Visitor guide
How to Book a Black Cab Tour
The fare hires the cab, not the seat, and almost nothing you go inside is in it. A first booking, in the order the questions arrive.
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Pieces on the questions this format actually generates. What the fare covers and how to book it. What you see, stop by stop. Why the vehicle is shaped the way it is. How it works with children in the back. And the comparison every first-time visitor makes before they spend anything.
The route
What You See on a Black Cab Tour
Fourteen stops with the operators' own timings against them, from Kensington Palace to Tower Bridge, and which ones you only drive past.
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Background
Black Cab Facts Most People Miss
320 routes, three to four years to learn them, and a licensing deadline that is quietly retiring the diesel fleet.
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With children
Black Cab Tours With Kids
One fare for five, a loo stop whenever you ask, and no walking between landmarks — against the one thing a London taxi does not carry.
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Comparison
Black Cab Tour or Bus Tour?
Two products, one piece of arithmetic, and a straight answer about the travellers who should take the bus instead.
Read post →Between them they cover the names everybody arrives with — Westminster, the Tower, Abbey Road, Platform 9¾ — and the practical business of getting between them without spending the afternoon underground.
Longer reading
These answer one question each. The black cab tour guides take a whole decision at a time: which tour to book, how to arrange a full day, whether you need a tour at all, what one costs, and which month to come in.
Or go straight to the tours and compare the private black cab tours of London on hours, theme and fare. The full list sits on Black Cab London Tours.