Gnomes at the London Bridge Experience?

Yesterday, some friendly gnomes visited the attraction to do some filming. Keep watching our page to find out more...

 

The London Bridge Experience - Now on Flickr

The London Bridge Experience now has a Flickr profile. Please visit Flickr to view our photos!

Waiting for the tube home after a busy shift...

Special Half Term Offer!

We are offering a special half term online offer of £10.98 per person between 10.00-12.00 for early birds and 16.00-18.00 for night owls all this week! (Offer ends 27th Feb 2011)

Please click here to book your tickets through Ticketmaster!

Don’t Lose YOUR Head This Easter 9th-25th April 2011

The Easter Head Hunt is suitable for all ages and runs from 9th April to 25th April, with special chocolatey treats for successful explorers from 22nd April to 25th April.

The London Bridge Experience and The London Tombs are holding a cracking treasure hunt this Easter Holidays; THE EASTER HEAD HUNT for intrepid eggs-plorers keen to find out more about the history of this fascinating bridge, and to delve into its chilling past. 

With the help of a number of familiar characters, visitors are encouraged to embrace life as a Roman, tread carefully through an ancient Viking prison, help pull down London Bridge with King Olaf II and join forces with The Keeper of the Heads to successfully succeed on this special Easter mission.

The Easter Head Hunt is a fun yet educational way to keep the kids entertained over the Easter holidays. In order to celebrate the season, The London Bridge Experience have hidden a number of gruesome severed heads around the attraction and and clever detectives who find all the eggs will get an eggstra special reward at the end of the hunt.

Directly beneath The London Bridge Experience, are the infamous London Tombs. Using the latest in animatronic-motion technology, visitors are invited to mix history with hysteria down in the deep, dark depths of the tombs where hundreds of plague victims were once buried. However, this certainly isn't for the faint hearted as lurking behind each corner awaits an array of mysterious creatures including spiders, a stinking sewer stench and our new animatronic mongrel which will terrify even the most dedicated dog lover. 

The London Bridge Experience is a historical yet hysterical experience, and is an EGGSTREMELY good way to entertain bored children this Easter.

Win tickets to the The Lord of the Rings All-Nighter at the BFI IMAX!

In association with the BFI, we have 3 pairs of tickets to give away for the Lord of the Rings All-Nighter (12A, 35mm) at the BFI IMAX on the 19th February 2011 at 23.40!

Spend the entire night in Middle Earth and watch the complete epic trilogy back-to-back, in one all-night movie marathon. There will be short breaks between each film, and free refreshments to keep you going until dawn.

To enter please answer the following question:

In which awards ceremony did the London Bridge Experience and London Tombs win UK’s Best Scare Attraction?
A. Screamies
B. Baftas
C. Oscars

Please e-mail your answer and details to: competitions@thelondonbridgeexperience.com
with the subject line 'Lord of the Rings All-Nighter'
(Competition ends at midnight on the 14th February 2011)

They'll also be giving away IMAX tickets, film books and posters for the best fancy dress!

Please note that 35mm films will fill approx one third of the screen.

For more information please visit http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_imax/coming_soon/now_booking/the_lord_of_the_rings_allnighter_12a_35mm

The Hollywood News ventures down ‘The Hole’ and into the London Tombs!

On Tuesday 18th January 2011, The Hollywood News were invited to visit The London Bridge Experience to celebrate the DVD release of the Joe Dante film THE HOLE:

"It’s just after six in the evening, and I am dashing through London human traffic in the peak of rush hour. The venue is at least a twenty-minute walk away, and awaiting me is fellow THN journo and Tom Fordy, who is officially my partner in ghost busting crime this very dark, cold night in our nation’s capital. My attempt to reach Fordy is not to get early access to the venue, but to attempt to get a swift one down our necks before we are thrust 50 feet underground to awake people that don’t necessarily want to be." Read more...

Be My Bloody Valentine at The London Bridge Experience

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Happy New Year

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Merry Christmas from all at the London Bridge Experience

Boxing Day 2010 Special Offer

From 11.00-16.00 we will be opening the London Tombs only, for the special rate of £10 per person.

Christmas Nightmares at the London Bridge Experience

This Christmas, The London Bridge Experience & London Tombs invite you to encounter the darker side of the festive season in their special Christmas Show “Christmas Nightmare”.


Take a journey through the historical, yet hysterical, Christmas time tunnel, courtesy of a ghostly Ebenezer Scrooge, where he will introduce you to a number of seasonal characters who have helped shape the face of Christmas over the centuries.


Visitors are welcomed into our magnificent grotto where they will have the chance to sit upon Santa’s knee and tell him their Christmas wishes. Here, there will also be a photo opportunity where visitors can treasure the memories of The London Bridge Experience, before exploring Christmas’ gone by.


On your journey, you will have the chance to join the Roman winter feast of Saturnalia, where Christmas dinner is served with a twist! Visitors will get the chance to get up close and personal with the infamous ‘vomit collectors’ who were traditionally employed to clear up the vomit of diners who purge themselves to make space for the next course!


If that doesn’t put you off, we then transport you back to the medieval Viking Age where you will be invited to raise a glass or two with a Norwegian Viking storyteller. Interestingly, find out how the origin of the “modern” Father Christmas story being pulled in his sleigh, comes from the ancient Nordic God “Thor” and his sledge which was traditionally pulled by ferocious horned goats.


Another, urban legend is the Frost Fair which took place each winter on a frozen River Thames. Londoners in the 1600s were able to take advantage of these freezing conditions by ice-skating across the river. However, with this sparked the fear of frozen lakes & rivers, with the tragic story of John Smith, who fell through the ice where he met his bitter death. Visitors are then invited to experience the darker side Christmas with the ghost of Charles Dickens, as he reflects on his experience of living among the destitute streets of London.


For those brave enough, they will be taken deep underground to the resting place of hundreds of disinterred plague victims in the London Tombs. These pits deep beneath the river are filled with unexplained noises, blasts of icy air and mysterious creatures that aren’t afraid to leap out of the darkness.


If the tombs were too much and you need time to recover, then sit down in The Peter Jackson Museum and browse in the gift shop at the unrivalled collection of spooky memorabilia. There are hundreds of gifts to choose from – stocking fillers to larger gifts, all perfect for the little terrors on Christmas morning. From skeleton key rings, to books of scary stories, there is something for everyone in the gift shop. Don’t forget to snap up your souvenir photo or why not treat your friends and family to a gift ticket so others can experience the UK’s Best Scare Attraction!

Face Your Fears: Samhainophobia - A fear of Halloween or the fear of the festival of the dead.

Halloween, or the Hallow E'en as they call it in Ireland, means All Hallows Eve, or the night before the All Hallows. It is thought to have originated around 4,000 BC, which means Halloween has been around for more than 6,000 years. Typically linked to the Celtic festival of Samhain, Halloween celebrates the end of the lighter half of the year and beginning of the darker half, and is sometimes regarded as the Celtic New Year.


The ancient Celts believed that the border between this world and the Otherworld opened on Samhain, allowing spirits (both harmless and harmful) to pass through. The family's ancestors were honoured and invited home, while harmful spirits were warded off. It is believed that the need to ward off harmful spirits led to the wearing of costumes and masks.


Anyone with samhainophobia would do just about anything to avoid Halloween activities. This includes giving out candy, wearing a costume, or even acknowledging that October 31 is a holiday. The most common symptoms of this phobia include breathlessness, excessive sweating, dry mouth, feeling sick, trembling, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying or a full blown anxiety attack. So for the sufferer, it can be a pretty nasty time.


It is not known why people develop a phobia for this holiday, but like all fears and phobias, samhainophobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. In some cases the actual cause or initial reasoning for fearing Halloween may be unknown. A little fact for you - Harry Houdini, one of the most famous and mysterious magicians who ever lived, strangely enough died in 1926 on Halloween night.


So, how do you cure your fear of Halloween? Well, we recommend coming down to The London Bridge Experience and London Tombs for an exciting and terrifying late night Phobophobia Halloween show. It is sure to scare you beyond belief, shock all of your senses, and test your nerve - but it is also so much fun that you will want to come back again and again!

Face Your Fears: Bathophobia

"Bathophobia" is derived from the Greek "bathos" (depth) and "phobos" (fear).
Bathophobia is the abnormal and persistent fear of depths. Some sufferers experience anxiety even though they realise that they are actually safe from falling. Other symptoms can include a feeling of panic or dread, a shortness of breath, increased heart rate and trembling.

So just imagine how a Bathophobic would have felt when, in 2009, six people were hurt when the lift at Tower Bridge in London suddenly dropped 10 feet whilst on the way down. Pretty scary stuff. Most of us would have been rather terrified by this event anyway, but for a Bathophobic this would have induced panic attacks, hysteria and the feeling that they were dying.


This fear of depths can be caused by anything from deep water, to looking down a dark well or shaft where the blackness renders you unable to see the bottom. Bathophobia can then lead to fears of other things, such as elevators, as by entering a lift you are then putting yourself in a position where you could possibly fall. Famous Star Trek actor, William Shatner, unfortunately suffers from this phobia. So, I hear you ask, what is the best way to cure your fear? Well, why not come and try out The Hellevator at The London Tombs? Known only as London's Deadliest Lift, you are sure to test your nerve and be put through your paces with this thrilling ride. After all...what goes up, must come down!

Face Your Fears: Phobophobia

Phobophobia: 1.(n) a morbid fear of developing a phobia.
2.(n) the best halloween event in London.
Admittedly, I might have added the second entry, but you get the idea.

Over the last few weeks, we've been covering all manner of phobias in the lead up to our Halloween extravaganza, Phobophobia. If you haven't seen or heard anything about this yet, a) where have you been? and b) check out our Phobophobia event page for full details.


Phobophobia, in the first sense of the word is when a person worries about getting a phobia. For example: "I won't be going to the snake show in case I develop a phobia of snakes. In fact, I'm so worried about getting snakephobia that I'm starting to getting sweaty palms and I'm feeling rather faint."


You can apply this school of thought to every phobia. Instead of trying to explain it myself, I stole these words from akorra.com: "It is liked with anxiety disorders and more common phobias like agoraphobia, (the fear of the market place, or the outdoors in today’s language). But it is more commonly described as a fear of fears, or a fear of developing phobias. People suffering from this disorder often have anxiety issues to begin with and phobophobia is the result of being so afraid of the internal consequences of anxiety. In other words a person can get so afraid of the sensation of anxiety that they become petrified of it happening again."
While it may not be the most common phobia out there, it surely has to be one of the worst for sufferers.


There are, of course a number of treatments that can help alleviate the symptoms of Phobophobia, but what better way than by facing your fears at the UK's Best Year Round Scare Attraction, The London Bridge Experience and The London Tombs?
See you there….

Face Your Fears: Hemophobia

The average male body contains approximately five litres of blood. The average female body contains approximately three-and-a-half litres of blood. Imagine then, being scared of the sight of blood. Thousands of people across the world are, and can be referred to as hemophobiacs.

Hemophobia is an irrational and persistent fear of blood. The mere sight of claret will often remind sufferers of their own vulnerability and the eventuality that they will in fact one day die.

Symptoms are varied. Some sufferers might experience an increase in blood pressure and heart rate. Conversely, others suffer from a drop in blood pressure and heart rate, faintness and weakness, which can, in turn, lead to a new fear: the fear of fainting.

When you suffer from ophidiophobia, you can ease the problem by not hanging around in snake-infested places. However, people with an uncontrollable fear of blood have much more to worry about: a paper cut, Sweeny Todd, Call of Duty and a good old Shakespearean tragedy all need to be avoided at all costs.

It's usually this point that I suggest some sort of cure, which mostly involves visiting the London Bridge Experience and London Tombs to face your fears. Not this week. If you suffer from hemophobia, the last thing you'd want to do is visit the UK's number one scare attraction. It'd be enough to make your knees go weak.

The Fear of all Fears: Lunaediesophobia

Ok, so for the last few weeks, we've covered a fairly standard set of phobias - spiders, snakes and dolls - this week, I thought we'd have a little fun with Lunaediesophobia.


Lunaediesophobia, or the fear of Mondays as it more commonly known, has affected every one of us at some point in our lives. Whether it's double science first thing; an end-of-month of report that needs completing by lunchtime; or just the thought of actually having to do something constructive after a weekend of merry mayhem, there comes a point in everyone's lives when you simply say to yourself - 'I'm really not looking forward to tomorrow'.


Evidence supporting this particular phobia is pretty scanty, other than the lines of Rainy Days and Mondays by the Carpenters. There's no Freudian theory behind it, there are no facts about how long Monday will actually take to kill you, and it doesn't appear in the top 100 of the world's greatest phobias… yet amazingly, it affects us all. And if the truth be told, the reason it's made it onto the interwebs today is through my own dread of getting up this morning.


You see, I rely on public transport to get to into the office, and schools have started up again for the autumn term, which means two things:


1• There's less seats on my train


2• My enjoyment of C.S. Lewis's Voyage of the Dawn Treader will be somewhat lessened due to the fact I can't sit and read in quiet.


Add to this the love I have for my bed and the huge mountain of work that sits between me and my monitor, and you can understand why Sunday just didn't last long enough.


Do you feel my pain? Can you understand where I'm coming from? Better still, can you top it? I'd love to hear your thoughts.


Join the conversation on Facebook, add your two pennies on Twitter, and we'll compile a list of the worst Monday morning experiences on the whole web.