Hi,
Is the London Pass the best way to go for a family of 7? We will be in London about 4 days, staying with friends, but wanting to see all the typical tourist sites. It includes admission to just about everything we'd love to see, plus transportation on the city transit system. Does this include the double-decker red buses?
TIA
The tranportation part of the London Pass is defintely NOT a good deal. You can do much better buying Oyster cards and either using them as pay-as-you-go cards or loading seven-day travelcards on them. (A seven-day travelcard is comparable in price to four one-day travelcards). See www.tfl.gov.uk.
Most major museums in London are free. The only way to know if the admission part of the London Pass would be a good deal for you is to add up the entrance fees for the places you wish to visit that charge admission and compare that total to what the pass costs. I suspect you'll be better off simply paying for admission as you go.
Therese, The London Pass is very pricey, and like TIm said, get the Oyster card for travel. There's the travel card which you can buy from any tube station and they put it on an Oyster card and its good for the tube and bus.
The typical tourist sites are pricey but as I said, so is that pass. Also remember that some of the touristy stuff like Madame Trousseu is not included.
Here's what I'd suggest: Write and Plan out your day. Guess that 1 attraction will take 2 to 3 hours. Give yourself 40 min travel time.. especially with 7 people.
Compare your day and see if its worth running crazy to get your "money's worth".
4 years ago, I did buy the 1 day tourist pass and got my money worth doing the London Tower, Tower of London and one more attraction in 1 day.
I am glad I didn't buy my other 4 days because the other times it would not have been worth getting the pass because I ended up going to 1 attraction per day... and the daily cost was not worth it.
