Sinan O.
Yelp
I recently went to the London Dungeon.
I have lived in this great city all my life, but I have never been to one of its greatest and well known attractions.
My two younger cousins visiting from Turkey had been pestering me to take them for a while, so I finally gave in.
I didn't really expect much, a couple of hours of walking around pretending to enjoy myself and then look forward to the ice cream afterwards; after all it was a sunny day.
However, after collecting my tickets from the kiosk, my all hard, all guns blazing younger cousins suddenly had a change of character. They were nice!
The younger one didn't even want to go in, but I had just paid £40 so he was definitely going in. Then he started crying. I couldn't believe that an entrance had such an effect. It had a smell, a smell which you would imagine London would have smelt like all those years ago, and the music, it was creepy. My cousin is only 9, so I held his hand, said some soothing words and went head first.
I must hand it to the dungeon, it smelt like old London throughout, I really did have to hold my cousins hand for the whole two hours that we spent there. The live installations were fantastic and educational, I really felt that I had a great insight to what old London was like, and smelt like.
If you want to learn about one of London's greatest mysteries, that being the mystery of Jack the Ripper, then the Dungeon is where you will find it. That mystery cost me even more money at the shop, having to buy sharpeners, pens and pencils with Jacks silhouette on them.
To conclude and give a rating out of ten, well, it was a pricy day out, but definitely worth it. Going with youngsters really added to the laughs and frights, though I think I would have just as good a time going with friends.
8/10