Taking kids to London - where to go / where to eat?

[JohnStitch]

Im taking my 6 year old daughter to London on Friday and Saturday. This is her first trip there and we want to do all the sights, usual stuff around the West End, London Eye, Tower of London etc. I'm very familiar with London, but never taken kids there so would like to get some other ideas on what we can do. Any hidden gems anyone can offer that would be suitable / fun for a 6 year old?

So far on the potentiallist:

London Eye
Buckingham Palace
Tower of London
Covent Garden
Hamleys
Harrods
Leicester Square / Trafalgar Square / Piccadilly
Maybe the Science / Natural History museums if it rains
Boat on the Thames
London Zoo

Also, Anyone know some great child friendly places to eat? Would rather not end up in any fast food places, plus she's in the fussy eating stage so nothing too exotic...

[JohnStitch]

Thanks for the suggestions chaps, I'll google those this evening

don logan said:

Forgive me if John Stitch really is your name!

If it isn`t your real name do you do "non stop dancing"?

...and yes, I do non-stop dancing but I'm out of a job :-) lol

Had to change my username and had Derek and Clive on at the time....it was a toss up between that and Ross Mcpharter

[JohnStitch]

Oh my word, you weren't wrong about Gelupo...that mint ice cream was divine!!!

[JohnStitch]

Yep, had espresso too, and the blood orange one. Lush. Might have to pay a return visit tomorrow :-)

Well as mentioned above, the queues are horrendous everywhere, but to be honest, we're not too bothered about going into the main attractions...heard a couple of Americans moaning in the hotel lift that it took them 2 hours to get in to Madame Tussaud's (!) Don't think I'd have bothered. We're quite happy just wandering around, and my daughter is loving it - will probably try out some of the other suggestions tomorrow...

[JohnStitch]

We did go into Hamleys but quickly got out again. (My daughter really wanted to go there). As everyone says, it was full of cheap tat (well, not exactly cheap, can't believe the price of some of that crap)....so went to the toy kingdom in Harrods and that was SO much better. Especially as I could go and drool over the stuff in their technology department next door :-)