Secrets Every American Traveling to London Should Know
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- Опубликовано: 16 мар 2024
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7:58 honestly everyone in the UK, has travel insurance when we go abroad.
I was genuinely surprised when I found out a lot of Americans that go abroad don’t get travel insurance.
It’s such a big thing over here, like that’s what you do when you go abroad.
Travel Insurance always essential.
Yea with two small boys we know our plans can change at a drop of a hat. We was going to shoot a vlog one day until the older one decided to swallow a quarter. So we spent the rest of the day in the ER 😂🤣😂
All museums are Free mate .I'm sure you'll find out .
So excited for you guys! Can't wait to see the videos and if someone thinks it's not a big deal to FLY across the OCEAN and visit another COUNTRY when half of the US. doesn't even have a passport then I would say that they are just jealous 😁👍
Thank you so much thanks for tuning in tonight as well God bless you.
@@Trippingthroughadventures absolutely, wish I could have watched longer had 10 people trying to call me at once and had to hop off 😒
Not sure why exactly, but came across your video and there is something about the way you speak and present that is so sincere and kept me watching regardless of the actual content.
Similarily to you, I can relate to not having a tonnes of money growing up and having been many places, but in mid-april, I am also visiting London solo as a reward for surviving my third year of university and working lots during the year so I can resonate with being proud of yourself and your achievements!
+1 Subscriber and I really hope you enjoy your trip!
Thank you so much for the kind words glad to have you, we are here currently and it is such a amazing change from America your going to love it 😍
super excited for the your England videos, great info !
Thank we are excited too
Just watched your first London vlog, new sub here! Looking forward to your UK adventures❤❤
Welcome a board we don’t take ourselves to serious here and we trip through everything so get ready lol 😂
£10 per day on an Oyster card is more than enough in zones 1-3 on the Tube, as the fair is capped. Once you have reached the maximum then you don't have to pay anymore. The buses are even cheaper with a capped price of £2.55
Hi, almost all museums in London and large cities in United Kingdom are free entry, Regards.
Oyster Cards can be bought at ANY TFL tube station (with a refundable deposit), but most people these days don't use them and purely use their contactless bankcards (U.S. travellers should of course check that their card works in the UK first)
Awe, thanks for the shoutout! Your breaking news banners at the bottom had us rolling. Upper Middle Class is the best way to fly. Great lighting in this video. No shame in getting travel insurance.
Thank you I been working on the lighting for a while and yes upper middle class is the only way to travel lol
Did you get medical insurance too?
@@anitawhite2669 I don’t think we did
British museum is free so you dont need any discounts :D, most of the museums are free
We discovered that, still hard for my mind to comprehend that lol 😂 in Orlando if they could find a way to charge us to breathe they would lol.
Glad you knew to get the oyster card, many watse so much money buying a ticket each time
Well done guys some good research, most New Yorkers will already know this but Gatwick Airport to London what Newark Airport is to NYC. The trains from Gatwick are quick and easy and Transport for London have put it on the Oyster card billing. Having an Oyster means for a small upgrade you can ride the River bus (look it up you will like it). Oyster only works in London if your going to travel outside London buy your tickets two weeks in advance the cost savings are significant. Which brings me to Fish and Chips The Brits eat Fish and Chips at the Beach as a rule (the sand ads to the experience😜). Have fun
Although the museums are free they welcome donations and a contribution which would go towards the running costs. Always used to be donation boxes situated around the museums but I've no idea if its all just on-line since covid. 😁
We seen a donation box at the British museum, we didn’t notice any others, but other places we went to charged entry.
welcome.
US passports are $130 each for the application and then an extra $35 each if accepted. In UK the same type of passport works out at around $112 total each.
This 🏴 is our English flag - England...
This 🇬🇧 is the British flag - England & Scotland and Northern Ireland - the UK flag... The UK includes Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Island...
(I don't have a symbol for the flag of Northern Ireland, sorry)
This 🏴 is the Scottish flag...
This 🏴 is the flag of Wales - the Welsh, but it's not included in the Union flag. (🇬🇧). Hope that's helpful...
couple things really, the travel insurance, we always get travel in insurance, its not expensive, we went to spain for 11 days, i got two week travel insurance for me and my wife, £25.00 around $30, That was not just for medical, holiday luggage, cancellations, everything really,
What really suprised me was the flight cost of 1800 dollars, our trip to spain for 11 days which was all inclusive, all meals and drinks free, flights, transfers was just under £2000 than included insurance as well
Another tip. You don’t need an Oyster card anymore. They are a remnant of pre contactless payment cards. If you have a contactless bank or credit card, just tap that at the gate and it will charge you just like an Oyster card, at the end of your trip the system calculates the cheapest fare for your trips.
Yes but the tourist oyster card has a daily cap where it just stops charging you.
@@Trippingthroughadventures same with the bank card 👍🏻. You might have seen loads of people using Apple pay on their phones, which is linked to their bank cards of course, for the same reason - the daily cap.
@@darkmatter6714 really I wonder why they tried to pass it off as a tourist perk? 🤔 thanks for the info
@@Trippingthroughadventures I guess it's because not every tourist is presumed to have arrived from a nation where contactless payment cards and NFC equipped phones are the norm. In some parts of the world you'll search long and hard to pay for stuff even using a regular old-school debit card, so be warned before you venture further afield.
@@Trippingthroughadventures I assume because it used to be. But it hasn’t been updated.
Contactless caught on quite fast over here, a little too fast for certain things to be updated or noticed oh you don’t need this now because of contactless
That and they likely want to make extra money
Avoid anything in Leicester Square or Oxford Street
1:30 Ah yes. The notorious Royal Mail Stomach Virus.
Just some small points that you will probably have found out during your time here that may help your fellow Americans who also come over:
The flag that you keep putting up is the Union Flag, aka the "Union Jack", which is the flag of the whole United Kingdom (England AND Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales) and not the English flag. The flag of England is the Cross of St George, a red cross on a white background. We have an old saying here that "Britain is not England 'writ big'!" 😉
Residents of the other three nations that make up the U.K. get rightly ticked off when they see the Union Flag being referred to as the flag of England. It isn't. 🙂
Oyster Cards are issued by Transport For London (TfL) not some "Royal" department.
As for our museums, you have doubtless by now found out that many of them (and almost all of the best ones) are absolutely FREE! You're welcome.
So when I was creating the thumbnail, I kind of wanted through the American lense, and I would say England is more related to the Union Jack than the English flag. Because in America, it’s very rare englands represented as Great Britain and not a solo country. I thank that goes back to the Beatles, majority of their merch carries the Union Jack in the USA . So we just thought it be easier. Yea your museums are incredible.
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The Beatle's merchandise carries the Union Flag/Jack because they identified as "British" and not just "English". 😉
Just out of interest, which museums did you visit and can we expect to see any in a future upload? 🙂
So we visited, St. Paul’s, British museum ( had a meltdown in there ) Christ church.
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Christ Church? 🤔
Regional sensitivities in the ‘United’ Kingdom explained for people that will find it difficult to imagine such furfure over bits of a rock in the Atlantic. The British Isles in antiquity was made up of hundreds of tribes who despite living on top of one and other spoke different languages and regularly slaughtered each other for next to no reason. Eventually some degree of understanding was established or imposed on the tribal peoples and the tiny little nation of Great Briton was born. The name Great Briton appears laughable given its diminutive size of it but it was to distinguish it from a very Little Briton which was later subjugated by the French.
So the British Isles is lawful, peaceful and trade prospers what’s not to love, I hear you ask. Well in Global terms that a reasonable person might appreciate next to nothing, although expressing this to the fanatics will result in your being subjected to a long boring rhetoric of all that is wrong in the world, so best avoided.
How to recognise the Fanatic and avoid your holiday withering in the boredom of local politics. Fortunately, they are small regional minorities who have nothing else more important to do such as managing, commerce, careers, relationships, and family. They are individuals who have watched too many Mel Gibson movies or are getting funding from crime or the Russians or both.
Where to find them. The Scottish Nationalists are in the mountains at the top and dream of running off to marry Putin. The Welsh Nationalists are in the mountains on the left and are currently busy doing something else. The Cornish Nationalists are in the toe of the boot bottom left and don’t like taxation. The Irish Nationalists are on the pebble left of the rock explaining how an Irishman, Frenchman and Viking effected the ‘English’ conquest of Eira fortunately most of them have now left and become part of Amazon corporation.
Fortunately 99% of the people you will meet on you trip are just normal people with more pressing issues to address than revolution and anarchy. Have a great holiday.
You need to understand the difference between England, Great Britain, the UK, and Britain.
It’s really strange you explaining about getting a passport. But looking at the stats only 30 plus percent of Americans have a passport!!!! Wow. Whilst almost 90 percent of British people have a passport. Hit my 1st one aged 17. I think I was on my mums passport till I was 16. Was back in the day! My son was on mine. Ad we were living in Australia going back to the UK.
I was 33 for my first passport lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures I think everyone should travel if they are able. See & experience different cultures. I’ve travelled the world yet still haven’t managed North & South America as yet. Almost made it to North America twice but then something came up ( life events) & had to cancel both times🤦♀️ my son was born in Western Australia so was on my passport from only being 2 weeks old! He’s dual nationality British/Australian x
Did you know there is a river bus
We seen the river bus we also seen the Uber boat but we was to afraid we was going to miss something on land lol
@@Trippingthroughadventures there are several water buses on the Thames.. pick them up on the embankment around the Waterloo bridge area. You could get a water bus to Greenwich, walk up to the top of the hill and visit the Planetarium and other displays at the site of the I pm signal.. Greenwich mean time. You could go back down the hill and explore the village of Greenwich, which is delightful, or you could visit Queen Ann's beautiful house, and the maritime museum. You could go back to the city on another water bus, or go to the train station and head back to town on the DLR (Docklands Light Railway ) which will give you a completely different view of London.
For information that isn't the English flag.
I’m aware, but more people relate the Union Jack 🇬🇧 to England than the actual English flag 🏴.
You don't need an Oyster card. You can just use a credit card.
There’s other benefits as well to the oyster card they don’t charge as much and there’s a price cap daily on it.
@@Trippingthroughadventures I like London buses better and you have to think about how much money is on your Oyster card to make sure you use it all up before you leave London. Have a great time. London is amazing.
@@Trippingthroughadventures There's a price cap on debit and credit cards as well.
you look like an adult... why on earth are you wearing a backwards hat?
So you can see my facial expressions and the camera can see my face for autofocus, without having to comb and gel my hair at 12 am to make a video and shower to wash it out after the fact lol.
@@Trippingthroughadventures perfectly reasonable.
I would say if you do a video like this again, showing the British flag, it’s probably best to quickly explain the flag.
People from Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, do not like being called England, when well, their not.
I know in a comment you said that this is mainly for an American audience watching this.
However because you have London in your title and due to your future videos about visiting the UK, many people from the UK will likely watch this and future videos.
It’s very insulting to the countries (other than England) in the UK to be called England (before we became a union, we have some violent history with each other after all)
So if you use this flag in the future and are saying England, can you let them know that you do actually know the difference.
I can imagine it’s quite insulting to feel like your country is being called a different name or even being identified as a different country, one that you historically have fought wars against, it feels very dismissive to the actual countries with their own culture, language and history.
For example it be something like, constantly being called Canada, instead of the US, or constantly being called Texas, instead of the US or any other state would be identified as Texas.
I’m sure this misidentification, kept on happening, then a lot of Americans would get annoyed. They’ll essentially feel like their being dismissed or forgotten about.
Same thing here. So yes if you do this in the future please can you let your audience know, you are aware of the difference. ❤