Unfortunately not a great tour. Our guide, Tony admitted it was not his finest hour. The tour was rushed. Greenwich village skipped because he allowed group of four delay tour for an hour while the rest of the group waited like homeless on the street. Not recommended for price.
Review by: Valerie W, March 2018
Great tour. Includes many of the must do's in London.
Review by: Valerie W, March 2018
Great tour. Includes the highlights of London.
Review by: James Gulas, March 2018
My rating on this tour has NOTHING to do with our guide. She was fantastic. Extremely knowledgeable, very friendly and kept us on time and organized for the whole day even with a huge glitch of failed ticket printers at the boat dock. Would highly recommend Marlina! The reason I gave it 3 stars is for two reasons. First, the tour description and I read and re-read it 100x top to bottom said we would see the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. The description used the word regular occurrence. NO WHERE not even in fine print or in details did it say the days and times this happens. Turns out the day of our tour was NOT a scheduled time at Buckingham. Very disappointing. Maybe your description should advise people to go to the actual Buckingham Palace website to check the schedule. In hindsight - I trusted your description - I should have checked. When I questioned our tour guide because the bus literally zipped us PAST the palace she said that because there was no guard change scheduled at Buckingham, we were going to Royal Horse Guards to see a guard change. We did have great viewing for this and it was cool but it was guard change on horses. NOT the same as the marching guard change at Buckingham. My BIGGEST disappointment with this also and other people on the tour said the same thing even if we weren't going to see the guard change at Buckingham, we all felt we should have stopped there for 10-15 minutes just to get out and take pictures. We had to make a special trip back there on our own to get photos of the palace. My second reason for the rating.......inclusion lists Thames River Boat Ride. Shame on me I guess. I read that as a sightseeing boat ride on the river. This was more like a speed-boat first of all and it was definitely like a commuter water taxi. They were closing the gates and pushing people on the boat because it was on a taxi schedule . Nothing leisurely about it. Very disappointed in that. We are from Chicago and we HAVE water taxis and we have boat rides. They are completely different. This was nothing like our boat ride on the Seine in Paris which WAS what we expected. Might need to change your description of that. Over all - Marlina made it a great day. The London Eye since we didn't stop at Buckingham was probably our favorite part. Also - you might want to change your wording on lunch packs and make it snack packs. sidenote - we booked 8 tours with you as a family of 4 so we spent a good amount of with Viator. The two things on THIS tour were the only disappointments
Review by: Robyn W, February 2018
We loved this tour but was disappointed the Changing of the Guard was cancelled due to inclement weather. We did have an in-depth view of London which is what we were after as we only had 1 day there. Our guide was excellent and very informative. Recommended for tourists with limited time to see all the main sights.
Review by: barryradtke, February 2018
If I could rate this a 6 I would. Sandra, our guide, brought London and its history to life. She was fun and really knew how to get the best photo and how to enjoy every venue. She gave us a great appreciation for where we were.
Review by: Susan G, February 2018
This tour was amazing. Saw everything we wanted to see in a short time.
Review by: Shannon M, January 2018
Ruth was our tour guide for our London Day Tour, and she was wonderful! Full of so many tidbits and very knowledgeable. My husband and I greatly enjoyed our time in the Tower of London, and actually wish the tour spent a little more time there. We were kinda just let off on our own to tour the place at our own time, and we would've enjoyed a little more guidance and information to enhance our time there. The only things we would warn against: make sure to look into when the Changing of the Guard actually takes place at Buckingham Palace...the tour page does not mention this, but they only do it on certain days of the week. And the day we booked our tour was one of the days they were NOT doing the Changing of the Guard. So we were a little bummed about that. _br/_ Also: the Thames River boat ride is nice, and going up to Greenwich is very interesting. However, the boat ride back down to the London Eye was VERY long...over an hour. By the time we got back to the London Eye, it was almost time for them to close. So we had to run inside and get our tickets quickly, in order to be in line for the Eye before they shut the queue down. _br/_ So I would just be wary of those things, but otherwise the tour was fantastic! Very good for an overview of the wonderful city of London!
Review by: northdown, December 2017
Great tour guide, shared lots of information. Plenty of time to get a good taste of London in one day.as there is so much to see and so many people doing the same things as you, you can't expect to spend hours at every place. We had a great vantage point for the changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace. Our guide made sure that we saw each group of the guard from a different place. Timing was perfect. Due to us visiting London just prior to Christmas, there were less crowds and not as much traffic - we were on time for everything. The Tower of London had so much to explore, so much history and not crowded...no wait time! The cruise was good, and visiting Greenwich most informative. The skys cleared at dusk 4:30pm for a magnificent 6pm London Eye night flight. Just wow! Can't wait for our Stonehenge, Windsor Castle and Bath tour!
Review by: Makuteswara S, December 2017
We enjoyed this well-coordinated and conducted tour of London. 3 highlights of the tour among the general bus tour of the important tourist attractions were: 1 St. Peter's Cathedral Basilica 2 Tower of London 3 Relatively good speed boat ride all the way from Tower of London to Greenwich and from Greenwich to London Eye. Sandra was very good to provide running commentary while on the bus as well as explaining well the beauty of St. Peter's Cathedral and Tower of London. Although I have been to London 3X before this tour, this bus tour took us away from the main tourist attraction of British Parliament and Westminster Abbey, which we have seen before a couple of times. Ample time was also there in this tour to witness guard procession at 11 a.m. Thankfully, the drizzle has stopped by then. Mention should also be made that delightful vegetarian lunch box was also included in this package. Finally, we had beautiful and clear view of London from the Eye, which we boarded easily as there was no crowd. Overall, a very enjoyable day tour, which we would recommend highly._br/_ An item to note is Golden Tours conducts this tour. Viator voucher was easily accepted. However, the place to board the bus took us a little while. You actually have to go to inside the building for which the address is provided and go to end for the bus terminal. The bus does not depart from a street, as it normally would in a tour.
Review by: vlaraya, November 2017
This is not a tour for senior citizens. Too much walking involved. Prospective tourists should be warned accordingly.
Review by: lynn, November 2017
See a lot in one day but if you want to spend more time in on site , this tour is not for you . For us , we enjoyed . Thanks
Review by: Janis L, November 2017
Great tour!
Review by: Sharron F, October 2017
This tour gives you an excellent overview of London as well as a tasty little box lunch. Highly recommend.
Review by: Barbara D, October 2017
Not what we expected. Never planned to spend several hours for a 45 min visit to Greenwich which was not on the agenda. Never stopped at Westminster Abbey fir photos, we just criss crossed the city on the bus. It was a disappointment.
Review by: Misti B, October 2017
Having been on many tours this tour failed on every level. We were not allowed free time at some of the major sites. That is to say not in areas that one would want free time. Such as St. Paul's Cathedral, 10 minutes free time down at the cafeteria, not upstairs where it was gorgeous. Although we were given some time to take pics with the horse guards, when they did the actual change out, we were long gone with the assurance we would have plenty of time to see them in formation along the street. Not true. We marched along and by the time they came by, we could not stop because we were on a schedule!! No time provided to stop and get any pictures of the outside of Buckingham Palace. The lunch was a pie box lunch on our laps. As we headed toward the London Tower in our bus, balancing our lunches on our laps, it was announced that our driver had to leave to go on another tour. We were then dumped off across from a boat taxi stop with our lunch boxes, and waited 30 minutes to get on the boat. The boat took about 20 minutes so 50 minutes our tour time completely wasted. This cut into our time at the towers by quite a bit. Once we did arrive the tour guide talked all about how informational the Yeoman Warders would be happy to speak with us and went on about more things in the towers. Perhaps this could have been done the 30 minutes we stood waiting for the boat so we could have hit the ground running. We ask if we had free time now to explore the towers as we only had 25 more minutes left at the towers. We were told not yet. After the Crown Jewels we were told we now had free time. That left us 10 minutes to use the restroom, get a quick pic with the Yeoman Warder and dash to the meeting place only to wait for another boat taxi! A family was left behind. Back on the boat for another 20 minutes up to Greenwich to see the Maritime Museum. It was a 20 minute stop from off the boat to back on. So frustrating! Back on the boat for an approx. 50 minute ride back down the river to the London Eye. At which point we were given a bit of info. hit up for a tip and sent on our way. This was a terrible tour and a complete waste of money.
Review by: Beverly M, October 2017
We were not taken to Buckingham Palace as Golden Tours told us there was no changing of the guards that day. That was the whole reason we booked this tour. we did see St. Paul's Cathedral which was very nice but don't book this tour unless you know you'll get to see Buckingham Palace. We almost didn't get on the London Eye either. The staff at the eye said there were totally booked and could come another day...say what! Our tour guide had words with them and we were eventually able to get on.
Review by: Dazza, September 2017
Of all the tours I read I still think this was the best one available. We traveled to Victoria station on the tube then walked to the meeting point which was easy enough to find. Concierge people were good and answered all questions we could hear from other guests. The tour started at a hectic pace at St Paul's, Buckingham Palace changing of the guards dictates quick pace to see it and all bits in between which happily was on the coach. Box lunch on the bus was unexpected and much appreciated. Tower of London was a slow down with probably too much time here then ferry down the river and stroll through the former Admiralty college all a bit boring. Don't really understand why it is included other than the ferry goes there. Return ferry to London Eye late in the afternoon was exceptionally well handled as we could have taken the flight then or, as we did, prebooked and returned the next day and did it then which suited us very well indeed. Overall the tour was good and glad we went. Suggestion, use your time in the tower to the max as you are about to get a rest.
Review by: Toni L, September 2017
It was great.
Review by: Marilyn M, September 2017
It did not cover the sights in London as stated. We had a boat ride to Greenwich which wasted the afternoon. After we arrived we had 40 minutes enough time to see nothing. This was not on the itinerary. You need to spend an entire day in Greenwich._br/_ We never saw Trafalger Square, Piccadilly Circus, HydePark, Harrods, Kensington Palace,the West End and where any of the museums where. It was not a London day tour but a half day out of the city tour. This was not what I signed up for.
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