From Heathrow Airport, our tour director led us to our private motor coach, and we started the drive into London which took about an hour and it was crazy seeing people drive on the other side of the road. My group got to the hotel around 11am and we held our luggage with the concierge as rooms weren’t ready until the afternoon – which was fine because we were starving, and everyone’s first mission was to get some food, so it was perfect this entire day/afternoon was free time. After lunch I ended up going to the British Museum, which was free (!), did some shopping and took a super quick nap once I checked into my room.

This evening was our first planned event as an entire group – so around 6pm we met in our hotel lobby and had a quick orientation meeting led by our tour director which was so helpful and we got to ask all our questions about options, money, tickets, etc. After the meeting we took off directly for the pub crawl which maybe was one of my favorite nights on the tour – it was super flexible and casual but as a group of 35 people we managed to squeeze into about 3 pubs, then groups broke off to grab a bite to eat and we ended up meeting up later for live music and a super fun night out in London!