London Planetarium

A couple of months ago I went to the London Planetarium as part of a 'two for one' Time Out splurge around London. You can buy tickets for the Planetarium for around £7.00 or so or buy them as a joint ticket with the Madame Toussards Exhibition next door. This works out a bit cheaper but you still need to remember to remortgage your house before setting out. At half price, the family ticket for both was still around £30 - if you see what I mean. Anyway, I digress. Having cost around a third of the joint ticket price, I was not expecting hours of fun but perhaps just two hours, maybe. The entrance lobby had a few interesting ...  Read the complete review

If you've read my opinion on Madame Tussauds, then you will know that I visited the Planetarium in part to avoid the long queue to get into Madame Tussauds. The Planetarium is part of the Tussauds group, and located next door to Madame T's, with a connecting door between the two - thus once you're inside the Planetarium you bypass the queue to get into Madame T's – nice one! Unfortunately however there is a downside - it is a little pricey to say the least. A single ticket to the Planetarium is £6.50, and a combined ticket to both Madame T's and the Planetarium is £13.95. I think the combined ticket is definitely the best option, as ...  Read the complete review

My boyfriend and I visited the planetarium as part of a joint ticket with Madame Tussauds included. It is easy to get to right beside the Baker St tube station. I must say while there were some redeeming features I was not overly impressed by it, and it is just as well it is on the other side of Madame Tussauds because it really does not stand out as a major attraction all by itself. This is because firstly the main show is far too short, and secondly there is not a sufficient variety of “displays” you look at before you enter the main arena. Displays included weight machines that gave peoples weight on Venus, Mars and simultaneously on earth, ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ Ever since I was a teenager in the 1960’s, I have had a fascination with space and the planets. This was the golden age of space travel, with the Americans and Russians competing against each other in their bid to be the first to send a man to the Moon. The Americans were to win this race when Neil Armstrong uttered those immortal words, “One small step for Man, one giant leap for Mankind” when he became the first human to set foot on the lunar surface in July of 1969. Many have travelled there since, but as a young man of eighteen, sitting watching this moment of history being enacted on an old 20-inch black and white TV, it was like the ...  Read the complete review

I went to London about 2 years ago so you may think why am I reviewing this now. Well quite simply it has stuck in my mind more than anything else in the city. Much more so than more well known attractions like Tower Bridge. You are seated in a circular room in rows of seats and the show is projected onto the dome like roof. This may sound uncomfy but I can assure you everything is designed brilliantly. The show obviously is all about the solar system, space exploration, star formations etc. and as a complete newcomer to the topic I left with a vast ammount of knowledge from the trip. If you are very much into astronomy you may be left wanting more detailed ...  Read the complete review