London Underground aka: The Tube

The tube is quite expensive (although cheaper than cabs or tour buses) but if you are traveling around London a lot in a day, definitely buy a day travel card. If you’re in London for longer, get an ‘oyster card’, which you then just have to top up on a machine – much faster than waiting in long lines to buy tickets each day!

If you’re in a hurry and are able.. avoid the Circle/District line. They are the only ones that are really known among locals to always experience delays. They also have a knack for giving people who usually don’t get motion sick problems.

Also, if it does snow… just try to stick to the Victoria Line. It’s the only one completely underground and the underground experiences severe delays (or cancellations) on all other lines.

- whisking you wherever you need to go. Though, when it grinds to a halt, it’s terrible as everything gets backed up and if you’re unlucky, you’re underground with lots of cross people in an overly warm carriage. If you’re doubly unlucky, you’re standing wedged next to the person who has a cold or cough, but no tissue. Yeuch.

London is so big, the Tube is really the only efficient way to get across town. Cycling – forget it, not enough cycle lanes and too much ground to cover unless you work locally. Buses – much better for sightseeing, but unlike the Tube, it’s often hard to work out where you have to get off!

very efficient & dead-easy to understand connections. (color coded!)

A great way to get around London on a budget. And the next time your exiting a train at night alone on the platform, don’t forget that scene in American Werewolf in London.

GET A DAY PASS!!! It costs £5.10 for a day pass that will let you travel all over with the tube and all over on the busses. it will save your feet and your time:)