ListingsUpdated Sat 5 Sep
Mayfair: what's on and things to do
What is on in Mayfair: the auction houses, the commercial galleries around Cork Street, the Handel and Hendrix house, and Berkeley Square. Expensive, and quieter after eight than anywhere else in the West End.
Saturday
5 September-
Food and drink From £14
Crazy golf at Swingers, West End
Until 4 Sep
Two nine hole courses under a glass roof with street food traders around the edge. Over 18s in the evening, and booking is effectively required at the weekend.
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Exhibitions From £14
Handel Hendrix House
Two musicians, two centuries apart, in adjoining Mayfair houses. Handel wrote Messiah here and Hendrix lived next door.
Friday
11 September-
Exhibitions Varies
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House on Piccadilly, open late on Fridays, with the courtyard free to walk into whatever is on inside.
Saturday
12 September-
Exhibitions From £14
Handel Hendrix House
Two musicians, two centuries apart, in adjoining Mayfair houses. Handel wrote Messiah here and Hendrix lived next door.
Thursday
17 September-
Free
Fashion week window displays, Regent Street
Until 21 Sep
The stores put their best windows in for the week, which is the free version of the whole thing. Walk it from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus in about twenty minutes.
Friday
18 September-
Free
Fashion week window displays, Regent Street
Until 21 Sep
The stores put their best windows in for the week, which is the free version of the whole thing. Walk it from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus in about twenty minutes.
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Exhibitions Varies
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House on Piccadilly, open late on Fridays, with the courtyard free to walk into whatever is on inside.
Saturday
19 September-
Free
Fashion week window displays, Regent Street
Until 21 Sep
The stores put their best windows in for the week, which is the free version of the whole thing. Walk it from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus in about twenty minutes.
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Exhibitions From £14
Handel Hendrix House
Two musicians, two centuries apart, in adjoining Mayfair houses. Handel wrote Messiah here and Hendrix lived next door.
Sunday
20 September-
Free
Fashion week window displays, Regent Street
Until 21 Sep
The stores put their best windows in for the week, which is the free version of the whole thing. Walk it from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus in about twenty minutes.
Monday
21 September-
Free
Fashion week window displays, Regent Street
The stores put their best windows in for the week, which is the free version of the whole thing. Walk it from Piccadilly Circus to Oxford Circus in about twenty minutes.
Thursday
5 November-
Seasonal Free
Regent Street Christmas lights
Until 6 Jan
The angels, strung the length of the street and best seen walking north from Piccadilly Circus with the curve ahead of you. Free, and the street is closed to traffic on some December Sundays.
Thursday
19 November-
Pick Seasonal From £1 off-peak
Hyde Park Winter Wonderland
Until 3 Jan
Closed Christmas Day only. Book a date and an arrival hour; entry is free with twenty-five pounds spent in one online booking, a pound off-peak Monday to Thursday in November, otherwise five fifty standard or eight twenty-five at peak.
Friday
1 January-
Seasonal Free
New Year’s Day Parade
Ten thousand performers from Piccadilly down to Parliament Square, free to watch from the pavement. Grandstand seats are ticketed; standing anywhere along the route is not.
Friday
2 July-
Gigs From £70
BST Hyde Park
Until 11 Jul
Two weekends of headliners in the park with the Open House days free in between. Gates early afternoon, curfew is strict at half ten. Dates follow the usual July pattern.
Saturday
11 September-
Gigs From £30
Proms in the Park
The Last Night relayed to a crowd in Hyde Park with its own bill before it. Ticketed and it sells out, but the atmosphere is the point rather than the sightlines.
