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Thames Cruise from Westminster to the Tower of London

A boat rather than a tour of the fortress: this ticket takes you down the Thames from Westminster to the Tower of London, and the castle is the point you arrive at rather than the thing you go inside. The river runs past a good part of what people come to London to see, and a guide names it as you go: Westminster Abbey, the Cabinet War Rooms, the London Eye, Tower Bridge. Sitting down for the length of it is a fair way to cover ground that would otherwise take an afternoon on foot, and the view of the bank from the water is one the streets do not give you.