How to Get to the Prince of Wales Theatre

31 Coventry Street, London W1D 6AS, between Piccadilly Circus and Leicester Square, past the London Trocadero.

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By tube

Piccadilly Circus (Piccadilly and Bakerloo lines) is the closest station. Come up at the Leicester Square exit and Coventry Street is ahead of you; the theatre is a minute or two along it, on the right-hand side.

The Northern line stops at Leicester Square, two to four minutes' walk east. Charing Cross and Covent Garden stations are further, each about eight minutes' walk.

By train

Charing Cross, about ten minutes on foot: left out of the station, across the back of Trafalgar Square, right by Canada House into Whitcomb Street, then left onto Coventry Street.

By bus

The nearest stops are on Haymarket, a minute from the door at the foot of Coventry Street: Haymarket / Jermyn Street and Haymarket / Charles II Street. Coventry Street has its own stops at the Trocadero end. Heading the other way, the same routes stop on Regent Street by St James's, about three minutes' walk.

• From North London: the 139 (Golders Green, West Hampstead and Baker Street) to Haymarket / Jermyn Street. The 12, 88, 159 and 453 come down from Oxford Circus to Haymarket / Charles II Street, the 453 from Marylebone and Great Portland Street. The 19 (Finsbury Park and Islington) stops at Trocadero / Haymarket on Coventry Street. The 24 (Hampstead and Camden Town) and the 29 (Wood Green and Camden) stop at Leicester Square station, on Charing Cross Road.
• From West London: the 9 (Hammersmith and Knightsbridge) and the 23 (Westbourne Park, Paddington and Marble Arch) to Haymarket / Jermyn Street. The 14 (Putney, Fulham and Knightsbridge) to Trocadero / Haymarket. The 94 (Acton, Shepherd's Bush, Notting Hill and Oxford Street) to Piccadilly Circus.
• From South London: the 12 (Dulwich and Camberwell), the 88 (Clapham and Vauxhall), the 159 (Streatham and Brixton) and the 453 (Deptford, Old Kent Road and Elephant and Castle) all come up through Westminster and stop on Regent Street by St James's. The 176 (Penge, Camberwell, Elephant and Castle and Waterloo) and the 24 (Pimlico, Victoria and Westminster) stop at Leicester Square station. The 139 comes from Waterloo.
• From Bloomsbury and the Aldwych: the 14 from Russell Square to Trocadero / Haymarket, and the 9 and 23 from the Aldwych, via Trafalgar Square, to Regent Street by St James's.

Late at night, the N3, N9, N15, N18, N97, N109, N113, N118 and N136 stop on Haymarket, the N19 on Coventry Street, and the N5, N20, N29, N41 and N279 at Leicester Square station.

By car

There's no parking at the theatre. The nearest car parks:

• Q-Park Leicester Square, Whitcomb Street, about a minute away, open 24 hours
• Q-Park Chinatown, Newport Place, open 24 hours

Blue Badge holders have disabled bays on Rupert Street and Whitcomb Street, and Q-Park Chinatown has two disabled spaces. You can be dropped off on Coventry Street right by the main doors.

You're inside the Congestion Charge zone. It's £18 a day, running 7am to 6pm on weekdays and midday to 6pm at weekends and on bank holidays, so arrive after 6pm for an evening performance and you won't pay it, though a matinee falls inside it. ULEZ is a separate charge that runs at all hours, but at £12.50 it applies only to vehicles that don't meet the emissions standards, and most petrol cars from 2006 on and most diesels from 2015 on are compliant and pay nothing.

What time to arrive

Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. There are security and bag checks on the way in. The bars and foyers usually open 45 minutes before the show.

Latecomers are held until a suitable break in the performance, and getting in before then isn't guaranteed. No re-entry points are published for The Book of Mormon, so arrive late and you'll miss the opening number, and you could wait a while for your seat.