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View from The Shard London. Tallest Viewing Platform in Europe. Highest Point in London
Jan 29, 2025
View from The Shard London. Opening in February 2013 it will be the Tallest Viewing Platform in Europe, and the Highest Point in London to view the city. This preview I filmed on a press/ blogger preview and takes you to the 68th Floor and shows the veiws and some of the features. Visit my site http://www.tipsfortravellers.com for more
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today we're going to be going up the
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working progress of The Shard in London
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near London Bridge which is the highest
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observation platform in Europe it's the
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tallest building in London it's called
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The Shard as you can tell by the shape
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it's a beautiful glass building still
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been constructed ex place opens in
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February
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2013 and so this then
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is another view of the chart from the
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main
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entrance beautiful blue glass
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building
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soing and the tower is right there
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and so we're about to go into the main
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entrance and expl so this is The Shard
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which is soon to be the biggest new
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attraction on the London Skyline it's
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the tallest building in London
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it has an observation tower right up at
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the top highest in Europe This is
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downstairs in reception and we're on a
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pre- launch trip that only launches in
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February
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[Music]
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2013 for
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[Music]
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interested
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inew The Shard on level 68 which the vi
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platform is one further above on level
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72 level 68 which is the enclosed area
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where you do get incredible views across
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behind me at the moment we're looking
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down the TS heading towards
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SP or days a
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year you take a look behind me you can
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see how people can stand right at up
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close to the windows peer down the 68
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floors if you wish there's also some
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interactive uh units where you can see
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what you're looking at uh and interact
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to tell especially if it's a bad day
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they have pre-recorded views of what you
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can actually see but you do and are able
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to see for up to 40 miles so behind me
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you're actually looking 40 mil across
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London and on the clear that day like
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today you get an incredible
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view down there beautiful view that's
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the view in real time so this is live
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but if there's you got a bit of direct
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Sunshine s in this
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direction other things that's very
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interesting is these interactive uh
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display units so for example you take a
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look at the live so as you can see what
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I'm doing now is of zooming in on things
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that are happening but also what's very
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clever is you can then take a look at
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the day view so that's what you would
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see during the day or you can take look
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at what it would be at night so whatever
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you're look at as you can see there as
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you move it you can see what that would
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look like at night what it should be
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looking like in the day so particularly
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if it's a b you and of course what we're
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looking at live so that's something
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that's kind of really interesting uh
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particularly if it's on a lousy lousy
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day it's a relatively expensive
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attraction about £24 for an adult about
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£18 for a child but it is going to be
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well well worth it uh on a clear day
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like today you can see 40 m away so over
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my shoulder there you should be able to
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see kind of 40 m away and you can walk
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all the way around so you can see North
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London South London West London a bit
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hazy like in the distance like it is
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today you can switch into a pre-recorded
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perfect Clear Day view so you can see
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absolutely everything um and if you
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visit during the day you can also quick
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click into a night view so you can see
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what the city looks like huge amount of
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space very beautifully done and really
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really quite impressive
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