LONDON WEEKEND BREAKS

London Weekend Breaks has been put together to help anyone planning a mini break, short trip, or weekend away in Britain's cultural and municipal capital city of London.

London Weekend Breaks is packed full of information ranging from how to get to London, through to things to see and do once you start your break. We have a "50 attraction" sightseeing guide to the city, extensive information about London's theatre land, plus pages covering everything from finding a hotel to using the Underground tube system.

But the best way to use London Weekend Breaks is to surf around the site and you can do this by using the main site menu (to the left) and the secondary menu (at the top of the page). You will also find that some of the pages of London Weekend Breaks have links to yet more pages with further information, guides and sometimes external resources. These links may help you arrange a trip, book at hotel, or simply offer you a more in depth look at something or somewhere that interests you.

What can you use the London Weekend Breaks site for?

London Weekend Breaks is intended as a weekend break (or short getaway) planning resource and its main aim is to provide a single website that offers all of the help necessary to arrange a short vacation in London.

You should be able to use this site to find transportation options that will get you to London and to organise any trips, visits, excursions, shows, romantic dinners, tours, or shopping outings that interest you. In short, you should be able to plan and book all aspects of your weekend break in an informed and considered way by using the mix of information and resources that this website has to offer.

Why visit London

There are a million reasons to visit London. London is not only the UK's capital city, but it is also the country's largest and most cosmopolitan municipality with a mix of heritage, culture and major tourist attractions.

You can visit London to see and do all of the mainstream tourist activities, or you can plan a themed weekend placing the emphasis on anything from theatres and dinning, to Spas and relaxation.

London Weekend Breaks are amongst the most flexible and individually customisable city breaks that you can organise, and because London has so many hotels and competing tourist attractions, it is also surprisingly cheap. This is particularly so in the case of families where group and family passes offer big discounts on many tourist attraction entry charges.

As a city, London is the complete package and it is a destination that you can visit again and again with a different premise in mind on each occasion. Some people visit London to enjoy a West End theatre show, some to explore the history, art and culture of the city, whilst other simply want a short break to entertain the family, visit the main tourist haunts and take a spin on the London Eye.

How to make the best of a Weekend Break in London

A weekend break in London is equally attractive to singles, couples and families and with so much to see and do it has no main season and no requirement for good weather.

The big advantage of London is that it offers something to see and do seven days a week and twenty four hours a day. It also has a wealth of visitor attractions and cultural experiences that cannot be found in any other UK city.

However, in order to make the most of your London Weekend Breaks you need to think and plan ahead.

A weekend is a short period of time to spend in any city and, in a capital city like London, you do not want to waste precious time deciding what to see and where to go once you arrive. For this reason, the most successful London weekend breaks are carefully planned and booked in advance, thereby taking advantage of "early booking" discounts and the scheduling into the trip of tourist attraction timetables and durations.

London Weekend Breaks can be good value

London can offer excellent value if you book your transport, accommodation, event and sightseeing itinerary in advance. However, if you leave things to the last minute, or try to arrange everything once you are in London, you may find both your time and money disappearing more quickly than you anticipated.

Most hotels, tourist attractions, shows and restaurants are book-able online and furthermore, if you make your bookings via the internet and in advance, you will find many great money saving offers available.

You can also capitalise on offers like the London Tourist Pass and special weekend break hotel deals that often include extras or preferential deals. These discounts will not only save you money, but also give you the piece of mind of knowing that you can enter a particular attraction at a particular time and (in some cases) without having to queue.

What next

If what you have read so far has wetted your appetite, or tempted you to think about planning one or more London weekend breaks, then take a look around the rest of this site and see what London can offer the weekend breaker.

If you want an idea for something to do that relates to a special event taking place in London, then see this forthcoming events page for the next two to three months