Live and with a guide, the Harry Potter tour in London comes to your home
If the followers of Harry Potter they can't go to London to explore the places that served to set the films of the mythical saga, then London and those stages will have to come to them. Poor muggle, you may not be able to understand it; but Ángela Fernández, director of I'll tell you on the way the company that created Harry Potter Streaming Tour in London , it was clear to him.
“I decided to create it because, although any traveler would resent having their trip interrupted, this is a tour that families and children go to, and this cancellation has generated small dramas in the houses by having to make the child see that they were not going to be able to make the trip”, Fernández explains to Traveler.es who, residing in London, created this company that accompanies travelers from the preparation of their trip until they enjoy it in England, with accompaniment in Spanish.
If we can't go to London and its stages; London and its stages will come to our sofa
“Initially, it was an alternative for travelers who were going to enjoy this tour and had canceled it; but later We thought it could be useful for all the people who will not have the opportunity to travel to London soon” she adds.
And it is that the Harry Potter streaming tour in London It is based on the one that this company has been organizing for more than four years in the British capital (Harry Potter in London). , in which a guide escorts travelers around the city to movie locations, explains how the scenes were shot, where J.K. Rowling, surprises them with curiosities (from the saga and from London) and challenges them to test their knowledge with a Magic Quiz.
In the case of the streaming version, the procedure will be the same: the participants, connected from a computer with a camera and microphone to be able to interact, will follow the explanations of a guide and yes, they will also have to demonstrate through question and answer how much they know about the Harry Potter universe.
The winning muggle will get two free tickets for the face-to-face tour, when it is possible to travel again; and the rest of the participants will be given a surprise gift.
His magic quiz will test your knowledge about the Harry Potter universe
Thus, as the development two hour tour, the guide alternates curiosities of the saga, its filming and its protagonists with information about London that lead to engage with attention to the explanations that are accompanied by images of the films and of the city itself, as if we could almost, almost, feel that we are walking through it.
Little by little, we come to Cecil Court, we discover Goodwin's Court, we walk through it Borough Market, we visited Trafalgar Square, we enter the sweet Hardy's Or do we go into the westminster station in a muggle reality where Harry had to explain to Mr. Weasley how that part of the world worked. Because if, you go in and out of this tour as a muggle, but for a while you feel like you're in the universe of Harry, Hermione and Ron.
This virtual version will also have added value in the form of additional locations. “The magic of streaming allows us to reach locations that are much further away, which is not possible in the muggle world. The tour includes two or three extra locations that in the normal tour are outside of London and could not be visited”, Fernández advances and then enumerates other positive aspects such as the enjoy the experience from the comfort of home.
And there is more. “The setting, the power teleport to a magical world, it's easier in streaming because the Harry Potter soundtrack is playing in the background and we can put certain effects so that each person is involved in the tour. By doing it from home, everyone can wear their own Harry costume."
Harry Potter London Streaming Tour Takes Place at 11:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. with a capacity for 15 connections per session. You can check the days and make the reservation through their website.
The price of access to the tour is 18 pounds (about 20 euros), of which one pound will go to Yo me coronado, the initiative that is already working on "a pioneering clinical trial, the first approved by the Spanish Medicines Agency, with the aim of defining what drugs will serve to immediately treat those infected [with Covid-19] and prevent contagion in their contacts. Through another project, we are also working on a vaccine against the virus.
You go in and out of this tour as a 'muggle', but for a while you feel like you're in the Harry, Hermione and Ron universe.