Day Tripping
If your layover is 6 hours or more, consider making a journey into town. The center of London is just an hour away on the Tube (or 15 minutes on the express train). By the Tube, consider places with direct access to the airport (any stop along the Piccadilly line). Try Knightsbridge to shop in Harrods or South Kensington for a walk around the Natural History Museum, Science Museum or V&A, museum of decorative arts. Covent Garden, with its shops and cafes, is on the Piccadilly line, as is Leicester Square, with its famous cinemas. Windsor, with its historic castle and the famous public school Eton College, is just a 20-minute taxi ride away, while the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are about the same distance away in the opposite direction.
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