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Tickets for events
First class
- Albemarle
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West End Internet bookings and reviews in the same place.
Telephone bookings on 7637 9041.
- Ticketmaster
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Phone Ticketmaster on 7316 4709
with your credit card to book almost anything in the UK at any time.
Value
- Last Minute
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Half price tickets, holidays, anything you want to do... right now.
- Returns one hour before the show
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Most theatres sell off all spare seats for £10 at their own box office
one hour before curtain.
Be prepared, these tickets go quickly and student card holders get priority.
- Half Price Ticket Booth, Leicester Square
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The queue here is legendary and the selection of shows is very limited.
Cash only.
Bargain
Things to see for free:
- London for Free
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All the festivals like the
Boat Race,
London Marathon,
Gay Pride,
Notting Hill Carnival,
London Triathlon and
Bonfire Night;
places where there's live music; art galleries:
there are a lot of ideas on this website.
- BBC Audience Tickets
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Phone 8743 8000
for free tickets to recordings at BBC Television Centre, only a
twenty minute walk across Shepherd's Bush.
Also free tickets for BBC radio shows all over London.
- City walks
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Four 2-3hr sightseeing walks in London's historic centre.
- Victoria & Albert Museum (decorative art),
Natural History Museum &
Science Museum
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The three South Kensington museums
are a
half hour walk away
(or catch the number 49 bus)
behind the Royal Albert Hall.
- Portobello Market
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Antiques market Saturday morning, only
twenty minutes walk from here in Notting Hill.
- The British Museum
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District and Piccadilly line to Russell Square to see
the greatest collection of antiques in the world.
- Leighton House
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The beautiful studio and home of classical painter
Lord Leighton, built at the same time as
32 Russell Road, is only a
five minute walk from here on Holland Park Road.
- Tate Galleries
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British and Modern art.
District and Victoria line to Pimlico for
Tate Britain or
Central line to St Paul's and walk across the
Wobbly Bridge for
Tate Modern.
- Serpentine Gallery
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Exhibitions behind the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park.
- National,
National Portrait &
Photographers' Galleries
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West European paintings, British faces and
contemporary photography in these three
galleries around Trafalgar Square.
District line to Embankment.
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