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London Eye vs National Portrait Gallery
National Portrait Gallery and The London Eye are both recommended by writers. On balance, National Portrait Gallery is preferred by most writers compared to The London Eye. National Portrait Gallery comes in at 92 with approval from 8 publications including Frommer's, Travel + Leisure and Fodor's.
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London Eye London SE1 7PB United Kingdom
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Fodor's
"This giant Ferris wheel is the largest cantilevered observation wheel ever built and among the city's tallest structures."
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Concierge
"The 443-foot-high London Eye, designed by husband-and-wife architects David Marks and Julia Barfield, is the largest observation wheel in the world."
Frommer's
"You're free to move around inside the pod during its voyage, although everyone tends to congregate in the northern half to look out over the river and the heart of sightseeing London."
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Travel + Leisure
"Originally built for the new millennium, this mammoth Ferris wheel has 32 dangling pods (each holds 25 people sitting or standing) that gracefully take flight 443 feet above the city."
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Avoid weekends and go in good weather before 11 a.m. or after 3 p.m. for the quietest trip.
Time Out
"On a clear day you can see as far as Windsor Castle, 25 miles away, from the top of the London Eye, one of the world's largest observation wheels."
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National Portrait Gallery
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St. Martin's Place, London WC2H 0HE
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Fodor's
"The National Portrait Gallery was founded in 1856 with a single aim: to gather together portraits of famous (and infamous) British men and women."
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Time Out
"Portraits don't have to be stuffy. The National Portrait Gallery has everything from oil paintings of stiff-backed royals to photos of soccer stars and gloriously unflattering political caricatures."
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Let's Go
"The National Portrait Gallery is the Platonic ideal of Facebook."
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Michelin Guide
2 Stars
"Founded in 1856, the National Portrait Gallery has since 1896 occupied a late-19C Italian Renaissance-style building neighbouring the National Gallery."
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Travel + Leisure
"Explore portraits of famous citizens from Tudor Kings and Queens like King Henry VII in 1505 to the Bronte Sisters in 1834."
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