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5 Best Activities In London Bridge

5 family-friendly attractions in London Bridge, Greater London

Every one of the five entries here is filed as sightseeing, and it plays out exactly that way: Tower Bridge, The View from The Shard, The London Bridge Experience and two themed walking tours. No playground, no soft play, no farm. This is a list for children old enough to want to look at a city rather than climb on one.

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Under-fives get very little from these five. Older children — especially any who have been promised a view — do a great deal better.

Visiting London Bridge with kids: FAQs

Does this suit young children?

Not particularly. All five are sightseeing entries, three are under cover, and none is a play space or a park. A child excited by height and machinery will take to Tower Bridge or The View from The Shard, but a toddler gets little from a walking tour and less from a queue. At that age the answer is a different postcode altogether.

Which has the best score?

Tour for Muggles on 4.9, narrowly ahead of Tower Bridge on 4.8, and the weakest of the five is 4.2 — a strong set of numbers by any standard. What the numbers cannot tell you is whether your children will stand still for it. A well-run walking tour is still a walking tour, so this is a question about attention span rather than quality.

What survives bad weather?

Three of the five are under cover, including The View from The Shard and The London Bridge Experience, so rain narrows the choice without ending it. The two walking tours are what suffer: an hour outdoors in poor weather with children is rarely anyone's favourite memory. Keep those for a dry morning and take the indoor entries when the sky looks wrong.

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