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The O2 calls itself the world’s busiest entertainment arena, and getting most of the crowd there and home again runs through one Tube line, one small peninsula, and a couple of scenic-looking alternatives that turn out to be for arriving, not leaving.
💡 The Short Version: Come by tube — North Greenwich is the only station, on the Jubilee line, five minutes’ walk from the doors. Driving means the Blackwall Tunnel, a real bottleneck, so book Car Park 1 ahead: £29–£35 pre-booked, £40 on the day. Coming from the north or east, park near ExCeL and cross by cable car instead — it only works for arriving or an early finish, since it stops running before most shows end. Getting home, the ordinary last train (23:45 and 00:16 on the night checked) decides most nights — the Jubilee Night Tube runs all night, but only Friday and Saturday. Hotel prices at the peninsula can triple or quadruple on a big night, so staying anywhere else on the Jubilee line is usually simpler.
Getting there by tube — and why one line matters
| Station | Line | Zone | Walk to The O2 | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Greenwich | Jubilee only | 2/3 | About 5 minutes | It’s the only station — there is no second or third option |
North Greenwich was built as part of the Jubilee Line Extension, and the station’s ticket hall sits right against The O2’s own forecourt: come up the escalators and the dome is in front of you. The catch: The O2 depends on a single Underground line. Wembley has three stations across two lines (Jubilee, Metropolitan, Chiltern, plus the Bakerloo and Overground at Wembley Central); The O2 has one station on one line. If the Jubilee is suspended or severely delayed on a show night, there is no second tube line to switch to — only the bus, the river, the cable car, or a much longer walk.
That single-line dependency is also why TfL takes crowd management at this station seriously enough to have a standing procedure for it. In response to a Freedom of Information request, TfL confirmed that after O2 events, station staff “reduce flow and hold event crowds” outside the station rather than let the ticket hall flood, working “with the help of O2 security and the police,” under “a local event plan” used to brief the team on how each event is managed. A separate 2026 FOI response confirms this is an established, ongoing practice — staff have logged crowd-control measures through a dedicated app since June 2024, before which it was an electronic and then a paper log book. In practice, this means: on a big night, expect to be held on the concourse or outside the gate line for a few minutes rather than walking straight onto a train, and expect staff and sometimes police presence managing that queue.
North Greenwich has good accessible features built in from that 1999 rebuild: low-level ticket machines, wheelchair-accessible gates (with a dedicated gate to the right of the barriers), an induction loop, step-free access to every platform via lifts, and step-free bus stops.
Buses and the night bus
Routes 108, 129, 132, 161, 188, 422 and 486 all stop at North Greenwich Bus Station, immediately outside the tube entrance and The O2’s doors. The 188 to Waterloo runs 24 hours a day — the standing fallback if the Jubilee line is down or it’s a weeknight and the Night Tube isn’t running. There’s also a dedicated night route, the N472, which starts its journey at North Greenwich Station and runs via Woolwich and Thamesmead to Abbey Wood.
Driving: the Blackwall Tunnel is the real obstacle, not the parking rules
For anyone north of the river, the Blackwall Tunnel — the nearest road crossing to the venue — is the real obstacle: TfL’s own monitoring shows it used to close around 700 times a year before a second tunnel opened, with over-height vehicles a recurring cause that’s still only down by about a quarter since. That second crossing, the Silvertown Tunnel, opened in April 2025 and has measurably eased things — TfL records journey times on the approach roads improving sharply — but both tunnels are tolled and both still funnel the whole peninsula through the same pinch point, so budget for delay before you even think about parking (see below for a way round it). The parking rules themselves are the easy part: unlike Wembley’s Brent-style event-day scheme, Greenwich runs no borough-wide zone shutting out visitor parking on show days, no permit-only event hours, and nothing like Wembley’s £130 wrong-place penalty — its ordinary controlled parking zones and resident permits apply on a concert night exactly as on any other.
What The O2’s own site does warn about is traffic:
⚠️ Roadworks are affecting the drive in. The O2’s own parking page currently states: “Please note major roadworks in the surrounding area are significantly affecting traffic flow around The O2. Expect long delays at peak times, particularly post event.” That’s a warning from the venue itself, not a general assumption — build in extra time both ways if you’re driving, and especially for the journey home.
The other constraint is capacity, not restriction: Car Park 1 is a single car park serving a very large room, so booking ahead is the only way to guarantee a space.
Coming from north or east London? Park by the cable car instead
Parking: the cable car’s far terminal is in Royal Docks, by ExCeL London and Custom House — a different river crossing entirely, with no tunnel and no toll. ExCeL runs its own large, pre-bookable multi-storey car park on site (postcode E16 1FR for the entrance), Park Mark-accredited, with Blue Badge bays at the same tariff and space for vehicles up to 1.9m (over-height bays to 2.8m); book ahead through ExCeL’s own site to guarantee a space.
Hotels: the same Royal Victoria Dock development has three bookable hotels — Aloft London Excel on Eastern Gateway, sharing the ExCeL car park’s postcode and close to Royal Victoria DLR and the cable car terminal, and Novotel London Excel and Crowne Plaza London Docklands on the Western Gateway side near Custom House, an easy walk along the site. Novotel’s own listing flags The O2 as nearby, which in practice means a cable car ride, not a walk.
The catch: this only works for getting there, or a show that finishes early. The cable car keeps its usual hours regardless — closing at 21:00 Sunday to Thursday, 22:00 Friday and 23:00 Saturday — so a normal evening finish means a DLR-and-bus routing instead, the same as anyone arriving car-free from that side.
Where to actually park
The O2’s own car parks
All event parking is booked through JustPark, and pre-booking closes 24 hours before the event.
| Car | Minibus | Coach | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pre-booked, early bird | from £29.39 | £59.35 | £59.35 |
| Pre-booked, standard | £35.28 | £59.35 | £59.35 |
| Pay on the day (if space allows) | £40 | £65 | £65 |
| Valet (arena events only) | £75 pre-booked / £85 on the day | — | — |
The early-bird car rate is only available until three weeks before the event, and valet parking opens two hours before doors, with the car ready again as soon as the show finishes.
Not coming to an event? Car parks 2, 3 and 4 serve Outlet Shopping, Cineworld and Up at The O2 on ordinary hourly tariffs — from £7 for up to two hours up to £52 for a full day (18–24 hours). Car Park 2 is open 24/7. Spend £35 or more at Outlet Shopping and you get four hours free in car parks 2, 3 or 4; Cineworld customers get four hours free in car parks 2 and 3, validated at the parking office in Car Park 1.
Blue Badge spaces are available in all four of The O2’s car parks (the badge holder must be travelling in the car), and there are several electric vehicle charging points on the BP Pulse network. The postcode for route planners is SE10 0DX.
The other car park: North Greenwich station itself
Because there’s only one station, there’s no Wembley-style “park a stop out” option — but there is a genuinely separate, cheaper alternative right next to The O2’s own car parks: the North Greenwich Station Car Park, on TfL land but run by Saba.
| Spaces | 519 (509 standard, 6 motorcycle, 4 EV charging bays reserved for taxis) |
| Arrive before 18:00 | £18 for the day |
| Arrive after 18:00 | £27.50 for the day |
| Height limit | 1.9m |
| Booking | None — first come, first served, cashless (PayByPhone or machine only) |
It’s not bookable in advance, so it isn’t a guaranteed space, but on price alone it beats paying on the day at Car Park 1 — as long as you don’t need to arrive after 6pm, since the after-6pm rate applies to almost every evening show.
Free Blue Badge parking at Monro Way
A short walk from the station car park, on Monro Way (SE10 0EJ), is a separate 19-space car park reserved entirely for Blue Badge holders: free, with no time limit, seven days a week, no booking and no payment machine at all. It’s a better option than The O2’s own paid accessible bays if you don’t need to book ahead or want the walkway link to a specific car park.
The cable car and the river: fine for arriving, rarely useful for leaving
The cable car
The gondola across the river to the Royal Docks is still sold and signed in places as the IFS Cloud Cable Car, though TfL’s own site now labels it simply the London Cable Car across its station page, hub page and ticket pages — a shift worth knowing if you’re searching for it. Either way, it’s the same service: a single crossing of the Thames from Greenwich Peninsula Terminal (a couple of minutes from North Greenwich station) to the Royal Docks Terminal, taking up to 10 minutes, with cars every 30 seconds. Coming from north or east London by car, this crossing is also the basis of a genuine way to avoid the Blackwall Tunnel — see the driving section above for parking and hotels on the Royal Docks side.
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday–Thursday | 08:00–21:00 |
| Friday | 09:00–22:00 |
| Saturday | 09:00–23:00 |
| Sunday and bank holidays | 09:00–21:00 |
Booked online, a one-way adult ticket starts at £7 and a round trip at £13.50 (children roughly half price); contactless and Oyster pay-as-you-go are also accepted. O2 ticket holders get 50% off a walk-up fare on the day of their event.
⚠️ It closes before most shows end. Look at the hours again: Sunday to Thursday it shuts at 21:00, and even on Saturday — its latest night — it’s closed by 23:00. A typical evening concert, comedy show or fight card finishes well inside that window on most nights of the week, which makes the cable car a good way to arrive early for a show with a river or Docklands detour, but not a realistic way to get home afterwards. It’s step-free at both terminals, with lifts and boarding staff, though only single battery-powered wheelchairs up to 80cm wide can travel.
The river
Uber Boat by Thames Clippers calls at North Greenwich Pier, on the East zone of the river network (you’ll need a Central & East ticket to reach central London piers like Embankment or Westminster). A single fare bought online is £13.50; pay as you go by contactless or Oyster is £13.70 at peak times (which, on this stretch, means practically every evening — off-peak on the river is weekdays before 09:27 only, and every weekend and bank holiday counts as peak all day). The crossing to Blackfriars takes about 44 minutes.
The frequency is good in the evening — sailings roughly every 20 minutes — but the schedule itself stops running before most events finish. Checked against the operator’s own published timetable: the last westbound sailing towards central London leaves North Greenwich Pier at 21:45 on a weekday and 22:22 at weekends. A matinee or an early-finishing show can catch it; a normal 19:30 or 20:00 doors show usually can’t. The pier is step-free and wheelchair accessible, with accessible toilets on the larger boats.
Getting home
Crowd management at the station
As covered above, TfL’s own account of how it manages North Greenwich after events is to hold and meter the crowd outside the station rather than let everyone flood the ticket hall at once, working with The O2’s own security team and the police under a standing local event plan. There’s no published one-way system with named entrances the way Wembley Park has for Olympic Way and Bridge Road — North Greenwich has one main approach, not several — but do expect staff-managed queuing on the concourse for a big finish, and factor that into how long “getting to the platform” actually takes.
Last trains, most nights of the week
The O2 programmes shows across the whole week, and only two of those nights get the Night Tube treatment (below) — so most of the time, the last train leaving North Greenwich is what actually decides how the evening ends. TfL does not extend the timetable for an O2 event the way Chiltern Railways adds late trains for Wembley: the last train leaves on the ordinary daily schedule regardless of what’s on. Checked live against TfL’s own station page on a Sunday arena night:
| Direction | Last train from North Greenwich |
|---|---|
| Towards Stanmore (westbound) | 23:45 |
| Towards Stratford (eastbound) | 00:16 |
If your show is scheduled to finish later than that on a Sunday-to-Thursday night, plan on a bus, a taxi, or waiting it out — not a later train.
Friday and Saturday: the Night Tube runs all night
On those two nights only, the Jubilee is one of six Night Tube lines — alongside the Central, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Windrush — confirmed directly by TfL as running “on Friday and Saturday nights.” Trains run all night, roughly every ten minutes, so a Friday or Saturday show that runs very late isn’t a problem: you can simply wait out the worst of the crowd before walking onto a near-empty platform. It’s genuinely useful on those two nights — it just doesn’t apply to the rest of the week’s programming, which is most of it.
Buses, taxis and the night bus
The 188 runs 24 hours to and from Waterloo, and the N472 night route starts at North Greenwich station and runs through Woolwich to Abbey Wood — both useful once the Jubilee has stopped for the night. There’s a taxi rank at North Greenwich Bus Station, and The O2’s own car parks stay open for you to return to once the crowd has cleared, though — as above — check the specific closing arrangements for your event, since only Car Park 2 is confirmed as open 24/7.
Where to stay, and why the peninsula is the trap on a big night
Checked live on the hotels’ own booking engines, the two hotels closest to The O2 both showed the same pattern Wembley’s Novotel does: cheap most nights, expensive on a big one — and neither is the default place to stay (more on that below).
The O2 arena was hosting a standard single-headliner show on the night these prices were sampled — not an unusually large event.
| Event night (Sunday) | Ordinary Sunday, one week later | |
|---|---|---|
| InterContinental London – The O2 (Classic Room) | £465 | £261 |
| Holiday Inn Express London Greenwich (Double Standard, breakfast included) | £276 | £68 |
Same room type, one night, two adults, prices including taxes and fees, sampled on IHG’s own booking engine.
The swing gets bigger, not smaller, for a genuinely major event: over the same booking engine, the InterContinental’s Classic Room price for a three-day international sporting event held at the arena came out at £610–£615 a night.
- For a big night, book early or expect to pay a multiple of the ordinary rate.
- Or shift your stay to the night after and travel home the next day, the way Wembley’s article recommends for match nights.
- The gap is proportionally larger at the budget end: the InterContinental’s event-night premium was roughly 1.8× its ordinary rate; the Holiday Inn Express’s was roughly 4×.
The hotels at the peninsula
Both trade the price-spike risk above for genuine convenience on the night itself — the walkway, or a short walk. Neither is the default recommendation (see below); they’re worth it specifically if that convenience matters more to you than price.
InterContinental London – The O2 — 493 rooms and suites on Waterview Drive, with a spa (17-metre pool, jacuzzi, sauna), three restaurants and two bars. A private walkway connects the hotel directly to The O2, so the “commute” on a show night is a corridor. On-site parking is £52 a day. Check-in from 3:00pm, check-out by noon.
Holiday Inn Express London Greenwich — the budget option on Bugsby’s Way, about 15 minutes’ walk from The O2 and the station, with breakfast included in the rate (which the InterContinental charges extra for). On-site parking is £35 a day.
For most people, though, staying at the peninsula is a trade-off, not the default — you’re paying (or risking) the prices above for the walkway or the short walk. The simpler recommendation is to stay anywhere on the Jubilee line and ride in: our guide to the best areas to stay in London covers the specific neighbourhoods, all a single change or less from North Greenwich, none of them exposed to the event-night price spike shown above, and with a far wider choice of places to eat than the peninsula offers on its own. It’s also the way to sidestep the Blackwall Tunnel question entirely if you’re not driving — see the driving section above for the one genuine alternative if you are.
The hours before doors
Up at The O2 is the obvious pre-show activity: a guided, 90-minute climb over the top of the dome’s fabric roof, reaching 52 metres above ground with a 360-degree view of London — up to 15 miles on a clear day. Pricing runs from £37 for a weekday daytime climb up to £44 for a weekend sunset climb, with twilight and sunset slots priced in between. Book well ahead of a big event, since a climb slot and a doors time rarely both fit comfortably into the same evening.
The Design District, a cluster of 16 low-rise studio buildings by eight different architects, sits opposite the arena, about a minute from the station — worth a look if you want something other than the retail-heavy Entertainment District, and it has its own canteen for a quieter meal before a show.
Outlet Shopping at The O2 wraps around the dome with over 60 discount and outlet stores, and keeps its own hours separate from the arena’s — check its site directly if shopping is part of the plan, since it doesn’t simply mirror event timings.
Eating and drinking in the Entertainment District
Unlike Boxpark at Wembley, The O2’s Entertainment District doesn’t close to the public or convert to a ticketed fan zone on an event day — it’s part of the venue’s own estate rather than a separate leased business, and it runs on its ordinary public hours regardless of what’s on in the arena that night.
The complex’s general hours are 10:00–22:00 daily, though individual restaurants, bars and leisure venues set their own, often later, times. The current line-up, direct from The O2’s own listing, runs to more than 40 places, including Gordon Ramsay Street Burger, Nando’s, Wagamama-style chains, Five Guys, KFC, German Doner Kebab, Gaucho, Haidilao Hot Pot, TGI Fridays, PizzaExpress, Zizzi, Las Iguanas and Frankie & Benny’s, plus dedicated bars including All Bar One and Slug & Lettuce.
One reliably late option: Wetherspoon’s pub here, The Stargazer, is open 10am to 12:15am daily, with food served 10am to 11pm — the closest thing on the peninsula to a guaranteed late kitchen and a late pint after a show.
Inside the arena itself, bars include the American Express Lounge, Aperol Spritz Bar, London Essence Cocktail Bar, O2 Bluebar, O2 Blueroom, Smirnoff Bar and The Budweiser Bar. Both The O2 arena and indigo at The O2 are cashless.
The bag problem
If your checkout is at noon and doors are hours later, you can’t carry a bag around all day.
| The O2 arena | indigo at The O2 | |
|---|---|---|
| Bag limit | One bag per person, no bigger than A4 or a standard handbag | Same policy applies |
| Cloakroom | None | Yes — a cloakroom is available |
| Paid storage | £10 per bag, just outside the main entrance | — |
Backpacks, travel cases, laptop bags, camera bags and large tote bags aren’t permitted inside the arena at all — folding one down smaller doesn’t count. American Express cardholders get free bag drop through a dedicated Amex lane. Tote bags bought at The O2’s own merchandise stands are allowed in, subject to search.
⚠️ Check the storage closing time for your show. The O2’s own pages don’t fully agree with each other: its bag-policy and security pages both say storage “closes 1 hour after” the show ends, while its coming-to-an-event page says 30 minutes after. Treat 30 minutes as the safer number to plan around and collect your bag promptly.
The prohibited items list is broader than a simple bag-size rule: no weapons or bladed items, no fireworks, flagpoles or large inflatables, no large umbrellas, no glass or hard drinks bottles (an empty collapsible bottle is fine), no flammable liquids, no laser pens, no professional camera with a detachable lens, no illegal drugs or alcohol brought in, and no animals other than service and assistance dogs.
Step-free access, Blue Badge parking and accessible booking
Getting there: North Greenwich station has low-level ticket machines, wheelchair-accessible gates, an induction loop, step-free access to every platform via lifts, and step-free bus stops. The cable car terminals are step-free with lifts and boarding staff, though only single battery-powered wheelchairs up to 80cm wide can travel on it. North Greenwich Pier is step-free and wheelchair accessible, with accessible toilets on the larger boats.
Parking: Blue Badge bays are available in all of The O2’s own car parks (from about £21 pre-booked), or free with no time limit at the dedicated 19-space Blue Badge car park on Monro Way. An accessible drop-off point for cars and coaches sits about 150m from the main entrance, clearly signposted.
Inside the venue: the main concourse is level and step-free, with accessible lifts across all levels. Accessible seating is available on every level — aisle seats, minimal steps nearby, no obstruction, and close to accessible toilets — and viewing platforms are offered for guests who find standing difficult at events where the crowd tends to stand. Accessible toilets are unisex, on every level, and use a RADAR key; there’s also a Changing Places unit on Level 1. If you bring your own wheelchair, it can be stored at the Customer Service Desk near block 101. Assistance dogs can stay with you in wheelchair bays — email access@theo2.co.uk ahead of your visit to let the team know. Assistive Listening Devices are available at the Level 1 Customer Service desk (a form of ID is held as a deposit while you use one).
Getting a wheelchair to you: call 0208 463 2211 once doors open on the night, and a wheelchair will be brought to the main entrance — you’ll need your own companion to push it. That line is only staffed on event nights.
Booking accessible tickets: The O2 uses the Nimbus Disability Access Card system. A Personal Assistant ticket requires a valid Access Card carrying the “+1” symbol, booked at the same time as your own ticket; for more than one PA, call the dedicated access line on 020 8463 3359. BSL interpreting is available through SignVideo, 10am–2pm, Monday to Friday (Typetext 18001 020 8463 3359).
Small print that catches people out
- Postcodes: The O2 itself and its car parks, SE10 0DX; North Greenwich station and its car park, SE10 0PH; the Blue Badge car park on Monro Way, SE10 0EJ.
- Pre-booked parking closes 24 hours before the event — after that, you’re paying the on-the-day rate if space allows.
- The cable car and the river boat are arrival options on a normal evening, not departure options after a show — both stop running well before most doors-to-curfew times.
- Both The O2 arena and indigo at The O2 are cashless.
- Event doors, show times and curfews are published per event, not as a house rule — check the specific listing for your date rather than assuming a standard time.
- Outlet Shopping at The O2 keeps its own hours, separate from the arena and from indigo.
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- 🏟️ Wembley Stadium and OVO Arena Travel Guide — the equivalent guide for London’s other major arena, for comparison
Figures come from The O2’s own site, Transport for London (including two published Freedom of Information responses on North Greenwich station’s crowd management, and TfL’s own Silvertown Tunnel monitoring reports), Uber Boat by Thames Clippers’ published timetable, Royal Greenwich Council’s parking pages, Saba Parking’s own car park listings, ExCeL London’s own site, and Up at The O2’s booking site, checked the week of 13 September 2026. Hotel prices are samples from the operators’ own booking engines for one specific event and will move for other dates; the Royal Docks hotels named above are confirmed live on Marriott’s, Accor’s and IHG’s own booking sites, but aren’t price-compared with the same rigour. Parking prices are set per event, so check the booking site for your date.
Common questions
Which station do you use for The O2?
North Greenwich, and only North Greenwich. It's the single station the venue is built around, on the Jubilee line, in Zone 2/3, and the ticket hall opens almost directly onto The O2's front doors — about five minutes on foot. There is no second or third station the way Wembley has three: if the Jubilee line is disrupted, there is no alternative tube line to fall back on, only the bus, the boat or the cable car.
Is there a Night Tube from North Greenwich?
Only on Friday and Saturday, and most O2 shows don't run late enough to need it. The Jubilee is one of six Night Tube lines — with the Central, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Windrush — running all night on those two nights only. Every other night — which is most nights The O2 has something on — the last scheduled trains run to the ordinary timetable: checked live on a Sunday arena night, the last train towards Stanmore left North Greenwich at 23:45 and the last towards Stratford at 00:16.
Does the Underground run extra-late trains after a show at The O2?
Not in the way Chiltern extends its timetable for Wembley. TfL's own correspondence describes a standing plan for holding and metering crowds outside North Greenwich station after events, run with The O2's own security team and the police — but that's crowd management, not a later last train. Outside Friday and Saturday's Night Tube, the last train leaves on the same schedule whether or not there's a show that night.
Where can you park for The O2?
In one of The O2's own car parks, booked through JustPark. Car Park 1 is the one for arena and indigo events: pre-booked 'early bird' rates run from about £29 a car, the standard pre-booked rate is around £35, and paying on the day, if space allows, is £40. Car parks 2, 3 and 4 are for everything else — outlet shopping, the cinema, Up at The O2 — at hourly rates from £7.
Is there a residents-only parking zone around The O2 on event nights?
No, and this is the biggest difference from Wembley. Royal Greenwich doesn't run an event-day protective parking scheme; the borough's ordinary controlled parking zone rules apply on a show night exactly as on any other. What The O2's own site does warn about is traffic — it flags roadworks around the peninsula causing delays 'particularly post event,' so leave extra time, especially for the drive away afterwards.
Is there a cheaper place to park than The O2's own car parks?
The North Greenwich station car park, run by Saba on TfL land, is separate from The O2's four car parks: 519 spaces, £18 for the day if you arrive before 6pm, £27.50 after — cheaper than paying on the day at Car Park 1, though it can't be pre-booked and isn't guaranteed. There's also a free, 19-space Blue Badge car park on Monro Way, a couple of minutes' walk away, with no time limit for badge holders.
Is there a way to avoid the Blackwall Tunnel when driving to The O2?
Yes, if you're coming from north or east London: park near the cable car's Royal Docks terminal, by ExCeL London, and cross the river by cable car instead of driving onto the peninsula at all. ExCeL runs its own large, pre-bookable car park on site, and hotels including Aloft London Excel, Novotel London Excel and Crowne Plaza London Docklands are all within walking distance of the terminal. The catch is timing: this only works for arriving, or for a show that finishes early, since the cable car keeps its usual hours and won't be running for a late finish.
Can you use the cable car to get to or from The O2?
To get there from the Royal Docks or ExCeL side, yes — it's a scenic crossing of about ten minutes, and O2 ticket holders get 50% off a walk-up fare on the day. To get home after an evening show, rarely: the cable car closes at 21:00 Sunday to Thursday, 22:00 on Friday and 23:00 on Saturday, before most evening events let out.
Can you get the boat home after a show at The O2?
Only for an early finish. Uber Boat by Thames Clippers calls at North Greenwich Pier, but the last scheduled sailing towards central London leaves at 21:45 on a weekday and 22:22 at weekends, checked against the operator's own timetable. Most evening shows come out later than that.
Which buses serve North Greenwich, and is there a night bus?
Routes 108, 129, 132, 161, 188, 422 and 486 all stop at North Greenwich bus station, right by the tube entrance and The O2's doors. The 188 to Waterloo runs 24 hours a day, and the N472 night route starts here too, running through Woolwich to Abbey Wood.
What size bag can you take into The O2?
One bag per person, no bigger than A4, or a standard handbag — backpacks, laptop bags, camera bags and large tote bags aren't allowed in. The O2 arena has no cloakroom, but a paid bag store just outside the main entrance charges £10 (free for American Express cardholders). indigo at The O2, the smaller venue next door, does have its own cloakroom.
Is it cheaper to stay near The O2 or in central London on a concert night?
Near The O2, most nights — and the trap on a big one. Checked live on the operators' own booking engines: the InterContinental London – The O2 was £465 on an event night and £261 the following Sunday; Holiday Inn Express London Greenwich went from £276 on the event night to £68 a week later. A major multi-day event pushed the InterContinental past £600 a night. Staying anywhere else on the Jubilee line avoids the swing entirely.
Is The O2 accessible, and where do you park with a Blue Badge?
Yes: step-free from the station, with lifts to every platform, a level arena concourse, accessible seating and viewing areas on every level, and accessible toilets with a RADAR key. Blue Badge parking is available in all of The O2's own car parks, or free with no time limit at the separate 19-space Blue Badge car park on Monro Way. Booking accessible tickets uses the Nimbus Disability Access Card, and a wheelchair can be brought to the main entrance by calling 0208 463 2211 once doors open.



