Hello everyone.

My wife and I are planning a dream vacation to London in October of this year. It might not be the perfect time to go with the weather turning colder, but it was the only time I could get away for a week.

That said, I was able to use my global upgrades on Delta and turned a $688 round trip ticket into first class both ways in and out of LHR. When you are flying from Tucson, Arizona to London, England...that's so worth it.

I also used advice from the Delta forums on FlyerTalk and the Marriott forums and decided on the St Pancras Renaissance (Marriott) hotel in London for six nights.

In looking at some of the tours, we are interested in a full day tour of London and also a Eurostar train ride down to Paris for a day long trip on one of the tour companies. The St Pancras hotel is right next to the train station in London.

We arrive on a Sunday morning and are leaving the next Saturday afternoon. I was thinking of the London day long tour on Monday and the Paris trip on Wednesday - with potentially numerous free days to explore.

I was thinking about quite a bit of wandering London in the evenings - finding good restaurants and also potentially theater.

Could I ask you good people for thoughts/recommendations or tips for us?

Thanks in advance!