Suggestions for 3 days after RS London tour

Go to Edinburg ? That would be my choice. Safe travels!

I would stay a few days. First, you may well want to take a bit of a breather after an active tour.

And secondly, you will definitely want to go back and spend more time at some of the places, parks, neighborhoods, and other sights that the tour gave you a taste of.

Your guide and the guidebook will have more ideas and suggestions for you.

Is it 3 days or 5? York and Bath come to mind.

I love London but I’d be ready for a change of scenery to something less urban after a full week city tour. Thinking what fits that bill within easy reach of London…

…the Yorkshire Dales (2 hours by fast train from London Kings Cross station to York, MUCH cheaper if you purchase way ahead but then you are locked into that specific day and train). You can base yourself in York and tour the Dales from there. Stunning countryside (All Creatures Great and Small), friendly and warm people, interesting towns and villages, lots of history not to mention sheep. If you aren’t driving, various guiding companies offer 1-day or multi-day Dales tours. Last month from York we did a private day tour with Tim Barber of Real Yorkshire Tours and loved him. Another day we visited Thirsk on our own by train to see the World of James Herriot museum and the town where the real “James Herriot” (Alf Wight) practiced.

…Eastbourne on the Sussex Coast (1.5 hours by train from London Victoria station). The Seven Sisters chalk cliffs, South Downs Way, Beachy Head, Birling Gap, the villages of East Dean and Alfriston, etc. Belle Tout is a B&B in a decommissioned lighthouse near Beachy Head, with amazing views over the cliffs, the sea, and the green downs. Stayed there last month for the second time in 5 years.

Enjoy London and wherever else you choose!

Edit: I should clarify that I’m suggesting one or the other for the time you have, not try to do both.

Stay in London.

Visit Richmond Park looking for the fallow dear. Then have a meal at the White Cross pub.

Walk along the Thames Path.

Visit the retail and food spots at the area referenced as The Tide by the O2 arena.

Meander about Spitalfields.

Walk about Shoreditch viewing the street art.

Attend Evensong at St Brides or St Bartholomew.

Visit the free rooftop garden at 120 Fenchurch Street.

See theatre: Witness for The Prosecution at County Hall. Hamilton, Six, Wicked and many, many more.

Shop at Liberty. Visit Leadenhall market.

Visit the Horniman Museum.

Stroll about Little Venice.

Always something interesting to see and do in London.

IF YOU MUST go elsewhere train to Rye or Whitsable.

You could stay in London and do day trips to the likes of Oxford, Rye, Canterbury, Cambridge, Stratford, Bath etc.

Or head to Lincoln, York or Edinburgh

There are loads more options - depends on what you want really

If you have just spent a week in London then it's a complete no-brainer to me to move out somewhere else in the country. Staying in London would be like the British tourists who go to New York and believe they have seen the US.
Almost anywhere would work but I would try to move out of the south east to get a wider feel of the country. Where that is depends on your interests - do you want countryside, villages, pubs, country walks? Or national parks, mountains and longer hikes? Or the coast, beaches? Or cities, history, museums and galleries? I could go on but thinking about what interests you should be the starting point.

Get out and see some more of England - preferably the countryside and not just its towns and cities!

Kent and Sussex are just on the doorstep and have some beautiful countryside with stately homes and castles to explore along with gardens.

A bit further is Dorset and the Jurassic coast. if you want coastal scenery along with small towns.

Or head to East Anglia - Suffolk and Norfolk which don't ofen feature on teh tourist itineray . The countryside is more gentle but again there are loads of attractive small market towns to explore .

Further north are the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors or even Northumberland with its beaches, castles, Hadrian's Wall, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne and lots more just waiting to be discovered....

Another vote for York as a base to see Dales and Moors.

I can't count the number of times I've been to London and still not seen everything. If you decide to stay in London, I'm sure you can easily and pleasurably fill your days. It may be a simple matter of deciding if you want to change hotels and move on or relax and self-tour places not on the London tour.

London is also a great base for day trips. You might look at places like Bletchley Park, Oxford and/or Blenheim, Windsor, Canterbury, Brighton, Dover. I haven't looked at the RS tour - Hampton Court should be considered if not on the tour. All are easily doable if you wished to keep London as a base to avoid moving hotels. There are also guided day trips to several of those places if you didn't want to do the train routes on your own.

Have a great trip!

A bit of background on yourself and who is travelling with you - spouse/children/friend/someone else - and your interests, would help with the suggestions. But, apart from that:

if its your first visit to England, I would stay in London . So much to do here. And, if you want to get out of the city, you can do day trips, dozens of options, depends on your interests.

But its your trip, if you want to spend the days somewhere else I would pick ONE location, especially after a busy tour. My pick would be York (easy to get to by rail from King's Cross). Rather than the usual place everyone wants to go to - the Cotswolds (a lovely area, but IMO a bit boring.)