New openings.
London Bridge Experience Opens
Do you remember when we spent the night in a spooky catacomb under London Bridge? Well that was all part of The London Bridge Experience. It opened this week and we got invited along to find out what it was like.
We wanted to really enjoy it and be blown away. But it was just a little bit average. It's be dubbed 'bloody scary' but people jumping out at you isn't that scary when you know it's going to happen. Maybe if we weren't expecting it then it might have been different.
It's great to see the building now it's been finished. When we were there it was still a building site. And it does look great now. But it's not that special. £2million has gone into the project so we were just expecting a little bit more.
We know that the museum upstairs is only part of the experience, but we don't think it's worth it on its own. And we're not sure that the tour is worth £19.95. It's fun, but we wouldn't feel like it was money well spent. Maybe that's because there was an annoying drunk journalist on our tour who wouldn't shut up. It kind of took the edge off things for us.
What annoyed us most was that some of the history was inaccurate. Putting William Wallace in a kilt annoys us. He never wore a kilt and if we're paying that much for a historical tour, we at least want the history to be correct. That said, we did like the acting in the rooms and the whole thing felt a little bit like that old kids show Nightmare.
It's still very early days for The London Bridge Experience and we have no doubt things will evolve. We just wish they'd got it right from the start.
The London Bridge Experience is at 2-4 Tooley Street under London Bridge. Walk down Nancy's steps to find it.
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3 Comments
I was hoping for better too and some aspects will undoubtedly improve (the actors playing various London types for example can only get better.)
Main problem is that it doesn't know if it's Arthur or Martha. It lacks the proper history focus of Tower Bridge Experience and niether does it have the slick shocks of the London Dungeon. The London Tombs bit is an entirely different entity with nothing really to do with the bridge and the Bridge Experience as a history theme park is pretty scrappy.
I loved the growling rock monster and giant python. I am indebted to the London Bridge Experience for introducing me to these hitherto unknown characters in the bridge's history.
And to think Peter de Colechurch invented perspex 700 years before anyone imagined. Wow!
No we werent overly impressed either but think you're being hard on the Rock Monster - wasnt it a Rock Monster that knocked london Bridge down in the first place?
For another review and a few pics of the launch party - check out www.hauntedattractions.co.uk