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Genuinely awful. Stale sandwiches, dry bread, unidentifiable fillings, hard scones and a paltry helping of clotted cream. The cakes were weirdly slimy and the shortbread tasted like dust. Felt a bit ill after trying some things. Seems like since Oct 2025 all the review have been poor - I wonder whether there has been a change of supplier? The setting is also nothing like the promotional images. You are sitting next to the normal café behind a tiny roped-off area. It feels pretty close to false advertising given how the experience is presented online. The whole thing felt cheap, badly run and just a bolt on money grabber

Great afternoon visit on a very hot day in June. Not cheap for 5 adults including afternoon tea but still quite memorable. Quality of food not too good with limited variety and slightly stale sandwiches. Not a great atmosphere in a cordoned off area of the main cafe area although table was set and ready at the booked time. Excellent service however. Recommend doing tour of ship before tea if booking table for 3pm as it all shut down at 5pm.

we loved visiting the cutty sark but found the afternoon tea on offer very poor. the sandwiches were stale and had barely any filling in them. the scones were tiny and hard. we had confirmed extra seats for children on our booking but these weren't arranged so our table was too small. one of our party was vegetarian which again was confirmed via email, but they got a much smaller selection and didn't receive the advertised egg brioche buns that the meat eaters got. staff said they had no honey for the tea. the environment was nice but not as spectacular as the photos make it look (and it goes without saying that the cakes etc shown in the website photos look nothing like what we received). if you go don't book the afternoon tea, just order tea and fresh sandwiches etc from the cafe; it will be cheaper, nicer, and more of it.

Easily our most disappointing afternoon tea in London. Virgin sell this as an "experience". Well, it was. Rather than sat under the ship like in the photo we were instead placed in an area of the visitors cafe, separated only from the rest of the noisy cafe by a cordon with screaming kids running around 2 feet from us. Also, we were sat near the toilets so we had a continual line of people filing past us to use the facilities. If the ambience was bad the food wasn't much better. On our afternoon tea tray being placed down I noticed the top of a hair poking out from one of the cucumber sandwiches and proceeded to pull out a 3 inch black short and curly. Consequently we didn't touch the rest of the sandwiches. Service was almost non-existent. The lady at the table next to us asked the waitress dashing past for more tea (something we were told at the beginning we could do) and the waitress snapped back "I can't be expected to remember everything, you'll just have to wait!" After scoffing a few scones we left in disappointment. This was a birthday present from my wife. Honestly, if RMG can't offer a genuine afternoon tea experience they just shouldn't bother.

Photos were very deceiving. You are actually having the afternoon tea under the ship in a cafe. You are seated in a roped off area, next to people using the cafe. No atmosphere, cold and food not of a good standard. Wouldn't recommend this experience

A nice tea with cakes and sandwiches. Includes entry to ship which is very fun and informative. Nice way to spend a few hours.

Great tour guide, well organised, the ship was well laid out and very interesting. Free time on the ship to wander about as you wish. Fantastic to hear the full history of this ship. The cream tea was lovely and topped off our visit nicely. Well worth a visit here.

+5

We started our visit with afternoon tea. It was a wonderful experience for the grandchildren. The staff was attentive. The table reserved. The we explored the Cutty Sark. The children were captivated by the interactive exhibits, especially sailing the Cutty Sark from Australia back to England. Once they finished all the exhibits, they went back to start again!

The ship and its history is fascinating, a great place to find out about where it sailed to and what the caro was, and how it was saved from rotting away. We had afternoon tea booked, which was a little disappointing (for the price paid) tables were set in the cafe next to the toilets with people bustling past, we were served our choice of drink, brought our selection of sandwiches (4x fingers - slightly dried out) and cakes and then left to it. I have paid far less for a much better tea and experience, and only a few pounds more for a fabulous tea in The Royal Albert Hall. Would recommend the ship, but not the afternoon tea..

The Cutty Sark itself was great. Really interesting and fantastic views particularly from the bow. The upkeep of the clipper is very impressive. Unfortunately the afternoon tea was somewhat average. The cafe area was the location, under the hull of the ship, perhaps if the afternoon tea area had been sectioned off and perhaps more comfortable seating would have added ambiance. The cakes were rather hard/stale and the scones similarly hard with the cream yellowing and they looked as though it had been sitting for ages. We were brought our tea and then never saw anyone again. A bowl to put used teabags in would have been welcome. We also had to go to the cafe counter to ask for some more tea. It did not feel special which was a shame as I was treating my family. It was not particularly budget friendly as was suggested in one of the reviews as the ticket entry and afternoon tea costs GBP47, a cost I was happy to pay when I booked as I thought it would be an out of the ordinary, special experience.