London Duck Tours — Local services in London

I really enjoyed my duck tour. More than I should be admitting to perhaps.

I booked the tour as a bit of a silly novelty for myself and two non-Londoners who were paying me a visit. It ended up being my highlight of the day and I know that they thoroughly enjoyed too.

We had to queue for a little while before we were told which 'duck' we would be boarding. These are not luxury vehicles - they are very old WW2 relics revamped. But any reservations we may have had about boarding quickly disappeared when our tour guide began talking. He and the driver were hilarious and as we drove around the streets of London, I actually realised that I was seeing an awful lot and learning a good few interesting facts about the landmarks we passed aswell.

Then came the moment when we drove into the Thames. It was hilarious, everybody was excitedly nervous and really seeing the humour in our situation. Why does anybody put themselves into such a position anyway? We made it into the water just fine and proceeded to sail on up the river and the tour continued. Be warned, do not open your mouth too wide or wear nice clothing as there is a lot of splashing going on at this point.

We made it back to land just fine and were dropped off feeling all the better and laughing our heads off. I could say that the Duck Tour is ridiculous and very cheesy, because it is. But at the same time, at a point, ridiculous and cheesy does somehow...

The child in me had wanted to go on this ever since I saw the bright yellow vehicles driving around town and the opportunity presented itself when my nieces and cousin of 'appropriate' age were visiting this past Christmas. I thought that the kids would enjoy the novelty of an amphibious vehicle, but I probably ended up having just as much (if not more) fun on the ride. Our tour guide threw out so many new and interesting facts on all the landmarks we went past that I felt like a complete London newbie. He also mentioned that the best time to take the tour was around the 12-1pm time slots because you would be getting into the water during high tide. This was by far one of the most fun things I've ever done in London and highly...

Totally overpriced and overrated in my opinion... Be aware you might get stuck in traffic, no fun point about that... further I was disappointed of not actually seeing Buckingham Palace, you see only the back of it... I didn't know that, so was maybe my fault for not reading it properly....Otherwise I send a request before I booked it, never got a reply to that until I sent a complaint afterwards... No customer service via phone available for further information, which would have helped me... The splash in the water and the time in the water was nice, but at that point the kids were already half asleep after standing around in the traffic for more than 1 hour......