RS 7 days in London tour questions. Final breakfast time and early check-in.

The final breakfast on tour, and really all breakfasts, are not really a group thing. Some people leave very early and miss that last breakfast entirely, and others sleep in. The last dinner the night before is where most of us say our goodbyes.

Early check-in is entirely dependent on availability of a vacated and cleaned room.

From my experience, if you need to depart before the start of breakfast on that last day, hotels will provide a brown bag to-go breakfast if you make the request the day before.
Also, my experience is the same as Liz's - the goodbyes are made at the final evening dinner.
Safe travels!

Ditto LIz and Pat!! Goodbyes the night before and many will be leaving early to catch similar flight times back to the US. I'd want to be away by 6 to be to Heathrow 3 hours ahead of an International flight. Most hotel breakfasts do not start that early but you'll have choices at Heathrow after you get thru check in/exit border control and security.

Ditto what everyone else says re final breakfast. Re early check-in: email or phone the hotel and ask. If you cannot check in early, perhaps you can at least leave your bags.

Thanks everyone for the replies. Glad to know I won't be missing out on anything on the final morning. As for the hotel, I'll email them and see what I can find.

Lisa, I took this tour in 2015. What the others have said is totally true, in my experience also. I’ll add that I found the Washington Mayfair hotel to be superb, an extremely comfortable place to live for a week in London. At least then, in those pre-pandemic days, their buffet breakfast was abundant and really delicious.

My two cents: don’t bother with the brown bag breakfast. One more thing to get through security. Heathrow can be a mess. Get there early, grab a snack there, plenty of choices. As for early check in to the hotel: we lucked out and one of our two rooms was ready early. But it’s luck of the draw. We enjoyed the Mayfair but tired of the breakfast as it was the same choices every day. There was a very good coffee shop across the street and we chose that some days to break up the tedium.

Alan, my brown bag breakfasts usually are completely consumed before I get thru security! 😀

If a hotel room is available prior to the listed check in time, they will normally allow you to check in.

One correction to an above statement.....there is no exit border control in the UK.

We did this tour last September. I agree with what everyone has said about the final breakfast. We were also fortunate that they looked for a room for us (without our even asking, and we arrived around 10:30 am) so we were able to check in and drop off luggage. One thing I would do differently would be to check out of the Mayfair and spend my last night at a hotel at Heathrow. We noticed that the tube trip into London is quite long, especially when you're sleep-deprived and wrangling carryons. We had them book us a cab the morning we left, which was helpful but much more expensive than the tube--about 80 pounds for the two of us, and even with a cab, it still took ages to get to the airport. Heathrow is a long, long way out of town. Having done a couple of these tours and always having to leave at dark thirty, I plan to stay that extra day and find accommodations at the airport from now on. We did it in Rome, and how nice to stroll out of our room and into the airport to check in without any stress from getting TO the airport. You will love how easy it is to get from the Green Park tube station to the hotel, and there are a number of little restaurants scattered about the area. Quite lovely, and easy to get about.