Is the London Pass Worth It?

Making an efficient and cost effective London itinerary

Jordan and I had a great time in London seeing all of the tourist sites. Obviously we highly recommend seeing as many non-tourist spots as you can, but those are less popular, and therefore can be harder to find.

Jordan and I spent ten days in London, and did the very “touristy” stuff near the end of our trip after getting a good lay of the land.

We planned two days for seeing all of the main tourist attractions and I will tell you how we did it!

A while ago, I found the “London Pass” which is a day-pass for all of the main attractions in London. It is not a cheap pass, but neither are any of the attractions. London Pass has everything from the big tourist attractions, like the London Eye, to fun activities like mini golfing and escape rooms!

Depending on what you want to see, it may be worth it to buy the London Pass instead of booking every ticket separately. Another pro of not booking all of the tickets separately, is all of the tickets are in one place, on the London Pass app!

Since we were dog sitting, we had to make sure we had two completely empty days to get the full use out of the London Pass otherwise the cost probably would not have been worth it. Luckily, the dogs were gone for two days, perfect for us to be out of the house all day!

Jordan and I used three tools to create two amazing days.

1. The London Pass Website

   • To find all of the tourist attractions and activities that we wanted to attend.

2. Google Sheets

   • Used functions to compare prices and create our route of activities.

3. Google - My Maps

   • Created pins for all of the places we wanted to go.

After finding all of the places you would like to visit on London Pass, we added them all into google sheets with their prices, to make sure we were getting the full worth out of our London Pass. Just to put it into perspective, we were able to utilize the London Pass to save us around $300 between the two of us.

Once you have all of the information in google sheets, add the pins for all of the locations into My Maps. This will help you create a route of activities where there is not excess travel during the day. By using this and making sure we cut down on travel time, we were able to do Big Ben, Westminster Abbey and the London Eye all before noon!

We have actually been using the My Maps function on google a lot. While planning for all of the places we are going, we put all of the places we would like to visit into My Maps, and then while we are out we can easily access the locations on our phones!

At the moment, we have three separate maps. One for the London Day Pass, one for London (days we were not using the pass), and another for Manchester, but Im sure we will continue to create them every time we head to a new city.

This is a very simple but effective way to create an itinerary, just make sure to account for travel times in between attractions and waiting times at attractions. London has a great public transport system between the underground and buses, but they also have lime bikes which are super convenient for quick commutes.

Below I have added one day of our itinerary and the cost breakdowns. Mind you, this is not for the faint of heart, we walked 11 miles this day! But we got to see so much and made great use of the pass