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Buckingham Palace

Place · Attractions, museums & landmarks · 18 mentions · 1 subreddit · discussed in r/LondonTravel

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Pros

  • there are so many other things to do besides musicals like Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, and just walking around different neighborhoods.
  • Tour of the State Rooms at Buckingham Palace at a prebooked time, followed by the palace gardens.
  • I believe Buckingham palace opens for august. Ticket ahead
  • Rain, wind, hail, thunder & then sunshine by Buckingham palace. Have fun!
  • Sprint to try to see Changing of the Guard at 11 AM at Buckingham Palace

Cons

  • Buckingham Palace isn’t open all year round for tours, and TBH I wouldn’t do one anyway. Not a particularly old building, nor is it attractive. Pretty boring, and everything inside is overdone / over-gilded.
  • There's not really much to see at Buckingham Palace TBH. It's a big ugly building with some railings out front. ... Not something worth a tour IMO.
  • I did tour both Windsor and Buckingham; Windsor was completely worth it, Buckingham much less so.
  • Buckingham Palace is not really near public transit from what I remember. It’s also super boring but tourists seem to like looking at what must be Englands most uninteresting stately home!!
  • And lastly, the unattractive, new (compared to the others), Buckingham Palace.

Sentiment

5 positive (28%) · 1 mixed (6%) · 12 negative (67%)

Trust + time weighted score: -36% · raw score -39%

What redditors said (10 of 18)

there are so many other things to do besides musicals like Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, and just walking around different neighborhoods.
positive · u/L****7 · r/LondonTravel · comment · May 23, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Buckingham Palace isn’t open all year round for tours, and TBH I wouldn’t do one anyway. Not a particularly old building, nor is it attractive. Pretty boring, and everything inside is overdone / over-gilded.
negative · u/l****f · r/LondonTravel · comment · Sep 9, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
There's not really much to see at Buckingham Palace TBH. It's a big ugly building with some railings out front. ... Not something worth a tour IMO.
negative · u/D****8 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Sep 9, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I did tour both Windsor and Buckingham; Windsor was completely worth it, Buckingham much less so.
negative · u/W****0 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 30, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Buckingham Palace is not really near public transit from what I remember. It’s also super boring but tourists seem to like looking at what must be Englands most uninteresting stately home!!
negative · u/B****4 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 24, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
And lastly, the unattractive, new (compared to the others), Buckingham Palace.
negative · u/l****f · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 23, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
The gardens at the back are nice and whilst it’s like every other stately home it has a decent picture gallery full Of canelleto, there’s a half decent cafe and ice cream parlour. Ok for a few hours. Not wow though
mixed · u/a****9 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 7, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
Go somewhere else more interesting. I have been to London more than 10 times and I never have been to Buckingham. ... It's just offices.
negative · u/L****0 · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 7, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
I went once. It was awful. Ugly rooms full of expensive, unlabelled tat that were gifts from random world leaders over the last 200 years. 3/10
negative · u/k****n · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 7, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗
In the greater scheme of things, Buckingham Palace is not that old and architecturally just not attractive.
negative · u/l****f · r/LondonTravel · comment · Aug 6, 2026 · open on Reddit ↗

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