London Eye Standard Experience Tickets

With all COVID-19 restrictions ending in England on 24 Feb 2022, our priority is to continue to offer the best possible experience to our guests whilst ensuring we also look after our staff. We continue to have hygiene and safety measures in place throughout our attractions, including enhanced cleaning, hand sanitiser and increased ventilation. In our indoor attractions, key walkways or busier areas, guests may still see signage stating ‘Face Coverings Recommended’ which is in line with public health guidance. Those staff who may wish to continue wearing a face covering whilst working have the option to do so.

If you or your party display any symptoms of COVID-19 or have tested positive, we ask that you do not visit.

Disabled Access Disabled Guests should purchase their standard ticket price. The accompanying carer will be free of charge and their ticket will be issued on site at the attraction upon presentation of proof of disability. Unfortunately, mobility scooters are not able to be admitted at this attraction.

Wheelchair Access and Restrictions: Wheelchair users and guests with limited mobility are able to get on and off the London Eye. On reaching the boarding platform, the London Eye is slowed down or stopped to make boarding easier for these guests.

Wheelchair Hire: Wheelchair hire is not available at the London Eye. Maximum number of Wheelchairs: Only Two wheelchairs are allowed per capsule and a maximum of eight wheelchairs in total are allowed on the London Eye at any one time.

Please note, we’re unable to make on the day bookings for wheelchair slots. For on the day visits, please speak to our onsite team to discuss the remaining availability. During peak times time slots do sell out quickly and therefore strongly recommend pre-booking in advance. Please email: customer.services@londoneye.com; quoting your standard ticket booking reference.

The husband-and-wife team of Julia Barfield and David Marks of the firm Marks Barfield Architects designed the London Eye, which won the Institution of Structural Engineers Special Award in 2001, the year after the first passenger rode this famed Ferris wheel. Initially, the London Eye was intended to be a temporary attraction with a five-year lease, but immense popularity continued to attract visitors. Today, tens of millions of people have ridden this London icon.

Each passenger capsule, 32 in total, weighs ten tons and can carry 25 passengers. (Don’t worry, the capsules are numbered 1–33, with 13 being left out for superstitious reasons.) A must-see while in London, the Eye lets you experience the city with jaw-dropping views.

This cantilevered observation wheel sits on the South Bank of the Thames River, steps from the Golden Jubilee Bridge, National Theatre, and other hot destinations. However, what you’ll see on this one-of-a-kind ride will reach much farther than those tourist hubs: on a clear day, visitors can take in views more than two dozen miles away. The most popular paid tourist destination in the United Kingdom, the London Eye takes visitors on a stunning 30-minute ride and offers glorious views by day or night.

What to Watch For

• From the London Eye, you can see all the way to Windsor Castle. On a clear, bright day, views from the top of the London Eye can stretch for almost 25 miles, offering the broadest panoramic views in London.
• The London Eye is the world’s tallest cantilevered observation wheel. On the 30-minute ride, you can view Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, St Paul’s Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, and so much more.
• Discussing the enormous feat of this wheel and its impact on London and its visitors, Pritzker Architecture Prize winner Sir Richard Rogers wrote, “The Eye has done for London what the Eiffel Tower did for Paris, which is to give it a symbol and to let people climb above the city and look back down on it.”