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city guide","hw_hub_city_hero_h1":"Things To Do In London","hw_hub_city_hero_intro":"World-class museums that cost nothing, two thousand years of history stacked on top of itself, and the highest prices in the country. The free half is the best half.","hw_hub_city_hero_image":"1303759","hw_hub_city_hero_overlay":"light","hw_hub_city_hero_cta":"Where to stay | #areas\r\nWhat it costs | #money","hw_hub_city_live_stats":"1","hw_hub_city_stats":"\u00a30 | Entry to the British Museum, Tate and the National Gallery\r\n270 | Tube stations\r\nAD 47 | Roman London founded","hw_hub_city_intro_title":"A city you cannot see in a week, and should not try to","hw_hub_city_intro_body":"London is two thousand years old, thirty-two boroughs wide and impossible to do properly. The useful approach is to pick two or three areas and walk them rather than sprint between landmarks on the Tube.\r\n\r\nThe single best thing about it for anyone on a budget is that the national museums are free \u2014 the British Museum, the National Gallery, Tate Modern, the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum all charge nothing, permanently, for their collections.\r\n\r\nThe rest is expensive. A pint is \u00a35.50 to \u00a37.50, a dorm \u00a325 to \u00a350, and a Zone 1\u20132 day of travel about \u00a38.90 capped.\r\n\r\nFour days minimum, and you will still leave with a list. It is a walking city disguised as a transport one \u2014 central London is far smaller than the Tube map suggests.","hw_hub_city_facts":"Getting in from the airports | Heathrow: Piccadilly line, ~50 min, about \u00a35.60 off-peak. Gatwick: train 30 min, \u00a312\u201320\r\nGetting around | Contactless card or phone. No need for an Oyster. Daily cap about \u00a38.90 in Zones 1\u20132\r\nCurrency | Pound sterling\r\nThe museums | National collections are free, permanently. Special exhibitions are not\r\nTap water | Safe, and free in any pub if you ask\r\nTipping | 12.5% is often added to restaurant bills. Not expected in pubs","hw_hub_city_areas_title":"Where to stay","hw_hub_city_areas_intro":"Central London is smaller than it looks. Anywhere in Zones 1\u20132 puts you twenty minutes from everything.","hw_hub_city_areas_map":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_zoom":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_pins":"1","hw_hub_city_areas_live":"1","hw_hub_city_areas":"Covent Garden and Soho | First-timers | The middle of everything: theatres, bars, the National Gallery and Chinatown. Walkable to most of central London and the priciest. | 51.5120 | -0.1230 | Covent Garden | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/d\/covent-garden\/\nBloomsbury | Museums and quiet | Around the British Museum: garden squares, university buildings, and a calm base ten minutes from the West End. | 51.5220 | -0.1270 | Russell Square London | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/d\/russell-square-london\/\nShoreditch and Whitechapel | Nightlife and markets | East: street art, Brick Lane curry houses, Columbia Road flowers on Sundays and the best bars in the city. | 51.5190 | -0.0610 | Whitechapel | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/d\/whitechapel\/\nBayswater and Paddington | Value and parks | West, beside Hyde Park, with cheaper beds, good transport and a short walk into Notting Hill. | 51.5120 | -0.1870 | Bayswater | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/d\/bayswater\/\nVauxhall and South Bank | River and museums | South of the river: Tate Modern, the Southbank Centre, Borough Market and a riverside walk into the City. | 51.4860 | -0.1240 | Vauxhall | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/d\/vauxhall\/","hw_hub_city_itin_title":"How long have you got?","hw_hub_city_itin_intro":"The routes we would walk, in the order we would walk them.","hw_hub_city_itin":"","hw_hub_city_do_title":"Things to do in London","hw_hub_city_do_body":"Do the free museums properly rather than all of them badly. The British Museum needs two hours minimum and rewards picking three rooms. Tate Modern is in a converted power station on the river. The V&A is the one Londoners send people to.\r\n\r\nWalk the South Bank from Westminster to Tower Bridge \u2014 it takes about ninety minutes past the London Eye, the Southbank Centre, Tate Modern, the Globe and Borough Market, and it costs nothing.\r\n\r\nThe parks are enormous and free: Hyde Park, Regent's Park, Hampstead Heath for the view from Parliament Hill and the swimming ponds.\r\n\r\nFor paid things, pick carefully. The Tower of London at about \u00a335 is worth it for the Norman keep and the ravens; the London Eye at similar money is not, and the view from the Sky Garden is free with a booking.","hw_hub_city_do_points":"Free national museums | British Museum, National Gallery, Tate, V&A, Natural History\r\nThe South Bank walk | Westminster to Tower Bridge, ninety minutes, free\r\nSky Garden | Free with an advance booking, and better than the London Eye\r\nHampstead Heath | The view from Parliament Hill and the swimming ponds","hw_hub_city_do_tag":"things-to-do","hw_hub_city_do_more":"All things to do in London","hw_hub_city_free_title":"Free things to do in London","hw_hub_city_free_body":"The national museums and galleries are free, permanently, and that is the single biggest saving available to any visitor.\r\n\r\nThe parks are free and huge \u2014 Hyde Park, Regent's Park, Greenwich Park for the view, Hampstead Heath for the ponds.\r\n\r\nMarkets cost nothing to walk: Borough for food, Columbia Road for flowers on Sundays, Portobello on Saturdays, Brick Lane on Sundays.\r\n\r\nThe Changing of the Guard, the Sky Garden with a booking, the Barbican conservatory on open days, and Greenwich's Prime Meridian line outside the observatory are all free.\r\n\r\nWatching a rehearsal or wandering the foyers at the Southbank Centre and the National Theatre costs nothing, and both have free live music most evenings.","hw_hub_city_free_points":"National museums | Free forever. The best value in Europe\r\nSky Garden | Free with an advance booking, 35 floors up\r\nMarkets | Borough, Columbia Road, Portobello, Brick Lane\r\nSouthbank Centre | Free live music in the foyers most evenings","hw_hub_city_free_tag":"free-things-to-do","hw_hub_city_free_more":"All free things to do in London","hw_hub_city_food_title":"Eating and drinking in London","hw_hub_city_food_body":"London's real strength is the range rather than the British food. Brick Lane for Bangladeshi, Southall for Punjabi, Peckham for Nigerian, Chinatown for Cantonese \u2014 and all of it cheaper than the restaurants in the middle.\r\n\r\nA pub main is \u00a314 to \u00a320 and a Sunday roast about the same, which is the one traditional meal worth building a day around.\r\n\r\nMarkets do lunch well: Borough is expensive and excellent, Maltby Street and Broadway cheaper, and a plate at any of them is \u00a38 to \u00a314.\r\n\r\nA pint is \u00a35.50 to \u00a37.50 in most places and over \u00a38 in the centre. Wetherspoons undercuts everyone by a distance if you care more about the price than the room.\r\n\r\nTap water is free in any pub, by law, and asking for it is normal.","hw_hub_city_food_points":"Eat outside the centre | Brick Lane, Peckham, Southall. Better and cheaper\r\nSunday roast | \u00a314\u201320, and the meal to plan around\r\nMarkets | \u00a38\u201314 a plate at Maltby Street or Broadway\r\nA pint | \u00a35.50\u20137.50, more in the centre","hw_hub_city_food_tag":"food","hw_hub_city_food_more":"All food guides for London","hw_hub_city_nightlife_title":"Going out in London","hw_hub_city_nightlife_body":"Shoreditch and Dalston in the east have the bars and clubs, Soho has the theatre crowd and the gay scene around Old Compton Street, and Peckham has the rooftops.\r\n\r\nPubs shut earlier than visitors expect \u2014 many at 11pm, most by midnight \u2014 so the pattern is pub first, then a bar or club from eleven.\r\n\r\nClubs run to three or six depending on the licence. Fabric, Printworks-era venues and the Dalston basements are the names people travel for.\r\n\r\nA pint is \u00a35.50 to \u00a37.50 and cocktails \u00a312 to \u00a316.\r\n\r\nThe Night Tube runs Friday and Saturday on several lines, which changes what is possible \u2014 otherwise the night buses run all night and cost a normal fare.","hw_hub_city_nightlife_points":"Shoreditch and Dalston | The bars and clubs, east\r\nPubs close early | Often 11pm. Plan the night in two halves\r\nNight Tube | Friday and Saturday on several lines\r\nPrices | Pint \u00a35.50\u20137.50, cocktails \u00a312\u201316","hw_hub_city_nightlife_tag":"nightlife","hw_hub_city_nightlife_more":"All nightlife guides for London","hw_hub_city_transport_title":"Getting around London","hw_hub_city_transport_body":"Use a contactless bank card or phone and tap in and out. There is no need to buy an Oyster card, and contactless has the same daily cap \u2014 about \u00a38.90 in Zones 1\u20132. Do not use the same card for two people; it will not cap correctly.\r\n\r\nBuses are a flat \u00a31.75 with a Hopper fare letting you change free within an hour, and they are the cheapest way to move.\r\n\r\nWalk more than you think. Covent Garden to Leicester Square is 260 metres and the Tube between them is a joke Londoners make about tourists.\r\n\r\nFrom Heathrow, the Piccadilly line takes about 50 minutes for roughly \u00a35.60 off-peak against \u00a325 for the Heathrow Express. Gatwick is 30 minutes by train.\r\n\r\nCycle hire and Lime bikes are widespread, and the city is flatter than it looks.","hw_hub_city_transport_points":"Contactless, not Oyster | Same cap, no deposit. One card per person\r\nBuses \u00a31.75 | With free changes within an hour\r\nWalk | Central London is much smaller than the Tube map implies\r\nHeathrow | Piccadilly line, about \u00a35.60, against \u00a325 for the Express","hw_hub_city_transport_tag":"transport","hw_hub_city_transport_more":"All transport guides for London","hw_hub_city_money_title":"What London costs","hw_hub_city_money_body":"Expensive, with an unusually good free tier. Dorms are \u00a325 to \u00a350, a pub main \u00a314 to \u00a320, a pint \u00a35.50 to \u00a37.50, and a day of travel capped around \u00a38.90.\r\n\r\nA day is \u00a370 to \u00a3120.\r\n\r\nThe savings are real and specific: the free national museums, the parks, walking instead of the Tube, eating in Peckham or Brick Lane rather than the West End, and theatre day seats \u2014 most West End theatres release cheap seats on the morning of the show, and the National Theatre and the Globe have \u00a35 to \u00a325 tickets.\r\n\r\nBook trains weeks ahead. The same journey can be \u00a320 or \u00a390 depending on when you buy.","hw_hub_city_money_points":"Dorm bed | \u00a325\u201350\r\nA day, all in | \u00a370\u2013120\r\nTheatre day seats | Released on the morning. Globe standing from \u00a35\r\nBook trains early | The same seat can cost four times as much on the day","hw_hub_city_money_tag":"budget","hw_hub_city_money_more":"All budget guides for London","hw_hub_city_safety_title":"Staying safe in London","hw_hub_city_safety_body":"London is broadly safe for a city its size, with pickpocketing and phone snatching the crimes that actually affect visitors.\r\n\r\nPhone theft from mopeds and bikes is common in the West End, Soho and around Oxford Street \u2014 do not stand at the kerb with a phone in your hand, which is exactly how it happens.\r\n\r\nPickpocketing is routine on the Tube, at Oxford Circus and in the Camden and Borough crowds.\r\n\r\nOnly use black cabs or a licensed app. Unlicensed minicabs touting outside clubs are illegal and unsafe.\r\n\r\nTraffic comes from the right, which catches out visitors constantly \u2014 the pavement markings at crossings say which way to look for a reason. Emergency number is 999, or 112.","hw_hub_city_safety_points":"Phone snatching | From bikes and mopeds. Do not stand at the kerb using one\r\nPickpockets | The Tube, Oxford Circus, Camden and Borough crowds\r\nLicensed cabs only | Never a minicab touting outside a club\r\nLook right | Traffic comes from the right. The road markings tell you","hw_hub_city_safety_tag":"safety","hw_hub_city_safety_more":"All safety guides for London","hw_hub_city_trips_title":"Day trips from London","hw_hub_city_trips_intro":"Four cities and a stone circle, all within two hours by train.","hw_hub_city_trips":"Oxford | 1 hour | Train from Paddington, \u00a315\u201330 booked ahead | Colleges, the Bodleian, a covered market and the pub where Tolkien and Lewis drank. |  | 1303754\nCambridge | 50 minutes | Train from King's Cross, \u00a315\u201330 | Colleges along the river, punting on the Cam, and free museums including the Fitzwilliam. |  | 1303755\nBrighton | 1 hour | Train from Victoria, \u00a315\u201330 | A pebble beach, a pier, the Royal Pavilion and the most eccentric city on the south coast. |  | 1303729\nBath | 1.5 hours | Train from Paddington, \u00a325\u201350 | Roman baths and Georgian crescents in a small honey-coloured city. |  | 1303722\nWindsor | 1 hour | Train from Waterloo or Paddington, about \u00a312 | The oldest occupied castle in the world, and Eton across the bridge. |  | 1303756","hw_hub_city_trips_tag":"day-trips","hw_hub_city_trips_more":"All day trips from London","hw_hub_city_season_title":"When to go","hw_hub_city_season_intro":"May, June and September. Winter is dark and wet but cheap, and Christmas is genuinely good.","hw_hub_city_season_note":"Average highs. London is milder than most of England and it rains a little in most months rather than a lot in a few \u2014 an umbrella matters more than the season you pick.","hw_hub_city_season_rows":"January | 8 | 2 | Dark, wet and cheapest. Museums weather, and the sales\r\nFebruary | 9 | 2 | Still grey. Good value and quiet\r\nMarch | 11 | 3 | Lengthening. Parks starting\r\nApril | 15 | 4 | Blossom and showers. Good, and Easter is busy\r\nMay | 18 | 5 | Excellent. Long evenings, everything open, before the peak\r\nJune | 21 | 5 | The best month. Light until nine and parks full\r\nJuly | 23 | 4 | Hot and crowded. The Tube is genuinely unpleasant in a heatwave\r\nAugust | 23 | 4 | Peak visitors, Notting Hill Carnival at the end\r\nSeptember | 20 | 5 | Superb. Warm, quieter, and the theatre season restarts\r\nOctober | 16 | 4 | Autumn in the parks. Good value\r\nNovember | 11 | 3 | Dark and wet. Bonfire Night and the lights go up\r\nDecember | 9 | 4 | Christmas markets, lights and ice rinks. Busy and expensive","hw_hub_city_events_title":"What is on while you are there","hw_hub_city_events_intro":"Europe's biggest street carnival takes over Notting Hill in August.","hw_hub_city_events_source":"api","hw_hub_city_events_count":"8","hw_hub_city_events_cache":"24","hw_hub_city_events_cta_label":"All events in London","hw_hub_city_events_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/events\/europe\/england\/london\/","hw_hub_city_events":"Notting Hill Carnival | August bank holiday | Notting Hill | One of the largest street festivals in the world, Caribbean-led, over two days. Free, enormous and not somewhere to bring valuables. |  | \nChristmas lights and markets | November to early January | Citywide | Regent Street, Covent Garden, Winter Wonderland and ice rinks at Somerset House and the Tower. |  | \nNew Year fireworks | 31 December | The Thames | Ticketed on the riverbank, and free to watch from higher ground further out. |  | \nOpen House London | September | Citywide | Hundreds of buildings normally closed to the public open for a weekend, free. |  | \nPride in London | Late June or July | Central London | A parade through the centre and events across Soho. |  | ","hw_hub_city_budget_title":"What your trip will cost","hw_hub_city_budget_intro":"Pick how you travel. Per person per night, in pounds.","hw_hub_city_budget_note":"Transport assumes the Zone 1\u20132 daily cap of about \u00a38.90. The free museums are why the doing line can be so low.","hw_hub_city_budget_rows":"Shoestring | 25 | 15 | 9 | 5\r\nMiddle of the road | 42 | 35 | 9 | 25\r\nComfortable | 80 | 65 | 15 | 50","hw_hub_city_budget_currency":"\u00a3","hw_hub_city_hostels_title":"Where to stay in London","hw_hub_city_hostels_intro":"The largest hostel scene in the country, spread across the centre and the inner east. Live from Hostelworld.","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_label":"All hostels in London","hw_hub_city_hostels_cta_url":"https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/","hw_hub_city_hostels_source":"api","hw_hub_city_hostels_count":"12","hw_hub_city_hostels_cache":"12","hw_hub_city_picks":"Best for solo travellers |  |  | \nBest for a party |  |  | \nQuietest |  |  | ","hw_hub_city_hostels":"","hw_hub_city_faq_title":"London travel questions","hw_hub_city_faq_note":"The ones we get asked most.","hw_hub_city_faqs":"Are the museums really free? | Yes, permanently. The British Museum, National Gallery, Tate Modern and Britain, the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum all charge nothing for their permanent collections. Special exhibitions are ticketed. It is the single biggest saving available here.\r\nDo I need an Oyster card? | No. A contactless bank card or phone works on everything and has the same daily cap, about \u00a38.90 in Zones 1\u20132, with no deposit. Just do not tap two people through on one card \u2014 it will not cap.\r\nHow many days do I need? | Four minimum, and you will still leave with a list. Pick two or three areas and walk them rather than crossing the city between landmarks.\r\nWhat is the cheapest way from Heathrow? | The Piccadilly line, about 50 minutes for roughly \u00a35.60 off-peak, against \u00a325 for the Heathrow Express. The Elizabeth line is quicker than the Tube and cheaper than the Express.\r\nCan I see theatre cheaply? | Yes. Most West End theatres release day seats on the morning of the show, the National Theatre has cheap tickets across its season, and standing at Shakespeare's Globe is about \u00a35. Avoid the touts on Leicester Square.\r\nIs the London Eye worth it? | Not at around \u00a335. The Sky Garden is free with an advance booking and 35 floors up, Greenwich Park and Parliament Hill are free, and the Tate Modern viewing level costs nothing.\r\nIs it safe? | Broadly, for a city this size. The crimes that affect visitors are pickpocketing on the Tube and phone snatching from bikes and mopeds in the West End \u2014 do not stand at the kerb with a phone in your hand.","hw_hub_city_cta_title":"Say yes to hostels, meet the world","hw_hub_city_cta_body":"Compare London hostels \u2014 live prices, real reviews and free cancellation on most bookings. Then meet the people already there in the app.","hw_hub_city_cta_buttons":"Find hostels in London | https:\/\/www.hostelworld.com\/hostels\/europe\/england\/london\/\r\nGet the app | https:\/\/hostelworld.onelink.me\/IdiK\/f5a50nhd","hw_hub_city_newsletter_title":"Get the good stuff monthly","hw_hub_city_newsletter_body":"New city guides, deals and route ideas. 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