The opportunities for discount theatre visits are better in London than any other city in the world. One of the best ways to get discount tickets, but still be sitting in decent seats, are the Day Tickets that many of the popular theatres offer. Not only are they a great bargain they also offer an opportunity to get into shows which are otherwise sold out – such as the Children’s Hour. Starring Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss (of Mad Men fame) and only showing for a limited season this play has been incredibly popular. James and I decided we would try and go for the £15 Day seats which were available from 10am … but in order to guarantee ourselves tickets we had to meet very early … even getting to the box office at 8.30 didn’t guarantee we were first in line – at least three people were already in front of us and the line only got longer as the time creeped towards 10am.

We got our tickets by about 10.05 for the matinee at 2.30 so had a few hours to kill. A walk across the river to Giraffe to grab some breakfast used up some minutes and then, after finding no suitable movie to watch …

… ended up at the Trocadero indulging our little kid! Yeah, JC kicked my butt …

… twice. 😉