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Every guide we publish, newest first. London restaurants, bars, pubs, hotels, afternoon tea, spas and nightlife, each one checked against the venue's own published information rather than against other guides.
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We take no bookings, sell nothing, and accept no payment for inclusion. Where a price or a rule appears here, it came from the venue.
Every Cheap Eats List Skips the Prices. Here They Are.
Padella dates its menu to the day and its cheapest pasta is £9.50. Franco Manca publishes no pizza price at all, Bleecker prints its numbers without a currency symbol, and Roti King's website has stopped resolving.
The Studio Tour Package With a Hotel Costs £13 Less Than the One With a Bus
Tickets with an overnight hotel and breakfast start at £81. Tickets with a return coach start at £94. Both sit on the same page, and the bus replaces a twenty minute train that takes your Oyster card.
Oxford Street Shuts Half the Day on a Sunday
Twelve and a half hours Monday to Saturday, six on a Sunday, and nothing opens before half eleven. The hours taken from the shops themselves, plus why Zara has four stores on one street.
Hyde Park Opens at Five in the Morning and the Toilets Cost 20p
Free, open nineteen hours a day, three miles round. And everything inside it has a published rule: no swimming outside one marked lido, no barbecues, cycling on named roads only.
Your London Eye Ticket Time Is When You Join the Queue, Not When You Board
The operator says so on its own site, and the peak wait from that point is 45 minutes. Plus the bundle arithmetic: four combinations save real money and one costs more than buying both tickets separately.
St Paul’s Cathedral Has a One Pound Ticket Hiding in Its Price List
An adult ticket is 27 pounds. In the same table there is a 1 pound ticket for anyone on Universal Credit, Pension Credit or ESA, plus up to four children. Plus the honest answer on getting in free.
Tower Bridge Lifts 800 Times a Year and Publishes Every One
The best thing Tower Bridge does is free and listed weeks ahead: every lift, with the time, the direction and the name of the ship. By November there are only a handful of dates left.
Winter Wonderland London: You Should Never Pay the Entry Fee
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland charges up to 9.50 a head at the gate and publishes four separate ways to get in for nothing. Dates, gates, and why the opening time on your date is probably not ten.
The Shard Will Give You a Free Return Visit, If You Ask Before You Leave
Cannot see three of five named landmarks from the top? The View Guarantee gets you a free return ticket, but only if you speak to the Duty Manager before you walk out. Plus the honest answer on Shard or Sky Garden.
The Best Greek Restaurants in London Will Give Your Table Away at 15 Minutes
Two of them sit four doors apart on one Notting Hill street under the same owners, and their late arrival rules differ by five minutes. A third stops taking orders 75 minutes before it closes.
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Questions we get asked
How often is the guide updated?
Continuously, and each page records the month it was last checked rather than only the date it was first written. Opening hours and prices in London change often enough that an unchecked guide is worse than none.
How do you decide what goes in?
Every entry is verified against the venue's own published information, not against other guides. Nothing is included in exchange for payment, and nothing is excluded for refusing it.