Milestone Hotel
✓ Located directly opposite Kensington Palace with garden views
🏖️ 0.78 miles from The Serpentine - Hyde Park (Good water quality)
London
Cardiff to London
How to get from Cardiff to London by road and by rail — with the stops worth knowing about — and what's waiting when you arrive.
🚗 By car
3h 3m · 150 miles
Typical driving time without stops, from the centre of Cardiff to the heart of London. Add time for traffic and breaks.
Service stations on the way
- mile 6 Welcome Break Cardiff Gate Services Welcome Break towing-friendly
- mile 21 Roadchef Magor Services RoadChef towing-friendly
- mile 53 Moto Leigh Delamere Westbound Moto towing-friendly
- mile 53 Moto Leigh Delamere Eastbound Moto towing-friendly
- mile 56 Chippenham Pit Stop
- mile 82 Welcome Break Membury Services Welcome Break towing-friendly
- mile 93 Moto Chieveley Services Moto towing-friendly
- mile 106 Moto Reading Westbound Moto towing-friendly
🚆 By train
Nearest station to the centre of London: London Charing Cross · from Cardiff Central
No direct or one-change trains in the next two hours — the live planner shows other options.
Live train planner →Where to stay in London
Rosewood London
✓ Luxury hotel in central London with residential-style rooms and suites
🏖️ 2.37 miles from The Serpentine - Hyde Park (Good water quality)
London
Paddington Court Rooms Hotel
🏖️ 0.77 miles from The Serpentine - Hyde Park (Good water quality)
London
The Petersham Hotel
✓ Hotel overlooking the River Thames since 1865
🏖️ 1.72 miles from Ham and Kingston, River Thames
Richmond
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