Audio Guide Tour

Booking and pricing information

Book your audio guide tour with your advance tickets online. Alternatively, you can access our free Tower Visitor Guide with Highlights-only tour. For other audio tours, an audio guide will need to be purchased.

Tower of London audio guide prices:

Individual:
Adult - £5.00
Concession - £4.00
Child - £4.00
Family (2 adults, up to 3 children) - £14.00

Group (15+):
Adult - £3.50
Concession - £3.00
Child - £3.00

Group audio tour bookings

To purchase discounted audio guides for groups of 15+, please contact towergroups@acoustiguide.co.uk who will assist with your booking. To redeem this offer, groups must contact Acoustiguide in advance of their visit to the Tower of London.

How to use the Tower audio guide

Collect your audio guide from the Beefeater Shop, located just past the entrance.

Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II in 2022, some information on the audio guide may be out of date.

Plan your day

Use the guide to plan your day, see what's on and find where to eat and shop.

Learn how to use your guide and find out more about the tours available in our Welcome to the Tower tour.

Headphones 

You are welcome to bring your own headphones. 

• Headphones are required to plug into the handset. Bluetooth headphones are not compatible with audio guide handsets.
• Our audio guide handsets will accommodate most common types of headphones. 
  
  

Audio guide transcripts

Please visit the audio guide transcripts page for transcripts of each tour.

Types of audio guide tour

There's a tour for everyone at the Tower. Learn about significant parts of Tower history on our Highlights tour,hear tales of imprisonment and execution, orexplore as a family.

Our Highlights of the Tower, Family, Medieval Palace and White Tower Tours are not step-free.

Tower of London Highlights tours

Highlights of the Tower

Introduced by Joint Chief Curator Lucy Worsley, visit the must-see attractions and delve into life at this iconic fortress, past and present.

Explore the majestic Crown Jewels and iconic 1,000-year-old White Tower. Discover a memorial sculpture at the same site where many executions took place and hear about our magnificent resident Ravens.

Please allow at least 2 hours to complete the Highlights Tour.

Family Audio Guide tour

Take the child-friendly version of the Highlights Tour, voiced by two young ghostly guides. Join Olivia and Quentin as they share best-kept Tower secrets and meet other ghosts of figures from history along the way in this light-hearted family tour.

As above, please allow at least 2 hours for this tour. Available in English only.

Individual tours at the Tower

If you would prefer to go at your own pace during your visit to the Tower, you can choose from the individual tours below.

Welcome to the Tower

Find out more about the different audio tours available and learn how to use your guide. This tour is intended to provide an introduction and takes three minutes to complete.

Traitors Gate

Find out why people call this river entrance ‘Traitors’ Gate,’ with an overview tour of this historical feature, which lasts approximately four minutes.

Imprisonment and execution

Dive into the Tower’s dark past and unmask the tragic tales of imprisonment and execution. Hear real-life stories of famous prisoners, including Guy Fawkes, Anne Boleyn and the two young princes.

This tour is available in main and step-free versions and the recommended time for completion is 25 minutes.

The Medieval Palace

Step inside the luxurious rooms of two medieval kings and discover the lost Medieval Palace. Please leave around 25 minutes to complete

The Crown Jewels

The Tower has been home to this fascinating collection of royal regalia for over 350 years, which remain under armed guard. Explore this priceless collection of treasures still in use today and discover their remarkable history. This tour lasts around 10 minutes.

The Tower's beginnings

Uncover the earliest history of the Tower. Explore its Norman origins, Roman ruins, and the legend of the ravens. This tour lasts 15 minutes and is available in main and step-free versions.

Life at the Tower

Hear first-hand from our Yeoman Warders on what Tower life is really like and discover the ancient ceremonies still performed today, such as the 700-year-old Ceremony of the Keys. This tour takes 9 minutes.

Discover the Alternative Tower tour

Uncover stories, poetry and interviews created by young people invited to explore the Tower’s stories. This takes around 40 minutes.

Moving tales of the prisoners of the Tower are brought to life via spoken word, while young people from Spotlight Youth Centre in Tower Hamlets share stories from behind the scenes at the Tower.

Available in English only.

Time Explorers at the Tower of London

Families can explore the Tower of London by completing challenges and quizzes using the Time Explorers game. Meet characters from history, learn about life at the Tower, test your knowledge and win badges!

If you choose to accept your mission you can help Lady Margery prepare the Medieval Palace for King Edward’s return; or help Arbella Stuart set her husband William free from his prison in the Tower; or go undercover and make a plan of attack against the Norman invaders.

Time Explorers is available to play on selected audio guides and subject to availability. Please ask a member of staff when collecting your guides from the Beefeater Shop.

Audio guide languages

Please note, the Alternative Tales tour is only available in English. The Highlights and Imprisonment and Execution tours are available in BSL.  

Tower of London audio guides are available in the following languages:  

• English, British Sign Language (BSL)
• Dutch (Nederlands) 
• French (Français) 
• German (Deutsch) 
• Italian (Italiano)  
• Japanese (日本語) 
• Korean (한국어) 
• Chinese Mandarin (中文) 
• Portuguese (Português) 
• Russian (Pусский) 
• Spanish (Español) 
• Ukrainian (українська).