BT Tower restaurant reborn for Olympics BT is considering reopening the revolving restaurant at the top of its eponymous Tower in central London. The London landmark has a ten foot ring around the edge which slowly rotates giving amazing views of the city below. It used to have a restaurant, bizarrely run by Butlins, but it was closed down. Reports today suggest BT …
That's really good news; if you ever get a chance to go up there, it's really worthwhile - the views are spectacular.
Just don't plug your laptop into the non-revolving part, and put the laptop on a table on the revolving part, like my boss did once during a presentation...
Having recently been to the top of the tower at sunset on a clear spring evening, I could have kicked myself for not taking a good camera up. It is an amazing experience and potentially very romantic.
If you get chance to go to the top, do so. It's a fantastic experience and tops the Eye any day.
...of being taken to eat there by my aunt when I was - oh, about 12. Just a week or so before the IRA hit it. Fantastic view, but surely the rotating tower restaurant in Liverpool would've been a better choice?
Andus McCoatover? Yer havin' a giraffe, mate! Go for a slash, come out of the toilet, and some bastard's moved the bloody cloakroom...
Mine's the one - er - somewhere.
Simple trick to get into the BT Tower - just ring up your BT account manager and feign interest in whatever BT are flogging at the moment (this month it's cloud computing). Then before you can say "money-grabbing thieving b**tards" your account manager should send you complimentary tickets to some boring conference followed by lunch in the tower restaurant. Simples!
PS. The view is absolutely fantastic, and the grub is pretty decent as well!
"It should be given back to the nation, we paid for it - not BT."
Yup - and then the government sold it. Along with all the other utilities and their assets too.
It could be taken back into public ownership if the government wanted to buy all the shares back - though EU rules prohibit governments from majority stakeholdings in telcos. Unless they're French.
Public ownership doesn't anyway equal public access. Do you think you'd be allowed to march onto HMS Ark Royal or borrow a Eurofighter or be granted access to the control room at Sellafield?
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