- Price:
- £9.00
- Rating:
- 3
Reviewed by: newwithhashtags
Summary:
What better way to explore the city you live in than by going on a walking tour, highlighting the scariest and ghostliest stories? We met our tour guide, Joe, by the fountain outside Green Park underground station before he took us around haunted London.
We were told about Faraday and the ghostly activity in the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Joe told us of equipment which measured static activity which supposedly went haywire in this haunted location. We then spent quite some time in Berkeley Square before moving onto Westminster.
Once we arrived at Westminster by underground, Joe told us further ghostly stories from the Houses of Parliament. We stood outside Big Ben before walking across Westminster Bridge with stories of Jack the Ripper.
Our tour included a free boat trip from Waterloo to the Tower of London.
This is where our tour ended, some 2 hours later. And I was grateful it ended when we did.
There were about 50 of us in one walking group due to travel issues for the other tour leaders. Despite this we found Joe good at ensuring the group stayed together and could hear all of his stories. He was very enthusiastic and we would give him 5*, but it was the content we had an issue with. Quite frankly, we got bored.
We enjoyed the stories to begin with, but there were just too many. Whilst Joe was a good storyteller, we felt the tour went on far too long and after we got to Westminster I found my mind began to wander. Instead of telling 3 stories at each location it would have been better to just tell 2 and cut the tour down by an hour. This would have meant less waiting around in the cold and fewer stifled yawns.
The boat ride did mix up the tour nicely, but ended quite abruptly not long after that, which was a welcome relief.
So overall, whilst half of the stories were entertaining, the other half were a bit dry and we lost interest. The group size was fine, and Joe did well at keeping us together, even when we went on the underground, but the whole tour went on too long. It wasn’t particularly scary or ghostly either, it was more like a morbid history of a few streets of London…
