I’ll take a look. Where are you picking the bus up ? Which rail company have you booked with ? Not all trains are as bad on strike days as the ones I use most ( South Western.) I’m thinking GWR or Cross Country ?
We made reservations for dinner at The Black Prince in Woodstock after our visit to Blenheim Palace on 12/28…hopefully it is good.
We landed Heathrow from Washington DC this morning at 6:30pm…thankfully without issue. We zipped through passport control, picked up our bags, and took the shuttle to the rental car location. We had a very quick, uneventful drive to our rental home in Cowley outside Oxford.
We are to pick up the Peppa Pig bus at Somerset House on 12/20 at 2:45pm. We booked our noon train tickets with GWR…Oxford to Paddington Station. I think we were planning to take the Bakerloo Line from Paddington to Embankment…then walk to Somerset House.
GWR are actually advising “ published service” on your day of travel and further down the page a reduced service. Might be useful to sign up to the “alert service” as information seems to be changeable. Sorry if I alarmed you unduly but I’ve had 3 messages about the possibility of my early morning train being pulled on Christmas Eve today from South Western Trains. Strikes are going ahead that day but the published time was from 6 pm but now they are saying no trains after midday.
A perfectly good route. No alarm symbols on the website when I put in your schedules.
Oh, that sounds more promising. We were not aware of the “alert service”…we will definitely sign up for that to make sure we keep abreast of any changes.
We often feel that way in the USA, too!
Thank you so much, Wendy! The information you have provided and your suggestions are enormously helpful. We are also checking with my son-in-law’s cousin who lives in Oxford, but works in London. Hopefully between the two of you, we will make it into London on a timely basis and take our Peppa Pig bus tour!
Your Plan B is still a viable option today according to my son-in-law’s cousin.
You have given us wonderful advice, Wendy! Thank you so much…we value it immensely!
Wonderful game! We are very vocal football fans…hopefully our neighbors in the terrace house next to us were not annoyed! We were so happy for Messi.
LOL but there's probably a better one .
Thanks, Pauline! Flying with a 3 year old and 4 month old was a bit less restful than when Jeff and I fly by ourselves. But it was so worth it as we watched our 3 year old granddaughter race into her GaGa’s (paternal grandfather’s nickname) arms the second she saw him after we exited customs.
No, there really is not a better one. I think your Plan B is definitely our Plan B, Wendy, if taking the train proves to be problematic. Thank you!
