The London Pass is a digital sightseeing pass that gives you access to 80+ attractions in the city: iconic sights and hidden gems. Simply choose the duration (持续时间) of your pass, download the pass to your phone and scan at the gate to enter.

The London Pass Explained

Pick the duration of your London Pass (1, 2, 3, 6, or 10 consecutive days). And remember, the longer your pass the more you save. Download the mobile pass instantly using The London Pass app, have it mailed to you, or collect it when you arrive in London.

How to Use Your London Pass

Passes are valid for consecutive days, not 24-hour periods, so start early in the day to make the most of the 80+ incredible attractions at your fingertips.

Tower of London: Included with pass—Normally £28.90 Open 3rd August)

St Paul’s Cathedral: Included with pass—Normally £20.00 (Currently Unavailable)

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How Long Can Use My London Pass For?

The London Pass is available for 1, 2, 3, 6 or 10 days. Your pass will automatically expire at the end of your chosen duration. After your pass has expired the card will stop working and will not allow you entry into any further attractions.

Select number of days

Children under 11 can travel for free if they are accompanied by an adult (up to four children can travel per adult).

1 Day Pass Adult: £79 Child: £56

2 Day Pass Adult: £100 Child: £79

3 Day Pass Adult: £113 Child: £86

6 Day Pass Adult: £144 Child: £109

10 Day Pass Adult: £164 Child: £124

Buy with confidence with our free&easy30- day refund policy.

Following Christmas dinner, my family was relaxing around the kitchen table. We had all enjoyed traditional turkey, sweet potatoes lightly coated with brown sugar. The good cooking smells still lingered; the oven remained warm. Dad had risen from his chair and was contentedly standing nearby.

My nephew Audrew, never one to sit still for too long, began dribbling (运球) his new basketball. Upon nearing Dad, he stopped—almost uncertainly. With shaking, wrinkled hands, Dad had reached out for the hall. He did not speak, and the boy, confused, looked up and over at us. It took some convincing, but the ball was carefully passed over.

A playful smile appeared on his face. The twinkle in his eyes shone brighter than any Christmas lights. Holding the ball and reaching forward, Dad bounced it on the floor and then caught it. Gently tossing the ball away, Dad began a game of catch. His active participation was remarkable to me, since he had advanced Alzheimer’s disease. It had robbed him of many memories and the recognition of people, places and points in time. Despite this, Dad clearly recognized the ball and what you could do with it.

In my younger years, playing with Dad was rare. To his credit, Dad worked hard and provided for us. He was very private and never showed nor shared much emotion; his game of choice was chess, which he did eventually teach me how to play. As an adult, I had become a caregiver and watched helplessly as Dad declined. Connecting moments between father and son had been few and far between before he took the basketball.

I’m not sure how long we played catch. Watching the clock was not important. Dad gleefully led us until he began to tire. What I do know is that our game ended all too soon, and it was time to face the reality of dirty dishes piled high on countertops. The moment, though, will certainly last forever. On this Christmas, Dad gave me a special memory—one that I will always treasure. These stories about meeting Santa will fill you with Christmas spirit.

NASA scientists using virtual reality technology are redefining our understanding about how our galaxy (银河系) works.

Using customized, 3D virtual reality (vr) simulation (模拟) that animated the speed and direction of 4 million stars in the local Milky Way neighborhood, astronomer Marc Kuchner and researcher Susan Higashio obtained a new perspective on the stars’ motions, improving our understanding of star groupings.

Astronomers have come to different conclusions about the same groups of stars from studying them in six dimensions using paper graphs, Higashio said. Groups of stars moving together indicate to astronomers that they originated at the same time and place, which can help us understand how our galaxy evolved.

Goddard’s virtual reality team, managed by Thomas Grubb, animated those same stars, revolutionizing the classification process and making the groupings easier to see, Higashio said. They found stars that may have been classified into the wrong groups as well as star groups that could belong to larger groupings.

“Rather than look up one database and then another database, why not fly there and look at them all together,” Higashio said. She watched these simulations hundreds, maybe thousands of times, and said the associations between the groups of stars became more intuitive inside the artificial cosmos (宇宙) found within the VR headset. Observing stars in VR will redefine astronomer’s understanding of some individual stars as well as star groupings.

The 3D visualization helped her and Kuchner open a window into the past. “We often find groups of young stars moving together, suggesting that they all formed at the same time,” Kuchner said. “The thinking is they represent a star-formation event. They were all formed in the same place at the same time and so they move together.”

Although women now earn more degrees than men, all is not well with them. Women undergraduates are just as likely as men to have a drinking problem. And they are more likely to have anxiety disorders and to be clinically depressed.

After 46 years of college teaching, I still give colleges an “F” factor—a factor that plays a major role in female students’ well-being: fathers. As documented in my research over the past 30 years, daughters who have strong, supportive relationships with their fathers generally earn better grades, have higher college graduation rates and enter more STEM professions. These daughters are also more emotionally resilient (恢复快的) and self-confident.

Moreover, well-fathered women reap these benefits regardless of their family’s income. It is worth noting that students from wealthier families do not have better relationships with their parents than students from less well-off families.

Then, too, college-educated parents are the most likely to spoil their children—especially their daughters, leaving them becoming the fragile “snowflake” students who melt too easily under stress and rely too often on their parents or college personnel to solve their problems. For decades, however, the research has shown that fathers are less likely than mothers to be overly protective “helicopter” parents who go overboard trying to make life’s path as stress-free as possible for children. So how can colleges and universities improve their grades on the “F” factor?

First, the curriculum needs to be more inclusive and less prejudiced against fathers. For example, social science textbooks and academic journals devote far more attention to mothers than to fathers. A less sexist, more balanced curriculum would help remove the myths that work against strong father-daughter bonds. Second, colleges can make the faculty more aware of how their female students’ relationships with their fathers affect their academic performance and mental health. Third, colleges can create more events specifically for fathers and can be more sensitive to fathers’ needs.

Supporting the “father factor” in these ways can give women students’ mental health a much-needed boost. And it can also offer professors and staff members another valuable resource to help deal with the challenges that might lie ahead.