Why Should You Visit London This Year?

Last Updated on: 25th May 2022, 12:27 am

Why Should You Visit London This Summer

If you told me 2 years ago that I would not be taking a holiday abroad for a year or two. Or that holidays and days out would never be the same. I wouldn’t have believed you. I would have laughed in your face. But the fact is, holidays really are not happening again this year. And it is going to be all about the staycation this summer. But it is also the best time to have a staycation because there are no tourists coming from abroad to visit the UK. So we wanted to share why you should visit London this year as part of your summer holiday.

Cheaper Hotels

We recently took a few days out and visited London. We stayed in the Travelodge at Docklands, I like this hotel because it is out of the city and not visited by so many tourists. It is mainly used by workers, especially those working in the docklands area. It is also a handy hotel for Excel and O2. It is a 5-minute walk from East India DLR station so it is easy to get to. We booked 3 nights there to ensure we had a good weekend to fit everything in. The hotel was only £30 a night, so it was cheaper than London hotel prices usually are. I guess Covid shows in the prices because all hotels are trying to get customers back to stay there.

Cheaper London Passes

We booked London Passes for 3 days. They cost us £73 for each adult and £47 for a child, these were special offers at the moment. Again the price is greatly reduced, I think due to Covid and the fact that some of the attractions included in the pass not being opened. The passes are normally £109 per adult and £73 per child for 3 days. So on top of the sale price at the moment, if you sign up for the newsletter, you get a code that gives you an extra 13% discount.

London Passes give you access to over 80 London attractions, from small museums to the bigger attractions like The Tower Of London. There is a maximum amount of ‘credits’ you can use on the London Pass. On the 3 day pass it was 425 credits, that equates to £425 worth of attraction entry. You will never make that amount of credits, so there is nothing to worry about reaching the limit.

We did the following attractions over three days and you can see how much we saved.

• Friday – Westminster Abbey £23.00, St Pauls Cathedral £20.00 and Hop on Hop off bus £29.00.
• Saturday – Twickenham Rugby Museum £26.95, Tower Bridge £10.60, The Shard £32.00, Uber Boat Trip £20.40.
• Sunday – Tower Of London £29.90, London Transport Museum £18.00

So the total of the attractions would have been £209.85. Not all of the attractions are open, because of Covid, but there are still more than enough places to visit.

No Big Queues To Get Into Places

Although there were a few queues to get into things, because of Covid restrictions, the queues were not too bad and they went down fast enough. Most places like the Tower Of London and The Shard, you just walked straight in. Whereas you normally have to wait your turn.

No People Pushing In The Queues

English people do queue the best in the world. Sometimes when you go out to visit an attraction, there are foreign visitors that push in the queue. This is a common thing and although we are polite and wait our turn, foreign visitors never do. So it was nice to be able to go to London and queue for something, knowing that you wouldn’t lose your place!

The Transport System Isn’t So Busy

Although you cannot social distance on the tube, it isn’t as busy as it usually is. This is because there are no foreign tourists from abroad coming into the country at the moment. Also with many office workers working from home, they are not going into the city and the tubes are being used less. There is also hand sanitiser everywhere on the tube stations where you can keep cleaning your hands. There is a one-way system going on with the underground system, but many people ignore it and you have to wear your face masks the whole time.

The buses are not so crowded and it is easier to social distance on a bus. Even the tourist hop on hop off bus wasn’t busy, neither was the Uber boat that we used.

Friendlier Staff

The staff seem to be so much friendlier, I don’t know if it is because they have been closed for so long. And it is good to be back at work and open again. I don’t know if it’s because we all seem to have developed a new respect for people who are making sure we stay safe through a global pandemic. I heard more people telling staff members to have a good day than I ever have heard before in London.

You Can Fit More In One Day

Because there are barely any queues to get into the attractions in London, it means you can fit more in for a day out. You don’t spend half the day queuing to get into one place, with all of the other tourists from abroad. It means that getting everything done in a day, is cheaper because you might not need to book hotels and the such. Although we are still in the midst of a pandemic, and some attractions are still closed.

Visit London Now, Before It Opens Up Again

Now really is the best time to visit London, it was easy to social distance at the attractions. You do need to wear face masks inside the attractions. But walking around the grounds, on the top of the open-top buses you don’t have to. Hotels are cheaper and you will get so much more for your money. You are also putting money back into the attractions that closed through the Covid pandemic.