5 Day London Travel Guide for First Timers

You have wanted to see London for years, and now that the trip is real you are drowning in advice. Everyone says the Tower is unmissable, everyone says the Tower is a tourist trap, and nobody tells you how the Tube actually works when it is raining and you are late.

This is the friend who already lives there. You get a spoken day-by-day itinerary across Westminster, the City, the South Bank, the East End and Kensington, with honest verdicts on which famous sights repay the queue and which you can happily walk past. You learn how to use contactless on buses and the Underground, what a round costs in a proper pub, how the markets work on a Sunday morning, and two easy day trips when you want green fields instead of pavement.

You land knowing where you are going and roughly what it will cost, which is the difference between a holiday and a scramble. Press play while you plan, and arrive already at home.