EVER Lav is in the air
(well, it’s 800ft up London’s giant Shard building)
Small room, big view ... loo at the top of The Shard
Tall order ... The Sun's Martin Phillips by The Shard
DAVID NEW
Adults who book in advance will get tickets for a not-too-steep £24.95 and children £18.95.
Pay-on-the day tickets cost adults £29.95 and £23.95 for kids — although availability is limited.
The open-air viewing platform on Level 72 of the 1,016ft (309.6m) Shard is about the highest you can get without flying and opens to the public on February 1.
As I was given the privilege of a sneak peek at the view to beat all views, I realised how Gulliver must have felt looking down on the tiny folk of Lilliput.
High definition ... digital telescope looks out over SE London
One of the greatest cities in the world was reduced to miniature as I gazed down from the highest vantage point of any building in Western Europe.
It didn’t start too auspiciously.
The view, at 9 o’clock on a brisk January morning, was of an old-style London pea-souper. But getting up there is part of the fun. Lifts travelling at six metres per second whisk visitors up to Level 33, with video on the lift ceiling taking them virtually up through the domes of St Paul’s and the Royal Albert Hall.
The next lift propels you just as quickly to Level 68 — 60 seconds after leaving the ground floor.
Spectacular ... viewing platform on Level 72
Bosses expect only one or two days a year of zero visibility, when ticket-holders will be offered the chance to return another time.
Even in poor weather, visitors can expect to see for three to five miles. And state-of-the-art digital telescopes not only identify 200 landmarks across the capital, but can also cut through the gloom.
Point them anywhere in the city and, at the touch of a button, they can show you what you would be seeing on a clear day.
Suddenly, though, the clouds cleared for me. The sun shone and the capital spread out before me for 40 miles in each direction.
This was the city painted by Canaletto, described by Dickens and Samuel Johnson, and sung about by The Kinks and The Clash. The word they were searching for, I now believe, is: “Wow!”
Small wonder ... Tower Bridge is tiny from The Shard
EVER Lav is in the air
(well, it’s 800ft up London’s giant Shard building)
Small room, big view ... loo at the top of The Shard
Tall order ... The Sun's Martin Phillips by The Shard
DAVID NEW
Adults who book in advance will get tickets for a not-too-steep £24.95 and children £18.95.
Pay-on-the day tickets cost adults £29.95 and £23.95 for kids — although availability is limited.
The open-air viewing platform on Level 72 of the 1,016ft (309.6m) Shard is about the highest you can get without flying and opens to the public on February 1.
As I was given the privilege of a sneak peek at the view to beat all views, I realised how Gulliver must have felt looking down on the tiny folk of Lilliput.
High definition ... digital telescope looks out over SE London
One of the greatest cities in the world was reduced to miniature as I gazed down from the highest vantage point of any building in Western Europe.
It didn’t start too auspiciously.
The view, at 9 o’clock on a brisk January morning, was of an old-style London pea-souper. But getting up there is part of the fun. Lifts travelling at six metres per second whisk visitors up to Level 33, with video on the lift ceiling taking them virtually up through the domes of St Paul’s and the Royal Albert Hall.
The next lift propels you just as quickly to Level 68 — 60 seconds after leaving the ground floor.
Spectacular ... viewing platform on Level 72
Bosses expect only one or two days a year of zero visibility, when ticket-holders will be offered the chance to return another time.
Even in poor weather, visitors can expect to see for three to five miles. And state-of-the-art digital telescopes not only identify 200 landmarks across the capital, but can also cut through the gloom.
Point them anywhere in the city and, at the touch of a button, they can show you what you would be seeing on a clear day.
Suddenly, though, the clouds cleared for me. The sun shone and the capital spread out before me for 40 miles in each direction.
This was the city painted by Canaletto, described by Dickens and Samuel Johnson, and sung about by The Kinks and The Clash. The word they were searching for, I now believe, is: “Wow!”
Small wonder ... Tower Bridge is tiny from The Shard
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