My daughter and I are meeting my son in London in the Fall. We're planning on going to Warner Brother's Studio tour one of the first few days and no other plans. My daughter wants to see Buckingham palace so I thought we'd do a hop on hop off bus tour of the city and maybe a boat ride on the river. No other plans for London at this time. I'm thinking of staying the night before, close to Warner Bros. so we don't have issues trying to travel the day of the tour, especially since they are at specific times. That's if we can even get tickets.
We're then taking a train to Edinburgh, staying two or three days seeing the city. Flying to Dublin, staying a couple of days. Taking the train to Galway. Staying in Galway a couple of days and then flying back to London. Not sure if we will spend the last couple days in London or go visit my son's little town, which is a couple hours away.
I have traveled some in Europe and lived in Germany years ago but have always gone on trips with a car or bus tour company. My son will have his car but doesn't want to drive. Do our travel plans sound like the best way to get to those cities? We will have about 16 days, which includes flying to and from the U.S.
My original plan was just to go to Scotland, rent a car and spend all our time there. My kids, though, want to see a lot more, even if it means only getting a couple days in each place. My son is leaving England at the end of the year so I don't mind going to all the places he wants to see. I can always go back to Scotland another time.
Would appreciate any moderately priced hotel ideas too, near train stations perferably. Also, how hard is it to get a Covid test for the flight home?