Tour of London
Half-Day London: Landmarks of London featuring visits to the British Museum and Tower of London
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UPDATE: Westminster Abbey is closed to visitors on Saturday so we will still drive by for photos but are instead visiting the British Museum.
Options
Join us for a half-day tour of West End as described below. Then:
- Get dropped-off at the Tower of London and grab your own quick lunch before a guided tour of the Tower of London that afternoon. Make your own way back to the hotel after the tour ends (less than a mile back to the Hyatt Place).
- Or stay on the bus while the Tower of London folks get dropped-off and then ride back to the hotel.
Schedule - Saturday, October 14th
- 9:00am: Depart Hyatt Place London City (East)
- 11:00 am: Visit to the British Museum
- 12:30pm: Drop-off at Tower of London for those continuing on
- 1:00pm: Return to hotel
- 1:15pm: Tower of London tour begins
Description
Leaving your hotel, we drive to the so-called ‘West End’ which now forms the heart of London. The City of Westminster took shape around a royal palace founded more than 900 years ago where the Houses of Parliament & Big Ben now stand. We will drive past Westminster Abbey where sovereigns have been crowned since 1066. The church has been rebuilt since then, from 1245 onwards, and now enshrines the nation’s history, with many royal tombs and memorials of other illustrious figures of the past.
We walk to Buckingham Palace and then reboard our coach and drive past the governmental buildings of Whitehall to Trafalgar Square, where Nelson’s column commemorates a great naval hero, and the National Gallery honours the arts of peace. After Trafalgar Square, we drive to The British Museum which is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture. Its permanent collection of eight million works is the largest in the world
The tour continues to the very separate and distinct area known as "The City", which covers just one of London's 610 square miles. It embraces the original Roman Londinium, which the Roman historian, Tacitus, described as a "meeting-place for merchants of many nations" and it is still precisely that today, as one of the world's three leading centres of international finance. Its streets also contain the oldest vestiges of London's history and amidst the power-houses of commerce, there are 40 churches of historical interest, 21 of them built by Sir Christopher Wren in addition to his master work, St. Paul's Cathedral, the city's serene centrepiece.
Our coach will depart as we continue with a guided visit to the Tower of London, where the Crown Jewels may be viewed within a fortress prison first built to command the city after the Norman Conquest in 1066.
