London: The London Eye and Southbank

Having been London many times before, we have also been on the London Eye Many times too, during the day and in the evening, but never as a Merlin Pass holder until today.

The Southbank area was extremely busy when we arrived at 1.30pm.  Following the advice of other Merlin Pass holders we had pre-booked all of our London Merlin attractions before hand.  We could have waited until we had got there, but there is no guarantee that you will be able to go on at the time you want.

When we arrived, before we got onto the London Eye, we wanted to book the London Eye River Cruise as recommended by others.  To book you have to walk pass the London Eye to the pier. There was a queue but it moved quite quickly.  We did want to do the cruise in-between the times we had booked for the Eye and London Sealife, but the next available time was not until 6:45pm so we booked this instead.

As with Madame Tussauds, we found that staff were unsure where we had to queue up if we had Merlin Passes and Pre booked times, as one gentleman told us that we needed to go inside to collect tickets.  This is not the cases, you simply go to the fast track queue show your pre-booked tickets and Merlin cards and you enter the queue.  Our time slot was booked for 2.30pm but we decided to go over at 2.15pm and they were happy to let us in as the normal and fast track queue do merge.  I would definitely recommend pre booking, as it was extremely busy and the queue to book time slots was long.
Titch loved the London Eye once again, and it is something that none of us get bored of each time we try to spot things that we hadn't before.

After getting off the London Eye, we had a couple of hours until we needed to be at the Sealife Centre.  We decided not to do Shrek as it was heaving nor the Dungeons, I am a wimp, so instead we walked down the Thames enjoying the street entertainment, had some lunch and then Titch played on the climbing area behind the London Eye.  And of course a cheeky Ice-cream to cool us down.  😉

Titch loved watch the street entertainment and then further down under the South Bank Centre the skateboarders at the skate park- free entertainment to kill some time between Merlin attractions.