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  Zenyatta on 28/11/2016 - 10:18

  Thanks for posting, just hoping for some comments from people that have used the London pass before.

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  bluesky on 28/11/2016 - 14:52

  I would just like to add that in my opinion, if one is going during high season, where lots of tourists are trying to access the popular attractions, then the benefit from such passes increase tremendously. I remember looking at the queues of people, and counting my blessing I did not have to queue up at all.

  Otherwise, it depends on the individual, whether there are savings to be had. For e.g., some with incredible energy :-), like to visit many places a day. Then, you definitely save on admission fees. Whereas others, such as myself, will do things at a more leisurely pace. So I did not visit as many places in a day. Even so, when I added up all the admission fees, I was about even or just a little ahead. And I paid full-price for the pass in one instance.

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  moojar on 30/11/2016 - 09:15

  Lots of people with negative London Pass opinions on Tripadvisor. Their general advice seems to be:
  - use the 'two for one' entry offers from daysoutguide: https://www.daysoutguide.co.uk/
  - how-to guide here: https://www.tripadvisor.com.au/Travel-g186338-c195600/London…
  - print the vouchers ahead of time for the attractions you are interested in.
  - ensure you have paper train tickets (not Oyster Card) to allow two-for-one entry, NOT bought at a tube station.

  But I dunno, that seems like a lot of stuffing around - extreme tightarseism. We are making our first trip to London next year, staying over a week. And of course it being our first trip, we will hit all of the 'big name' attractions that mostly have 20GBP + admission prices. 109GBP each for a 6-day London Pass seems like good value and is my preferred option at this point, but I have until the 20% discount expires to decide. tick tick tick…

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    bluesky on 30/11/2016 - 16:30

    Even though I did not get the London Pass (since I have already visited many of the attractions in past visits), if it were my first visit, I would probably have gotten it. My reasons:

    • hop-on-hop-off included - which means I won't be spending much on transport between attractions.
    • can use Oyster card for routes not covered. Oyster card is not eligible for the 2-for-1 offers, however it is convenient, pay as you go, capped to travelcard prices in a day. So I expect to be spending little on this.
    • The 2-for-1 offers still require queuing to buy tickets. Which could be the biggest time waster in peak season. (If you are going off-peak, then it is not an issue.)
    • with 20% off, it is quite substantial savings.

    For me, time-saving is top-priority, especially in cities where accommodation costs are high, so I want the most time for enjoyable/leisurely activities.

    Naturally, this is very much personal preference and priorities, so YMMV. Just sharing my thought process :-)

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    moojar on 01/12/2016 - 08:21

    +1

    Just to follow up, for the benefit of anyone using this thread to research their own trip, I purchased the six-day London Pass.

    Our "must see" places that have free entry on the London Pass (Tower of London, Tower Bridge Exhibition, Westminster Abbey, Windsor Castle (including train travel), Hampton Court Palace) would cost around 104GBP p.p. for full-price entry. London Passes are for 1, 2, 3, 6, or 10 days, and seeing our "must see" list in three days might have been doable, but it would have been a rush - we really needed four days. So we have opted for 6-day London Passes. Those cost 109GBP each with the discount, 24GBP more than the 3-day pass.

    Madness? No, we don't want to be rushing around like blue arsed flies, we are more your blow fly types. And there are other attractions on the pass that are on our "nice to see" list (Hop-on Hop-off bus, Kensington Palace, Globe theatre, Beefeaters Gin tour, Queen's gallery, the Jewel Tower, the Royal Mews). Plus many other London Pass free attractions that don't interest us / are on the "if we had time" list. So we will go at an easy pace and see more than we had hoped, all for what the "must see" attractions would have cost us.

    Could we have done it cheaper? If we had not bought the LP and only visited our must see's, using the 'two-for-one' thing where possible, we would spend around $37 less p.p. We decided six days of must see's and nice to see's will more than make up for that $75. YMMV.

    London Pass notes:
    - You only get one visit per attraction. If you go to, say, Tower of London in the afternoon then decide you really needed a full day, you cannot get a second free entry on the London Pass.
    - The London Pass is activated on first use, and a day is a day, not 24 hours. So if first use of a 3-day pass is late Monday afternoon for example, your pass expires on Wednesday. (Midnight I assume.)
    - The hop-on hop-off bus tickets must be collected from somewhere, and must be used on the day of collection.
    - Delivery of the pass costs 8GBP (from memory), or collect it from somewhere in the Covent Garden area. Or get the mobile version on your smartphone.

    Two-for-one notes:
    - There are attractions available under this scheme that are not on the London Pass. London Eye and St Paul's Cathedral for example.

    Cheers.

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      bluesky on 01/12/2016 - 08:58

      Good write-up :-). You probably made a good choice with the 6-day pass.

      Just one question re your comment:

      The hop-on hop-off bus tickets must be collected from somewhere, and must be used on the day of collection.

      In Vienna, as long as you have a valid Vienna pass, everyday, you just use the hop-on-hop-off - no need for any separate ticket. If they want to check, they just check that the pass is valid for the day. Most of the time, people just wear the pass around the neck, and they will assume it is valid anyway.

      Is London different in this aspect? Does it specifically require another ticket? Just curious.

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        moojar on 01/12/2016 - 11:36

        Hi, according to the London Pass FAQs:

        The London Pass entitles you to a free 1 day Hop on Hop off Bus Tour ticket included with The London Pass can be used once. You must collect your ticket before boarding from one of four collection desks:
        - 11a Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EP
        - Golden Tours Visitor Centre: 4, Fountain Square, 123-151 Buckingham, Palace Road, London, SW1W 9SH
        - Golden Tours Visitor Centre: 156 Cromwell Road, London, SW7 4EF
        - Golden Tours Visitor Centre: 145 Praed Street, London, W2 1RL
        Please note: Your 1 day bus tour ticket is valid for use on the day you collect it. Collecting the ticket will also activate your London Pass.

        Someone needed to proof read that first sentence though. :-)

        That first location is where you collect the London Pass itself. Looks like we will do the hop-on hop-off on the first day, which is a Sunday anyway, and that hopefully means less traffic. I think a day on that bus and visiting Trafalgar Square / Big Ben etc. would make for a good jet-lagged first day.

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        bluesky on 01/12/2016 - 16:10

        @moojar:

        I was also initially under the impression with my multi-day Vienna Pass (due to unclear wording) - that the hop-on-hop-off was only valid for 1 day. Then, in Vienna, I found out that if I have a multi-day pass, the hop-on-hop-off was valid for all of those days.

        It might be worth checking this, which might save you from committing to extra travel expenses - such as travelcards at the beginning. Only to realise afterwards, that you could use hop-on-hop-off on the other days as well. Sure, this aspect could be different in London. But no harm checking.

        Please report back after your trip - would really like to know :-)