How to get to O2 arena from London/Gatwick?

CharlieP

in, like, 2 hours?? I will arrive around 18 o clock at one of these airports and I will surely be in a hurry!
train best? taxi? (money is not an issue here, just looking for the fastest, most secure option)

thanks in advance jammers

Pauk

Train is probably the quickest and easiest option. Getting through into London in rush hour by car is a frustrating experience at best.

Gatwick to Victoria on the Gatwick Express train is 30 minutes (They leave every 15 minutes)
Victoria to North Greenwich is 9 stops, so probably about a maximum of 30-40 minutes considering you may have to wait on the platform a little when changing lines.

So definitely under 2 hours even with waits

On the tube you want:
Victoria to Westminster = Circle or District line - east 2 stops (Both lines are on the same track so just take the first train that comes whatever line it is)
Westminster to North Greenwich = Jubilee line - east 7 stops

vedder_soup

fowls wrote:

Train is probably the quickest and easiest option. Getting through into London in rush hour by car is a frustrating experience at best.

Gatwick to Victoria on the Gatwick Express train is 30 minutes (They leave every 15 minutes)
Victoria to North Greenwich is 9 stops, so probably about a maximum of 30-40 minutes considering you may have to wait on the platform a little when changing lines.

So definitely under 2 hours even with waits

On the tube you want:
Victoria to Westminster = Circle or District line - east 2 stops (Both lines are on the same track so just take the first train that comes whatever line it is)
Westminster to North Greenwich = Jubilee line - east 7 stops

you can get a train direct from Gatwick to London Bridge. Cheaper than gatwick express, similar time to get there, but it means you can get straight onto the Jubilee line to North Grenwich
Victoria is a shit fight at peak hour. Jubilee line usually has trains every few minutes

chime

I checked journey planner and you can get train from Gatwick to London Bridge then Jubilee Line tube from London Bridge to North Greenwich. Whole thing in less than a hour.

Just put Gatwick Airport to North Greenwich in here and it will give you the details.

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

From North Greenwich it is a two minute walk to the O2

EDIT: Ah Soupy beat me to it!

Just noticed you said one of these airports. Which is the other airport? By London do you mean Heathrow, City or Stansted? If you use the journey planner it will tell you the fastest route for any of them

Pegasus

yeah, London Bridge way is probably the quickest and cheapest, though I don't know how frequent they are, every half hour I think.
it's not weekend so you shouldn't have problems with engineering work at least (a frequent headache at weekends, closing entire lines :evil: )

Don't bother with a Taxi, it'll be taking much longer at that time, aside from the cost (more than your flight probably).

vedder_soup

Chime wrote:

I checked journey planner and you can get train from Gatwick to London Bridge then Jubilee Line tube from London Bridge to North Greenwich. Whole thing in less than a hour.

Just put Gatwick Airport to North Greenwich in here and it will give you the details.

http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk

From North Greenwich it is a two minute walk to the O2

EDIT: Ah Soupy beat me to it!

Just noticed you said one of these airports. Which is the other airport? By London do you mean Heathrow, City or Stansted? If you use the journey planner it will tell you the fastest route for any of them

haha
beat ya and i am not even going to the show :(

i think that they are half hourly, but still a quicker option. could take you the best part of half an hour to get from Victoria to london bridge... depending on trains