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Originally Posted by MRCboicgy
Being a tourist, even if you aren't a museum person, I do have to recommend the British Museum. It's my favourite in the world. Other than that, you can't go wrong.
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Co-sign on the museum. We were killing time while waiting for a play to start and wandered up that way. I wish we had gone earlier, as there was so much neat stuff in there.
We stayed at the Hilton in Hyde Park. At $700 for 5 nights ($140/night), it was a lot cheaper than I was expecting. The bike rental system was very convenient and easy to get around. If you return your bike within 30 minutes, you don't pay for the rental time. Then you can wait five minutes and get a new bike for 29 minutes. Repeat that process and you only need to pay the daily fee of 1 British pound.
If you don't do one thing, make sure you don't go to the Tate Modern. What a piece of #### that thing is? It is a giant collection of crap. One exhibit was a mirror. It was submitted by two people and the card had some story about how the purpose was to have an introspective look at art. Go #### yourself. You submitted a mirror you ###### and likely got thousands of dollars for something you already owned and didn't make. I think 90% of the #### in that place was submitted as a joke, to troll people and/or to see how far they could bull#### the management.
The plays were awesome and plentiful. Don't buy tickets from people selling them on the sidewalk. There are discount booths, and you can always just go up the the main booth at the play and ask if there are discounted tickets.
My favourite restaurant there was Jamie's Italian, which is owned by Jamie Oliver.