Ripleys Believe It Or Not Museum - beleive it or not you've been had (Ripley's Believe It Or Not (London))

Member Name: chrisc92

Product:	Ripley's Believe It Or Not (London)
Date:	07/08/09 (134 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Disgusting

My partner (Sue) enjoys watching this sort of thing on telly but I'm afraid Ripleys Believe It Or Not Museum in the heart of Piccadily Circus really did not do anything for either of us.

It was the second part of our whirlwind tour of London and despite being a little peckish we decided to go to the "Museum" first which by this stage was about 9pm on Monday night.

I had been getting e-mail alerts from lastminute.com and Sue got all excited when she saw this as a buy one get one free offer so we had no reservations in paying £19.95.

I have to admit that before we even got to London I had my reservations about this and the London Eye, I was wrong about the London Eye but Sue felt incredibly guilty about wasting our money on this.

I know there are some that appreciate seeing cows with 5 legs or other animals with 8, or seeing what was supposedly an alien like person that had spent his entire life as a freak show at a circus and rather than bury him when he died had turned him into an exhibition. It certainly wasn't my cup of tea. It was quite interesting to see portraits made out of bubble gum and many of the other exhibits but to me this was just sick.

I knew I was on a hiding to nothing when I handed over my e-mail confirming the booking for the assistant to say they only had one person on their list - despite it clearly stating 2 for 1, and the freaky light show in the lift was cheap and tatty. It is the only part of our tour that Sue genuinely felt we'd been ripped off by.

Like everything else its my opinion, but I certainly won't recommend this or go into any more details because I'm afraid this disgusted me. I have given this a 1* rating as its the lowest I can give. I know one thing for sure that this is one exhibition that neither of us will visit again.

Summary: I have no positive comments to make about this place - it was sick