How to Get to Kent from London: Your Complete Travel Guide

This depends on many things, such as what sort of trip you’d like to take, how mobile you’ll be during your stay, and whether you want a little bit of hustle and bustle or complete peace and quiet. You can browse all of our different locations in the first drop-down menu at the top of our home page, or instead, just view all of our cottages and filter by things like dates and occupancy.

If you still want a dash of arts, culture, and events during your stay, you might like to head for Canterbury or Margate – the latter of which has its very own Turner Contemporary. For countryside seclusion, Sandwich is a charming medieval town, while Ashford sits on the edge of the Kent Downs National Landscape and is perfect for vineyard hopping. For the best of everything, Deal is a safe and scenic bet.

The train is the easiest and greenest way of reaching Kent from London. Thanks to Southeastern HS1 services, you can also enjoy high-speed train journeys from London St Pancras to Ashford International in less than 40 minutes. From Ashford International, you can journey on to the other areas of Kent, such as Dover, Folkestone, Broadstairs, Whitstable and many more. Kent has over 100 railway stations, making trains a great way of getting around!

Mainline services are also available from London Bridge, Charing Cross, London Waterloo East, Victoria, and Cannon Street, connecting to major Kent towns, with the London Bridge to Whitstable journey (as an example) taking around 1.5 hours. Sold on the idea of getting here via a scenic train ride? You can book your journey via National Rail or Southeastern.