Getting Around
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Canterbury is a direct train or bus ride from Dover and is home to England’s first cathedral, where Thomas Becket was murdered. Here is how to get there from your ship, what it costs and how to plan the day.
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How to get from Dover cruise port to London by train, coach or private car, and when a door-to-door private transfer is the easier choice.
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No direct train links Southampton’s cruise port to Heathrow. Here is how the coach, the train via Woking and a private car compare when you have bags to carry and a flight to catch.
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Winchester is a short train ride from Southampton’s cruise terminals and packs an Anglo-Saxon royal past, a Norman cathedral and the Round Table into one walkable day. Here is how to get there, what to see and what it costs.
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London’s two biggest airports sit on opposite sides of the city with no rail line between them. Here’s how the coach, the train and a private car compare when you’ve a flight to catch and bags to drag.
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England’s eight 2026 bank holidays, what actually closes on each one, and the one day of the year London’s entire transport network stops running altogether.
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London is served by six airports, not one — and which you land at can add or save you an hour of travel before your trip even starts. Here’s what each is actually good for.
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Five well-connected, walkable areas compared for a first London trip — what each is actually good for, what it costs, and which Tube lines make the rest of the city easy to reach.
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If your usual British Airways route no longer flies from Heathrow, it’s often still flying — just from Gatwick, Stansted, Luton or London City instead. Here’s how to get to each one, and the cheapest way to do it.
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Black cabs aren’t cheap, but they’re rarely a rip-off either — here’s exactly how the meter works, what you’ll actually pay, and when they’re worth it.