Brits, I need your help with London directions

[wags]

We are staying 3 days in London after our British Isles cruise. We have to pick-up our London Passes at the redemption center at 11a Charing Cross Rd. London,WC2H 0EP. We are staying at the DoubleTree Hilton Hyde Park at 150 Bayswater Road London, W24RT. Please help us with directions from the hotel to the redemption center. There are 7 of us so we would have to take 2 taxis. We would prefer the tube.

[Captain Canuck]

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/plan-a-journey/

[scottbee]

We are staying 3 days in London after our British Isles cruise. We have to pick-up our London Passes at the redemption center at 11a Charing Cross Rd. London,WC2H 0EP. We are staying at the DoubleTree Hilton Hyde Park at 150 Bayswater Road London, W24RT. Please help us with directions from the hotel to the redemption center. There are 7 of us so we would have to take 2 taxis. We would prefer the tube.

 

Google is your friend:

https://www.google.ca/maps/dir/DoubleTree+by+Hilton+Hotel+London+-+Hyde+Park,+150+Bayswater+Rd,+London+W2+4RT,+United+Kingdom/Leicester+Square,+United+Kingdom/@51.5082587,-0.1601724,15z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x48760fff2e4cb53b:0x8babb62f80a61596!2m2!1d-0.190452!2d51.510104!1m5!1m1!1s0x487604cd91e8c0f7:0xde0fdd0b8f9a7fcb!2m2!1d-0.1284!2d51.51139!5i2

[John Bull]

https://www.tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/standard-tube-map.pdf

 

Walk 400 yards along Bayswater Road, with Hyde Park on your right, to Queensway tube station.

Take a Central line tube, direction of Epping.

(Queensway tube station only serves the Central line, so you can't get on a wrong line - but you can get on it in the wrong direction :p )

At 5th stop, Tottenham Court Road, switch to Northern line, direction of Morden.

Get off at first stop, Leicester Square.

Exit One from the tube station & walk about 150 yards down Charing Cross Road, the redemption centre is in the little free-standing ticket booth opposite the Garrick Theatre.

 

For future reference, most establishments in central London quote their nearest tube station on their literature & websites (both your hotel & the redemption centre do).

Use the tube map to figure your easiest route to that station from the nearest tube station to your start point. Pocket-size tube maps are freely available everywhere, are printed on visitors street maps & in guide books, and are displayed at all tube stations. And in the tube carriages - it's useful to watch your progress, so that you can prepare to get off when you reach the stop before the one you want.

 

Use that map only for your underground routing, it's schematic & not to scale so is potentially very misleading for use above-ground. For instance the tube lines & the river meander, they're not a series of straight lines ;)

 

Mind The Gap ;)

 

JB :)

[wags]

Thank you all for your responses. John Bull, with your step by step directions, we couldn't get lost if we tried. Thanks

[Amerryscot]

Walkit.com is also a good site.