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Sixteen London bus routes, all narrated, for one price. Board any of them, put your headphones in, and every landmark gets narrated as you pass it.
One payment unlocks every route — all 16 buses, 199 narrations, about 60p a route. Not one ride. Yours to keep.
King's Road, Sloane Square, Victoria Station, Westminster Abbey, Big Ben, the London Eye, Waterloo. London's most scenic bus ride.
Tower of London, Monument, St Paul's Cathedral, Fleet Street, Royal Courts of Justice, Trafalgar Square.
Piccadilly Circus, Green Park, Harrods, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Palace, the Design Museum.
Westminster, Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square, Tottenham Court Road, Camden Town, Hampstead.
The Thames at Putney, Earl's Court, Natural History Museum, Harrods, Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Marylebone, Sherlock Holmes.
Elephant & Castle, the London Eye, Westminster Abbey, Hyde Park Corner, Marble Arch, Notting Hill, Holland Park.
Cutty Sark, Deptford, Bermondsey, the Old Vic, Waterloo Bridge, Aldwych, Drury Lane, the British Museum.
Shepherd's Bush, Notting Hill, Hyde Park, Marble Arch, Selfridges, Oxford Circus, Regent Street.
Hampstead Heath, Camden, Regent's Park, Great Portland Street, Oxford Circus, Trafalgar Square, Westminster, Tate Britain.
Portobello Road, Paddington Station, Marble Arch, Park Lane, Green Park, Piccadilly Circus, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden.
Putney Bridge, Parsons Green, Chelsea, Sloane Square, Knightsbridge, Hyde Park Corner, Berkeley Square, Savile Row.
Brixton, Kennington, Imperial War Museum, Westminster, Whitehall, Trafalgar Square, Regent Street.
West Hampstead, Lord's Cricket Ground, Baker Street, Selfridges, Oxford Circus, Trafalgar Square, Covent Garden, Somerset House.
Kilburn, Maida Vale, Little Venice, St John’s Wood, Abbey Road, Edgware Road, Paddington Station.
Liverpool Street, Aldgate, Tower Hill, Tower Bridge, the Bermondsey Beer Mile, Old Kent Road, Peckham Rye.
Whitgift Centre, Norbury, Streatham Common, Streatham Hill, Lambeth Town Hall, Electric Avenue.
Average of four London operators’ adult 24-hour fares, checked August 2026. With TfL’s £5.25 bus day cap added, a first day on Traviis comes to £15.25 — still under half. Ours is the narration, not the bus: you ride the same public routes Londoners do.
Big Ben's bell cracked in 1859, just two months after it started ringing. Rather than replace it, they rotated it a quarter turn and kept going. It's rung with that crack ever since.
Christopher Wren began St Paul's at 37 and finished at 78. He was hauled up in a basket to inspect the dome well into his seventies. His son placed the final stone.
In 1917, Harrods sold a baby elephant to Ronald Reagan's godfather as a Christmas present. They used to have an exotic animal department on the second floor.
The River Fleet still flows beneath the street, emptying into the Thames at Blackfriars. In heavy rain you can hear it rushing through the storm drains. Once London's second river.
The Duke of Wellington lived at No. 1 London — literally the first address in the city. His house at Hyde Park Corner was so close to the arch that his servants used it as a shortcut.
Before the market, Camden was where pianos were made. The Collard & Collard factory here built instruments for Chopin and Liszt. Now it's vintage leather jackets and street food.
221B Baker Street didn't exist when Conan Doyle wrote Sherlock Holmes — the street wasn't long enough. When it was extended, the Abbey National building at that address employed a secretary just to answer Holmes's fan mail.
Named after a coaching inn whose sign showed an elephant with a castle on its back — the crest of the Cutlers' Company, who traded in ivory. The elephant was real, the castle was heraldry.
The Cutty Sark was built to be the fastest tea clipper afloat. She once sailed from Sydney to London in 72 days. Now she sits in dry dock at Greenwich — the last of her kind.
Open the tour and allow location access. The map shows every narration point across all 16 routes — ride any bus that passes near a landmark.
Get on the bus and put your headphones in. GPS tracks the bus along the route. The app knows where you are. Signal dropped, or underground? Tap any stop on the map to play it straight away — you never need GPS to hear a narration.
When the bus reaches a landmark, the narration plays automatically. History, architecture, stories — all timed to what's outside your window.
Narrations play automatically as the bus passes each landmark. No buttons, no looking at your phone. Just ride and listen.
Premium narration that sounds like a documentary. Warm, knowledgeable, like sitting next to someone who really knows London.
Every narration is researched, generated by AI, and passed through a second fact-checking pass. Names, dates, details — all verified.
See the full bus route drawn on the map with every stop and narration point. Track your progress in real time.
These are real TfL bus routes you can ride for the price of an Oyster tap. No special tour bus. No booking.
Stuck in traffic? Extra narrations fill the gaps with neighbourhood history and hidden stories about the streets around you.
Full refund within 24 hours of purchase, as long as no narration has been triggered. After that — or once you have started listening — we look at each request individually, and we are reasonable about technical problems, buying the wrong city, and trips that get cancelled. Send requests within 30 days. Full detail in the refund policy.
There is no expiry to race, either — buy it now and ride it next year if the trip moves.
Three ways, all built in:
The map-tap option means you can listen at home before you travel, or catch a stop the bus already passed.
Add the icon first, then download from the icon. On iPhone a guide downloaded in Safari cannot be seen by the home screen icon, so downloading first means downloading the whole thing twice.
Putting it on your home screen — iPhone or iPad (Safari):
On Android (Chrome): tap the three-dot menu at the top right, tap Add to Home screen (some phones say Install app), then confirm. On Android either order works.
If you opened this link from inside Instagram, Facebook or Gmail, you are in that app’s built-in browser. It cannot add anything to your home screen, and a guide downloaded there is thrown away when the app closes. Open the link in Safari or Chrome first.
Yes — these are ordinary TfL routes, not a tour bus, so you tap in as normal. London’s bus and tram fares are capped at £5.25 a day however many buses you take, and the Hopper fare gives you unlimited changes within an hour of tapping in.
That is the trade: a hop-on hop-off ticket bundles the ride, but runs about £32 and expires the same day.
Use the “Download for offline” button before you go and the narrations play without any data connection. The map itself needs a signal — reliable across central zones, though tunnels and some basements may pause map updates.
All 16 routes, 199 narrated stops, in one £10 purchase — routes 9, 11, 15, 16, 22, 23, 24, 74, 78, 88, 94, 109, 139, 148, 159 and 188. Most riders do one or two routes in an afternoon. There is no schedule to keep: it is yours, so you can spread it across a whole trip.
Yes. At checkout you can choose how many copies you want (up to 5 in one payment), and there is a “Send a copy to” box for someone else’s email — they get their own link on their own phone.
Riding together? One phone and shared earbuds works fine; the audio is paced for it.
Offline download caches the narrations to your device. The map itself needs a cell signal — London's coverage is reliable across central zones, but tube tunnels and some basements may pause map updates.
Every claim in this tour traces back to a named source — excavation records, the heritage authority for the site, and the primary texts themselves. Nothing is copied from other guidebooks, and anything we can't source doesn't make the recording.
Each stop is built from OpenStreetMap (the field-surveyed mapping database behind Apple Maps), Wikidata (peer-reviewed structured records), the heritage authority below, and the primary historical texts where they exist.
Cross-referenced against Modern excavation publications · academic peer-review.
Every sentence is checked against those sources before it is recorded. If a claim can't be traced, it doesn't make the audio.
Every tour is reviewed by a person before it goes on sale. Stop selection, the route and anything ambiguous come back to the editor for a decision, and those questions routinely send a stop back for another accuracy pass. Nothing publishes on a machine’s say-so.
Spot anything inaccurate? Email [email protected] — fixed in the next pass.