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Are All These People Really in Line For the Tower of London?

March 31, 2008 at 2:00 PM | 0 Comments

The Tower of London must be making a mini-comeback these days thanks to popular movies like Elizabeth and The Other Boleyn Girl as well as that Showtime mini-series The Tudors. How else to explain the ridiculously long queues on Easter morning in the freezing rain?

We hit up the Tower that day for those exact reasons--Easter and the freezing rain--hoping that those factors would culminate in a perfect storm of the tourism sort that would leave the place virtually empty. No such luck.

However, we amazingly had the foresight in our red-wine hangover haze to order our tickets online from our hotel room--The Baglioni Hotel in Hyde Park had free ethernet--and thus were able to skip the lines and move our shivering body along through the complex.

The only thing we couldn't do? Stay warm and dry. And the line to see the Royal Jewels was insanely long. Since we had seen the Tower and the jewels before (eight years ago), we decided to abort our tour and hit up the restaurant on-site, the New Armouries, for some tea and scones. There we listened to the rest of our audio guide we had purchased. It was totally geeky but we stayed warm.

Admission: £16.50 per adult. £9.50 per child under 16.
Audio Guide: £7 per adult. Special discounts are available for students.

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