Creating itineraries for your guests involves careful planning to ensure they experience the best the city has to offer. Here's a round-up of forthcoming events to help you ensure guests leave with lasting impressions of their stay.
PARADES & FESTIVALS
Chinese New Year celebrations, Trafalgar Square (1-2 February)
Battersea Power Station Lights Festival (25 January-25 February)
SPORTING EVENTS
Oxford V Cambridge Boat Race (13 April)
MUSIC
A Musical Journey Through Maqam, Leighton House (27 February)
Sounds of Blossom with the Royal College of Music, Kew Gardens (15 March-6 April)
Mountbatten Festival of Music, Royal Albert Hall (21-22 March)
THEATRE & SHOWS:
A Midsummer Night's Dream, RSC, Barbican Theatre (Ends 18 January)
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, Sadler’s Well's Theatre (Ends 26 January)
The Tempest, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (7 December-1 February)
Dr. Strangelove, Noël Coward Theatre (Ends 25 January)
SCISSORHANDZ: A Musical Reinvented, Southwark Playhouse Elephant (23 January-29 March)
Hadestown, Lyric Theatre (11 February-9 March)
Stalled: A New Musical, King's Head Theatre (13 February-23 March)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Ambassadors Theatre (Ends 15 February)
Starlight Express, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre (Ends 16 February)
Cirque du Soleil's Corteo, the Royal Albert Hall (Ends 2 March)
Little Prince, London Coliseum (12-16 March)
Noah Davis, Barbican Art Gallery (6 February-11 May)
The Last Laugh, Noël Coward Theatre (25 February-22 March)
Much Ado About Nothing, Theatre Royal Drury Lane (10 February–5 April)
The Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre (Ends 26 April)
Stereophonic, Duke of York's Theatre (Opens May)
Clueless the Musical (15 February-14 June)
The Koala Who Could, Unicorn Theatre (21 May-1 June)
Bat Out of Hell, London Peacock Theatre (21 May-7 June)
CABARET at the Kit Kat Club (Ends 31 May)
The Devil Wears Prada (Booking to 31 May)
Evita, The London Palladium (14 June - 6 September)
101 Dalmatians The Musical, Eventim Apollo (18 July-30 August)
MJ The Musical, Prince Edward Theatre (Ends 13 September)
Come Alive! The Greatest Showman Circus Spectacular, Earl Court, London (Ends 21 September)
MAMMA MIA! Novello Theatre (Booking to 27 September)
ART & EXHIBITIONS
Moco Masters, Moco Museum (Permanent exhibition)
A World in Common: Contemporary African Photography, Tate Modern (Ends 14 January 2025)
Van Gogh Poets & Lovers (Ends19 January)Â
Making Egypt, Young V&A South Kensington (15 February-2 November)
Turner Prize 2024, Tate Modern (Ends 16 February)
Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael. Florence, c. 1504, Royal Academy of Arts (Ends 16 February)
Barbie®: The Exhibition, the Design Museum (Ends 23 February)
MARILYN The Exhibition, Arches London Bridge (Currently booking to 23 February)
Royal Portraits: A Century of Photography, The King's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse (28 February-7 September)
Marina Abramovic's 'Healing Frequency', Moco Museum (Ends 11 March)
Dress Codes Exhibition, Kensington Palace (From 13 March)
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park (12-16 March)
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur, Wallace Collection (28 March-26 October)
Naomi In Fashion, V&A South Kensington (Ends 6 April)
Versailles: Science and Splendour, Science Museum (Ends 21 April)
The World of Tim Burton. the Design Museum (Ends 21 April)
OTHER EVENTS
Buckingham Palace East Wing Guided Tours (mid-January-late May)
Family Chocolate Making Workshop, Chelsea Physic Garden (17, 19 February)
London Fashion Week (20-24 February)
London Games Festival (9-25 April)
London Open Gardens (7-8 June)