Thursday, July 20, 2006

The London Pass


I was perusing sites on London when I came across this. The London Pass sounds like something quite incredible. You get access to 58 attractions across London and virtually unlimited travel by bus, train and tube. For boats you get 1/3 off or free depending on which one you go to. What's nice is that they include the Chelsea Stadium Tour with this thing. That's regularly a GBP 14.00 value. Wimbledon is also included.

I paid GBP 55 for the card and it will take 10 days to get here. That's a bit too close for comfort as I leave in exactly two weeks but I'm confident it will get here in time. For GBP 55.00 I get to use the card for two days. This amount is close to what I budgeted for some sites I wanted to see. These included Churchill's WWII bunker, the Parliament tour, Westminster Abbey and the Tower of London. I am definitely going to try to use up 55 pounds worth of things and will blog how much each item cost that I got for the one-time price.

FYI if you stay around one week in London, the card will really pay off. I believe with a travelcard it will cost you somewhere below GBP 20 a day. So if you tube and see one attraction per day, it will pay for itself.

Oh and one more thing. The card gives a GBP 10.00 discount on plays. Something to think about. Les Mises is playing that weekend.

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