road. Aside from our ipads & personal items that we will keep in our day packs is this a good idea?
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Lake District, England
8948 posts
It depends where exactly where you are staying as the previous tube station before Gloucester Road is South Kensington (arriving from the Waterloo direction).
There is a left luggage office at Waterloo called Excess Baggage £10 for up to 3 hours or £15 for longer. There will also be app based left luggage (like Stasher as an example close by) for a lot less-around £5 a day.
Posted by
Duluth 🛶
8753 posts
Sure, I would do that rather than carry all that stuff around all day. And yes, definitely keep your high-end items with you. Here's the website for the Left Luggage at Waterloo Station—https://www.left-baggage.co.uk/en
You can pre-book or just go there directly with your luggage when you arrive. It's a bit pricey but for the time you're there, it shouldn't be too much. It's called the Excess Baggage Company at Exit 6 (Southbank) at Waterloo. For more info on location, visit here: https://www.left-baggage.co.uk/en/locations
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Northamptonshire, England
34655 posts
note that at the Excess Baggage the charge is per piece and everything is x-rayed and under supervision. don't know how it works at the other