Getting to Kew Gardens from Hyde Park/Bayswater area

We'd like to go to Kew Gardens while we're in London pre-cruise. Our preference is to get there quickly in the a.m. and then take the Thames River boat on the way back. From looking at the London travel website it looks like the tube would be the best way to go there. However,would the cost of a taxi or private car be expensive?

Take the Underground Piccadilly Line to Hammersmith cross platform to District Line to Kew Gardens about 24 minutes.

For your London travel needs look at Transport for London website.

A taxi or minicab would be expensive but not quicker than underground or rail.

Dine at the Glasshouse while there --- it has been one of our favorite London restaurants for years.

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Take the Underground Piccadilly Line to Hammersmith cross platform to District Line to Kew Gardens about 24 minutes.

For your London travel needs look at Transport for London website.

True if travelling from Hyde Park Corner, but not if travelling from Bayswater. Need to change at Earl's Court

True if travelling from Hyde Park Corner, but not if travelling from Bayswater. Need to change at Earl's Court

You are right but the change at Hammersmith is so much easier......

You are right but the change at Hammersmith is so much easier......

The OP said Hyde Park/Bayswater - Hyde Park Corner is completely the other side of the Park from there, so it makes no sense for them to plan a tube journey starting there. And the change at Earl's Court is District-District in this case.

OP - as Corfe Mixture said, take the District Line from Bayswater - those trains don't go through to Kew Gardens, you'll need to change at Earl's Court. About 30-40 minutes with the change.

You are right but the change at Hammersmith is so much easier......

Sorry, to correct you, but trains from Bayswater don't go to Hammersmith. They go off down through Putney towards Wimbledon.

I was trying to avoid pointing out that a person starting from Bayswater/Hyde Park was nowhere near to Hyde Park Corner but your insistence that changing at Hammersmith is so much easier makes it very difficult.

The idea of the OP starting from Hyde Park Corner reminds me of the visitor who asked another visitor with a tube map about how to get from Great Portland Street tube station to Regent's Park tube station.

The answer isn't change at Baker Street.

It is cross the road:D

So sorry, I overlooked the Bayswater part..........

Best advise would be to LOOK at a tube map or London Transport on line.

So sorry, I overlooked the Bayswater part..........

Best advise would be to LOOK at a tube map or London Transport on line.

No problem :).

I am sure you have now realised it is around two miles from the NW (Bayswater) corner of Hyde Park, where the OP is starting from, to the SE corner where Hyde Park Corner tube station is located.

As a general rule, visitors should not try to navigate London using the tube map.

The tube map is a highly stylised, but very easy to read, document. Perfect for its intended use which is working out how to get from one tube station to another but rubbish as a geographic map of Central London.

This is because it does not have any scale and stations' location on the map are not representative of their real geographic location. Hence my comment about Great Portland Street and Regent's Park.

Much better, when planning a journey in Central London, to look at the Google map of central London which shows the tube stations, in their actual geographic position.

Only then, when you have determined which are the nearest tube stations to your starting and destination points and checked to determine whether or not, by walking 100yards, you can avoid changing tube lines, should you turn to the Tube map which will indicate the best route between the two stations.

And the change at Earl's Court is District-District in this case.

Thanks for all of the replies. We'll be taking the district line to Kew Gardens and taking the Thames River boat ride back.