School trip to London, any tips and advice?

[djh]

Have a look at coach hire, that might be cheaper?

[Greg_S]

Coach would certainly be cheaper. If there is 3 or more on the train you can get a group save ticket which gets you 1/3 off or get a rail card before hand if there is a group of you as discount may be worthwhile. Also if you book 12 weeks in advance tickets will be cheaper and travel off peak to get cheapest. Standstead express is about an hour to liverpool street I think

[J7 In A TT]

Hi all,

Four students including myself are organizing a school trip to London in april.
The number of students is 30. Now we need Audi Service to organize a few things to make this a success:
1. a place to sleep for 3 nights (monday till thursday) possibly incl. breakfast in the centre of London
2. citytrip by bus or boat
3. company visit incl. tour if possible, preferably a company that has something to do with logistics
4. visit a football match
5. watch a musical or so
6. get a metro ticket for every student for the days we stay in London

Well that's about it for as far as I can remember now, point 4 and 5 are not my cup of tea but we are ordered to do so.

As we are students we are on a budget, so keep that in mind if you have any advice

Thanks in advance

If you want to go watch football avoid Chelsea and Arsenal as it costs a lot and avoid Tottenham as they are *****

Cheap and cheerful, go watch Fulham or Barnet play

[quattrostyle]

Thanks for the advice guys. Some things couln't be arranged due to the short time to plan everything.

As for the match we got tickets for Millwall now, actually I don't really care as there are no engines in this game.
Coach works out a bit more then a tenner each per trip plus about a tenner for the sightseeing which is not bad. I'm told it's about an hour and a half trip from Stansted to our hostel depending on traffic. I expected it to be closer by.

Have to get up about 3 in the morning monday to make it in time to Eindhoven airport here

[prj]

Try to visit the London Dungeon if at all possible, I think it's lots of fun, especially for the age group

[quattrostyle]

Will have a looksy on the web and add it to the ''points of interest list''

[Drummer87]

Tate modern is a must, and all things down the embankment alot happening.

Smirnoff ice bar if your all legal to drink, a bar made from ice

Get to Leicester square and your in walking distance from soho and Chinatown etc good food and might see some celebs. Kate moss and co always in soho.

[quattrostyle]

Enlighten me please, embankment? I'm sure there is not enough time to do all the fun things there are in London but the more options we know in front the better.

Yes all legal to drink unless we would be in the US.

[Drummer87]

The embankment is along the themes waterfront. If you come off Waterloo station you can walk to it in seconds. Also the iMax cinema is there, that's worth watching a film. It's 14 stores high screen.

Well hit up the ice bar and soho. You will find with London everything is linked close together. The tubes will be the fun part, just jump on and get off somewhere lol.

[quattrostyle]

The tubes will be the fun part, just jump on and get off somewhere lol.

Yes did that in NY but that was because I din't understand the underground system

[@ndy]

Yes did that in NY but that was because I din't understand the underground system

lol, I remember the first night I had in NY, got lost in China town, was quite scary actually. Had to ask a Police man how to get back to Tribecca.