What $100 of Travel Money Will Get You in London

Museums and culture

If you want to see London’s museums, $100 will get you the following:

• Entrance to the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert, the National Gallery, the Natural History Museum, the Tate Modern, and the Imperial War Museum, and $100 worth of beer. (All those museums are free).
• 4 sightseeing tickets in St. Paul’s. Unless, of course, you go to a service, which is totally free.
• Just under 3 tickets to the Tower of London ($34 each).
• 3 tickets to Westminster Abbey ($28 each).
• 2 tickets on the London Eye ($46).
• 2 tickets to Madame Tussauds ($45).

Restaurants

For $100, you can get the following from London restaurants:

• At least 6 full meals (with drinks included) at Brick Lane, provided you’re a good bargainer.
• A dinner for two at a not-too-posh restaurant (excluding drinks)
• 10 full English breakfasts (not including pints and Bloody Marys)
• 5 servings of fish and chips

Drinking

If you want to drink in London (and if you don’t, why are you even visiting?), for $100, you can get:

• Around 18 pints of beer at a London pub (the average price of a London pint is $5.50). The good news is you don’t have to tip, so it all goes towards the beer. The bad news is it’s still crazy expensive.

Transportation

For $100, you can do the following to get around London:

• Do a single trip in a cab from Heathrow to Central London ($84), with room for a few pints.
• Take a cab for about 20 kilometers (around $15 per 3 km)
• Get unlimited Tube and bus passes in Zone One for 7 days ($14 per day)
• Buy 12 Oyster cards (public transportation passes at $8 each), all of which would be refunded upon leaving.

Tours

For tours around London, $100 will get you:

• 2 hop-on, hop-off sightseeing bus tours ($45).
• 2 tickets on the Literary Pub Crawl ($37 each), with money left for pints.
• 3 open-top bus tours.
• 7 Beatles walking tours.

Accommodation

If you want to crash in London, you can get the following for $100:

• 3 nights in a Central London hostel dorm room (about $30 a night per person).
• 5 nights in an outer London hostel dorm room (about $20 a night per person).
• A single night in an outer London hotel (around $80 a night).
• Three-quarters of a night in a Central London hotel (around $130 a night).