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Greenwich SE10 by the late DLR, from Cutty Sark to the peninsula
Greenwich is two districts sharing a postcode. West is the old village: the market, the naval college and streets that close early. East, twenty minutes on foot or five by train, is the peninsula, where the arena turns out ten thousand people at 22:30 and the hotel beside it fills in the same ten minutes.
Which of the two you are in changes everything about the timing, so this page treats them apart: platforms and minutes, the two hotels, what the arena clock does to an evening, the companions who work SE10, and the crossings back north.
Doors she arrives at
- SE10 8JAGreenwich
- SE10 0TWGreenwich Peninsula
Nearest stations
- Cutty Sark2 min walkDLR
- Greenwich4 min walkDLR, National Rail
- Maze Hill10 min walkNational Rail
Nearest to Greenwich
One of them works from Greenwich itself, and the other 5 are a district or two away on the same arrival window. Any of the 28 in the desk can be asked for by name instead.
Two minutes, four minutes, ten minutes
Cutty Sark on the DLR is two minutes from the market and the pier. Greenwich station, DLR and National Rail together, is four minutes from the western end of the village and gives you a twelve minute run into London Bridge. Maze Hill, National Rail only, is ten minutes from the park's eastern gate and the quiet way in.
From the Wharf, Greenwich is six minutes by DLR under the river, which is why a booking that begins in E14 can finish here without anyone rushing. From the City, allow twenty five minutes by road over Tower Bridge, longer if the Blackwall Tunnel is having an evening. Forty five to sixty minutes from a confirmed booking is the honest figure.
Two hotels, one village and a peninsula
The hotel at SE10 8JA stands on Greenwich High Road, four minutes from the station and six from the market, and takes most of the village bookings. The one at SE10 0TW is the peninsula's own, built for the arena and the conference floors under it, and it makes for a completely different evening.
Neither has any connection to this desk; they are simply where guests sleep. Between the two runs a long stretch of newer flats along the river and, up by the park, the Georgian terraces. Both are visited on exactly the same terms as a hotel room.
The arena clock
A show on the peninsula ends between 22:15 and 22:45, and the whole area is unusable for roughly forty minutes afterwards. If your evening involves the arena, book the companion for before the doors rather than after them, or accept that she will be waiting in a lobby and not in a car. Maude will tell you what is on that night without being asked.
Away from show nights the peninsula is quiet to the point of eerie, and the village is the opposite: busy until about 22:00, then empty. Two hours at £500 covers a table in the village and the walk down to the pier. On a concert night the sensible length is three hours at £700, which absorbs the crowd.
SE10 companions
Cindy, Nancy and Thea are anchored in Greenwich and between them cover the village, the park side and the peninsula. Lucy crosses from the Isle of Dogs by foot tunnel or by train in a few minutes. Laura comes over from the Royal Docks when the evening is a peninsula one.
Six to eight appear here; the rest of the twenty eight are on the desk. If you are booking around a show or a restaurant sitting, give the time the thing starts rather than the time you want her, and the desk works backwards from it.
Crossing back north
Canary Wharf is six DLR minutes under the river and the usual destination when the night wants a tall room. The Isle of Dogs is closer still, twelve minutes through the foot tunnel from the pier. Royal Docks and ExCeL is fifteen minutes round by rail, and London Bridge is twelve minutes by train from Greenwich station.
Greenwich straddles two fare zones on paper, but we treat the whole of SE10 as travel included, so nothing is added here at all. Every length and figure is on rates, and booking sets out the confirmation step.
Two pages worth reading for Greenwich
Asked about Greenwich
Village or peninsula, which should I book?
Whichever you are sleeping in. They are five minutes apart by train and twenty on foot, and an evening that uses both spends a third of itself travelling. If the choice is open, the village is better for a table and the peninsula better for a late arrival.
Does the cable car count as a way in?
It counts as a view. It reaches the peninsula from the Royal Docks and stops in the evening, earlier in winter, so no booking is ever planned around it. It is a ten minute detour worth taking if the timing happens to line up.
Is the foot tunnel open at night?
The tunnel itself is open around the clock. The lifts are not always running late on, and the stairs number about a hundred. For an evening booking the DLR from Cutty Sark is three minutes and the better answer.
Can an evening start at the Wharf and end at my Greenwich hotel?
Easily. Six minutes separates them and travel is inside the fee either way. Book a length that covers both halves, three hours at £700 usually does it, and tell Maude the order of events when you write.
Are the Georgian streets by the park hard to find?
They are narrow rather than hidden, and the house numbers run oddly. Give the street, the number and the corner nearest to it, so she covers the last thirty metres on foot instead of a driver circling twice.
Send the room and the hour
Write the district, the time and the length of the booking. The desk answers with a name and an arrival window, and the evening is set.