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What would a one-week trip to the UK cost?

How much will it cost me to take a trip to the UK?

  • I'm from America, and I am planning on taking a trip to the UK to visit some Universities. Other than schools, what other things would be interesting to visit? Are there any interesting things for 16-year old girls to do? I know it depends on the area, but how much can I expect to pay for food/lodging? Are there any other major details I should know about the UK before visiting?

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    1. The age of consent in the UK is 16. Come to Papa! Or there are museums, art galleries, castles, palaces, stately homes, concerts, football games (awesome stadiums, and the enthralling game only lasts 90 minutes), famous restaurants, famous landmarks....in London, you can see a house (on Brook Street) where Handel the composer and Jimi Hendrix both lived (in 1723 and 1969 respectively). 2. By American standards, the UK has a lot of history; and it's very concentrated, so there's tons to do. There are 60 million Britons, yet we live in an area the size of Wyoming. Even more extremely, much of the UK is sparsely populated, and there are a good 20 million people living in an area one tenth the size of Wyoming! 3. Food. Eating out is expensive (£5 will get you a decent lunch; and £10 for dinner). Supermarket shopping is cheap (£75 per month), but you will need to be staying in rented accommodation, where you have freedom to cook. 4. Lodging. £10-15 per night in a youth hostel (you get a bed, perhaps sharing with up to about 3 other girls; shower room; breakfast is often free; but you have to eat out for the other meals). Hotels (not hostels) will cost £30-40 per night. Rented accommodation is cheap (£500 per month in London; £200-350 in Edinburgh), but unless you can stay at least a month, few landlords would be willing to let a room to you. Other details....in the UK, don't use the word "school" to refer to universities....sounds like you know this already. We have primary schools (age 5-11), secondary schools (11-18, with approx. 30% leaving age 16), colleges (16+, this comes under the heading of further education, where mature students can sit high school-level qualifications, or receive vocational training) and higher education = universities.

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Do your research, please. You will be astonished at what your trip is going to cost after air fares. Hotels are 2 to 3 times the cost of comparative American hotels. Restaurants - don't even go there. Everything is going to cost you much, much, much more than you think it will.

Big T

Where are you staying in the uk? Not everything revolves around london. If you r going to the big smoke it can be a very harshe place to be if you dont know any1. In general uk costs twice as much as us,and that goes for everything! Manchester and liverpool are more friendly places If you do come to uk i say come to the north,alot more relaxed and easy going than the south but you will still be able to experiance cultural stuff and enjoy gret shopping and nightlife

emma g

Expect to pay $ 20 to $ 35/night for a bed in a youth hostel. Food will cost you just as much again. so a total of $ 40 to $ 70 a day should do it. In London, see Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the Tower of London, the Tate Museum, the National Gallery... Wander out of London and see Windsor Castle, Stonehenge, Oxford, Cambridge, Canterbury... Check out http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/europe/england for more details.

TRANT

don't know, but don't go running to catch a tube train if your coloured

idhard2find&looking

Hi there, Rage's answer above is spot-on re prices and accommodation. So I'll try to help out with a little more on the 'things to do' side. It would help if we knew a little about the sort of stuff you enjoy, but here goes... You've heard about a few of the key tourist attractions. How about shopping? Covent Garden market (crafts/ jewellery), Camden Lock (clothes, music-related stuff, weirdness of all kinds)... Not clubs -- they're for over-18s... But how about concerts? (any kind of music you can think of) Or theatre? (London's version of Broadway is Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End but there are also fascinating oddities such as the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, and the re-created Shakespeare's Globe). London's parks are famous... if you're visiting Buckingham Palace, you can stroll there through St James's Park and Green Park, acres of greenness in the very heart of town. Go on the 'London Eye' (ferris wheel right on the banks of the Thames) for views 10 miles across town... I know someone mentioned Westminster Abbey, but what about St Paul's Cathedral? One of the greatest churches in the world, built after the 1666 fire of London. Our reward, if you like, for the old London Bridge going up in flames. You can climb right up to the globe at the top of its dome -- another astonishing view. There is so much more... and that's just London... before you head out to the medieval city of York, or the city of Bath that Jane Austen knew, or Cambridge, with its libraries and elegant colleges, or glorious Edinburgh (look up 'Edinburgh Festival'), or... prehistoric Stonehenge at dawn, or... Hey, guess what? I'm English... Had you noticed a touch of bias? :D

phoenix2frequent

How much will it cost? Where in America are you coming from? Fares from Seattle cost more than fares from NYC. Have you done any background research on this trip? It doesn't really sound like it.

old lady

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