Cool & Scary Walking Tours Added to Original London Sightseeing Tour!

Three walking tours have been added to the Hop-On, Hop-Off Original London Tours and are FREE!

- Changing Of The Guard Walk: See Buckingham Palace, St James’s Palace and the regiments that guard them in this exciting walk as you march alongside the guards at Buckingham Palace.

- Cool Britannia Walk: From Leicester Square to Carnaby Street, from Soho to Saville Row, and from the Beatles to Austin Powers: music, movies, fashion & food.

- Jack The Ripper Walk: Walk in the footsteps of the world’s most infamous serial killer as we reveal his murderous tale from the streets of Whitechapel in 1888.

Customers can validate their 365 vouchers and join two of the Walking Tours at the new Original London Visitor Centre at Trafalgar Square (Open daily 9.30am to 6.30pm)

London Dungeon - Take a Pumpkin & Get in For Free

What a great idea! Get your kids round the dining room table this year and start carving pumpkins. Why, you ask??? Well, firstly, it’s fun, secondly, Halloween is just round the corner and thirdly, children under 16 will get free entrance to the London Dungeon if they donate their pumpkin (when accompanied by a paying adult). Apparently the Dungeon always runs out of pumpkins & needs your help in keeping things scary for this year’s ‘Halloween Uncut’ season. So, go on - get scared witless at the Dungeons from 13th-31st October and lose your pumpkin, not your head! 

London Ducktours - Sightseeing with a Difference

I was probably more excited than my 4-year old niece when planning our trip on the London Ducktours this summer! I had been on something similar in Ottawa, Canada, a few years before and thoroughly enjoyed the blend between river and road sightseeing. The interesting fact is that the ‘Ducks’ used to be WW2 armoured vehicles, which have now been painted a bright duck-yellow and seat about 30 people. However, my niece seemed to be convinced that this ‘duck’ would be going ‘quack, quack’ in the river and ‘beep, beep’ on the road - maybe her parents promised her a bit too much! But she soon forgot all about it when the vehicle plunged, much faster and more dramatically than even I had imagined, into the Thames.

The short trip up and down the Thames, like the rest of the tour, gives visitors a really good insight into the most important landmarks in London, and the trained guide on that day also mixed facts with a great sense of British humour! Although there were babies and other younger children on the Ducktours, it’s probably better to take children who are able to absorb some of the history of London and can sit still for at least an hour. All in all though, it was a great afternoon out which I would recommend to anyone who wants to see London from a different angle.