Is the view from the Shard worth £24.95?

[Fun Bus]

I'm in London for a long weekend this week. I'm considering going up the Shard, is it worth the £24.95 asking price?

[Papa Hotel]

25 quid??



$24 for the Statue of Liberty.

[Puggit]

Weather can't be guaranteed this week, there'll be some cloud about

[Quhet]

Cheaper and higher than the London Eye!

Edit, not cheaper. Thanks google

[Mobile Chicane]

£25?

Get the train to Epsom Downs and enjoy the same view for free.

[gansstraat]

Harder and stronger than a bad girl's dream?

[B17NNS]

What a complete and total rip off.

[danjama]

No it's not worth it. The Heron Tower has a restaurant called Sushi Samba on a ridiculously high floor. Lovely cocktails and food, and no entry fee

AND it's in a much better part of London than the Shard.

[Mobsta]

Pop down to a fly-in (small local airshow). A 10 minute ride in a light aircraft will set you back the same, the experience fifty times more exciting.

[CommanderJameson]

OTOH, I couldn't see on the (truly awful) website any constraints on photography, so you could go up with a nice lens and a compact tripod and snap away for an hour.

[bga]

I used to work in the building it replaced (Southwark Towers) and my office is very close so we took our team up there once it was completed. The views were fantastic but not worth £25.

[jmorgan]

FOC here
http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html

[ThunderSpook]

We went up there. It was cloudy and raining and the windows were filthy. Unlike the Burj in Dubai there are no gaps in the windows to stick your camera through so all our pictures of barely visible through the mist stuff was through a filthy watery filter. Bit st really.

[London GT3]

I have been up twice and had good weather on both days - watched the sun go down over Heathrow on my first trip! I think if you know London well you will consider it to be worth the money but if you don't recognise the places that you are looking at then it is just a view of London from a tall building.

[chris7676]

1) I wasn't aware of the geographical change of the Epsom Downs having moved so close to the Tower Hill
2) Isn't it possible to actually go 'outside' on the top viewing platform? Btw, to me the Burj Khalifa view from the half-top wasn't great itself, it wsa more amazing down outside the buiding, could it be similar with the Shard?
3) Can you actually get a good view of the Shard itslef from the Heron Tower restaurant ?

Edited by chris7676 on Monday 1st July 12:22

[okgo]

IMO the view off the terrace at Sushi Samba up Heron Tower is great, and you can get a drink/food too. Yes its lower, but still higher than everything else round there and you can see a long old way in every direction.

[danjama]

okgo said:

IMO the view off the terrace at Sushi Samba up Heron Tower is great, and you can get a drink/food too. Yes its lower, but still higher than everything else round there and you can see a long old way in every direction.

[JapFreak786]

Having google'd Sushi Samba, I'm now making it a place to visit when I'm in London next!

[okgo]

Normally I'd say they're selling st food with a good view, but actually I thought the food was good. Certainly comparable to somewhere like Roka.

[nonuts]

I went up a few days after it opened, taking photo's is pretty hard due to both the angles and the dirt / finger prints on the glass. It was worth it as we watched sunset while we were there. I'd go back but it's not cheap so it wouldn't be that often!