London Dungeon

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  • Address
    28-34 Tooley St, The Borough, SE1 2SZ
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  • Phone
    0900 160 0066
  • Fax
    7378 1529
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  • Transport
    underground rail: London Bridge

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Lonely Planet review

Under the arches of the Tooley St railway bridge, the London Dungeon was supposedly developed after somebody's kid didn't find Madame Tussauds Chamber of Horrors frightening enough. Well, they failed in that endeavour but the place continues to mint money.

It all starts with a stagger through a mirror maze (the Labyrinth of the Lost), followed by a waltz through the bubonic plague (c 1665), a push through a torture chamber, a run 'through' the Great Fire of London (where - to give you an idea of the production values - wafting fabric makes up the 'flames'), a close shave with Sweeney Todd, the demon barber of Fleet St, and an encounter with Jack the Ripper, where the Victorian serial killer is shown with the five prostitutes he sliced and diced, their entrails hanging out in full gory display. The best bits, though, are the vaudevillian delights of being sentenced by a mad, bewigged judge on trumped-up charges, the fairground-ride boat to Traitor's Gate and the new Extremis Drop Ride to Doom that has you 'plummeting' to your death by hanging from the gallows.

It's a good idea to buy tickets online for this camped-up 90-minute gore-fest to avoid the mammoth queues.