About London Trip Guide

What this site is

Twenty sights in London, one page each, and eleven sections on how the city works: arriving at six airports and the great railway termini, getting around by Underground, Elizabeth line, bus, boat and on foot, the river that runs through it, the royal parks, what to book ahead, the seasons, what to eat and drink, where to stay, routes for one to five days, and day trips beyond the city. There is also a journal of longer answers to the questions visitors ask most.

Every page tries to answer what a visitor actually needs: what a place is, what you see when you get there, how to visit it, what to combine it with, and where a well-known story is a legend or a muddle rather than a fact. The Tower of London is not Tower Bridge, Big Ben is a bell and not the tower, and Westminster Abbey is not the Houses of Parliament; the pages say so where it matters.

It is not a listings site. There are no opening hours, admission prices or fares anywhere on it, because those change, and the operator is the only source that is right on the day you travel.

What London means here

This site keeps to London itself, from Westminster and the City to the south bank and the museums of South Kensington, with two places on the river, Greenwich and Kew, that belong to every visit. Windsor, Oxford, Cambridge, Stonehenge, Bath and Brighton are close and much visited, but they lie outside the city, and they appear on the day trips page rather than as sights of London.

How it is written

Each page is built from sources that are named at the foot of it, and the facts in it, such as dates, heights, distances and who built what, are checked against those sources before the page is published. Where the sources disagree, the page says so or leaves the number out.

London Trip Guide is written and maintained with the assistance of AI, edited and fact-checked before publication. Anything wrong is worth pointing out, and will be corrected.

The photographs

Every photograph comes from Wikimedia Commons and is credited on the page it appears on, with the photographer's name, the license and a link to the file.

They are chosen by looking at them: recent rather than archival, showing the place the page is about, and captioned from what is actually in the frame. Many files labeled London show another London, a replica elsewhere, or a neighboring building, and the Tower, the bridge and the abbey are often mixed up, so each one is checked before it is used. Some modern works in public places are protected by copyright, and those do not appear.

What it costs you

Nothing. A few planning pages may carry affiliate links, marked as such before the first one, and the privacy page explains what that means. No page about a sight carries one, and nothing on this site is recommended because of a commission.

This site does not sell anything, take bookings or reservations, handle payments or hold tickets or rooms. Any booking you make through a link on it is a contract between you and that travel company, under its terms; this site is not a party to it and has no responsibility for it.