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Westminster with Stephen Fry: Audio Tour by a National Treasure
(1) Reviews
London
Important Information
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Public transportation options are available nearby
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Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.
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This self-guided audio tour through Westminster is hosted by the legendary Stephen Fry and was developed with the QI Elves, the research team behind the hit BBC show QI. This immersive walking tour uncovers the bizarre facts and hidden secrets behind London's most famous landmarks.
Over the next hour, Stephen’s narration guides you through the quirky history hiding in plain sight. Starting at Westminster Pier, your audio guide leads you toward Trafalgar Square. Pass the Houses of Parliament to hear about odd traditions like free snortable tobacco for MPs.
Along the way, you'll learn how Westminster Abbey staff jealously used a flawed waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure tourists from St. Paul'...
Highlights
From 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
App for Android and iOS
Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
Smartphone and headphones
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Food and drink
Transportation
Meeting Points
Departure
Westminster Pier
This tour starts at Westminster Pier. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Return
Cleopatra's Needle
This self-guided audio ends in front of Cleopatra's Needle.
Itinerary
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Houses of Parliament
On this audio tour, you'll learn about how the traditional members' smoking ban still requires the doorkeeper to provide MPs with free, finely ground snortable snuff tobacco from a box made of salvaged door-frame wood.
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Westminster Abbey
On this walking tour, you'll hear about how the Abbey's staff once jealously commissioned a waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure paying tourists back from his actual burial site at St. Paul's Cathedral—though they accidentally gave the statue an injury on the wrong eye.
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The Cenotaph
On this GPS-guided tour, you'll find out how this war memorial relies on an ancient Greek optical illusion called "entasis," where the stone blocks secretly taper toward the top to prevent the human eye from mistakenly perceiving the monument as concave.
4
10 Downing Street
On this immersive smartphone tour, you'll discover how every single Prime Minister since 1997 has actually chosen to swap homes and live next door at number 11 because its bedrooms are much nicer.
5
Women of World War II Memorial
On this self-guided audio tour, you'll learn about a unique monument representing wartime women that was partially funded by a former Speaker of the House of Commons who won donation money on Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
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Nelson's Column
On this historical walking tour, you'll be treated to the story of how fourteen construction workers celebrated the monument's completion in 1843 by using a pulley system to eat an exclusive steak-and-champagne dinner at the very top of the statue.
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St Martin-in-the-Fields
On this audio journey, you'll explore a historic church that was expanded by Henry VIII simply because he was irritated by the view of plague victims being carried past his palace windows.
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Charing Cross Underground Station
On this GPS-guided walk, you'll tune into the story of the station yard's pointed monument to Eleanor of Castile, whose 13th-century organs were famously divided up and buried in three separate tombs across England to preserve her remains.
9
Victoria Embankment Gardens
On this smartphone walking tour, you'll find out how this lush park sits right over a massive Victorian sewage network and boasts a tree canopy dense enough to be officially classified as a forest by UN standards.
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Cleopatra's Needle
On this final tour stop, you'll hear about how the flanking Victorian sphinxes by this 3,500-year-old obelisk were accidentally installed backward, facing toward the monument instead of away to protect it.
Westminster with Stephen Fry: Audio Tour by a National Treasure
(1) Reviews
London
About
This self-guided audio tour through Westminster is hosted by the legendary Stephen Fry and was developed with the QI Elves, the research team behind the hit BBC show QI. This immersive walking tour uncovers the bizarre facts and hidden secrets behind London's most famous landmarks.
Over the next hour, Stephen’s narration guides you through the quirky history hiding in plain sight. Starting at Westminster Pier, your audio guide leads you toward Trafalgar Square. Pass the Houses of Parliament to hear about odd traditions like free snortable tobacco for MPs.
Along the way, you'll learn how Westminster Abbey staff jealously used a flawed waxwork of Lord Nelson to lure tourists from St. Paul'...
Highlights
From 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
From 1 hour and 15 minutes to 1 hour and 30 minutes
Offered in English
Free Cancellation
Mobile Ticket
What's Included
Directions to the starting point so that when you're in the right place, the tour will start
Lifetime access to this tour in English before your booking date and after it
Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
App for Android and iOS
Flexibility to explore at your own pace with a self-guided GPS tour
Smartphone and headphones
Personal expenses for admission fees not included during the tour
Food and drink
Transportation
Meeting Points
Departure
Westminster Pier
This tour starts at Westminster Pier. Before arrival, please install the mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Return
Cleopatra's Needle
This self-guided audio ends in front of Cleopatra's Needle.