Greenwich
Cutty Sark Clipper Ship · Photo: Ethan Doyle White
Walk beneath the copper hull of a Victorian tea clipper, graze the street-food stalls at the covered market, peek up the spiral stairs of the Queen's House and finish by climbing Greenwich Park for the view across to Canary Wharf. Everything is in one compact riverside town centre.
Museum · 10:00–11:45 (1h45m)
Ticketed (adult £22, child £11 when checked). Hands-on galleries and the chance to stand under the hull. Last entry 16:15.
An indoor and outdoor museum in Greenwich, aimed at ages 4 and up.
Photo: Ethan Doyle White
11:55–12:55 (1h)
Lunch from the street-food traders (open daily 10:00-17:30).
A covered market in the middle of Greenwich with craft and vintage stalls plus a big cluster of street-food traders, and a riverside food market in Cutty Sark Gardens. It is an easy lunch stop between the ship and the park.
Photo: Steve F-E-Cameron
Museum · 13:05–14:00 (55m)
Free gallery; children like the spiral Tulip Stairs and, on Sundays, the costumed characters. No cafe inside.
A white 17th-century royal villa between the National Maritime Museum and Greenwich Park, now a free art gallery. Children like the spiral Tulip Stairs and the costumed characters who appear on Sundays.
Photo: Bill Bertram
Park · 14:10–16:30 (2h20m)
Head up the slope for the big view and let them run on the lawns. The boating pond is charged separately.
An indoor and outdoor park in Greenwich.
Photo: Mx. Granger
LondonSouth Kensington
Dinosaurs in the morning, a garden picnic at lunchtime and hands-on science in the afternoon, all within a five-minute walk of each other and all free to enter. Because everything is indoors except the V&A garden, it holds up in any weather.
The Natural History Museum → Victoria and Albert Museum → Science Museum
LondonGreenwich / Canary Wharf
A morning on the slopes of Greenwich Park and lunch at the market, then a hop across the Thames to Canary Wharf for the free London Museum Docklands and its Mudlarks play gallery. Ends with a short wander in the covered roof garden above the Elizabeth line station.
Greenwich Park → Greenwich Market → Uber Boat by Thames Clipper → Museum of London Docklands + 1 more
LondonKew
One ticket, one big day: Victorian glasshouses for a showery morning, a picnic on the lawns, and a long session in the Children's Garden, a play space for 2-12s built around how plants grow. Child tickets are heavily discounted.
Kew Gardens → Kew Gardens → Kew Gardens
