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Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew vs Buckingham Palace
Both are rated very highly by professional reviewers. Overall, Buckingham Palace scores slightly better than Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Buckingham Palace comes in at 93 with praise from 9 publications like Michelin Guide, Not For Tourists and Let's Go.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Kew Road, Richmond, Kew TW9 3AB
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Fodor's
"Enter the Royal Botanic Gardens, as Kew Gardens are officially known, and you are enveloped by blazes of color, extraordinary blooms, hidden trails, and lovely old follies."
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Frommer's
"It's essentially a vast scientific research center that also happens to be extraordinarily beautiful."
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Travel + Leisure
"Victorian-era greenhouses and the sprawling grounds overflow with 33,000 species of flowers, plants, and trees (the world’s largest living collection)."
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Time Out
"Kew Gardens is a magnificent World Heritage Site covering 300 acres with over 30,000 species of plants."
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Let's Go
"These botanical gardens host the largest collection of plants in the world, and visitors can eat up gorgeous assemblages of roses, orchids, and cacti (or be eaten up by the carnivorous plants)."
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Buckingham Palace
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Buckingham Palace Road, London SW1A 1AA
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Fodor's
"It's rare to get a chance to see how the other half—well, other minute fraction—lives and works."
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Concierge
"The queen's London pied-à-terre is not the most beautiful of palaces, but it's big."
Frommer's
"The setting is glorious, sat between two great sweeping parks (Green and St. James's) at the end of an elegant tree-lined boulevard (The Mall)."
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Time Out
"As the home of the Queen, the palace is usually closed to visitors, but you may view the interior for a brief period each summer while the Windsors are away on their holidays."
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Not For Tourists
"Unofficial HQ for Fathers For Justice."
