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I went to London for the first time in my life this summer, 9th June,2007 with my husband and have seen London with the bus from sight seeing bus company name Big Bus. They offer a hop-on hop-off tour which means you can hop-on or hop-off the bus when ad where you want within the valid period of your ticket.
The Big Bus tour offers a 24-hrs Hop-on Hop-off sightseeing tour where you can get on the Big Bus at any of their scheduled stop and ... ...valid ticket.
The Big Bus Company---------------
This company is the winner of sightseeing tour of the year 2004. The company established in 1991 with only two buses. The company was the first to offer a river-cruise, and remains the ONLY open-top sightseeing company to include three walking tour. In 1997 the company introduced the Big Bus Information Centre in Buckingham Palace Road, where staff can assist you planning your ... more
I went to London for the first time in my life this summer, 9th June,2007 with my husband and have seen London with the bus from sight seeing bus company name Big Bus. They offer a hop-on hop-off tour which means you can hop-on or hop-off the bus when ad where you want within the valid period of your ticket. The Big Bus tour offers a 24-hrs Hop-on Hop-off sightseeing tour where you can get on the Big Bus at any of their scheduled stop and get off the bus at your desired attraction stop, at any time with a valid ticket.
The Big Bus Company--------------- This company is the winner of sightseeing tour of the year 2004. The company established in 1991 with only two buses. The company was the first to offer a river-cruise, and remains the ONLY open-top sightseeing company to include three walking tour. In 1997 the company introduced the Big Bus Information Centre in Buckingham Palace Road, where staff can assist you planning your stay in London, help you with theatre tickets and a range of quality souvenirs. The London-based, family-owned company employs over 400 staff, and has over 70 buses.
Schedule and Tickets------------- Operate everyday except 25th December Tickets can be purchased from the buses, by telephone on 00 44 (0)20 7233 9533, or from Big Bus Information Centre at 48 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1. You can also buy tickets Online at bigbus.com. Check the website for bus timetable too. Checks, Credit cards, cash for all Adults £22 Children £10 (5-15 years) children must be accompanied by a full fare paying adult. £2 discount online, print ticket from computer and use it Tickets are valid for 24 hours from the time u first get on the bus Buses run every 20-30 minutes. You can buy discounted theatre tickets through The Big Bus Company valid Monday-Thursday available at Information Centre at 48 Buckingham Palace Road, SW1, also full-price tickets for any West End Theatre show are available Service------- The bus ticket includes; 1.FREE River Cruise on Thames! The Cruise departs from Tower Pier, Waterloo Pier or Westminster Pier, and takes approximately 30 minutes. Cruise departs every 20 minutes. The bus tickets offer a free one way cruise so you can start from Tower Pier and get off the cruise at any stop in Waterloo Pier or Westminster Pier and vice versa.
2.FREE Walking Tours of London guided by Big Bus staff. They offer 3 types of walking tour and all are free to a valid Big Bus ticket holder. If you do not have a Big Bus ticket then you can buy only walk tour ticket price of £5 per walk.
-------Royal London Walking tour starts at 10.00am, everyday Walk through historic Royal London from St. James's Palace, former official residence of Prince Charles, to Buckingham Palace, celebrated home of the Queen. You can see famous the Changing of the Guard at Palace when you reach there.
-------The Big Bus Beatles Walking Tour starts at 2.30pm everyday This tour take you to Soho and Mayfair, where the Beatles based themselves throughout their rise in the Swinging Sixties and where Paul McCartney still has his London office today. Beatles' famed Apple headquarters where they played their last rooftop gig in 1969. It includes walking through the world of John, Paul, George and Ringo.
-------Ghosts by Gaslight Tour starts at 6.00pm everyday Some part of West End of London at night you find there more chilling London of gas-lights and ghosts.
On Board------ They have digitally-recorded commentary, in eight different languages, you can enjoy it with a supplied headphone while on the bus! Big Bus tours: If you just sit on the bus and enjoy sightseeing then the entire Red tour would take approximately 2 hours 10 minutes, buses run every 20-30 minutes. The first Red Tour bus starts from Green Park at 8.25 am. A complete Blue tour would take approximately 3 hours 15 mins, buses run every 20-30 minutes and the first Blue tour bus starts from Hyde Park at 8.25 am.
Stops Or Attractions------- MARBLE ARCH - Speakers' Corner, Oxford Street, Hyde Park MADAME TUSSAUD’S - Planetarium, Sherlock Holmes Museum, London Zoo OXFORD CIRCUS –Oxford Street, Fitzrovia PICCADILLY CIRCUS - Soho, Chinatown HAYMARKET - Haymarket , Leicester Square, Planet Hollywood, Trocadero TRAFALGAR SQUARE -National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Nelson's Column CRAIG'S COURT -Craig's Court and Whitehall , Admiralty Arch, The Mall, St James's Park BANQUETING HOUSE - Horse Guards, St James's Park WHITEHALL -Parliament Street Downing Street, Cenotaph, Cabinet War Rooms, Big Ben LONDON EYE - South Bank Lion, Westminster Bridge, River Cruise, Dalí Universe, London Aquarium WATERLOO -York Road , South Bank Arts Centre, Waterloo International Station COVENT GARDEN – Aldwych, Royal Opera House, London’s Transport Museum, Somerset House ST PAUL'S-The City, Barbican, Museum of London, Millennium Bridge, Tate Modern LONDON BRIDGE - London Dungeon, Tate Modern, H.M.S. Belfast, Southwark Cathedral, Globe Theatre TOWER OF LONDON - Tower Hill, River Cruise, Tower Bridge Experience, Docklands Light Railway EMBANKMENT PIER - Victoria Embankment, Embankment Gardens, Cleopatra's Needle LAMBETH PALACE - Lambeth Palace, Imperial War Museum, Museum of Garden History PARLIAMENT SQUARE -Houses of Parliament, Tate Britain WESTMINSTER ABBEY - New Scotland Yard, Westminster Cathedral BUCKINGHAM PALACE - Buckingham Gate ROYAL MEWS - Buckingham Palace Road, Big Bus Information Centre BAYSWATER -London Elizabeth Hotel, Lancaster Terrace, The Italian Gardens, Serpentine, The Long Water PETER PAN PRINCESS DIANA MEMORIAL - The Elfin Tree, Round Pond BADEN POWELL -Baden Powell House, Natural History Museum 76 KENSINGTON GARDENS - Bayswater Road, Queensway, Whiteley's Shopping Centre KENSINGTON PALACE - Kensington High Street ROYAL ALBERT HALL - bus stop outside Royal Albert Hall, Albert Memorial, Princess Diana Memorial Fountain NOTTING HILL - Portobello Road Market, Holland Park GLOUCESTER ROAD - Stanhope Arms Pub SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUMS - Cromwell Gardens, Victoria & Albert Museum, Natural History Museum, Science Museum HARRODS -Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, Harvey Nichols, Sloane Street HYDE PARK CORNER - Lanesborough Hotel, Wellington Museum, Belgravia, Hyde Park, Wellington Arch HARD ROCK CORNER - Hard Rock Café, Constitution Hill, Green Park, Hyde Park Corner, Wellington Arch GREEN PARK UNDERGROUND MAYFAIR -Little America
Big Bus also runs in Dubai, was launched in 2002, Big Bus Philadelphia 2003 and Big Bus Baltimore. in 2005, info@bigbustours.com
My Experience------- In my opinion this is the best option to see London and to enjoy your stay completely hassle free! A completely tourist friendly bus tour I ever enjoyed! We preferred the Big Bus tour as it covers maximum attractions in London. We have actually bought the Big Bus Tickets from a private tour information store close to Big Bus stop at Madame Tussaud’s. The price was as listed above. Either the Red tour or the Blue tour covers most of the attractions listed above and the staffs are very much helpful to assist the tourists so that we can visit all of the top attractions in London. Buses are frequent and on time. Tickets are stamped with time when we get on the bus for the first time and then are checked every time we get on the bus there after. Tickets are also sometime checked by a ticket checker while on board. The headphones can be connected to the bus seat speaker to hear the commentary which has a good sound quality with a nice description for each attraction. Commentary about any attraction starts when the bus reaches the particular attraction so it is very easy to recognize the attraction. We started the cruise from Westminster pier and ended up at Tower pier. You can just show the ticket to the City River Cruise Counter and get on any available city River Cruise. The cruise has a café at the bottom floor and the sightseeing sitting arrangement on the deck. There you can also enjoy a live commentary by an expert cruise staff. The view on both side of Thames is beautiful and I enjoyed the cruise tour most in my whole tour in London. While we get off the cruise at Tower Pier, we visited the Tower at that stop and get on the Big Bus again at a stop in front of the Tower. The Big Bus tour is very much convenient, comfortable and tourist friendly tour. They have their helpful efficient staffs continuously assisting the tourists. The buses runs on perfect time and many of their buses runs all the time you can see them often while on board. The best way to see London no doubt.
Advantages: Loads of them! Disadvantages: Not all the open-tops can be covered in case of London rain...
...I’ve never done any of the tourist stuff, so being on a gap year I hadn’t planned on, and with very little to do, I decided to indulge in a spot of research, riding the buses, speaking to tourists and asking the people on the pavement awkward questions.
A 24-hour ticket for the Big Bus Company costs £17 for adults and £8 for children, but family groups of two adults and two children get an £8 discount. Children are aged 5-15, and under 5s ride for ... ...which you get one of the people at the bus-stops to validate when you start using it, and your 24 hours start from then. They have over 80 bus-stops, of which around 40 are permanently manned during the summer by people who will sell you tickets to the Big Bus and most of London’s main attractions (the ones you have to pay for, anyway!). For Madame Tussauds, the Tower of London and the London Dungeon they sell “fast-track” tickets which in the summer ...
Muswell 01.04.2004
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Advantages: On-the-bus purchase of tickets, comprehensive coverage of London attractions, all stops are short distances from attractions. Disadvantages: Occasionally, services are less frequent. Other times, a sudden gush of buses arrive.
...we had decided to use the tube to go to the individual attractions, in an attempt to save money. However, after the tiring trips up and down the tube stations and the walks from there to the tourist places, there was no way we were going to repeat it this time. So, we figured a tour bus would be the best way to see London, and were we right!
Upon searching the Internet for London Sightseeing tours, I found the Big Bus Company as the only desired ... ...it was not expensive anyways. The ticket included 3 tours, each distinguishable by the color displayed on the front of each bus. Our long drive from Huddersfield ended near Madame Tussaud's, where we parked on a street for the day, and arrived at the nearest Big Bus Station 2 minutes' walk from the museum. There was a customer representative there who greeted us and informed us all about how the buses operate and how we should plan our trip. As expected, ...
piyuz 09.07.2001
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Advantages: great customer service Disadvantages: none at this time
...I were in London for the first time, and purchase the tickets to 2 separate attractions, along with the regular Big Bus tour. It was a little clilling so sitting on top was not an option. It was nice that you could get off at any time and pick up the next bus. At our fist paid attaction, Kensington Palace, was very interesting, but we take so long looking at things, that by the time we got to our second paid attaction, it was closed.
We thought ...
mashinmarge 19.12.2004
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is difficult therefore I strongly recomend that you go on a bus tour of London. We went on the BigBusCompany tour, it was £48 for a family of four but was the best thing we did on the whole break. The tour from start to finish is about 21/2 hours but you can hop on and off as you like over a 24hour period. We decided to stop on and take the full tour this was excellent very informative from the tour guides who accompany these buses and covered all of the best sightseeing places of London. Also included in the price is a boat trip on the River Thames.
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Advantages: Very clean, very friendly staff Disadvantages: Having to go home!
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