A London Walk costs £7 - or £5 for Super Adults (65+), full-time students, and Discount Walkabout Card holders. The Walkabout Cards are a tremendous bargain so do ask your guide for one! Children under 15 go free if accompanied by their parent(s).

The Explorer Days - Away We Go! to Oxford & The Cotswolds, Richmond & Hampton Court, Bath, Stonehenge & Salisbury, Cambridge, etc. are also unbeatable value: just £12 for adults (children under 15 go free); £11 for Discount Walkabout Card holders; £10 for students and Super Adults (over 65s) plus your tariffs (train fares and any entrance fees).And there's "added value" galore because time and again the tariffs are a big saving on the normal price. In most cases you're in effect getting the guide's services for the day for free thanks to the savings that we get you on the fares, etc. See the Explorer Days page for further particulars.

What's more - there's no need to book! Just turn up. But we do ask very large groups to let us know - so we can put on a second guide. Or arrange for you to have a private walk - which is even cheaper!

There's no red tape with London Walks! It's convenience itself. Whereas there's a huge downside to pre-booking and pre-paying. The downside is your flexiblity goes out the window. And indeed your money goes out the window as well if you don't go on the walk you've "pre-booked" and pre-paid for - don't go on it because the weather has turned impossibly foul. Or indeed because something else has come up - best laid plans and all of that!

It's like booking and paying for a theatre ticket and then not going. Not a desirable state of affairs, to say the least. And it bears repeating, with us the weather is a big factor. Whereas theatres - the Globe and the Open Air are the exceptions that prove the rule - have that marvelous new invention known as a roof! This past summer (2007) amply demonstrated, just how notoriously fickle and unreliable our weather can be. Bottom line - bottom line indeed! - with walking tours flexibility's important!

And what about group size? Well, to give you an idea - over the last couple of weeks my, David's, "gates" have been: 19, 32, 12, 13, 15, 27, 17, 13, 31, 19, 32. Graham's "gates" this month have been: 11, 4, 18, 8, 9, 24, 16, 8, 37, 10, 22, 42, 23, 14, 32, 20, 15, 12, 11, 10, 32, 21.

In short, it's very very rare for there to be over 40 people on a London Walk! Indeed, it's unusual for there to be over 30. The exception that proves the rule is Jack the Ripper - it's the only London Walk that consistently draws over 40 people. But what our competitors are careful not to mention is that we always put two guides on the Ripper Walk so that big turnout is split into two much smaller groups.