Great fun to ride up the Thames on a water taxi using your Oyster card. Great views from afar of London. This is where TIME started as we know it. A hidden surprise outside of London that has changed history. Stand on the Meridian and...More
About Royal Observatory Greenwich
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Great fun to ride up the Thames on a water taxi using your Oyster card. Great views from afar of London. This is where TIME started as we know it. A hidden surprise outside of London that has changed history. Stand on the Meridian and...More
Having travelled down the Thames from The Tower of London - best way to travel to Greenwich because you get commentary all the way providing you travel with City Cruises - walking through The Royal Observatory with a good quality guide (free tour once you...More
You need half a day if you want to visit the observatory (including travel time). The observatory is great & the planetorium will be fun for kids. If your the curious kind then the observatory will satisfy you as it tells you why clocks came...More
Absolutely delighted to be educated in the the why's of Greenwich Mean time and the how's of the calculation of longitude.
First of, don't pay the entrance fee. Large parts of the exhibition are for free anyway and to see the metal rail which marks the meridian you can as well look through the railing from the outside, it is not that impressive. Make sure to...More
The small museum at the Observatory is more interesting than we had imagined. It is at the top of a hill, so some exertion is required to get there, after your short walk following the signs through the quaint town of Greenwich. Even in the...More
Greenwich is a quiet small town. There were sunny spells and scattered showers when we visited. Despite that we loved the tranquility and greenery of this place. There were lots to see too: the Greenwich Market, Queen’s House, Maritime Museum......Definitely worth a day to spend...More
We had a great day exploring Greenwich and then heading up to the Observatory. Loved the views and learning about the history of time and such. Well worth a visit.
Our family (2 adults and 2 teenagers - one aged 19 and one aged 15) went today, and really enjoyed it; the exhibition is accessible to children with plenty of fun and interesting displays and interactive screens, but is also great for an older audience...More
We took a trip to the Observatory before we went to the Planetarium show. We are both very interested in history and the sciences, although we will both admit to physics being our weak point. We did not take up the audio tour, and wonder...More