2. ££ You want an example? A family of four can go on a London Walk for as little as £10. A bus tour is going to cost that same family £58. Game, set, match - n'c'est pas?
3. Flexibility and convenience. There's no booking. You just turn up at the designated starting point at the time stated. If the weather's filthy you can change your mind and you're not out a penny. Which ain't the case - needless to say - with the operators who are desperate to get you to book and pre-pay.
Fancy phrase - "designated starting point". In plain English, London Walks start just outside the
exit of tube stations. And yes, that ubiquitous symbol spells London tube stop! N.B., our
Explorer Days - to Bath, Oxford, etc. - meet by the ticket office of the train station we're departing from.
4. 18/7 Those are hours and days of the week that we're answering the phone here. A real person. Not a machine. Answering any questions you've got. Talking it over with you. Making recommendations if you'd like, etc. And you know something, sometimes it's more like 19 or 20/7!
5. There's nothing shrill about London Walks. No hard sell. No "if you don't book [and pre-pay] you might not get to go" work-ups. No adverts - either on this website or on Google "searches".
6. This is one is so simple - and so important: a guided walking tour is by far the best way to see London.
7. Award-winning company. London Walks - the oldest urban tour walking tour company on the planet - is "acknowledged as the premier walking tour company in the entire world."
8. Try us and you'll see. After all, the risk is, what? - the cost of a Starbucks cheese sandwich and an espresso.
9. Your fellow walkers. They're lively, interesting, intelligent, adventurous, congenial, charming people. People who are fun to rub elbows with for a couple of hours. You'll like them.
10. And as for our
Explorer Days, our out-of-town trips to
Bath,
Stonehenge & Salisbury,
Oxford & the Cotswolds,
Cambridge,
Chatsworth & the Peak District,
Avebury & Lacock,
Richmond & Hampton Court, etc. - what goes for London also goes for them.
Nonpareil guides, ££ (
they cost a lot less), absolute convenience and flexibility,
a much better way of seeing those places, better company, lots of added value, etc. etc.
11.
Tons of added value.
££ - yes, that stuff: again.
There's less of it going out of your pocket precisely because London Walks has cut lots of deals with other "attractions". Whether it's the Tower of London, or Westminster Abbey or St. Paul's or the Cabinet War Rooms or the Shakespeare Exhibition at the Globe or Stonehenge or Oxford Colleges, etc. - we get you in cheaper. And get you there cheaper! In short, we've also got great deals with boat and train companies (for
Explorer Days or
London Walks that involve a boat ride).
Okay, ran this up in five minutes on the 4th of July. Be adding to it in due course. All of these points can be - and will be - developed. The Guides, for example. It's long been a given about London Walks that it fields the best guides in London.They're accomplished, urbane, well educated, sophisticated people. What you want in a guide. Many of them are renowned in their fields. Donald Rumbelow, who regularly guides our Jack the Ripper walk, of course springs to mind. Donald is, as The Jack the Ripper A to Z put it, "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper". Or take our Blue Badge guides. The badge in itself is the hallmark of this profession. But it's not just that they're badged - most of them are award-winning Blue Badge guides! Several of them holders of the big one: The Guide of the Year Award.