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Any tips to make a visit easier? Is it hell on a Saturday?
yes.
It can be busy but not hell. Not as bad as the NHM. You can do some pre planning as you won't see everything. Space gallery will be busy as will Launch Pad but both are well worth a visit. Take a packed lunch and eat it in the basement. Also prepare your blank stare for walking past the 'suggested donation' box if that is what you intend to do 🙂
Went to see the Cosmonaut exhibit a couple of months ago - which was smart.
We opted for being there 5 min before it opened on a Sunday morning for two or three hours & was just getting rammed as we left. Perfect.
We used to go super early(the kids were young so we were up anyway) before London was awake and park in Hyde Park.There used to be some free parking. We were at the doors for it opening and done by the time it got busy,then picnic in the park and home.
We will make a small donation, but not the £40 odd that most attractions seem to charge. We just went to Salisbury and didn't go in the cathedral, because the suggested donation was £7.50 and their huge desk and sign made me feel guilty enough that I didn't go. Later realised that even going in and paying a quid would've left them better off than simply not going in. Shot themselves in the foot a bit.
Sunday AM is an option actually - good idea. We'll be staying in Camden probably.
Get there for doors opening.
Packed lunch is better as the cafe is a bit of a bundle at lunch time.
Space gallery was the busiest do that first and any interactive stuff.
London Zoo is a nice walk along the canal from Camden if you fancy that. They've done quite a lot of work recently and its pretty good. Expensive, though, especially compared to the 'free' museums
Depends, I'm a geek and went as a 29yr old kid, only managed to get round about 2/3rds of it!
Happily paid the full entry fee, compared to the cost of most things in London it's a bargain and would be a shame to see it become compulsory thus depriving those who genuinely can't afford it the opportunity.
Packed lunch is better as the cafe is a bit of a bundle at lunch time.
Although the cafe's quite good. Another option if you're not interested in packed lunches would be to head over to the V&A's cafe, it's usually a lot less busy. And the V&A is great with some kid-friendly stuff to do.
If you use the free Wifi in Exhibition Road (outside the museum), you're using a bit of O2's network I helped build!
There are Wifi APs on every other lamp post (photo taken before hand), connected up by a microwave link I put on the roof of the museum...
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Ok, V&A is in too. Was also thinking of the London Museum as eldest has done the Fire of London in school and will probably want to know more.
And yes we are on the cheap; hotel is on loyalty points.
The London Museum is pretty good, went there a couple of years ago. Only warning: we went on a Saturday and it seems the area immediately around it is pretty dead at the weekend, it's crap for eating.
We went to the London museum a few years ago when she was a baby, I loved it.
Although the cafe's quite good. Another option if you're not interested in packed lunches would be to head over to the V&A's cafe, it's usually a lot less busy
This - V&A is not a bad lunch spot even if you don't look at the exhibits.
The eternal London problem is that whatever you decide to do, 10 million other people decided to do it too, at the exact same time as you. And half of them are clueless Italian teenagers.