Travel to Excel suggested Route?

[TimN]

What's the smartest way to Excel from Ed and back for morning Olympic sessions? I'd appreciate any ideas

Cheers Tim

[BeccaL]

Bus to Lewisham then via DLR I should think.

[antantant]

It might not be the quickest but I'm going to get the Jubilee Line to North Greenwich and then get the cable car.

[Babsy]

FYI: ExCel are operating a one way system within the venue, so the nearest station to get into the ExCel is Custom House and when leaving it will be Prince Regent.

If you decide to get the Jubilee line and the interchange at Canning Town is busy, it is a 20 minute walk.

There is more info here (if you have not already seen it)

http://www.london2012.com/mm/Document/Documents/Venue/01/24/06/73/travel-to-excel-o_Neutral.pdf

[Dodo1]

hi

Oground to Canada Water Jubilee Line to Canning Town and then DLR to Custom House

[edcam]

Become an Olympic official.

[mynamehere]

East Dulwich train station to London Bridge

Jubilee Line to Canning Town

DLR to Excel

30 minutes

[Dodo1]

Hi

This means going in (and out of) Zone 1

[Marmora Man]

What about the new cable car from the Millenium Dome? Overground to London Bridge, Jubilee and then cable car - at least it would be different?

[Dodo1]

Make sure you top up your Oyster Card before you get there. Otherwise be prepared for a long wait as you will have to do this and then queue (again) to get on the cable car!

[BeccaL]

Also lots of recommendations from TfL to avoid London Bridge if possible as will be chaos, so bear that in mind.

[titch juicy]

the nicest way would be train to london bridge, thames clipper to north greenwich, cable car to excel

[mynamehere]

Just remember that every Olympic ticket come will an all day all zone travel card that covers everything

[BB100]

I went on the Cable Car today and it was a very quick way of reaching the Excel centre. I walked past all the tourists and straight on with my Oyster card.

[Bic Basher]

Did the cable car today, around a 15 min wait in the queue, but very fast across and Excel is within walking distance.

I would recommend using Oyster PAYG if you can.

[womanofdulwich]

so your olymoics ticket does/ doesn not cover the cable car? I'm confused?

[Bic Basher]

womanofdulwich Wrote:

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> so your olymoics ticket does/ doesn not cover the

> cable car? I'm confused?

Sadly not, the Games Travelcard which comes with your ticket will allow you to buy a Boarding Pass at the Oyster PAYG rate of ?3.20 single at the ticket office.

[jessrm]

We have travelled today to Excel with a baby and had a great journey.

We Got the London overground from forest hill. We changed at Shadwell for DLR to custom house. It was quick and not busy. You can get bus to forest hill from ED but we actually drove and parked on wood vale and walked from there.

[Bic Basher]

jessrm Wrote:

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> We Got the London overground from forest hill. We

> changed at Shadwell for DLR to custom house. It

> was quick and not busy.

I made the mistake of going to North Greenwich where there was a 15 minute queue for the cable car, on the other side, there wasn't a massive queue.

Incidentally Royal Victoria station is much closer to the cable car station than Custom House.

[toomuchchocolate]

We travelled from new cross gate to shadwell on the air conditioned east London line then changed to the DLR to custom house. The journey wasn't too crowded at all. Leaving excel was quite busy but still only took about 10 mins to escape.

[Angusvanfrehley]

Probably does not help as I live in Honor Oak Park, however my girlfriend and I went to Excel yesterday and we timed it out of a bit of fun.....from Honor Oak Park Station to front door of Excel took a fraction over 26 mins, how cool is that.

Also as we did not cross zones the fairs were really cheap.

[lpool]

Has anyone tried our floating pontoon to Pontoon Dock as part of journey home from Exel?