London Audio Tour: West End Wonders & Artistic Legacies

Explore London at your own pace

A lion's paw once struck fear from its perch in Trafalgar Square and secret oaths echoed within the marble halls of the Reform Club. Westminster is layered with more intrigue than meets the eye-each stone concealing lost rebellions and whispered betrayals.

Turn your city walk into a self-guided audio adventure, revealing iconic landmarks and backstreet secrets alike. Glide past history's grand stage and dive into stories that most passersby never hear.

Who plotted treason beneath the stern gaze of Admiral Nelson? What masterpiece at the National Gallery inspired a scandal that rocked Victorian society? And whose footprints still mark a midnight escape through the columns of the Reform Club?

Photo: Giammarco Boscaro, Unsplash

Tour details

• Duration: 1 hour, entirely at your own pace
• Distance: around 2.1 km (1.3 miles)
• Stops: 12 landmarks, including St Martin-in-the-Fields, National Portrait Gallery, London, Odeon Luxe Leicester Square
• Audio: up to 30 minutes of narration
• Starts at: St Martin-in-the-Fields

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How it works

• Book here and a redemption code arrives by email within minutes.
• Download the free AudaTours app on your phone and enter the code.
• Download the tour once and the whole thing works offline.
• Walk to the first stop and press play. The audio for each landmark starts automatically as you approach it, so your phone can stay in your pocket.

There is no fixed date and no start time. The date you pick at checkout does not matter, and the tour stays on your phone permanently, so you can use it whenever you next visit and walk it again as often as you like.

What is included

• Professionally narrated audio that plays automatically at each stop
• An interactive map showing the walking route between landmarks
• Full offline access once downloaded, so you need no data or signal
• Freedom to start, pause and resume whenever you like
• Lifetime access - your code never expires

Photo: Charles Postiaux, Unsplash

Where you will stop

• St Martin-in-the-Fields
• National Portrait Gallery, London
• Odeon Luxe Leicester Square
• Odeon Luxe West End
• Empire Leicester Square
• The Comedy Store
• Theatre Royal Haymarket
• Reform Club
• Institute of Contemporary Arts
• Admiralty Arch
• Trafalgar Square
• National Gallery

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What is AudaTours?

AudaTours turns a walk through a city into a story. Our guides bring landmarks to life with the history, the scandals and the detail you would never get from a plaque.

• Immersive: real stories about the places in front of you, not a dry commentary
• Offline: download once and use it with no data, anywhere
• At your own pace: start, pause and resume whenever you want
• Accurate: every story is built from verified historical sources and checked before release

Good to know

• This is a self-guided audio tour on your own phone. There is no in-person guide.
• It does not include entry to any building or site along the route.
• The landmarks on the tour are not affiliated with AudaTours.
• You need a smartphone with Android 7.0 or later, or iOS 16 or later.
• Bring headphones and start with a charged phone.

Who it suits

Solo travellers, couples, families and small groups who would rather explore on their own schedule than follow a guide and a fixed departure time. It suits a first visit, and it suits anyone who has already seen the famous sights and wants to know what actually happened in them.

Image credits

Photos: Lucas Davies, Giammarco Boscaro, Charles Postiaux (Unsplash).