The home of Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and Mary Poppins
TO STAY
The best thing about the Fleming hotel is its location in Mayfair , two steps from Piccadilly Circus, second best, who take care of their youngest guests like they are privileged clients, providing them with their own mini guide to the city and milk with cookies at night . At the Melia White, very close to the Zoo and Regent's Park, children have their own check-in areas and family rooms have two beds for them. A less charming but very practical and also central option is the Cheval Apartments in Gloucester Park. With two or more children they are the best option, especially since the hotel itself provides a babysitting service in case parents need a free afternoon to dedicate to some of the plans that we proposed in our guide to romantic London.
The Drawing Room at Flemings Mayfair Hotel
TO DISCOVER
Almost all of London's major museums have activity programs for children that really interest and amuse them (and their accompanying adults). The British's own conservation staff is usually at the entrance telling whoever wants to listen how to mummify a human body or reduce a head and in its rooms there are mummified cats and lizards What kid isn't interested in mummified cats and lizards? The most morbid and resistant to nightmares can let themselves be horrified at the Hunterian Museum, the surgical museum that contains the skeleton of a giant and the tooth of a prehistoric sloth among other curiosities.
At the Royal Air Force Museum you can try a flight simulator of an RAF plane, and at the Science Museum, one of Apollo 19. But the gold medal for fun goes to the Natural History Museum with its parties pajamas with dinosaur bones. In their sleepovers, the children do workshops, visit the museum by lantern light and, finally, sleep in the rooms full of fossils and whale skeletons. If you only have time for one plan in this guide, make it this one.
The adventure of knowledge!
At last the moment that we were all waiting for has arrived, now we are going to talk about Harry Potter. at Watford, about 30 kilometers from London , you can visit The Making of Harry Potter , the Warner studios where the eight films in the saga were filmed for ten years, converted into a permanent exhibition. Here is Diagon Alley , the great Howarts Hall and, of course, platform 9 and ¾ . From the distance it's a day trip, but it's worth it just to see the faces of the little fans.
If you don't have enough time, the Brit Movie Tours company offers movie-themed tours of the city and its surroundings: the scenes of Sherlock Holmes, Game of Thrones, Paddington Bear and of course Harry Potter.
Who can resist wanting to be Harry Potter?
OUTDOOR
Much of London's charm is in its parks. In all there is plenty of room to run, meeting new dog friends, flying kites and everything that children love . In the Regent's Park , you can also rent pedal boats and the zoo is next door.
If there is time to get away from the city a bit, the best option is Richmond park . It is the largest of the royal parks in the city and has nature reserve status. It can be explored on foot or by bike and in its forests there are more than five deer . A good excuse to keep the little ones in their most stealthy version.
You have a date with 500 deer in Richmond Park
A good plan with a country spot in the middle of the city is to take a walk through the stalls selling international food and clothing. broadway market , get a mini portable barbecue in one of the shops in the area and grill some sausages in London Fields, the only public green space in London where street barbecue is allowed , and therefore a very lively meeting point on weekends. An afternoon stroll away is Hackney's Urban Farm. There are a few in the city. You can go in to see the animals, like in a school farm, and have a tea with fresh milk in its cafeteria as the kids learn that eggs don't come from a supermarket shelf. Eye, you can get out of there having sponsored an English hen.
TO EAT
We are of the opinion that the ideal is for children to eat the same as adults, it is the way to train future travelers. In High Soho They have a children's menu so that the little ones adapt to English pub food. , its chef, is part of a campaign so that children have access to good cuisine. Eating at The Rainforest Cafe is like eating in the movie Jumanji. The place it is decorated like a jungle with huge papier mâché animals . It will drive the kids crazy and the parents probably too because it is not uncommon for it to be packed with boisterous birthday parties. Giraffe is a chain with colorful decoration and a menu that offers everything from hamburgers to Asian food . Perfect for families who do not have the same tastes. Some of the urban farms like Hackney, Surrey and Mudchute have their own restaurants where you can eat what is grown in their own gardens.
In Hix Soho you will find a menu for the little ones
London, city for children