£25 to look out of the window!

[perplexed]

Just seen on the BBC breakfast news that it'll cost £25 to go up to the 69th floor of the new "Shard" building in London!!!

It'll be open to the public to go and have a gander from February next year by all accounts.

I'd like to go up it, and fully understand making a charge, but chuffin' hell, £25!!!???

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Consume some alcohol first, it'll dull the pain.

 

[swee'pea99]

That's a shame. But no great surprise.

 

[Chromatic]

For that money I would hope that the fact that is from floor 69 might have some relevance.

 

[martint235]

It did cost £1.5bn to build. They have to recoup the money somehow.

I somehow doubt the viewing platform will be empty so to be honest I don't have an issue with them charging this much. Supply and demand at work.

 

[musa]

Recoup costs for whom? The qataris built it

 

[Fnaar]

I need to recoup the costs of my mortgage. I'll charge you £2 to have a gander through my window. It's nice, there's a river and that.

 

[martint235]

Recoup costs for whom? The qataris built it

Eerrrm, so the Quataris don't like recouping their costs??

 

[martint235]

I need to recoup the costs of my mortgage. I'll charge you £2 to have a gander through my window. It's nice, there's a river and that.

I'm sure it's a nice river. I think you'll need to advertise a bit wider. Hope it works.

 

[middleagecyclist]

How about £25.00 is you use the lift and free if you walk up and back down?

 

[MissTillyFlop]

How about £25.00 is you use the lift and free if you walk up and back down?

That's what they do at Eiffel Tower (well, not free, but certainly reduced) and it's nowhere near that much to start off with!

 

[swee'pea99]

It did cost £1.5bn to build. They have to recoup the money somehow.

I make that 60 million visitors. Hope it's a big platform.

 

[akb]

The views are spectacular (I have only been to the 40th floor) but 25 quid does seem a bit steep!

 

[martint235]

If it gets as many tourists as the Empire State, it will pay for itself within 32 years just from the tickets to the viewing platform. If you start including rents etc, it's looking like a pretty good investment.

I wish I'd taken the opportunity to invest when it was offered to me.

 

[Fnaar]

I was gonna say 'what's the point?' but them again, on my first trip to NYC years ago, I went up Empire State and WTC... mind you, the view was probably more impressive than that from "The Shard". What next, "The Chard"? A building made in the shape of some slightly underrated vegetable?