10 Downing Street

10 Downing Street also known in The UK as «Number 10» is home to the Prime minister of the United Kingdom — David Cameron with George Osborne next store at «Number 11» (I’d hate to have either of the 2 as a neighbor), since it has become an attraction in London, but still not as big as the likes of The Houses of Parliament, London Eye or even the River Thames.
I’m reviewing Number 10 as an attraction, which is the only part open to the public, and even that is a horrible restricted view, all you can see is basically a brick across large crowds, the gates often guarded by security, and although I understand why this is needed it ruins a tourist attraction, which makes this near enough a pointless place to visit.
It really isn’t an impressive building and due to security you can’t really see a thing, unlike Buckingham Palace, other royal palaces and even The White House in Washington (Sadly I’m yet to visit there)
If you’re visiting London, I certainly wouldn’t say you reccomned wasting your time visiting here as London is a great city, and although here is a central Westminister location, they is near enough nothing to see, so it isn’t really worth the time. I’m reviewing this place as a tourist attraction, which it is supposed to be as many people visit here while in London, but is it worth it? The answer is No.

Da will man mal einen Blick auf den Sitz des Premierministers erhaschen und denkt — kann man sich auch schenken. ;) Ein großer Zaun, Sicherheitsgebiet, Alcatraz mitten in London…^^
Alles sehr gut abgeschirmt und nichts Besonderes… Eine «Sehenswürdigkeit» nach dem Motto: Ja, ich war da, aber muss ich nicht gesehen haben. ;)

10 Downing Street, is 10 Downing Street, colloquially known in the United Kingdom as «Number 10», is the headquarters of the Executive Arm of the British Government and the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury, a post which, for much of the 18^th and 19^th centuries and ever since 1905, is also held by the Prime Minister. known in the United Kingdom as «Number 10», is the headquarters of the Executive Arm of the British Government and the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury, a post which, for much of the 18^th and 19^th centuries and ever since 1905, is also held by the Prime Minis

Parmi les rues les plus célèbres de Londres, le 10 Downing Street sert de résidence officielle au premier ministre britannique.
J’ai connu et vu tout d’abord lorsque Tony Blair occupait ce poste puis Gordon Brown et l’actuel qui officie à ce statut, David Cameron. Soit les trois derniers ayant géré cette fonction.
Au numéro 11, moins réputé forcément, on trouve néanmoins le ministre des finances et au 12 c’est le bureau du «Chief Whip» qui équivaut en français à un député qui à la fonction de diriger les élus de son parti;

10 Downing Street? More like turn down the street. That is, keep it moving because there’s nothing to see here!
I was taking my American friends on an impromptu walking tour of London, and we were headed towards Trafalgar Square. We happened to be on Whitehall so I suggested that we walk down Downing Street. I’m glad that this wasn’t our final destination because it’s such a let down. Whoever runs the London department of tourism should STOP listing 10 Downing Street as a tourist attraction, or redefine «attraction»!

Früher konnte man als Tourist direkt bis zur Haustür des Premierministers vordringen, inzwischen ist die ganze Straße leider aus Sicherheitsgründen gesperrt und abgeriegelt.
Aber sicher ein Besuch wert, wer sich für Politik interessiert…

Not much to see here but this is the home of the PM of England. We passed by it while on our Rick Steves walk to Trafalgar Square.

10 Downing Street, known in the UK as «Number 10», is the headquarters of Her Majesty’s Government and the official residence and office of the First Lord of the Treasury. We stopped by while listening to our free Rick Steves’ audio tour of Westminster on our iPods. The free audio guide can be accessed here:
Although this is one of the most famous addresses in the world, this was by no means the highlight of our walk. We stopped for a few minutes at the gate entrance and realized that you really couldn’t see much and continued with our walking tour of Westminster. This gate used to not be present and Downing Street was open to the public, but after a bombing in 1991 the gate was installed.
I wouldn’t go out of my way to visit 10 Downing Street, but if you are in the Westminster area it is worth stopping by for a moment.

Ich war hier und ein Foto gemacht. Man muss eben mal vorbei geschaut haben, wenn man in London ist.

Well, that was disappointing…
As someone who spent a little bit of time in Washington DC (at least passing through), you tend to pass by The White House from time to time. And it’s there. And it’s big. And it’s photogenic and ready for you to be captured in a photo with it. And I assumed 10 Downing Street would be the same.
Wrong.
10 Downing Street is hidden behind a giant gate with policemen in front of it. You can baaaaaarely see it and no way to take a pic with it. Hell, you can’t even take a pic with the sign that says Downing Street, since it’s up crazy high above the gate.
Tourists still try to take a pic though and there’s always a crowd there, even if all of them leave with a pic of a gate that they then show to friends going, «Well, that was disappointing.»
Ah well. It was nice to say that I walked by it at least.

Walked past it three times without realising it was there. No access is granted to members of public so no
Good photo opportunities better off with a postcard

Wirklich sehenswert auch wenn man nicht viel sieht.
Ich gebe meinen Vorgängern recht: davorgestanden haben sollte man.

You walk past the gate on Whitehall on your way from Trafalgar Square to Parliament/​Westminster Abbey. You can’t really see #10. Take a picture from behind the gates. Walk on to the real tourist sites. Really nothing to see, but technically you get much closer to this residence than to the White House.

An iconic landmark in Central London
& a must-​see for all tourists, this sits
on the same street leading to Trafalgar
Square & Horseguards Parade one way
& to Parliament Square, the other way.
Due to increased terrorism, tightened
security has led to massive gates erected
which never were there in the 60’s when
I first came to London.

AUCUN INTERET!
En plus dans les films, on croit que le Premier Ministre vit dans la rue comme tout le monde.
En fait, il n’en est rien du tout!
Downing Street est une impasse privée et gardée par la police et fermée par des grillage.
Circulez, il n’y a rien à voir!

Centrally located hostel with a historic façade. More modern inside with a lot of offices and rather formal meeting rooms.
I dropped-​in a few years ago.
The butler was too friendly and I had to ask my folks why.
My folks talked to his folks and it turned out that he didn’t like his own voters and was always unctuous to authority figures from round the world. They said he had raided millions of pounds from this that and the other I just call it welfare money to make us both look good on something callled the world stage. I can’t find a review for the World Stage on qype but he probably meant the Millenium Dome or the Olympics or something.
Welfare isn’t my brief now I’ve left Texas but apparently in England it is treated like a sort of insurance, as though you use the state as a kind of insurance company, and some of the advisors looked a bit nervous at taking the insurance premiums while most of them seemed more interested in publicity.
Well I thought this was an experience but I chose to stay the night at the embassy and then on to the next capital city: live and learn!
GB
Texas, USA

100% agreement with Yee Gan O, this is a total miss. You can’t see a dang thing, which is a shame. I get that there are stupid people doing stupid things these days, but it would be nice if we could at least get close enough for a picture of the famous door instead of a wrought iron gate!
Plenty of other worthy things nearby!

This is a complete non-​event as a tourist attraction. You aren’t able to really see anything at all from the outside vantage point at the security barrier.
While I appreciate security concerns are paramount, they haven’t even bothered to get a Downing Street sign lower down so that tourists can get a souvenir picture easily. Instead, you get a view of heavily armed policemen and a concrete barrier
I overheard a conversation between a policeman and a group from Kent. It seems that you can apply to go onto Downing Street and have your picture taken at the famous door but most applications get rejected unless you have a charity link or have served in police/​army etc.
Fortunately, much more impressive sights like the Palace of Westminster are nearby

Ok so we don’t have the White House! But Downing Street is possibly the most prized street in the world. Yes the Prime Minister lives there and joe pulic is not allowed in-​but honestly what do you expect? You take picture outside the gate and stand around long enough– you may see the famous resident. I bet they dont leave their rubbish out for the bin men– just the gutter press!!!

Although Downing Street is just a side street, you will not miss it. There are a lot of people staying outside many times. Also, the street is guarded, so it is very easy to identify.
What you can do at 10 Downing Street is just taking a photo outside the barred street.
It is worth giving a visit as you can get so close to the living place of the PM.

Ich stimme vanessals voll zu. Das ist das Haus der Premierministers. Man sieht aber nicht mehr als eine Tür und Polizei rund um. Wenn Mr. Brown nicht da ist, ist das einfach ein Haus und nix weiteres. Wenn ihr irgendwo in der nähe seit, dann geht dahin, aber extra hin zu gehen lohnt sich ehe net. Das was ihr im TV sieht ist auch das was ihr dort sehen werdet.

Das Haus in der Downing Street ist das Zuhause des britischen Premierministers. Wer es sich ansehen möchte, steigt an der tube station Westminster aus. Die ganze Straße 10 Downing Street besteht nur aus 2 Häusern.

La casa del primer ministro, sin más. Para mi no tiene ningún interes turistico. Se puede visitar como curiosidad.

Downing Street is a side road along Whitehall. They are nice buildings but no more so than the rest of the area.
Infact since many tourist walk down Whitehall to or from Big Ben/​Trafalgar square many people tend to just stumble upon it by accident and i’ve even seen tourists just walk straight past!
These days of course you can’t actually go into the street itself due to the security situation of this day and age which tends to lead to lots of tourists trying to peer through black iron gates guarded by miserable policeman being asked for the fifty-​twelth time which door is number 10!
For those of you who do visit — it’s on the right down the bottom of the street.
As already said definitely a ‘been there, seen that’ moment rather than somewhere to visit.

Well — you can’t exactly visit 10 Downing Street unless you are there on some form of business, because security has become increasingly strict. You can crane through the bars and have a peak down the street itself, and that in its own way is well worth doing — but don’t expect to see the PM (not putting Gordon Brown as I don’t want my review to go out of date too quickly) popping in and out.
However, in terms of history and the seat of leadership or the UK its worth popping along to have a nose around for sure, plus its really not far from the House of Commons, Parliament Square and the like so it’s very easy to combine with a little trip around Westminster.
Now, I have been fortunate enough to have an event on Downing Street — hence the picture outside the door — and after lots of police checks on the way in, its a pretty amazing road to walk downthe event was actually at no 11, though the two buildings are interconnected anyway. But as there is no No 11 on Qype — a quick bit on the inside: fabulous building, very traditional decoration as you’d expect and lots of portraits and cartoons of previous Chancellors on the way up the stairs. You really can feel the power in there as well. A quick glance out the window into the back garden did give a slightly bemusing result of seeing the PM having a chat with several ministers. Anyway — no pictures allowed in there and basically the rule seem to be what goes on tour stays on tourso I’ll leave it there.

Hm, da der Sitz des Premierministers so extrem abgeschirmt ist, lohnt sich der Besuch wirklich nur für die hartgesottenen Fans. Viel zu sehen gab es für uns jedenfalls nicht.

qui? oui
qui habite là?
Le Premier ministre du Royaume-​Uni de Grande-​Bretagne et d’Irlande du Nord, (résidence et bureau)
c’est bien de passer tout près et de dire j’ai vu…

Whether I would recommend a visit to 10 Downing Street depends on if it’s important for you to actually see landmarks that you can’t really interact with. You can’t actually get that close to the No. 10 door they’ve really tightened security over the past few years. So basically you have to settle for walking up to the barrier and then just standing there for a minute and looking at the door. At that point I felt a little silly that we’d gone there, because we kind of just shrugged and said, «ok, saw that,» and decided to have lunch. Perhaps there’s some tour or something that would have made the experience more interesting, but just in terms of going there and seeing the place, it wasn’t all that exciting.

Rien à voir…
C’est près de Westminster, donc on va y jeter un oeil. Un seul, pas deux… Circulez, y a rien à voir…