Last morning in London.... sad that I'll be leaving the women of Pax Lodge so soon, after they had shown some amazing hospitality even though we had never met before. I do seriously recommend it to anyone looking to spend time in London and looking for good value and very nice accommodation.
Once again a good breakfast, colours and packing to leave to find Forbidden Planet again to get some posters for friends. Eventually found it and got the posters, made it back to Tottenham Court Road station in time to get a train to Embankment for Kensington Olympia for the Doctor Who experience with Nicola.
The experience was brilliant and well worth the money, when you enter you initially enter a room with some sets and costumes from some of the episodes. These included the creepers and The queens costumes, a WWII Dalek and some Silurians. You enter into the experience and sit by a screen where you can slowly see a crack starting to form along it. You have an introduction by the 11th doctor (Matt Smith) then the doors open as the crack widens and you walk through into a futuristic museum. The information droid begins to show you objects when the doctor 'intercepts' the libraries system and pops up on the screen asking for Amy or Rory, as he's gotten himself locked into the pandorica (again), he then accepts that the 'shoppers' will have to do and causes the TARDIS to materialise for us to enter.
Once in the control room you stand around the control panel and he instructs you on how to fly the TARDIS, you crash land and end up on Dalek ship with one the factions of the Daleks. They threaten to exterminate you and when the Doctor intercedes and causes their ship to become visible. You come under attack from a rival Dalek faction and escape through a tunnel caused by the TARDIS. The only issue is that the path to safety takes you through a forest crowded with weeping angels. You then come upon the pandorica, the doctor opens it but causes time to rip and signal every single one of his enemies to come and find him (cue awesome 3D effects) with the Doctor safely back in his blue box and us moving safely onto normal lives. From here we moved into an exhibition hall with more costumes from all 11 doctors, recent companions and other major characters. There is also a monsters hall with a historical sequence of both the Daleks and the Cybermen, showing how they had developed from the very early episodes. A few silence were on the ceiling, some peg dolls from a recent episode as well as many more.
From there it through the gift shop and out. I was very tempted to get a remote controlled TARDIS but settled on a satchel as it'd be more useful. The package that we got gave us a poster and a shirt included as well as a certificate proving that we had flown the TARDIS as well as other goodies. Overall an enjoyable day and a good way to end my Trip
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