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The UK is shockingly expensive and not worth the effort. Heathrow is a truly awful airport. Not many places in the world where it's quite possible to miss a flight cause the airports ONLY access spur from the motorway is blocked, but Heathrow is it.
A taxi into central town is around £40-60 ($60-90) and might take an hour each way. Specify a touristic destination in town and have a US accent and you will, for sure, get the scenic route.
You could take the tube (subway) but its slow and smelly at all times, and in the summer, hot too. The trains have no aircon and the tunnels are only ventilated by the trains moving through them.
Food in the UK is pretty damn good as Damian says and working backwards from the food that disappointed most in the US when I was last there - Indian - I would recommend you try a good curry in the UK, but be warned, hot means HOT here.
Sometime about 20 years ago the UK swapped from bitter beer to lager beer - bitter was that warm brown shit in a glass which got us the bad rep for beer. Thankfully those days are gone and lager is server cold.
Everything in the UK is kinda small and un-impressive so its quite hard to do anything that really leaves you with a feeling of having "done" London in the way going up the entire state building or wandering about central park does. Probably why no films ever manage London-ness other than the ariel view of the Thames and Big Ben. For me anyway, it never quite feels like you've been to a centre or seen a thing that really blows you away - Visit NYC and even the view as you taxi into town the first time is exciting. The UK has no equivalent.
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