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Five of HRP's six royal palaces are in London. It costs £120 to visit them all. Tower of London £37.00 Hampton Court Palace £29.00 Kensington Palace £19.00 Banqueting House £10.00 Kew Palace £25.00 TOTAL £120.00 Take up HRP membership and you can get that down to £89. But by playing the long game I've managed to visit the lot for less than £20. I saved the most expensive until last. Tower of London £1.00 Hampton Court Palace £7.75 Kensington Palace £0.00 Banqueting House £0.00 Kew Palace £10.00 TOTAL £18.75 Tower of London: £37 is pretty steep for a palace visit, even when it's an extra-special Norman fortress, and even more so if you stump up the cheeky £3.70 donation on top. But Tower Hamlets residents get to visit the Tower for £1 which is easily one of London's best deals, an offer I've taken up several times (2005/2009/2015/2023). Hampton Court Palace: Visiting Hampton Court is never cheap, but sometimes they do a half-price offer in the winter months and in 2015 I got the usual…

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