The Paddington Bear™️ Experience ticket

Our children love Paddington, so this experience felt like a perfect last minute addition to our London trip after seeing the advert on the Underground. The interactive elements at the start, such as searching for Paddington’s suitcase and answering the telephone, were charming and set the tone nicely. The train section was particularly well done and captured the magic of the story. Mrs Bird’s kitchen was another highlight, full of detail and atmosphere. The only downside was that we struggled at times to hear what Mrs Brown was saying, which took away from the moment slightly. As a family, we enjoyed completing the various challenges and the children were fully engaged throughout. However, I agree with other reviewers that the overall experience felt quite short for the price. The first part of the Windsor Street party had potential but ended up feeling a little anticlimactic. We also fell into the photo‑gift trap at the end. We paid £20 for a magnet and key ring, only to discover we had to cut and assemble them ourselves, disappointing, especially with two staff nearby doing nothing and the machine doing the printing automatically! Overall, it was something different and our children seemed to enjoy it. But it is undeniably expensive! A fun family outing, but with a few areas that could be improved to better match the cost.

What a wonderful experience. Each room has its own 'problems' that need to be solved. A kind of escape room for children. Definitely recommended.

Really enjoyable and well put together experience. Staff were excellent also and very engaged in the process. Fee is a little high, but it was worth it. Our 9 year old daughter loved it.

I have mixed feelings about the "experience". My husband and I took our 9 year old (my 14 year old didn't come and I'm glad as I think she'd have been bored!). When you arrive, you are in the gift shop and enter through that. You get to a "platform" and board a train. And then you go through the house, a few of the rooms, Peru and find Paddington back in the house. You don't actually see Paddington until the end where he is in the attic and it's a mechanical puppet, and then at the end there is a Paddington you can pay an extra £20 to have a photo with. In each of the rooms (3) there is a task to complete and you do this with all of the other people booked on your time slot. The actors in each of the "scenes" are great, and really, they made it, despite being far too young for the parts they are playing (Mrs brown and Mrs bird in particular). Once you come out of the house again you are in "Windsor gardens" for a street party, where you can buy over priced marmalade flavoured food and drink and the kids can play on some "free" games like coconut shy, bean bag in a bucket and do some colouring. You then see Paddington who you can have a photo with against a green screen for £20 which you can have printed off in various forms and chose various backdrops. You then exit back out through the station, where the next group are waiting to board the train and back through the gift shop. It cost us £70 for the 3 of us, I'm not so sure it was worth it for something that took us 70 minutes, but, saying that, my daughter loved it and all the younger children in our allotted time group, seemed to enjoy it.

Not worth the money, not good atmosphere, actually the staff that was on when we were leaving seemed very interactive and played the role better.

Fantastic entertainment for the kids . The tour is really well thought out and the set design is fantastic. We all thought Mrs Bird was brilliantly over the top and was definitely the star of the show. The staging is very very clever and well worth the ticket price. The gift shop offers plenty of choice but definitely London prices . Even so we would all recommend a visit.

This is weirdest thing I have been to - hot, smelly and a bit fun for kids. However not worth the money at all. Paddington is not there - just before the end the puppet says sth and when we wanted to take a pic with him we were commanded out, because paddinton pictures are meant to be taken ourside. Of course - because they wanted even more money from you 😂. We bought 2 marmelade sandwiches, 3 mini cupcakes (really mini) and an ice tea. This costed 25 pounds 😅.

Some nice effects and staging. Actors play Station assistant, Mrs Brown and Mrs Bird but are far too young for the parts they play to make it realistic. Parts scripted. Paddington doesn’t really play a part though there are options at the end to have a photograph with him. Games and colouring activities at the end. Quite expensive for what it is. Option to rent a locker for bags available for £4. Marmalade sandwiches for sale at the end.

We were 3. Were French. My grandma doesn’t speak English nor my cousins. As a French but English speaker this experience was grey and funny. There were little kid and at first we really thought it would be boring as hell but guess what ? It wasn’t. The animation were great and funny. Personally I loved when we were in the jungle or at the end when we hugged paddington. The actors were really in they’re role and it was very nice.

I wanted to take my 6yr old granddaughter for a special visit to London. I chose this experience with the London theatre group children’s free ticket deal. We arrived early and were delighted they could fit us into an earlier time slot. The group size was good but with more adults than children. Two of the actors were excellent however the Scottish accent of Mrs Bird was extremely difficult to understand. The children didn’t reply to any of her questions and instructions were rushed and difficult to follow. I had no idea of what we were supposed to do with a few switches on the side of a fridge whilst others got to build a cake or mend plumbing pipes. The hallway introduction and jungle were good also the pantry but other parts seemed a little rushed so as to get as many groups through as possible. The train would have been better if we could have seen Paddington and the passing views had been more realistic. No lovely smells as mentioned in other reviews, a mechanical Paddington near the end disappointing as was the adult sized Paddington in the play area. My granddaughter said ‘oh it was a person dressed up because I could feel their hand’. Refreshments expensive, toilet facilities clean, quite a long wait for the entry wristband as only one kiosk. Maybe to have seen Paddington peeping in through a window or running up the stairs would have added so much more. I’m pleased not to have paid full price of £88 for 1 pensioner and 1 six year old, even £44 seemed a little high.