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Kew Gardens costs £10 on a Tuesday until the end of December

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A botanic garden is one of the few London attractions whose best month is the one after the crowds leave. Kew has just made that month cheap.

The offer

A ticket for Tuesday costs £10, on every Tuesday from 8 September to 29 December 2026. The standard adult ticket is £25, so this is a little more than half off, and it is bookable online or at the gate.

What the £10 includes

The whole of the UK’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Site: an arboretum of more than 11,000 trees, the Treetop Walkway, the glasshouses, and Henry Moore: Monumental Nature — more than 30 works outdoors, the largest showing of Moore’s sculpture ever mounted in the open air.

In October the Hey Duggee trail runs alongside it, which is the part of this that decides whether a family goes on a Tuesday or a Saturday.

What Kew says

Richard Deverell, Director of RBG Kew: «I’m delighted that we’re able to offer £10 entry to Kew Gardens every Tuesday throughout this autumn, and I hope that this new concession will allow visitors to benefit from being out in nature.»

Why a Tuesday and not a weekend

Because a garden is not a theatre. A cheap seat on a Saturday displaces a full-price one; a cheap Tuesday fills a day that was going to be quiet anyway, and 320 acres absorb the extra people without anybody noticing.

The offer is priced at the point where a day out stops being a decision. At £25 a head a family of four is spending £100 before the train, which is a plan; at £10 it is £40, which is a Tuesday. The dates are the part worth reading twice: it runs to 29 December, which means it covers the autumn colour in the arboretum through October and November, and then the winter weeks when the glasshouses do the work instead — the Palm House and the Temperate House are the reason a wet Tuesday at Kew is not a wasted one. Moore’s sculpture is the exception to the weather rule in the other direction: it is outdoors, it is 30-odd pieces spread across the grounds, and low winter light does more for bronze than a July midday does.

Source: Time Out London checked against the source

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