George Mount

Review of Big Bus Tours - London

We took our tour of London during the Common Wealt...

We took our tour of London during the Common Wealth meeting and several roads were blocked off. This led to horrible traffic.

We took the blue line that has prerecorded information about the city and there were large gaps between any information being delivered. We hopped off near Buckingham Palace for lunch and after lunch came back to hop back on. Both the red and blue lines meet there and since we were dissatisfied with the blue line, we thought we'd enjoy the live tour of the red line.

Buses are supposed to arrive every 15-20 minutes. We waited half an hour for a bus. Nothing came. Not even a blue. So we took a walk closer to the start of the line and waited there. For an hour. We saw tour buses from every other line stop there several times before a bus finally came. It was a blue. Since we had been waiting for so long, we decided that it was better to take the blue than to wait for a red. It was a mistake -- we should have either taken the tube back to our start or waited for the red. The tour audio was not enjoyable.

Some of the issues were due to the Common Wealth meeting mangling traffic, but I recommend avoiding the lines with prerecorded audio.