View from the Shard

[Raymond Lin]

It's about about twice as much compare to other places around the globe.

It is $22/£14 (to go to top of Rockerfeller Centre (70th floor)
It is $25£16 to go to the observation deck on Empire State (87th floor)
It is $150/£12 HK to go to Sky100 in Hong Kong (100th floor)
It is €13/£12 to go to Eiffel Tower
It is $6 to go to Westin observation deck, but free if you eat at the restaurant, its kinda cool, has a spinning floor.

I've been up all of them

The thing is, London isn't really a great skyscraper city, it has a few tall buildings but it's skyline isn't dominated by them, it is a bit like Paris really. There are a few iconic buildings but they are much shorter.

 

[rs1800]

Look at http://www.the-shard.com/views/360.html

and save the money

 

[mothermachine]

Just go up Tower 42 and have some champs whilst sitting looking out the window for less. Having worked in there for 4 years I can tell you it's plenty high enough and a great view.

been up t42 twice once with workmates and once with missus for anniversary. we both loved it.

 

[Pav89]

IMHO the Shard doesn't belong in London. It's pretty much funded by Qatar, with restrictions as to what business can go on inside the building. It looks like someone just took a building design from the UAE and dumped it in the middle of London.

 

[Somnambulist]

I'll go up it at some point, there's no time restrictions, pretty much 360 view, the telescopes etc are free.

 

[Duke]

Seems very expensive, would expect it to be about a tenner. The programme on the building of the Shard is worth watching.

 

[G-MAN2004]

£25 to see London's utterly dull skyline? No thanks. One of the worst.

Edit: Okay, seems to be £15, but still...

 

[Sui]

Shard has a massive rodent problem at the moment anyway, hope they keep them, make some friends whilst you go up.

 

[King Damager]

Seems very expensive, would expect it to be about a tenner. The programme on the building of the Shard is worth watching.

It'd be worth going up for some photos but the Program is indeed v. good

Shard has a massive rodent problem at the moment anyway, hope they keep them, make some friends whilst you go up.

The whole of London has a massive rodent problem.

kd

 

[[TW]Fox]

£25 to see London's utterly dull skyline? No thanks. One of the worst.

Edit: Okay, seems to be £15, but still...

Nope, you were right first time - it's £25.

 

[rexehuk]

Nope, you were right first time - it's £25.

£24.95 actually.

 

[bsoltan]

Same price as a Flexi Ticket on the London Eye, but you get to see more and presumably can stay longer than 30mins?
http://www.londoneye.com/TicketsAndPrices/Tickets/Default.aspx

In Tokyo you can go to the 45th floor of the Metropolitan Government Building (4th tallest in Tokyo) for free which gives pretty good views of the city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Metropolitan_Government_Building

 

[wez130]

Haha, not a chance. London's finest traffic wardens gave me a £120 parking ticket for delivering structural steel for the shard building, whilst waiting in a specific construction waiting zone. 'i'm not bitter' lol

I'm sure it'll be a good view up there, but too expensive really.

Do you work for Prestons of Potto? They delivered a lot of steel for the shard.

 

[Bubo]

I would easy pay £25 to go up Sade, even now.

 

[[FnG]magnolia]

Yep. Probably twice.

 

[Uhtred]

I went up for free, admittedly it wasn't even half completed when I did

It was still an impressive view even then, but I think I'll wait until some tesco 2 for 1 vouchers come out