London: Notting Hill Local Tour with Breakfast & Lunch
- Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts.
- Breakfast Drinks: one of fresh orange, coffee, beer, wine or water.
- Lunch Drinks: a drink of wine, soft drink, local beer or larger or coffee.
- All other locations are free or included.
- Although not obligatory we encourage you to support local people through tipping them. For example waiters.
- Tips for locals.
- Breakfast Drinks: one of fresh orange, coffee, beer, wine or water.
- Lunch Drinks: a drink of wine, soft drink, local beer or larger or coffee.
- All other locations are free or included.
- Although not obligatory we encourage you to support local people through tipping them. For example waiters.
- Tips for locals.
This is the ultimate like a local tour around Notting Hill. You will literally live like a local for a few hours, enjoying secret places only the locals know about including cafes and bars for breakfast and lunch plus local fashion and gift boutiques hidden away in the backstreets of the area.
We visit the super-trendy Golborne Road and its cafes and bars and shops which most visitors have no idea about and the cool Ladbroke Grove to view some of the old areas where the first West Indians migrants came and lived back in the 1960's.
Portobello Road is a must.
We take a look at the architecture of Trellick Tower, a 1960's tower of apartments for local people.
Breakfast includes a drink such as coffee or tea or soft drink.
Lunch is at one of the area's great pubs for a local pint or drink of your choice.
Lastly, don't forget Tips 4 Locals where we encourage you to tip locals working to serve you.
Recent surprise experiences have included_
- Meet the locals
- Surprise musical event
- Surprise local food sampling.
Finally, don't forget our Tips for Locals scheme where we ask you to tip local people rather than us. We are here to help and reassure you. We know you don't know where you are or what to expect so we meet you at the tube station with your name on a sign and explain exactly where we are going and what we are doing.
- Included: all drinks on our set menu.
- Excluded: tips for locals
- Tour Length: 3 hours
- Two start times available: 10 am and 2pm
- Easy walking. Approx 1 km. No climbs or hills.
- Start and Meet at Holland Park tube station. It's not crowded.
- Finish at Ladbroke Grove Tube Station.
- Holland Park and Notting Hill We start the tour on the exclusive and expensive Holland Park, Notting Hill border, working our way through the back streets to view the coolest homeware and fashion boutiques London ghas to offer. We then reach Ladbroke Grove where we visit a local contemporary cafe for drinks.
- Ladbroke Grove Ladbroke Grove is the heart of Notting Hill, a long road which has the very best secret cafes, bars and restaurants and pubs in Notting Hill plus many other local features.
- A Necessity. Westway Market and Portobello Road. We spend 1 hour in the crowded areas of the market and Portobello Road and then walking slowly to the coolest area of Notting Hill, Golborne Road.
- Golborne Road This is THE up and coming area with amazing bars and restaurants plus local secrets like the famous Portuguese cafe selling its world famous Pastel de nata 'aka' egg custard tarts.
- Trellick Tower We finish by viewing one of the iconic but unknown London landmarks, Trellick Tower. A masterpieces of 1960's high rise design. 6. Drinks at a Contemporary London pub.
- Experience Labroke Grove with all its racial history & local atmosphere.
- Holland Park. Experience the backstreets with its famous boutiques and bars.
- Portobello Road Without the Crowds. We show you how.
- Secret Golborne Road. Off-the-tourist path with secret boutiques, cafes and bars
- Trellick Tower. A 1960's Brutalist-style tower block.
The meeting point may vary. Always check the tickets we sent you to confirm the final details before the activity.
Know before you go
- At the end of the tour, we make sure you are safely back on the correct tube line to wherever you are staying
- We are here to help and reassure you. We know you don't know where you are or what to expect so we meet you at the tube station with your name on a sign and explain exactly where we are going and what we are doing.
