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So the MOL, Wife, and Daughter will be taking a three week trip, touring England, Wales, and Ireland in a couple months.

My wife went to college in Scotland, so not sure they will be going there.

Any suggestions on great places to see? Places to avoid? I believe they are flying into London, then taking a bus out of the city as fast as possible. They plan on taking buses and trains, mostly.

Thanks in advance to our British brothers and sisters for any advice.
 
What are they interested in? History, Culture, Shopping, Arts , Geography, We need more info but I beg you to get them out of London, it is not safe esp for Americans, and its totally unrepresentative of UK. I reccomend York as one of the best starting places with its history, culture, shopping, food, nature. then North Yorks like Whitby etc . We need MORE info to be able to help. VIA PM system if neccessary.

Have they booked flights they would be better flying to Manchester, Newcastle Edinburgh than Thiefrow or Gatwick.
 
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Devon and Somerset are beautiful in the SW. The Lake district, North Yorks, My city of Durham is amazing and very popular with Americans esp christians, Bamburgh castle in Northumberland is superb up on the borders, Metro Center in Newcastle great for shopping and dining Oxford, Cambridge for culture. West Somerset RR for the best heritage train journey in England the scenary is outstanding. London and Edinburgh are commercial dumps that are expensive and over crowded.

York is the center of England especially for spreading out to see everything else, our long distance buses are crap, trains not cheap unless you book well in advance then very cheap.

They NEED to book rail tickets as far in advance as possible, EG London to Durham booked in advance £44 same journey booked on the day £234. Bus tens up to ten hours to get up north, train takes 2 hours. Trains are safer, faster and handier.

York is a place that can take a week on its own to see :) Durham about two days

Hotels if the gals are going to share a room Premier Inns are what you want you will find a room with three beds for under £100 ALL Premier inns have good resteraunts attached and 99% are very well located.

UK Coach tours are universally bad and utterly commercialised
 
If the family want to travel by train here's a site where you can buy passes for the the rail network here. https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/travel-and-transport/britrail-passes/ depending on which one you buy you can get unlimited travel in the area of your choice, or the whole of mainland Britain. It makes Rail travel stupid cheap compared to buying tickets when they land. You must purchase the tickets prior to leaving as you cannot buy these tickets in the UK. Also I would suggest one of the party downloads the National Rail App download here...http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/84874.aspx so that they can plan journeys and be aware of any delays/cancellations. Visit Britain site also has some great deals and ideas.
Regardless of Silent Earth's scaremongering, London still has some of the best Museums, if they are into it. The Natural History Museum, Science Museum, and Imperial War Museum are all worth a visit and are easily in walking distance of each other. The Houses of Parliament and Westminster are also worth a visit if they are politically minded and you could get tickets for the tour etc online before you leave here....https://www.parliament.uk/visiting/access/guidance-for-visitors-with-autism/buying-tickets/
The rest of the country is full of history and places of interest. The South West has some great scenery and history like Stonehenge and Tintagel Castle. Dorset and Hampshire are very good for non driving visitors as there is a good rail and bus service in that area. The Jurrassic Coast, the New Forest, Bucklers Hard, Beaulieu (pronounced bewley) has the stately home that housed SOE trainees during WW2, Lymington, Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst are typically picture box market towns. Heading further north, Bletchley Park is worth a visit Oxford, Olney and Woburn . Up to my part of the world, Staffordshire Potteries have a Wedgewood, Portmerion, Emma Bridgewater potteries to visit and spend money! Middleport is well worth a visit, with it's canals and Bottle kilns. Then the Peak District National Park is a stones throw away if they want a good walk in the hills.
Further North west is Blackpool(if you like commercial seasides) Morecambe and Barrow in Furness, very rugged and a bit bleak. The Lake District is just stunning and they can take the Carlisle to Settle steam train, well worth a trip. Then there's the Pennines and Yorkshire Dales with places like Harrogate (Bettys Tea Rooms is famous), Holmfirth and many other market towns. The East coast has Whitby(take the 840 bus from York for some of the best views in England on the journey through the Moors), Scarborough and then down to the wash and the Fenland and Cambridge and Ely (the highest point in the fens) Down to the south coast there's Dover, Hastings and Eastbourne.
Wales. Carmarthen and Caenarven both have great history and ancient Castles the Pembrokeshire coastal walk is stunning on a good day. Aberystwyth and Machynlleth are both worth a visit Machynlleth has the Alternative Energy Centre. There are oodles of museaums and places of interest in all of the towns I have mentioned, maybe get the Google going and see what takes their fancy.
I hope they have a great time planning and visiting. If you need any more help, just give me a shout.:)
 
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SE, it will depend on where they are travelling from and which Airline as to where they will land. Heathrow and Gatwick are no worse than JFK, Atlanta or any other major city airport.
 
SE, it will depend on where they are travelling from and which Airline as to where they will land. Heathrow and Gatwick are no worse than JFK, Atlanta or any other major city airport.

Very true Mrs very true :) stil think London is a dump though.:)
 
If the family want to travel by train here's a site where you can buy passes for the the rail network here. https://www.visitbritainshop.com/world/travel-and-transport/britrail-passes/ depending on which one you buy you can get unlimited travel in the area of your choice, or the whole of mainland Britain. It makes Rail travel stupid cheap compared to buying tickets when they land. You must purchase the tickets prior to leaving as you cannot buy these tickets in the UK. Also I would suggest one of the party downloads the National Rail App download here...http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/84874.aspx so that they can plan journeys and be aware of any delays/cancellations.
.:)

good find sal, good find.

BLACKPOOL seriously ???? :)
 
Thanks, that's perfect. I will pass on the info. The MOL tends to just go places, and find her way around. I tend to like to plan things just a bit.

It's things like the train price difference that I wouldn't think about.

I'm going to email my wife that list of links.
 
I'm watching the morning news at the moment and there has just been a story about the Rail Service. Apparently a new countrywide timetable is causing chaos with cancelled and diverted trains. Buses are being used to replace the trains, this is likely to go on for some months. It might be worth you investigating further and at the least get the family to make allowances for travelling times. HTH
 
depends what the interests are I suppose, but there is always Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire, Glastonbury town and Glastonbury Tor in Somerset, have a trip over the Somerset Levels if you can, very relaxing.
if you get to Plymouth you can see where the Pilgrim Fathers finally left England, in Cornwall there is St. Michaels Mount, Lands End and the Eden Project...be prepared to do a lot of walking at that one.
 
I'm watching the morning news at the moment and there has just been a story about the Rail Service. Apparently a new countrywide timetable is causing chaos with cancelled and diverted trains. Buses are being used to replace the trains, this is likely to go on for some months. It might be worth you investigating further and at the least get the family to make allowances for travelling times. HTH

I had something like that happen in France. Train just stopped out in a field, and after an announcement, in French, everyone started getting off.

I was clueless, so I asked a young lady in rail service livery, in English, what happens next.

She told me, in French, "Are you retarded? Shut your mouth and go wait on the road, stupid American." LOL

I was just out of the French Foreign Legion after I failed the last run test at Aubagne, so I clearly understood every word she said.

Anyway, thanks everyone, I emailed all of the links and some of the posts to the Wife, so she can hash it out with her mom.

I can't get much more involved in the trip, it will just piss them off.
 
I had something like that happen in France. Train just stopped out in a field, and after an announcement, in French, everyone started getting off.

I was clueless, so I asked a young lady in rail service livery, in English, what happens next.

She told me, in French, "Are you retarded? Shut your mouth and go wait on the road, stupid American." LOL

I was just out of the French Foreign Legion after I failed the last run test at Aubagne, so I clearly understood every word she said.

Anyway, thanks everyone, I emailed all of the links and some of the posts to the Wife, so she can hash it out with her mom.

I can't get much more involved in the trip, it will just piss them off.

vive la Mort, vive la Guerre, vive la legion Etrangre
 

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