What is the best day trip from London?

Question

Other than Windsor Castle. Visiting from the US, we will not have a car, so it needs to be accessible by rail.

Answer 1

I could think of tonnes of places but some of my favourites are:

A great day trip is to Dover Castle. Take the train down. You can spend more than half a day in the castle and secret wartime tunnels and the go for a stroll along the famous white cliffs.

Brighton is also nice but it's supposed to rain tomorrow so a beach is probably not the best place to be.

Greenwich is also quite good. Lovely park, Maritime Museum, the prime meridian of course and there is also an excellent art deco 'castle' called Eltham Palace you can visit just outside of Greenwich.

Bath would be a really long day trip as it's a few hours away but is a wonderful place, especially if you're a Jane Austen fan.

Hampton Court Palace is not too far out and is lovely. Go for a stroll along the Thames while you're there - you won't believe it's the same Thames that flows through central London.

Answer 2

We went last year, we really enjoyed taking the light rail to Greenwich. It was a short ride an we got to see the Prime Meridian (0 degrees longitude). It's a beautiful area.

Before we left for London, we signed up for a bus tour that visited Windsor, Stonehenge, and Bath. http://www.premiumtours.co.uk/tours/Default.asp?sType=olondon
I'd been to Windsor and Stonehenge, but Bath was the best. It's an old town on the site of an acient Roman bath. The hot springs still run and part of the building is still there. The tour company that we took actually set us up for an after-hours tour at the bath, which was really awesome. It's a full day, but we felt that it was well worth it.

Happy traveling!

Answer 3

There are plenty of trips you can take apart from Windsor Castle. I would certainly try and take a trip to Bath. A really beutiful town with superb Geogian buildings and ofcourse the Roman spas. Also either Oxford or Cambridge are lovely day trip as well as Stonehenge and Salisbury. Check out the "Outside Section" at http://www.londonvacationguide.com as you may find some extra idaes and resources. Good Luck

Answer 4

Hampton Court Palace is wonderful. You can see how the cooks worked, people dressed etc. Also The Original London Walks do day trips to Bath and Stonehenge etc. Well worth a few pounds.

Answer 5

Brighton on the south coast ... way of existence, shops (enormously the quirky previous type North Laine section), Brighton Pavillion (equipped via George IV), customary beach attractions Bristol on the Bristol channel to the west ... maritime and advertisement historic previous, fashionable suspension bridge bathtub ... to the west, closer to London than Bristol ... been a spa city provided that Roman situations ... fashionable Roman Baths have been those days renovated ... additionally fashionable for 18th century shape Colchester in Essex, north east of London ... grow to be at one time Roman capital of england ... fort and assorted different museums, amazing county city with a competent finding out to purchase centre Dover on the south coast ... fashionable white cliffs ... fort ... ferry port for France ... only north of Dover is the city of conflict close to which the conflict of Hastings got here approximately in 1066 as quickly as we've been invaded via the French Oxford and Cambridge have already been mentioned via human beings closer to hand is Hatfield living house, only exterior London to the north, get practice from Kings circulate Thameslink station ... stately living house, the classic section grow to be the place Queen Elizabeth the lived as a baby ... she grow to be recommended she grow to be Queen on a similar time as sitting under an historical o.ok.interior the park ... additionally a greater contemporary (yet that grow to be quite a few hundred years in the past!) living house, which they do excursions around additionally only exterior London is St Albans ... cathedral, historical industry city, numerous Roman historic previous all of them are decrease than 2 hours commute time, yet i won't be ready to assert how plenty the fares might value, you may go with to examine that ... for the trains you could desire a low priced day return, yet additionally examine the coaches on the national show website (national show coaches circulate from Victoria coach Station, a 5-10 minute stroll from Victoria tube/practice station); the coaches take somewhat longer on commute time yet are often plenty greater much less high priced

Answer 6

Paris by rail.

Answer 7

depends what you want to do

you can get coach to Oxford or Cambridge in a couple of hours (www.nationalexpress.com), or go to the seaside (Brighton - http://www.europeanbahn.co.uk/welcome_to_london_brighton_expre.htm) or go to theme park (Chessington - www.chessington.co.uk)... The world is your oyster from London!