Wednesday 23 April 2014

Windsor Castle and The London Eye




Highlights:

Morning tour to Windsor Castle
Visit the State Apartments, St. Georges Chapel and Queen Mary's Dolls House
Free time to explore Windsor town and buy souvenirs
Transportation To The London Eye
The Tour:

After your courtesy pick-up, we head out to Windsor Castle where over 900 years of royal history are waiting for you. From William the Conqueror all the way through to our current Queen, successive monarchs have lived here and left their mark on what is now the largest continuously occupied castle in the world. Your ticket allows entrance to the castle, so you can see for yourself the splendour of St. Georges Chapel and the sumptuous state apartments. Windsor itself is a pretty town full of traditional shops and historic pubs. Shakespeare is said to have written his play The Merry Wives of Windsor in one of them!

London Eye

A breathtaking feat of design and engineering, passengers in the London Eye's capsules can see up to 40 kilometres in all directions

It took seven years and the skills of hundreds of people from five countries to make the London Eye a reality.  The London Eye can carry 800 passengers per revolution - equivalent to 11 London red doubled-decker buses. Each rotation takes about 30 minutes, meaning a capsule travels at a stately 26cm per second, or 0.9km (0.6 miles) per hour - twice as fast as a tortoise sprinting; allowing passengers to step on and off without the wheel having to stop.

The height of the London Eye is 135m (equivalent to 64 red telephone boxes piled on top of each other) making it the fourth tallest structure in London after the BT Tower, Tower 42 and One Canada Square in Canary Wharf.