Madam taussude

How many days are you going to be in London?

I'd opt for some of the real sights like Tower of London (where you can see real Yeoman Warders dressed in their cool uniforms), Westminster Abbey (see the graves of Isaac Newton and the nearby stone for Stephen Hawking!) and perhaps the Churchill War Rooms if anyone has an interest in London and WWII. Walk past the Horse Guards as well for more military pagentry.

I WILL say I haven't set foot in any Madame Tussaud's since my first trip to London in 1973 and didn't know any better, lol.

A quick google of the London Taussaud Museum and you will be able to determine how different it is.

We will be in London Friday early afternoon
Leaving Tuesday afternoon

Many of these are in my list
Only on Sunday my daughter and husband are leaving for Harry Potter tour and 2pm and after I will be with my son who is 11 and I was thinking to do something with him

Kids love the Museum of Natural History. Much more interesting and fun than looking at wax effigies of people you never heard of..

I'm sure sniffy tourists (sorry, "travellers"), will tell you not to go and instead visit yet a another museum. But it is about the only thing I remember from my childhood visit to London (the other was brass rubbing at the Abbey; I think that's banned these days). Whether it's different to the one in SF - I doubt it is much, except the London one perhaps has more minor royals and cricketers you won't recognise.

We enjoyed Madame Tussauds in London when my son was 11. Thought it was better than the SF one. There’s also the London zoo which is very good. And Hamleys toy store is very fun.

The Madam Taussude in London is the best of the bunch. A vacation should be more than just museums and cathedrals. I like to mix it up and going theme park style attractions like MT or the London Dungeon is a lot of straight out fun. It's one of the most popular attractions in the city, so it's essential to make reservations via the website to avoid waiting on a long line, and you will save a bit of money.

The Chamber of Horrors went a while back, which was a shame because it contained most of the genuine historic artefacts within MT and in itself had a history way back before today's corporate incarnation of MT. Didn't fit in with modern day sensitivities it seems. Same commercial considerations maybe that caused the death of the Planetarium 10 years earlier.

Never been inside it, never will.

YMMV.

What I have seen is the queue outside waiting to get in. I drive down Baker Street from Finchley fairly frequently and in order to turn left into Marylebone Road as I do I have to scoot around on Allsop Place, where your goal is. Usually a red light so I can see the crowds up close.

If you don't have a way to accelerate past those queues you will be there a fair amount of time.

Is that the same Baker Street referenced in the Gerry Rafferty song?

Gee Big Mike you can either go with 1978 reference or the 1886 A Study in Scarlett and Sherlock Holmes introduction to the world.

22 Baker Street.

We visited it in 2010 in London, and when we were in NYC in 2011. (Didn't do the one in SF). A lot of the waxy celebrities were the same - of course, the London one had more UK/Europe celebs. Backstory - went with my sister and niece who live in the UK, we took the train to London so had a 2 for 1 tix. I think we went on a Sat and the lineup was over an hour to get in. It was super crowded in the first 4-5 rooms, then thinned out a bit. Lost my relatives in the first 10 min and didn't see them again until we exited.

The only reason we went to the one in NYC was because we had a NYPass and the place was not at all crowded - we walked right in.

So if you do go, def look into when the crowded times are (maybe you can get advance tix now?).