London Travel Tips
How to get there, how to get around, where to find stuff and how to ask for it. These are tips from the local insider to make your stay here a breeze
LondonLogue forum
The good people at BootsnAll are thinking about setting up a dedicated LondonLogue forum, somewhere readers who are coming to London or are planning a trip here can interact with other travellers, sharing information, asking questions and getting direct feedback from people who are in or have recently visited the capital.
Before they start burning the midnight oil setting the forum up they’d like to know if there’s a demand for it, would readers find it useful or do you think its something that’s not really necessary and its not the type of thing you’re …
Date: March 16th, 2008 |
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Brazil-Sweden Tickets
Tickets for the Brazil v Sweden football friendly at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium are now on general sale to the public. The game is taking place on Wednesday 26 March 2008 with kickoff at 7.45pm.
This is Brazil’s third trip to the Emirates in the last couple of years and the previous two games have had a good atmosphere. Tickets for this month’s game are on sale from £30-£40 and can be booked online at
Date: March 5th, 2008 |
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British Airways and Virgin Atlantic Refunds
Good news for any one who’s flown with British Airways or Virgin Atlantic in the last few years, you could be getting a little of your money back. Both airlines have just settled a class action case in the US where they admitted price fixing on fuel surcharges on transatlantic flights.
The settlement to the case means that around 11 million passengers could be eligible for up to £20 refund. The case effects any passengers of these two airlines on long haul transatlantic flights between 11 August 2004-23 March 2006,
Date: February 15th, 2008 |
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New baggage tracking system on trial at Heathrow
Heathrow Airport and airlines such as British Airways have had a very bad press in the last year or so when it comes to losing passengers baggage. Handing over your suitcase with your holiday essentials in it at check-in turned into a game of chance as to whether you got it back at the other end of your journey.
Now Emirates Airlines are trialling a system called RFID (radio frequency identification) which puts a tiny chip into the regular bar code tags that get attached to any checked in luggage
Date: February 13th, 2008 |
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£25 congestion charge for larger cars in London
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, today announced plans to start charging cars with higher CO2 emissions £25 a day to drive into central London’s Congestion Zone, where the charge is currently £8 per day.
Its being presented as a part of a scheme to tackle global warming but the cynics would say it’s just a chance for the old school socialist mayor to hit the well off or middle class with a new tax for choosing to drive a vehicle with an engine bigger than a washing machine’s.
The new charge will be imposed on vehicles that are classed as VED(Vehicle Excise Duty) Band G.
Date: February 12th, 2008 |
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Petrol prices
Visitors to Britain who are planning on renting a car and driving during their visit may want to reconsider their options as the price of petrol has skyrocketed 20% in the last year as highlighted in a story in the Daily Mail.
The average price of a gallon of petrol in the UK is now £4.80 (US$9.65) while a gallon of diesel costs a staggering £5.30. People on a trip here for the first time may be caught out by petrol being sold at the pumps by the litre where the cost is around £1.06 at the moment,
Date: March 6th, 2008 |
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Red Bull Flugtag London
Flugtag (Flying Day), is an event organized by Red Bull that has taken place in over 70 cities around the world and the second Red Bull Flugtag London day is happening on Saturday 7th June 2008 in Hyde Park.
Flugtag involves competitors constructing man powered flying machines and launching them and their pilot or pilots off a 6m high ramp and into the water below, which in London’s case will be The Serpentine in Hyde Park.
Anyone can apply to enter and entries are free, but you need to download the design manual from
Date: February 26th, 2008 |
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London through the fog
Believe it or not this is London under a bank of morning fog. This picture is in today’s Metro and was taken by a passenger on a plane approaching Heathrow. It shows the offices towers of Canary Wharf,
Date: February 13th, 2008 |
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Help London Daily Photo Raise £10,000 for Breast Cancer Care
Travelers tend to be the kind of people who like doing good things for the world, so we think you’ll like this opportunity to do good. Our friend Ham, a London resident who does a London Daily Photo site, is raising money for the Breast Cancer Care charity. This organization is “the leading provider of breast cancer information and support across the UK,” and it’s also a personal thing for Ham. His wife is nearing the end of her treatment for breast cancer, so he’d like to help support other people going …
Date: February 12th, 2008 |
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Talking CCTV comes to London
Britain is the world leader when it comes to CCTV with more cameras filming its citizens going about their every day business than anywhere else. Now Barking and Dagenham in east London has become the first borough in the capital to introduce talking CCTV.
They’ve spent £25,000 fitting loudspeakers to existing cameras and will be used by the operators in the council’s cctv control room. They say the aim of the talking cameras is to fight crime, litter and antisocial behaviour,
Date: February 6th, 2008 |
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