In London for the FA cup. Lad and Dad things to do.

[paulmon]

I coming down to watch the FA cup final tomorrow with my son (10). I'm going to drive to an outlying tube station in the morning and catch a tube into town. Other than the usual is there anything worth doing for a few hours before the match.

Cheers
Paul

[Europa1]

HMS Belfast

[Gruber]

The dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum might be worth a visit.

[EnglishTony]

Crystal Palace is nice this time of year.

[paulmon]

Europa1 said:

HMS Belfast

Good shout! Thanks.

Gruber said:

The dinosaurs at the Natural History Museum might be worth a visit.

Did the dinosaurs last time. Thanks for the suggestion though.

[lostkiwi]

Science Museum is a good day out.

[Pieman68]

Imperial War Museum?

Another vote for HMS Belfast as well

[Vaud]

Science Museum?

[Coatesy351]

Transport museum, hamleys.

[sc0tt]

Browns?

[vz-r_dave]

sc0tt said:

Browns?

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Bodeans! The kid is 10 not 18 and from Essex

[S11Steve]

If the kids is into cars, a walk down from Knightsbridge to Park Lane supercar spotting may be an idea. Just don't let him turn into the next Shmee...

[williamp]

How old? Lots of pubs...

Raf hendon?
Tower bridge is fun can combine with hms belfast and tower of london are all quite close fo each other
Tourist bus? River taxi?
If its saturday, there is bound to be some lefties protesting somewhere. Go and stare
Is the james bond collection still on at covent garden? Then wonder along to at martins models.

[Impasse]

https://www.shreksadventure.com/london/ right next door to the London Eye.

[Robbo 27]

If its his first trip to London I would take him on an open top bus trip.

[paulmon]

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Did a long weekend a few years ago and ticked off a lot of the major venues then. HMS Belfast is looking favourite at the mo.

[DonkeyApple]

If the game at Wembley? If so then parking out on the Jubliee Line (Stanmore isn't far off the M1 J5) and then running in to Green Park and pottering around Piccadilly etc might be easiest. Saves trying to navigate Tube lines at the weekend.

Do check in TFL's website if any lines aren't running though before setting off.

In Picadilly you've got plenty to see just walking around such as China Town, Leicester Sq etc. Somewhere like the Rainforest Cafe might be good for lunch.

Alternatively the traditional PH response would be to get him measured for a suite at Poole's, buy him an Aston, drop a couple of mill at a table and then helicopter over to the game and tell whatever minor Royalty is in attendance to get out of your seats.

[jonah35]

Robbo 27 said:

If its his first trip to London I would take him on an open top bus trip.

Id say this but we dont know what your son is in to

[Yex 450]

paulmon said:

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Did a long weekend a few years ago and ticked off a lot of the major venues then. HMS Belfast is looking favourite at the mo.

Borough Market is next door and worth a walk around for some food and drink before heading up to Wembley

[Black can man]

Yex 450 said:

paulmon said:

Thanks for the suggestions so far. Did a long weekend a few years ago and ticked off a lot of the major venues then. HMS Belfast is looking favourite at the mo.

Borough Market is next door and worth a walk around for some food and drink before heading up to Wembley

Thee London cable car ride first thing @ North Greenwich





Nice n cheap & a couple of stops on the underground to HMS Belfast / Borough Market


Please buy some orange juice from the attractive girl serving on the Elsey & bent fruit stall, that'll be my eldest