Harry Potter UK Studio Tour

[MrsW]

Our adult group will be in London next spring, and the Harry Potter Studio Tour is a high priority. I'm hoping anyone who has done this tour recently might be able to share helpful tips. We know it's not in London proper and will arrange transportation to get there. Wondering which is the best place to order our tickets - looks like there might be several options. Thanks for any insight.

 

[dcassetta]

We did this several years ago and booked the tickets directly through Warner Brothers as this included the bus transfer to the studios from the Watford Junction train station. We took a train from the London Euston station and it was less than 30 minutes to Watford Junction. We then got the transfer bus which was about 15 minutes. Check the various vendors to see what transportation is included, unless you are driving there.

 

[RamblingMad]

We took a tour bus there that we picked up not far from Buckingham Palace. The bus was a part of our ticket price. It's a really good tour. You're going to love it.

 

[CynBeth]

We are huge HP fans and went there on our London and Paris trip in 2019. Our TA had booked us a private driver for a few days and on one of them we did a HP tour where he drove us around London to see different sites where things were filmed for the movies including the train station and the last thing was we had 3-4 hours at the studios.

 

[RogueX]

We'll be going in July, so this is good to know.

 

[lovesmurfs]

DH and I went in 2019. We were concerned because our tickets were one of the latest entry times.

We followed the directions from the website -- took the train, and then they had a bus to the studio. Worked really well.

Be prepared -- it's amazing, but it's also a LOT. We did a lot of other sight seeing during that day -- walking around London, St. Paul's, etc. etc., and we were pretty tired by the time we got there. We wound up sitting in the cafeteria for a long time just resting.

Took about 200 pictures, and just loved it all. Gringotts and the Great Hall were just fantastic. Even Aragog!

 

[elgerber]

We went, but not recently, it was 2017. I also bought the tickets directly and used their bus. We took the train out to the town where you catch the bus. We did an earlier tour, and we were there for several hours, and had lunch. It was amazing.

 

[MrsW]

Thanks everyone. I really appreciate your thoughts. We are planning to go as early as possible in the day and make this our only activity on that day.

 

[CdnCarrie]

We did it several years ago. Took the train out and caught the WB bus from the station.
There was a lot to see!