London Transport Museum have launched two afternoon and evening tour packages for its award-winning Hidden London tours of Down Street and Charing Cross. Guests will be able to spend a unique and truly ‘London’ day, starting with an exclusive historical tour of secret and forgotten locations on the Underground network and ending in a luxury experience at some of the city’s finest hotels.
The experience packages will include a ticket to a Hidden London tour of either disused station Down Street or Charing Cross’s secret Jubilee line platforms and corridors, and a cocktail and nibbles at the Flemings Mayfair or a classic Afternoon Tea at The Clermont.
London Transport Museum’s Hidden London tours are exclusive guided tours that give ticketholders a chance to step into secret locations on London Underground’s network where the city’s history actually took place. They are the only ones in the city that grant guests access to locations which are usually off limits to the public.
Charing Cross & Classic Afternoon Tea at The Clermont: Running every Friday at 14:35, from 7 July to 13 August, priced at £79 per adult & concession at £74.
This tour gives guests an opportunity to explore secret areas of Charing Cross station that are not normally accessible to the public, but that can be recognised from many famous movies and TV productions including Skyfall, Paddington Bear, and TV’s Killing Eve and A Spy Among Friends. This exclusive tour will take guests to disused parts of the station – some even located right under Trafalgar Square, to tread the Jubilee line platforms and corridor that have been closed to the public since 1999 but have been used for filming ever since. After the tour, guests will be directed to The Clermont, one of London’s greatest railway hotels, to enjoy a quintessentially British afternoon tea complete with scones, finger sandwiches and homemade treats.
Down Street and Luxury Cocktail & Nibbles at The Flemings Hotel: Running every Friday and Saturday at 17:30, from 28 July to 24 September, priced at £105 per adult & concession at £100.
This tour allows guests to explore disused underground station Down Street, one of London’s most intriguing spaces, hidden between the Piccadilly line tracks in Mayfair. It had a short life as a working station from 1907 to 1932, before becoming the Railway Executive Committee’s top-secret headquarters in the Second World War. This guided tour will take guests down a warren of tunnels that lay hidden in plain sight, mere feet away from passing trains. where they’ll hear declassified war secrets and intrigues, how the railways were kept running during the war, and the stories of those who lived and worked there – including Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who secretly took refuge there at the height of the Blitz. Once the tour finishes, guests will be directed to Manetta’s Bar at nearby hotel Flemings Mayfair, a cosy, glamorous space full of secluded corners and 1930s flair where spies were once rumoured to meet.
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