London Ducktours

Like many other reviewers on here I too think this tour is overpriced for what it is. We paid L38 for two adults and the tour was not 75 minutes as advertised but only 55 minutes. (No explanation or part-refund was offered!)

The tour just drives around in the traffic for a bit then goes into the water for ten minutes then out again and round the streets a bit then ends. Big deal! It does not stop anywhere so you only dash past the "sights" anyway.

Everyone is packed in very tightly. There is no space whatsoever for luggage or bags of any kind.

The only saving grace was the guide, whose patter was hilarious; though it did irritate me that she expected us to applaud the driver (why?--- we don't applaud bus/train/tube drivers just for doing their jobs!) and hinted that we should leave a tip, which, considering we'd paid nearly 40 quid for less than an hour was a damned cheek!

I recommend that you give this one a miss. It's just a tourist-trap run by staff who cannot even be bothered to do the full 75 minutes.

Get a London Transport all day ticket and a Thames Clipper all day ticket and you can get on and off Tubes, buses, trains and boats from dawn till midnight for exactly the same price.h

We booked months in advance and should have been highlight of trip before returning to Cardiff. We were booked on the 11 o'clock trip. We arrived well in advance as required. The two duck tour employees were rude and unhelpful and told us we had to wait as they were running late. We waited for almost an hour and throughout this period we were told that the bus would be arriving soon. At 11.30 as the bus arrived we were told that our bus had been cancelled and a private group got on the bus instead. My children were in tears as we were so looking forward to the trip. Also because they made us wait so long before telling us we were unable to find an alternative.

I have never been treated so appallingly by a company before. The impression that they gave was that we were lucky to get a refund. I would not recommend that you use this company.

The Duck Tour was a novel and fun way to see London from an old amphibious landing craft from WW2 and was worth the cost. Quirky way to see the capital very good tour guide and injected fun into the tour.