Discover Greenwich: Full-Day Tour

Discover Greenwich on a full-day tour of the home of the Meridian line. Greenwich is London’s ‘jewel in the crown’, and one of the most visited attractions in the UK due to its rich British heritage, the Queen’s house, the Old Royal Naval College, the huge National Maritime Museum and the historic Greenwich market along with its brilliant architecture.

Departing from your centrally located hotel or accommodation, this full-day tour will take you on a journey where you will walk through the green fields of Royal Greenwich Park and enjoy the amazing mix between 17th century-old buildings and the most spectacular views of London’s modern skyline across the river Thames.

Your Professional London Driver Guide will share many thrilling stories, including 2 separate bomb explosions in the park, one of which was featured in an Alfred Hitchcock thriller, and will take you to the Royal Observatory, home to the world-famous Meridian Line where you will snap the perfect photo with one foot in the west and one foot in the east.

Greenwich also houses the Great Equatorial Telescope, the world’s earliest public time signal the Time Ball and through the Camera Obscura, you will be mesmerised by a live panorama of London.

At Queen’s House, you will have the opportunity to walk into Britain’s first-ever classical building, a pioneering masterpiece of 17th-century architecture that will transport you back in time to the birthplace of King Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth I.

If you are a fan of the Netflix blockbuster Bridgerton, you will recognise the elegant colonnades as a movie site location that was featured in Season 1 as the Somerset House and the venue for one of the balls.

At the National Maritime Museum, your Driver Guide will show you the Great Map, where a gigantic space is brought to life with a huge interactive world map, the Admiral Lord Nelson’s uniform which he was wearing the day he was fatally wounded, and Nelson’s Ship in a Bottle, which is one of the most photographed artworks in London.

After a lunch break in the form of a quintessentially English Traditional Afternoon Tea underneath the hull of the Cutty Sark, which is the world’s sole-surviving tea clipper, celebrated for her record-breaking passages around the globe, you will enjoy a stroll through historic Greenwich Market. It first opened in 1737, and you will have a chance to pick up some gift shopping or even stock up on some sweet treats.

Your Driver Guide will tell you the story of St. Alfege Church, located in the centre of Greenwich, where an Archbishop of Canterbury was martyred at the altar.

On your way back to your hotel from an exceptional Greenwich full-day tour, you will swing by the Mayflower Pub, a hidden gem surrounded by cobbled streets, where you can spot the original 1620 mooring point of the vessel which transported the Pilgrim Fathers to the New World.