Nearest Underground Station:
Waterloo - Bakerloo Line (brown), Jubilee Line (silver gray), Northern Line
(black). Also a main line station.Plan your tube journey to this station using the button below:
A PHOTOGRAPH ILLUSTRATED VERSION of this walking route is available by clicking
here.
This station has multiple exits, not clearly marked, so be careful! The best
route is as follows:
Follow the exit signs marked "South Bank" and / or "Shell
Exit" and / or "York Road Exit" from the platform to the surface.
All lead to the same place! Leave the station and you will be on York Road.
Turn to your left, and walk past the Lloyds / TSB Bank. Ahead to your left is
a huge silver steel rectangle. No, the monkey does not know what it is either.
To the left of it, and behind, is a pedestrian passageway called "Sutton
Walk"; which goes under a bridge. Take it, at the end is a fountain ahead of you.
You are now on "Concert Road
Approach". Turn to your left. The Royal Festival Hall is ahead of you. Walk
towards it. Go to the right hand side of it.
You are now in an area of grey concrete.
The Festival Hall is to your left,
a mass of balconies with open space below them to your right. On one of the
balconies, words spell out the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
Look to the left below them. Amongst the pillars are a pair of grey doors.
Cross the area to them and go in. Up the stairs is the foyer of the venue.
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If you have the misfortune to leave the station by the "Waterloo
Road" exit, fear not. You can either walk through Waterloo Station to the
York road exit, or take this alternative route - CONSIDER YOUR PERSONAL SAFETY
if you do so.
On leaving the glass doors, turn left. Walk to the corner, and turn left into
"Mepham Street". Walk all the way to the end of it, avoiding the
temptation to go under any bridges.
At the end of the street is York Road. Cross it. Ahead of you, to the left,
is "Sutton Walk", the pedestrian road under the bridge. Take it.
At the end is a fountain ahead of you. You are now on "Concert Road
Approach". Turn to your left. The Royal Festival Hall is ahead of you. Walk
towards it. Go to the right hand side of it.
You are now in an area of grey concrete. The Festival Hall is to your left,
a mass of balconies with open space below them to your right. On one of the
balconies, words spell out the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room.
Look to the left below them. Amongst the pillars are a pair of grey doors.
Cross the area to them and go in. Up the stairs is the foyer of the venue.
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Another visitor suggest this route: Take the tube to the Embankment station
and walk across the Hungerford footbridge to the south bank, then
walk past the Festival Hall complex. Take the next staircase leading up.
The foyer entrance is at the top, to your right.
Noted are the "Gorgeous views both up and down river on a good day or
evening.". The monkey endorses this comment, especially at twilight!
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