London's Historic Pubs - A great night out - Not a pub crawl!

Like to try an alternative entertainment to the theatre? Here's an entertaining and informative alternative for those wanting a bit more than the regular tourist attractions.

Away from regular tourist sites, down London's own 'back-roads', are ancient pubs, coaching inns, and riverside taverns that have survived 500 years of fire, flood, wartime Blitz, and the modern developer!

On this fully guided, four-hour tour, you'll go where Shakespeare and Dickens drank, where pirates and smugglers met, where highway men found their victims, where revolutionaries plotted, and where Royalty consorted. We'll show you Victorian 'Gin Palaces', haunted pubs, inns with prison cells beneath them, pubs where great literature was written, and even a pub built from the timbers of the Pilgrim Father's 'Mayflower'!

This is not a drinking tour but a tour through London's amazing social history, using historic pubs as our focal point. You hear a host of fascinating stories, including the history of beer in Britain. You'll also be learning the origin and meaning of many English words and phrases in daily use, like 'bringing someone down a peg or two', or why we get 'dead drunk'.

There's time to sample an ale or two, and to have traditional fish 'n 'chips (not included in the tour price).

All in all, an unbeatable night out!

• The tour returns to central hotels from 11 p.m.
• Children under 14 are not encouraged to take this tour.
• Please note that there is some walking but we largely use a
  mini-coach (maximum 16 persons) to get us from location to location.