HMS Belfast

Make sure you pick up the free audio guide as you board HMS Belfast so you can concentrate on viewing all the many and varied exhibits to be seen. There is much to interest those who appreciate the historical and technical side. Learn how HMS Belfast played a leading part in the destruction of the battle cruiser Scharnhorst, and also the Normandy Landings. Visit the engine room, boiler room, gun turrets, radio and communications rooms etc and do not miss the living quarters where even the ship's cat had its own hammock and lays contentedly! Do be aware though that with nine decks to explore you will need to be fairly agile to climb the countless near-vertical ladders throughout the ship. It took about 1.5 hours to complete my tour.

Well worth the time if naval history is of any interest to you.

You get to tour a large portion of the ship. Nice materials to explain things. Gives you a good idea of life on board HMS circa WWII.

Having seen enough buildings and towers my eight year old son loved this visit, it was reasonable for the capital £10 something for me and he went free. We spent the whole afternoon going up and down ladders, looking in boiler rooms and from the Bridge - pretended to aim the gun battery at the Houses of Parliament but then remembered "they" are all off on holiday too. We had a sandwich (£2.75) which was the freshest tasting I have bought all week and managed to get a table on the deck lookng out over theTower of London, then to top it all a clipper came down and we saw Tower Bridge open up. It was a bit hot and you would have to be mobile for all those ladders but he enjoyed it and I treated myself to a slice of cake after the work out.