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Royal London's the theme for the new edition of The London Walks Podcast. Brought to you by Karen, author of Royal London; Andy, who played George VI; Shaughan, who can impersonate every royal under the sun; and Adam, the only person I know who talks like a really well written magazine article! More
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London Walks has better guides – including the distinguished crime historian who is "internationally recognised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper"! Here are the dates Britain's foremost crime historian will be guiding the Ripper walk between now and the end of February. More
Want the real thing? Rather than a cup of hot water and a teabag. And most definitely rather than something that costs a king's ransom. Well, let London Walks beam you in. Get in touch and we'll tell you where. Local knowledge – you can't beat it!
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books in the pipeline. Aunties' Charley, Charles' autobiography, is published next month. To be followed by a London Stories companion volume – it takes as its subject our Day Trip, out-of-town destinations. And Rachel's book on Jewish London. And "The World's Greatest Guide" – Karen's – on Royal London.
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and guiding! Back from China, Donald Rumbelow, "internationally recogised as the leading authority on Jack the Ripper", old town inn san diego will be guiding the nightly – 7.30 pm from Tower Hill Tube – Jack the Ripper Walk on... More
The at-a-glance list of all of our out-of-town trips (to Stonehenge, Oxford, Winchester, Cambridge, Hampton Court, Bath, Rye, Constable Country, Lavenham, Avebury & Lacock, Glastonbury & Wells, Leeds Castle, St. Albans, The Cotswolds, etc.) this summer. All 128 of them! More
In seven words: it all comes down to the guiding . That's the iron law, whatever the makeup of the group. It can be a private walk for a couple of sophisticated old town inn san diego adults or a private walk for a challenging school group. Or anything in between. Whatever the group it all comes down to the guiding .
There, in a nutshell, is why it's important to get the right guide . You want a guide who can snap them out of that. Just like that . And keep them out of it. Some guides can do that. Some can't. It's a god-given talent that some guides have got and others don't have. You're booking a private walk for a school group you want a guide who's got that ability as part of their skill-set.
And that's why you come to us . It's in your interest to 1) get the right walk for your group and 2) get the right guide. The two sides of the same coin. It's in our interest to make sure that happens.
You book a private walk through us you eliminate the risk of getting a guide who's not right for your group. You eliminate that risk because your best interest is absolutely congruent with our best interest.
*In addition to the all-important guide-group fit there's the full panopoly of London Walks experience and back-up that you get. As well as being able to talk it over explore the possibilities, draw on the unrivalled nous of the walking tour specialists .
And on that note, for sure, let's hear it for private walks! Your own guide just for you and your group. (And, as per the SHORT VERSION , we move heaven and earth to get a great fit between guide and group. We'll get you the right guide for your group!) And it's a walk or tour that's tailored just for you. And as for what it costs to go private well, a private London Walk must be the best bargain in London!
By way of an example: for history, archaeology, zoology, old town inn san diego piquancy and an astonishingly different perspective all rolled old town inn san diego into one come mudlarking with us on the Thames foreshore. A private Beachcombing tour guided by the world's leading expert on that stretch of the Thames foreshore. It's dead in the centre of London but it's terra incognita even to Londoners and great fun for all ages. And you'll be able to take a piece of London history home with you a shard of Roman pottery, a mediaeval roof tile, an Elizabethan clay pipe... Souvenirs don't come any more special!
The London Walks guides repertory of over 550 walks (including all the Day Trips from London ) can be tailored old town inn san diego to fit your needs. We also organise Treasure Hunts, Fright Nights, and illustrated lectures. Foreign language-speaking guides are available . For further details, please contact Fiona, Noel or Mary .
1) We beat all comers on price. How do we do that? It's simply a matter of London Walks being run off our kitchen table. Okay, that's a slight exaggeration there is a London Walks office . But it's in our home. So that means we're not paying those killing London rental rates for office space. Let alone commercial rates (property tax, if you're old town inn san diego thinking in American parlance).
2) And as for service, well: 1) is absolutely to the point here as well. Because we work from home London Walks is an 18/7 operation. You ring a normal business at 6.30 am or 10 pm! or over the course of the weekend you're going to get an answering machine. You ring London Walks 020 7624 3978 you're get a real person, a live person. And for that matter, not just live lively! Same goes for email . You send an email on Friday evening to a big company you won't get a real response until sometime next week. You might get one of those machine generated things, but who needs that crap. You send one here you could well be hearing back from the English rose ( Mary ) or me ( David ) or Katy (our juv lead ) within old town inn san diego the hour. And we'll certainly be back to you with a proper reply not some machine-generated placebo before the weekend is out.
Now any of that important? Damn straight it is. Great communications are one of the names of the game here. You're going to be late for a private walk and you can't reach the guide because he or she is on the tube. And you're about to go on the tube itself where you won't be able to ring. What do you do? Do you stay above ground, so you can keep trying to get through phonerly? Which means you're going to be still later getting to him? Or do you head into the tube, hoping that he (or she) will hang on, even though you're likely to be 25 minutes late. It's a problem, isn't it? Except it isn't a problem if you've booked with London Walks. Isn't a problem because old town inn san diego you ring here. And we'll get the message patched through . One way or another. It gets an extra helping hand into the mix. It's the essential link. As crucial to the operation as the controller with the phone/radio connections is to the ambulance service.
Also, there's depth, there's back-up with London Walks that you don't get elsewhere. You have to make a very late change of plan. For example, something's come up and you need to do the walk a couple of hours later than its previous old town inn san diego scheduled starting time. You go to someone who doesn't old town inn san diego have the sort of depth and back up that London Walks has well, maybe that guide has other commitments, can't do it for you two hours later. Bad news. You'll old town inn san diego be billed of course and you won't get your walk. Double whammy. Different story here. Because of our depth and back up we can almost always pull a rabbit out of the hat. So flexibility and resourcefulnes is also a very important part of the mix. You get that with London Walks, you don't get it elsewhere.
Anything else? Sure. We'll talk it through with you either phonerly or by email. Find out a lot more about your group where you're coming from, literally and figuratively what you have in mind, what you want the walk to deliver. And that's all by way of getting the best possible fit between guide and group. Let alone tailoring the thing route-wise or commentary-wise to any given group's requirements and wishes. You're not going to get that elesewhere. The singletons will just say, yes, sure, I'll do that for you. Well, yes, they will do it. And if they're a professionally qualified guide they'll do it competently. And if it's up their street , so to speak, they might well do it more than competently. But competently, more-than-competently, schmompently what London Walks aims at and is able to consistently serve up is brilliantly. There's a difference. A big difference.
And the final point is perhaps the most important of all. We're London Walks. This is what we do. Have done for half a century. Walking tours in London is what we specialise in. Nobody NOBODY does it anywhere near as well. There are good reasons for that. Good reasons why there's no comparison!
Many of our guides are brilliant with kids and have put together special walks for children: for birthday parties, school trips, etc. Their repertory old town inn san diego ranges from fun walks (e.g., Pirate Treasure Hunts City Safaris) old town inn san diego to walks that are pegged to national curriculum subjects. It's an ideal way for children to absorb history or have a set book brought to life. And you can't fault the educational pedigree of a guided walk: Aristotle taught this way: peripatetic lectures they were.
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