What to know about every public transport in London 🚇 Train vs boat vs bike vs cable Car
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- Going to be using public transportation in London? In this video I give you the rundown of each public transportation option in London that you might encounter. I show you the classic red London bus, the underground, river bus, bike, and even a cable car that takes you over the River Thames.
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I'm Jess, I've lived in London for many years, and this channel is a London travel guide for anyone visiting the city that wants to experience it like you live here. Beyond talking about the usual London attractions, I show you some of the cooler things to do in London, that most travel guides don't mention. Watch my videos and you'll feel like you've got a Londoner friend telling you the best kept secrets in the city.
I'm going to London solo for the first time this weekend and I've been binge watching your videos. Thanks for all the informative videos!
Oh ,YAY !! HAVE LOTS OF FUN !!! I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England for this summer, too !!! 😃👍👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇬🇧💞
You're so welcome! Have a great time. If you haven't already, take a look at my Casual Tourist Guides line, they're great for solo travelers: shop.loveandlondon.com/collections/casual-tourist-guides-to-london
My first evening was great. Thanks again!
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Honey u look cute
One of the reasons I love riding the underground as opposed to the subway here in America is that in the London Underground, the drivers' voice when they announce the status of the train is so clear and concise, you can actually understand what they're saying. Here in America the drivers mumble the announcements like, "next stop, frrffff fghhshhh ton" and I'm like "What the F did he just say?"
Sorry ,I know you were talking about subway here ! I don't know much of subways ...here never actually took one here ,but I did a lot in N.Y.C
!! In the 80's & some 90's ! I.have to say it wasn't that bad over there !? I never missed it over there in N.Y.,for either a bus stop ,or a train / subway stop !! But ,buses here in L A.,YES !! Lol. 💜🥁🐉🎤💞
haha yeah that's true! Thanks for watching Evan
“Even the pointless ones” LOL. My family and I had a great London public transportation adventure a few years ago. We were staying in Camden, and took Overground and the Tube to North Greenwich station; hopped on the cable car for a round trip across the river and back - pointless yes, but amazing views!! Hopped on a river boat at the landing right next to North Greenwich; cruised up the river to London Bridge; stopped at Borough Market and then walked across the bridge to explore the City; then caught a bus back to Camden. A great day out for not much money!
nice!! Thanks for watching Michael.
I get what you’re saying about the cable car, but the North Greenwich end is actually quite interesting with the O2, including shopping opportunities, the new Design District with a collection of very interesting buildings, some food places, and then there is the Magazine exhibition space. The views from the cable car are also quite nice. But yes, there is nothing at the other end of it.
As a Dutch UA-camr that loves making videos about public transport, I really enjoyed the underground when I was in London. And I never had to wait to get on a train!
It's great! Thanks for watching!
Hi! I'm going to London next week for the first time. I'm a very anxious person and I just want to say that binge-watching your channel has eliminated a lot of my worries. Keep up the good work! :)
Glad to hear it Rachel, thanks for watching! Be sure to grab some of our guides as well, they will make you extra prepared and they all come with digital maps so you always know where you're going: shop.loveandlondon.com
At least 9/10 of London's transportation I used is the tube. I enjoy using the tube station because some have old histories dating back more than 100 years, like Baker Street (the oldest tube station). The downside of the tube station is the lack of ventilation, and it does get uncomfortably hot! Caught a river bus for the first time in early June of 2022. I need to try cable cars; I didn't even know they existed in London until you revealed it!
Thanks for watching!
Lived here for 20 years and am still amazed by the tube (pronounced choob!). There line I take to work transports 40000 people an hour in a pair of tunnels each only 3.5 metres across (that's more than an 8 lane motorway)
Love watching your videos. A big kiss from India. Thank you.
Thanks so much Anit!
For me the best thing I did in London was catch a ferry along the River Thames.
I'm gonna be visiting London in about a month so this is SUPER helpful.
As always Jess a beautiful video put together full of information about and around London Town... Thank you my friend...
This is a really useful video, I wish I would have known about the river boats when we were in London, well next time. The bikes are cool too.
Yes ! The clipper boats are very nice ,I am gonna use it a couple of times this summer for sure as it can get some sight seeing done cheaper !! I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England for this summer !!! ☀️ 🇬🇧💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Next time! Thanks for watching, I appreciate it.
I was in London the other day and we took a river boat bus, something I didn’t know existed beforehand it was surprisingly really nice! It was air conditioned and wasn’t that slow, it was luxury compared to the boiling hot buses since we arrived during the second hottest week of the year with an extreme heat warning. It was £36 from Cadogan to Tower, which is shocking, but we could’ve easily skipped paying as they just said “Oh, use the app to pay.” and never tried to verify it 😂
We used all the main forms of transit on this trip, 2 buses which luckily had no traffic issues (aside from other buses) because the congestion charge kept nearly every car off the roads except for the cabs, and the tube which was stuffy in the station but the actual train was lovely as it was a modern one with AC. We also took trains to get up to London from my town, however we didn’t use the cable car as we were nowhere near it and we didn’t use the Boris bikes as two of us can’t cycle. On previous trips though I’ve used the DLR, the bikes, the cable car, and cabs, so I’ve basically experienced it all, the cable car was during the Olympics as it took us exactly to where we needed to go from where we happened to be.
We’re so lucky to have such a successful public transit system here, compared to America it’s amazing. The congestion charge is a big improvement too, the amount of cars is massively reduced and the buses move much better now with less traffic, the air qualify is much better too, we walked about 8 miles as “connection walks” between transit and destinations, and it was much nicer to do due to the charge, I remember in the past the air quality was awful and long walks made you cough from the fumes.
£36 is much more than it's meant to be, maybe you hopped on a tourist sightseeing boat instead of the public transport river boat? Glad you enjoyed it though!
@@loveandlondon No it was a real river bus, I’ve done tourist boats before but this was definitely just for transit. It was for 5 people though, 3 adults 2 kids.
Thank you for the video. I will use it for this summer, I am frensh and I will go to London !
Lovely! Have a great time!
That was very fun and educational. Thank you for showing us these different transportation ways around London. Have been to London several times, in fact we will be there on Monday!! I didn‘t know about the cable car!!
Glad you enjoyed it Kat, thanks so much for watching. Have a great time, don't forget to grab a couple of my London guides before you come: shop.loveandlondon.com
This is an amazing resource for people!! Thank you for the awesome video!
Thanks so much for watching Leanne :)
The bus at the beginning of the video is rather nice.
I'm an absolute fan of the new routemaster (boris bus). The exterior looks awesome, so does the interior - warm colors, those lovely round lights and an overall pleasant atmosphere. But then there are also some of the ugliest buses I've ever been on. Talking about the ones with blue/gray interiors and cold, bright lighting that have this 70's hospital kinda vibe.
(I'm not a Londoner and I know that the boris bus isn't / wasn't popular with a lot of people but every time I'm in London I just love riding on one of them)
What's that !? Sounds intriguing !! But,I am afraid I am not familiar with that one ! 💜🥁🐉🎤🇬🇧💞
I’ve never heard of them as Boris buses but I was in London the other day and rode 2 new route masters, I honestly really love the look, it was all red and yellow and warm coloured with the fancy curvature making them look super sleek. Unfortunately, it wasn’t just warm coloured, they were both practically furnaces with unbearable heat and humidity. We did go during an extreme heat warning (not by choice) but the boats and tube lines had good AC so why not the buses? They’re new this year so they definitely could’ve installed it. The top deck seemed to have some kind of weak ventilation but it was still a good 34 degrees up there, and about 36 on the bottom deck with 90% humidity, as there was no vents down there at all just some tiny slit windows like a tube train from the 80s. I hope the buses we had were just defective though as designing a mass transit system without AC in this day and age is just embarrassing, especially since I’m pretty sure the old buses had AC of some form.
Hi Jess! I'll be in London in a couple of months. Your videos have been extremely helpful in the past and I expect no different this time around! Thanks for doing what you do.
I agree 👍 💯 I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England for this summer as well !!! YAY !!! Hoping you'll have blasts there !! 👍💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇬🇧💞
You're welcome Cary, and thanks very much for taking the time to watch!
Very interesting video...again...😊
The Santander bikes look like the Bixi bikes we have here in Montreal. Can't wait to be in London for our 48 hour tour! Salut!
Wow, this video is soooo informative. I'll be travelling to London, from Toronto, for the first time, in 3 days, by myself. I was a bit anxious but your videos help calm my nerves and anxiety a lot. Thank you! I'll update to let you know how it goes
Glad to hear it, you'll be totally fine!
Another awesome vlog Jess
Thanks so much for watching Nadeem, appreciate it!
Be down the old smoke on the 20th August for my birthday 🎂 🥳 love the video jess 💕
Enjoy!
thank you for this video!
Thanks for watching!
Interesting vlog! Elizabeth line is the best!!
hehe. thanks for watching Graham!
Very timely- this morning booked 2 day visit to London in August (Premier Inn prices definitely returned to pre COVID prices) Off to remind myself the rules for credit card for me and child Oyster card for daughters……and remind myself of cool places to visit from previously purchased Central London Guide
Really !!? That's very good to know !! I am currently planning our trip to Wales and England for this summer as well !!! 😀 👍 😄 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶🇬🇧💞
Nice ! Thanks for your purchase Richard, enjoy all of the new spots to explore!
Great video!👏🏼 so helpful🙏🏼
The bikes look like fun. We have similar ones in Norway, Stavanger City, here where I'm from. But I've never used them. I imagen cycling in a large city like London is way more exciting than here😄
ah cool! Thanks so much for watching.
Cycling in London isn't as bad as you might think. A lot of the time traffic is completely stationary, and a stationary vehicle isn't going to hit anything. :)
Nice summary.
Glad you enjoyed it Leonard!
Let's go Jess so happy for you and I will be leaving New providence, Bahamas in too weeks time in July for good and I can not wait to go to UK for good
I might just go on a trip up the river, haven't done that in a long time.
Very nice presentation of my second home town!
Thanks !
Wow what a helpful thing to do
Thanks for watching!
Wonderful 🎊 amazing👏👏😁
Thanks for watching!
Thank's ! :)
Thanks for watching Laci!
I’ve always wanted to know how to use a Boris bike 🚲 but was too embarrassed to ask how to use the machine bit. I’m not savy on tech stuff. So thank you very much for the explanation.
Cheers. 💗
You're welcome! It's easy don't worry
There’s a tram in south London as well. Train lines like Thameslink can be handy too. I commute to work using a suburban line to Waterloo and then walk 15 minutes to my office.
I doubt many tourists are going to croydon tho
Hi Jess, love your videos! Very helpful! Can you jump on a river bus at the spur of the moment or do you have to buy a ticket in advance with a time and date?
You can jump on! And can pay with contactless payment methods just like the tube .
Hey Jess - Wimbledon is in full swing, so I was wondering if you could maybe do a short piece on cost effective travel & accommodations to and from Wimbledon to central London!
Just use Citymapper to see your route options and the cost of each. It's not expensive to get to from central because it's on the District line. As for cost-effective accommodation in Wimbledon, that does not exist during the two weeks of it ;)
@@loveandlondon Thanks Jess!
Great video, thanks so much. And hi, Jean.. I see you
Thanks for watching :)
Your videos are always fun to watch ,all interesting topics & content s,a lot of 'em are very very intriguing !! This one was another very intriguing/ well done one !! Thank you !! It seems there are so many pocket / environmentally friendly ways to explore in London for those w/ o mobility issues .I wish if I could ride on a bicycle, so on there ,too !! My mom can't ride one since she developed mobility issues & she has never been good at it !! She has a strange way to maneuver things since being a child !! Lol. But ,for others ,various choices !! They should try !! Good for the Erath ,too !!
Reg.the bus rides ,I wonder what time range is the real bad traffic jam hour over there ? I think I should know that as we'll be riding more buses there than we originally thought !! I am gonna Google it ! Here ,in L.A.,it's said to be 3pm to 7pm ,but lately almost all the time !! Lol. It's much better & al most no traffic before 8 pm & after 10 am until noon ,lunch hour traffic !! Then it clears up & start again around 3 til 8,or 9 sometimes !! ( bad traffic ) Lol. 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Thank you so much! Yes your mum will find the buses the easiest to use, but also download CityMapper app as it has a really good section that shows you "step free access" route options so that will help a lot. Rush hour is the usual commuting times (in cities other than LA ;)
Very informative videos.
Thanks so much Paritosh!
I will be traveling to London this fall for my masters and me really if you could make a series, especially for International students - travel guide, Do's and Dont's, or anything which can make the life of International students much easier.
Hi perhaps you'll do another one on the Elisabeth Line when it is jouned together in Nov.
I did a video on launch day of the line :)
Still have my oyster card from a few years back, can't wait to use it again in September. Great video as always!
Hi Billy it *might* not work anymore just FYI. Trying it when you arrive but you might have to get a new one! Thanks for watching.
@@loveandlondon good to know! Thanks Jess!
@@billyb86Just curious, did it still work?
@deanl4575 yes!
Hi jess! You’re amazing btw you have an uncanny resemblance with the duchess of Cambridge 🙌
Lol! Thanks for watching Aish!
Could you explain what the 1 hour hopper bus tap on off rule is please
I read somewhere that a big part of the “Overground” system actually runs underground, which is pretty interesting. Can’t wait to visit in August - hopefully COVID cases will stop spiking by then.
No one is bothered about covid here anymore, just a heads up :) thanks for watching!
Quite a bit of the Underground runs overground, too.
When you were talking about trains besides the tube, the overground, and the DLR. Isn't the Thameslink are trains as well in the UK?
Yup!
I am currently using the tube and busses. Watch out on 19 August because the tube will be severely impacted because of a strike.
Jess, pls give us a tour of all the train stations in london, i heard there are tons of them and its kind of confusing...
ALL of them?! There are hundreds! not sure that's gonna work ;) Thanks for watching!
@@loveandlondon hundreds!!? omg...
@@bingboyifyRemember that includes the suburbs, most of which you won't care about as a tourist.
Do they have a weekly pass that is cheaper then buying tickets for each ride? For example in Prague, you can get a 3 day pass that is cheaper then buying a ticket each time you ride (or even a monthly if you are going to be there for 2 weeks or more) That pass allows unlimited travel for bus, metro and tram (even water taxis). Do they have anything like that in London for things like bus/tube? I understand trains and boats are different. Thanks
There's a 7 day one that you can put on an oyster card
Going there next week. If going from London Heathrow airport to Big Ben, how many zone is that ? Is that covered in 1 day pass ?
They're getting rid of day-passes for transport :)
Oh wow. Your videos are so helpful. Thank you! 🥹.
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hi i am going on a birthday 3 days trip with my wif its the first time visiting london and than going to southemton on a cruise .
i got very confused in the booking of an hotel in an area next to subway dont have to be close to atraction we only want to sleep clean and safe with gardens view cheap and nice and atractions with pure air like gardens and farms like your say of the kong tower to see london
Not really going to get any farms in London but here is where you'll find all fo our hotel reccs: loveandlondon.com/category/london-accommodations/
Hey im visiting london in august. and im interested in some sort of otster or travel card, but i am clueless as to what i need. Places of interest include Buckingham palace, haddenham (world renown wildlife hospital), thorpe park, chessington world of adventures, and maybe a beach on the eastern side of london. So i will be going out of town. Is there such a 3 day pass for me?
You can't use Oyster outside of London generally. You'll need paper tickets to the other parts of England
What was that river boat you were on? Is this different from a cruise boat?
Yes! This is the Uber Boat, it's run by the city, not the same as one of the touristy cruise boats.
To be frank i like TFL London Buses ❤❤❤ thats the only mode of primary transportation hence i take only monthly bus pass
Hi, I wonder if anyone here has experience with Citymapper pass? It seems to be much cheaper than using Oyster card, but I cannot find any info about it anywhere.. Is it better for everyday travel in London?
It's slightlyyyyyy cheaper than using contactless. If you're just visiting London then I would just stuck with the easy contactless features
is is true you lived in Astoria ,queens. prior to relocating to London?
If so , is there any neighborhood in London that can be similar?
No that's not true, never lived in Queens!
Does London have a website where you can look up easiest/fastest routes from a to b?
Use Google Maps or Citymapper app
Citimapper app is excellent, as is the TFL (transport for London) one
is the bus price always the same? or does it depend on the distance or how does that work?
Always the same!
How does it works for buses ? tap in and out or just tap in ? thank you for all your incredibly explicit videos.
Just when you get on that's it :)
@@loveandlondon that's right tap in and routemasters have 3 doors so there is 3 oyster machines idk if that has changed
How would I get to Queensway from Heathrow using the underground? Thanks!
Use Google Maps to see all of your options ! Good to get into the habit of working these things out on your own :)
@@loveandlondon thanks! That’s better than what I was looking at!
What about how you pay for the tickets? Just cash or is there an app?
loveandlondon.com/how-to-pay-for-public-transport-in-london/
I am curious if touchless pay options (Google pay, Apple pay, or touchless credit card) are acceptable payment methods for all public transportation options?
Yes!
Thank you for the video! Is it still 2£ for the whole day or did they change that?
£2 for the daily fee but more depending on how long you keep the bike. It's explained in the video but I appreciate it takes a second to wrap your head around!
@@loveandlondon i understand that but i found several pages on the internet saying that they've changed the way it works. That it's 1,65£ for every 30 minutes. And that it's been like this since this september so that's why I was asking.
Thank you for you response tho. :)
What about the Waterbus on the canal?
That's not public transport, those are run by private tour companies :)
I'll probably stick with the tube trains
nice! thanks for watching Larry
@@loveandlondon ur welcome Jess 🙂
What is DLR ?
Dockland Lightrail
Hi what’s the best way as a tourist to pay for a child and myself on public transport
REad this: loveandlondon.com/how-to-pay-for-public-transport-in-london/ and this: loveandlondon.com/how-to-pay-for-kids-on-londons-public-transport-when-visiting-london/
I want to learn how to drive on the opposite side of the road
I want to know where to stay cheaper around London for tourist
This will help! loveandlondon.com/london-hostels-budget-travellers/
Any license required for riding cycle?
nope, not for push cycles!
Can we travel without a railcard as well?
You don't need a Railcard but you do need a payment method ! No cash :)
@@loveandlondon debit card's fine?
@@loveandlondon btw, this is a lovely channel. I have been watching these videos for a couple of days now!
@@razahasnain9326 Yes
It's not necessarily the transportation, but how to obtain and use Oyster card and which accept the Oyster.
Just pay with contactless ❤️
Can you take luggage 🧳 on the tube 🚇 or the train 🚊
of course :)
We have a son of 10 years old. How does public transportation work for kids?
We cover that here: loveandlondon.com/how-to-pay-for-kids-on-londons-public-transport-when-visiting-london/
Super, thanks a lot!
What was that 1 guy on the tube holding? It looked like a gun.
? where ? I guess I missed that as typing comments in.? 💜🥁🐉🎤💞
5:00 in, I could be mistaken, it is probably something else.
@@bradottinger2564 I just checked it ,but it was very hard for me to know/ see what it was !! It didn't seem like he had anything ( in his hand )!!? It was between 5:03 to 5: o5 ,or so .Thank you for your prompt reply !! 💜🥁🐉🎤🎶💞
Looks like an umbrella to me, although at first glance it did look like a rifle or something. I can’t figure out what’s in his other hand if that’s what you’re asking about :)
I hope it’s an umbrella 🌂 I hope I’m wrong.
I hate the jubilee line it's so noisy and the air is so polluted
Uber boat is just heck expensive!
It is! It's probably the most fun though :)
Dlr train 🚆
I plan on seeking asylum in London, thank you for showing this off. Russian and Mainland Chinese propaganda tries to show London public transit as this horrible system. This vid makes me feel better.