Of course, if you’re lucky with the weather you can always try what Brits of a certain age still call “Shanks’s Pony”: which is to say, you can walk. You’ll have comfortable shoes with you just to get around Frieze, so where I’ve thought it at all feasible, I’ve included directions for walkers. And, although I’ve tried to be as clear as possible, you should buy a “London A-Z,” in the little paperback version. It’s one of the best thought-out street maps in the world, and it also has a tube map in it. It’s famously a design classic, in contrast to the tube system itself, which is a design nightmare.

Pulse: Well known to fair visitors in New York and Miami, Pulse is trying London for the first time this year. And as they’re taking many of their regular exhibitors with them, I can’t see any reason why they shouldn’t succeed here as well.

Pulse location and travel notes: Pulse is not too far from Frieze, but here I’d discourage you from walking. If you try to walk east on Marylebone Road, you’ll get caught up in all sorts of underpass nonsense as it morphs into Euston Road. So get in a taxi, and say to the driver, “Tavistock Place, mate. Just off Tavistock Square.” You don’t have to say “mate,” really, but it might give him a laugh. When you get to Tavistock Place, you want Mary Ward House, numbers 5–7, where the good people at Pulse will probably have put up a sign.

DesignArt London: Fairs that present design as just another sort of art are stretching credibility in my opinion, but here’s another one having a go at it. This is its first time in London, and I guess its success will depend on how many Londoners get as excited about their sofa as they do about sculpture. (Of course, if they find out that it’s been organized by a French outfit, DesignArt London will be sunk.)

DesignArt London location and travel notes: This one’s in Hanover Square, Mayfair. This might be the time to try the tube, as you can get the rickety old Bakerloo Line train directly from Regent’s Park to Oxford Circus. But be warned: Unless you have the aforementioned Oyster Card, this will cost you £4 one way—yes, $8 to travel one stop. When you get to Oxford Circus, walk south on Regent Street and take the first street on the right. This is Princes Street, which leads directly to Hanover Square.

Zoo Art Fair: Of course all art fairs are a bit of a zoo (Ha!), but this one is so named because—yes—it used to take place at London Zoo. It’s supposed to feature emerging artists and galleries, but the organizers must have some weird counting thing going on, because their designation for how many years an artist or gallery can have been in business and still be “emerging” seems to increase every year. Some people are tipping Zoo to be better than Frieze this year, but you’ll have to see for yourself.

Zoo Art Fair location and travel notes: Zoo’s former location was actually closer to Frieze, but their new home couldn’t be swankier! They’re in the Royal Academy, which some might argue is the home of the oldest art fair of all, the Summer Exhibition. Between Piccadilly and Burlington Gardens, the RA is in the most central of Central London. The entrance to the fair is on the Burlington Gardens side of the building, opposite Cork Street, which probably still has more galleries per storefront than anywhere else in London.

Again, the tube is probably the answer here. It’s two stops from Regent’s Park to Piccadilly Circus on the Bakerloo Line. If you leave the station by the Piccadilly north side you can stroll west along Piccadilly and feel like a proper toff. When you get to the RA on your right, keep going and go right through Burlington Arcade, past all the bijou little shops. Burlington Gardens is at the other end. If all this seems a bit of a rigamarole, take a taxi.