Saturday 8th November
Adults: £17; Concessions: £12
(you may visit the Kensington Museums instead of Harrods if you prefer)
 www.harrods.co.uk
The Kensington Museums
Victoria & Albert, Science or Natural History
may be visited instead of
Harrods. All
three Museums
(for which entry is free) are a five minute
walk
from Harrods. You would have around 4 hours to
spend at the Museum of your choice.
Britain's most iconic shop
features on many tourists “must-see” lists - and with good reason and its
offers a
worthwhile experience even for those
for whom shopping is a turn off! With
the motto “Omnia Omnibus Ubique” –
“All Things, For All People, Everywhere”, the store does its best to
live up
to its promise, providing customers with anything their hearts desire.
Occupying a 4.5 acre site,
Harrods has over 1million sq.ft. of selling space in over 330
departments,
with 4,000 staff including 500 specialists embracing 72 different
nationalities.
Experts in every department can advise on every aspect of
the store’s 1.2 million goods and 50 separate services! This all makes
Harrods the biggest department store in the UK and one
of
the largest in the world and the attention to detail is endless so come
and wander around.
Looking for extravagant and extraordinary items is a
fascinating pursuit and the building
itself
has a unique character.
Many places in the store's
interior have an Ancient Egyptian theme, to reflect the owner's heritage and
Mohamed Al Fayed has had the decor listed so it
can never be removed or altered.
You do not need to make great big purchases, but browse and you may be
tempted to spend a little anyway – perhaps in the world famous Food Hall
selling mouth-watering exotic foods, or in the festive Christmas
department. The store
includes 28 restaurants serving everything from high tea to tapas to pub
food to haute
cuisine, one or two of which you might choose to experience during your
visit.
Established in 1834 in
London’s East End, Charles Henry Harrod set up a wholesale grocery in
Stepney with a special interest in tea. To escape the filth of the inner
city, and to
capitalise on trade to the 1851 Great Exhibition in Hyde Park, Harrod took
over a small shop
in Knightsbridge
on the site of the current store, employing two assistants
and a messenger boy. In 1898
Harrods installed what is claimed to be the
world’s first moving staircase (escalator), and
nervous customers were
offered brandy at the top to revive them after
their ‘ordeal’.
Come and experience
‘Harrods’ with us, where approximately 11,500 energy efficient light
bulbs turn Harrods into a beacon of light each night (300 are changed
daily), so leaving
Harrods really does start our Christmas Lights Tour on the journey home.
Departing the local
area at 9am, we arrive at Harrods around noon. You will have a little over
4 hours to wander at your leisure. Leaving Harrods at 4.30pm, we enjoy a
Christmas Lights tour
on the journey home, arriving back around 8.15pm.
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