My sisters as well as you have been anticipating to come to London as well as stay in a Docklands area. As my sister is claustrophobic as well as won’t make use of a blood vessel have been you being picturesque in wanting to see a sites around overground transport?
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Bus, cab, bicycle, walk.
It all depends on what you want to see and how long you have.
Sure – I regularly travel round London and totally flatout refuse to use the Tube, much to my friends disgust!
Walk, cab, bus, hire bikes.
Central London is fairly compact, so walking around is quite feasible.
You can do that, but it will be expensive. Why not get the tube during the day rather than rush hours? Avoid rush hours, and the tube is not really crowded.
~Evie
the bus netwrok round London is pretty good, its also exstensive so u should be able to get to any area in the centre that you want to. There’s also always taxis if you can afford them and if your feeling really brave you could hire a couple of bicycles, London is more bicycle friendly than it used to be.
You could certainly use the Docklands Light railway, and the buses to see what you need. There would be no need to use the underground system. Open top tourist buses are also readily available.
If you are planning to stay in the heart of the Docklands (around South Quay), you will find it difficult to get anywhere on just the single bus. The closest you get to the "sights" is either Bethnal Green or Whitechapel, and they aren’t particularly close to any tourist hot spots.
You can take the DLR via Poplar to get to Tower Gateway or Bank and travel by bus from there. If you go by Bank though, you will still go underground, but you will have much more choice to travel into Central London to see the major attractions above ground.
There are a number of tourist bus companies that have open topped buses that do sight seeing tours. http://www.discount-london-tours.com/x-big-bus.html?gclid=CLe-2rLJvJsCFU0B4wod6RmPDA is one, there are others.
it’s possible but not that easy … there is an extensive bus network but first time visitors to London might find them difficult to use, which is why most visitors stick to the tube because it’s clear and logical which line to take to your destination … for instance browse through some of the maps on this website http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/gettingaround/maps/buses/?borough=TH and you might see what I mean
the Docklands Light Railway is mostly above ground, and it would be OK if you used the Tower Gateway station … but the section into Bank station dives steeply underground to link up with the rest of the underground network … have a look at the tube map to see what I mean http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/standard-tube-map.pdf
it would be much easier to avoid the underground if you were staying in the West End, Bloomsbury, Kings Cross or Victoria areas of London … this website gives a good description of these areas for hotels etc http://www.londontoolkit.com/index.shtml
London is a great city and have plenty of red double decked buses that can take you where you would like to go. From almost any news agent (store) you may buy a bus pass daily or weekly that can be used through out London. You also have open top buses as an option as well.
London buses will take you everywhere that you want to go.
Buy a one day bus pass for £3.80
Plan your journey at -
http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2
Deselect the transport modes that you don’t want to use
ie tube
Try the river ferrys. They are run by TFL,very frquent they cover the whole river and there are loads of stops along the river in central london, and you can see lots as you can be out side on them
The DLR may take you some of the way, but be warned, it sets off above ground then dives down very deeply as it gets towards Bank. The bus service is excellent, though and if you know where you are getting on and the area you want to visit the journey planner on Transport For London TFL website is extremely accurate, just tick the box to say you don’t want tube or DLR as travel options. Here you go…
i am also claustrophobic. i lived in london. i coped by not traveling during rush hour and avoiding the covent garden tube station. the rest are ok. some are quire spacious, like the jubillee line.
i coped with unreasonable thoughts by deep breathing , if you wait for two minutes to pass, the anxiety will stop. all they are are "thoughts".