8 Prime Issues To Do In London With Teenagers [Picked By Our Teen!]

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You understand as a teen, you simply wish to disguise away in your bed room, listening to music with the Do Not Disturb signal on, however generally it’s price opening the door to journey to international lands. 

London is the place to flee the bed room for. It’s NOT the boring vacation spot your dad and mom preserve making an attempt to take you to as there are tons of issues to do in London with teenagers.

Take it from my teen, who didn’t complain as soon as on our two week journey to London.

She smiled rather a lot, took a lot of photographs, laughed and even stated, ‘London is superior!’ a number of instances. On the finish of our trip, she exclaimed “This has been my favourite household journey” (and he or she has been touring continually since delivery).

So should you’re planning on visiting London with an adolescent and undecided what to do, these are the issues we did with our tees. Additionally, when you have a tween in your loved ones, they’ll find it irresistible simply as a lot as our 10 yr previous.

Warner Bros Harry Potter Studio Tour

For all Harry Potter followers, the tour of the Warner Bros Studios is the closest you’re going to get to being part of the movies. 

This was our teen’s favourite London expertise. It was additionally our tween’s favourite factor to do. I feel it might have probably been mine as properly. 

The Harry Potter tour on the Warner Bros studio offers you a magical shut up look into the making of Harry Potter and the way the films have been created and filmed.

For an additional charge, you should buy an audio tour, which guides you thru the studios, supplying you with a lot of behind the scenes info about set creation, manufacturing challenges and successes, and tales concerning the actors.

I used to be the one one who acquired that and I actually loved it, particularly the movies which allowed me to see the units come to life in every applicable film scene.

It takes round three to 4 hours to stroll by the entire tour, which options units, costumes, props, and butterbeer from the movies. Plus there are interactive reveals to expertise from inexperienced display broomstick rides to leaping in a couple of of the car props.

The tour begins off within the set of the Nice Corridor in Hogwarts, and from there it’s a self guided expertise by the Wizarding World. 

Kalyra’s favourite components have been seeing the costumes on fashions of the characters, and strolling by the Forbidden Forest. 

And weirdly, like I did once I first walked into Hogsmeade in Common Orlando Resort, tears pricked my eyes once I walked into the room exhibiting the mannequin of Hogwarts Fortress. 

There’s simply one thing so magical concerning the Harry Potter world that may reside on perpetually and throughout all ages. It’s the final expertise in London for teenagers – properly for teenagers of all ages.

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The London Bridge Expertise

The London Bridge Expertise is an interactive historical past tour that explores the darkish previous of London’s most well-known bridge. Making this expertise extra actual is that this attraction is definitely below the London Bridge!

Stay actors take you and your group by these darkish rooms beneath the bridge which might be stuffed with artifacts and spooky tales concerning the destiny of traitors, Jack the Ripper, haunted church buildings, and extra. 

Within the traitor room, an actor shows ripped off heads on sticks and a medical desk the place he cuts up physique components of traitors.

However essentially the most enjoyable, and scary, a part of the attraction is the ultimate room of the tour, the place a barman tells the story of Jack the Ripper earlier than main you right into a haunted maze. 

Within the maze, we needed to navigate our manner by darkish rooms whereas being chased by actors dressed as pigs and a woman with a chainsaw. 

We laughed and screamed and tumbled out of there saying, “That was a lot enjoyable!” Even Savannah, as soon as she acquired over the phobia of it, stated she was glad she did it. 

Whereas scary at first it was top-of-the-line points of interest in London, and is an exciting expertise for older youngsters who love Halloween. 

It was additionally an effective way for teenagers to be taught extra of the historical past (though darker) of London. I feel it gave us a perspective that, though the world feels grim, no less than nobody is being hung, drawn and quartered with their heads left on show as a warning on London Bridge anymore. 

It is a prime factor to do in London for teenagers with a sinister edge!

The London Eye

Probably the most well-known points of interest in London, with a number of the greatest skyline views of Central London, is the London Eye on the River Thames.

It’s the tallest commentary wheel in Europe and an effective way to see totally different viewpoints of the well-known buildings in London, just like the Huge Ben and Home of Parliament, in addition to Buckingham Palace on a transparent day. 

The capsule you sit in strikes slowly sufficient that you just get time to benefit from the expertise and get good photographs.

There’s additionally an choice to get non-public capsules, which is what we did. For the common trip you can be put with one other group of individuals.

It’s a extra enjoyable manner to take a look at London’s surroundings as a substitute of going to common viewpoints, and having to climb loads of stairs. We all know most teenagers are afraid of motion!

Youngsters will love this extra enjoyable London expertise. I’m positive their buddies again residence can be jealous of their TikToks and photographs.

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Covent Backyard

Covent Backyard is a well-liked purchasing vacation spot within the West Finish and so an ideal London expertise for youngsters who love style and sweetness shops. 

There’s additionally a very good variety of eating choices, with meals halls and eating places scattered all through the realm, which makes the backyard a very good place to spend a couple of hours of your time if members in your loved ones wish to buy groceries.

Shops vary from large identify manufacturers like Apple and Tiffany and Co to native impartial shops. 

Some shops, experiences, and eats teenagers could love embody:

• Kick Recreation makes a speciality of uncommon and unique sneakers and attire.
• Glossier magnificence provide retailer.
• Venchi was our place to cease for ice lotions.
• You may even bask in world-famous sweets from the likes of Godiva and Resort Chocolat. 

It could get busy, so attempt to go at a time when individuals could also be at work and faculty, and with some COVID protocols nonetheless solely permitting a sure variety of individuals in shops at a time, there may be traces you’ll have to attend in. 

That being stated, it’s nonetheless a great way to spend your time and may give you a really feel for London’s meals scene and what luxurious style it has to supply. 

It’s also subsequent to different vacationer points of interest in London, like Trafalgar Sq., Leicester Sq., Soho and the West Finish theater district. 

Don’t overlook to unfold out throughout the central Covent Backyard market space to discover the encompassing cobblestone streets and aspect alleys for different secret gems! 

We discovered Cecil’s Courtroom and Goodwin Courtroom each of that are stated to have impressed Diagon Alley. I assumed Goodwin’s Courtroom was extra prefer it. Let me know within the feedback what you suppose.

Guide Loving teenagers will love Cecil’s Courtroom, it’s lined with guide retailers and vintage shops stuffed with magical literature and bric-a-brac, which is one purpose it’s been linked to Diagon Alley.

You’ll additionally discover model shops like Doc Martens, City Outfitters, and Brandy Meville that teenagers will love. Kalyra purchased a cute skirt from Brandy. 

Once you want a break, head to Lamb & Flag for a household pub lunch within the oldest pub in Covent Backyard. (this was one in every of our favourite London pubs)

For households with various culinary tastes, you could wish to eat on the Seven Dials avenue meals market. Nevertheless, I discovered it very missing in gluten free choices so watched my women eat earlier than our present within the West Finish. 

West Finish Theatre / Musicals

London is famend as top-of-the-line locations on this planet for theater. (Ignoring COVID, there are over 40 theater venues within the West Finish performing to over 14 million yearly. It’s the largest theater scene within the English-speaking world. 

Teenagers will love the number of musicals on provide, a number of the hottest ones being the Lion King, Depraved, Les Miserables, and Hamilton. (I noticed Les Miserables and Saigon when residing in London)

On this household trip to London, Kalyra, Savannah and I went to see Matilda within the Cambridge Theater, whereas Craig caught up together with his previous North Sydney Bears teammates in Chelsea.

Matilda the Musical is primarily based on the Roald Dahl guide and film, which was improbable. A lot of the forged are younger kids, who’re very proficient. 

It’s a humorous musical directed in the direction of youthful youngsters, however I’d suggest it to all ages. I completely cherished it. There was a trio of twenty-something males behind us who laughed louder and extra usually than anybody else within the theater!

Kalyra selected this theater manufacturing and did the analysis to search out one of the best worth tickets and booked it whereas we have been in London. We booked by LondonTheatre.co.uk.

I like to recommend reserving as far out as you’ll be able to, as we acquired a number of the final tickets. However, because it was a small theater, all seats had nice views, and we in some way ended up with seats close to the entrance, and for what we thought was a fantastic deal. 

Seeing any musical on the West Finish is very really useful to any household that wants a break from the stress of visiting all of the vacationer points of interest.

I’m glad we added this it our London itinerary within the final minute as our teen stated it was one in every of her favourite London experiences.

Afternoon Tea

The day we arrived in London we went to the Ampersand Resort in South Kensington for afternoon excessive tea. For any traveler, particularly teenagers, thinking about English tradition this is likely one of the greatest issues to do in London.

It’s alleged that afternoon tea started in England in 1840, by Anna Stanhope, the Duchess of Bedford. As dinner was served late within the night, this was a manner of satisfying her starvation pains mid-afternoon. It turned a trendy type of leisure and over time it turned an expertise for extra than simply the rich. 

Some additionally say the French began it. However, let’s not become involved in that battle. 

For now, we’ll rejoice the English custom of excessive tea, named so for the excessive tables it’s served on. 

The Ampersand Resort has a couple of themed excessive tea choices, together with ones for teenagers and gluten free eaters! We selected the award-winning Science Afternoon Tea within the Drawing Room of the Ampersand Resort in South Kensington, a improbable for teenagers particularly.

This English excessive tea options a number of experiments you’ll be able to do along with your meals. You can also make your personal lemonade, search for fossil biscuits, and benefit from the billowing smoke as a waitress pours water over the dry ice that’s in your dishes. 

It’s a cool interactive model of a excessive tea, and additionally it is very tasty. 

I used to be very impressed with my gluten free variations and the gluten free scones with clotted cream here’s a deliciousness I’ll always remember. 

Simply as spectacular is the elegant inside design of the Drawing Rooms with its scarlet and blue velvet armchairs, floral wall paper, and quirky animal prints cushions and enormous Victorian home windows bringing within the afternoon gentle. You’ll really feel a part of the British aristocracy who reside on this space of London.

This was a fantastic first London expertise for us and set the tone for the household pleasure that was to come back. You may see our Reel right here.

Go to the Home of MinaLima

As you’ve found from this put up to this point, teenagers love Harry Potter – properly most anyway. Religious Harry Potter followers will wish to cease in at The Home of MinaLima.

This gallery and retailer, located within the coronary heart of Soho, showcases the graphic artwork of the Harry Potter and Improbable Beasts movies, all of which was solely designed by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima.

We added it in on our final day exploring London metropolis and I’m so glad we did. It was unbelievable!

It’s solely whereas exploring the Wizarding World artwork on show right here that you just understand simply how a lot these graphic designers are chargeable for the magic of the Harry Potter movies.

The primary flooring is stuffed to the brim with the graphic designs from the film which embody posters, newspaper articles, practice tickets, insignias and extra.

There are many these magical gadgets accessible for buy together with prints, notecards, journals, wallpaper and posters.

You can even get illustrated copies of Harry Potter and the Thinker’s Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets and techniques. Kalyra actually wished to get the Black Household Tree Tapestry wallpaper, however opted for the Sirius Black wished put up as a substitute (her favourite character).

Downstairs is the gallery, which is able to make you are feeling you’ve been transported to the Wizarding World. The wall is roofed within the Black Household Tapestry wallpaper, the Marauder’s Map covers the gallery flooring, and Hogwarts letters flood out of an ornamental hearth.

I completely cherished this retailer! And we had a particular deal with whereas inside, Miraphora Mina was truly within the retailer. We weren’t courageous sufficient to cease her and say hello – teenagers could not have developed the arrogance for that but!

It is a utterly FREE London attraction for teenagers – properly aside from the purchasing they’ll wish to do

Classic style purchasing

What teenager doesn’t love searching for classic style? London is town to search out hidden gems and distinctive finds.

Probably the most well-known classic purchasing streets is Brick Lane in Shoreditch, which has the most important classic market in London and options specialist classic style from throughout the UK and Europe.

The Brick Lane Classic Market has every thing from coats, to bell backside denims to baggage and footwear. You’ll find designer makes and low cost finds. You might spend hours diving within the rails there.

Whereas in Brick Lane, think about a avenue artwork tour! Shoreditch is a well-known artistic hub and has a great deal of cool artwork murals on the wall. Take a look at this strolling avenue artwork tour of Shoreditch to be taught extra about it.

One other place to search for classic clothes is Notting Hill alongside Portobello Street Market. The market is there day by day however it’s at its busiest on Saturdays. Some distributors solely open their stalls on Saturdays, so that is the day to go should you can.

You can even discover excessive avenue manufacturers on Oxford Road should you do like purchasing, or should you do go to Covent Backyard as we urged earlier, dip into Past Retro in Soho on the best way.

Closing ideas

London is the right vacation spot for youngsters due to its purchasing areas, well-known film places, world-class museums, historic historical past (that features royalty), breathtaking views, excessive teas and quirky cafes, and limitless issues to do this will go well with any teen curiosity.

Throughout our London trip, we got down to discover one of the best experiences in London for teenagers in any household. 

There are such a lot of issues to do in London and locations to go to that your teenagers will love. This information was written primarily based on our teen’s private expertise.

I feel Kensington Palace, the Globe Theatre, Pure Historical past Museums, Tate Fashionable, the British Museum and London Parks might make this listing, however we’ve narrowed it all the way down to Kalyra’s prime suggestions for London with teenagers.

London additionally made her prime locations in Europe to go to with youngsters listing.

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