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[Gaston aires]

We go to London often in our van. Abbey wood (unaffected by the LEZ) Crystal Palace only if like us your van is compliant with emission rules. When you’re there it’s like being in the countryside anyway.
London comes in for a lot of stick but in our experience is a great place to go.
Museums, mostly free. Great public transport, free if like us you have bus passes. Underground is cheap if you use it correctly. Amazing theatres, cheap widweek if you do your homework and pre book. Great cycle paths along the Thames, great London walks etc etc. Many historical places to visit and some great pubs.
We recently saw the Book of Mormon, Les Miz, and Wicked, total cost £180 for the 2 of us midweek in the best seats, amazing value.
The original London walks are brilliant and only a tenner for us seniors.
Dont knock it until you’ve tried it.
Phil

 

[L' Hobo]

Is the English National OAP bus pass accepted on London buses?

 

[Gaston aires]

Is the English National OAP bus pass accepted on London buses?

Ours is Suffolk and is accepted Never heard of English National ?
Phil

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[DDJC]

We go to London often in our van. Abbey wood (unaffected by the LEZ) Crystal Palace only if like us your van is compliant with emission rules. When you’re there it’s like being in the countryside anyway.
London comes in for a lot of stick but in our experience is a great place to go.
Museums, mostly free. Great public transport, free if like us you have bus passes. Underground is cheap if you use it correctly. Amazing theatres, cheap widweek if you do your homework and pre book. Great cycle paths along the Thames, great London walks etc etc. Many historical places to visit and some great pubs.
We recently saw the Book of Mormon, Les Miz, and Wicked, total cost £180 for the 2 of us midweek in the best seats, amazing value.
The original London walks are brilliant and only a tenner for us seniors.
Dont knock it until you’ve tried it.
Phil

Try working there.

After a week of being crammed like sardines into the dirty, smelly, loud, overpriced, public transport, you'll want to get as far away as possible from that ghastly city.

 

[L' Hobo]

Ours is Suffolk and is accepted Never heard of English National ?
Phil

I should have said just English as they cannot be used in Scotland or Wales so, presumably, their passes cannot be used in London?

 

[EzeeRider]

Abbey wood is in the LEZ and there is a £100 charge if your vehicle in not compliant. You can check compliance here
ezee

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[Chris]

Abbey wood is in the LEZ and there is a £100 charge if your vehicle in not compliant. You can check compliance here
ezee

Thats right and next year it will be in the ULEZ

I suspect that will kill the site off

 

[Gaston aires]

Not if you arrive from the Dartford direction.
Phil

 

[Bailey58]

Our bus passes rarely scan properly on London buses but we just get nodded through.

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[pampam]

I visited abbey wood quite a lot when we had our van this pics out of window in nov 2011

 

[EuroTrotters]

Abbey wood is in the LEZ and there is a £100 charge if your vehicle in not compliant. You can check compliance here
ezee

I was going to say that

 

[EuroTrotters]

Not if you arrive from the Dartford direction.
Phil

We live in Manchester. How would that work. ?

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[EuroTrotters]

Abbey wood is in the LEZ and there is a £100 charge if your vehicle in not compliant. You can check compliance here
ezee

Our motorhome @ 3,850kg is £300 a day

My Range Rover towing our caravan is £12.50 a day

 

[Derek’soldvan]

I’m with the OP, I lived there for over 20 years, if divorce & others hadn’t occurred, I probably would have still been there.

 

[EuroTrotters]

Our motorhome @ 3,850kg is £300 a day

My Range Rover towing our caravan is £12.50 a day

That’s £600 LEZ for a one night stay !

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[Gaston aires]

We live in Manchester. How would that work. ?

In your case not easily.

 

[Gaston aires]

That’s £600 LEZ for a one night stay !

We just recently went to Abbey wood and I was informed by the wardens that if you approach via the Dartford direction you do not fall foul of the Dreaded LEZ. Just for my self interest I’m going to contact the CAMC and ask that question. If it is in the LEZ the wardens are misquoting and need to be informed.
Phil

 

[DDJC]

We just recently went to Abbey wood and I was informed by the wardens that if you approach via the Dartford direction you do not fall foul of the Dreaded LEZ. Just for my self interest I’m going to contact the CAMC and ask that question. If it is in the LEZ the wardens are misquoting and need to be informed.
Phil

All very well, but having to sneak into the LEZ exemplifies how the driver is being vilified and criminalised across greater London by its leader as he seeks to drag everyone down to the same social level by cramming them onto his vile public transport.

Don't go, don't give that ghastly man a penny of your money. Go somewhere you aren't hated. And it isn't Manchester or Bath or most UK urban centres. Better off in France where they love motorhomes.

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[Gaston aires]

All very well, but having to sneak into the LEZ exemplifies how the driver is being vilified and criminalised across greater London by its leader as he seeks to drag everyone down to the same social level by cramming them onto his vile public transport.

Don't go, don't give that ghastly man a penny of your money. Go somewhere you aren't hated. And it isn't Manchester or most UK urban centres. Better off in France where they love motorhomes.

I think that this is going to happen in many cities including Europe.
As for European travel I would agree and we go their pretty often. Love it indeed.

 

[DDJC]

I think that this is going to happen in many cities including Europe.

It already is. As you know, France has the Crit Air (six quid) and Germany has the Umweltplakette (six quid (if you buy it from Berlin)). One off purchases and a far cry from £300 per journey into the Smoke. It's about greed, hatred and social engineering, of which there is plenty in London's management.

 

[63720]

We just recently went to Abbey wood and I was informed by the wardens that if you approach via the Dartford direction you do not fall foul of the Dreaded LEZ. Just for my self interest I’m going to contact the CAMC and ask that question. If it is in the LEZ the wardens are misquoting and need to be informed.
Phil

Just done this websearch.
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[EzeeRider]

Not if you arrive from the Dartford direction.
Phil

The only section of road which you can use without charge and which passes through the LEZ, is the the M25.
ezee

 

[Chris]

Just done this websearch.
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That’s just the ULEZ, not the LEZ.

The LEZ is much wider.

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[Sapper520]

We’d only have to pay the CC…….but wouldn’t be taking the van in there anyway.

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[Riverbankannie]

There seems to be confusion on this thread between LEZ and ULEZ. This map shows the current boundaries of both zones and the pin is Abbey Wood Caravan Club site. However Sadiq Khan wishes to extend the pink ULEZ zone but it is not yet decided. However I wouldn’t think it would be a bigger zone than the current LEZ, but we will find out.
Of course to get to the Abbey Wood site avoiding any zones is another issue.
However there are some campsites out to the west and it would be good if the CAMC could find a way to get one out near as good transport links as Abbey Wood has.

 

[Sapper520]

And there’s the LEZ / DVS zones….

 

[EuroTrotters]

Having considered going in our caravan, I’ve decided to give it a miss.

Maybe try the Jurassic coast or Oxford for a city break.

We save our Schengen days for our home in Spain.

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[jessthedog]

We’d only have to pay the CC…….but wouldn’t be taking the van in there anyway.

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Only if you entered the Congestion Charge Zone. Abbey Wood isnt in that zone

 

[82125]

Our motorhome @ 3,850kg is £300 a day

My Range Rover towing our caravan is £12.50 a day

its a joke. Theres quite a few places I want or need to go, but I refuse to venture anywhere inside the M25 because of the ridiculous charges (theft).
and I bet its done next to nothing in terms of making the City cleaner. Do all the emissions from the M25 car park know they're not allowed to disperse towards the City and must only go the other side of the M25?

The London charging zones are about as useful as setting up a windbreak around a tornado to keep the wind out.

 

[ctc]

If the fuel refiners spent a little of their profits making cleaner diesel maybe the air would be a little cleaner.