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Evan Evans Tours
From London: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower Entry & Rail Ticket
5.0 (1) · from $158.62
The only Spinnaker Tower ticket on GetYourGuide is a $158.62 day trip from London that bundles return train travel with entry, rated 5 out of 5 from one review. The tower is 170 m tall, per Wikidata, with its top deck at 110 m. It is temporarily closed from 11 October 2026, so I’d wait for the reopening date and then go on a clear afternoon.
| Tour | From | Rating | Length | Free cancellation | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From London: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower Entry & Rail Ticket | $158.62 | ★ 5.0 (1) | 24-hour ticket | Yes | Check availability |
I found one product, and it is not a plain entry ticket. It is a self-guided day trip from London in which the tower is the main stop, so tickets for the Spinnaker Tower like this only suit you if you are starting in the capital. The numbers below come from Wikidata, Wikipedia and Open-Meteo.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Viewing decks | Three platforms at 100 m, 105 m and 110 m, per Wikipedia |
| Glass floor | On the first viewing deck, at 100 m above sea level, per Wikipedia |
| Open air or indoor | The top Sky Deck has only a wire mesh roof, so it is open to the elements, per Wikipedia |
| Location | Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth, per Wikipedia |
| Opening hours | Not published right now: the official site is a holding page while the tower is closed |
| Time to allow | The listing is a full day, with the tower as one stop and free time at Portsmouth Harbour |
A glass floor is located on the first viewing deck at 100 metres above sea level.
If you want to stand on the decks, this is the only one of the Spinnaker Tower tickets I can show you. It is titled From London: Portsmouth Spinnaker Tower Entry & Rail Ticket, it is sold by Evan Evans Tours, and it costs $158.62. It carries a single review, 5 out of 5, so treat the rating as a hint and not as proof.
What matters is what the price covers. Per the listing, you get train travel from London Waterloo to Portsmouth, entrance to the tower, access to three viewing decks, the glass Sky Walk, the open-air Sky Garden and the high-speed lift. It does not include a tour guide, museum entry or meals. The day is self-guided: the outbound train leaves Waterloo at 9:00am and reaches Portsmouth Harbour at 10:45am, and the return leaves at 6:00pm and arrives back at 8:04pm.
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My pick: My only pick here, and only if you are coming from London: train, entry to all three decks and the glass Sky Walk in one booking, with free cancellation up to 7 days ahead.
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The Spinnaker Tower ticket is valid for 24 hours and the meeting point is London Waterloo Station, not the tower. If you already live near Portsmouth, this is the wrong product for you, and you should wait for the official site to publish a tower-only price.
There is one price among the Spinnaker Tower tickets to report, so this part is short. The bundle is $158.62 in US dollars, and it includes the rail fare, which a standalone entry ticket would not. That is why you can’t compare it with a tower-only price: the listing does not split the cost between train and tower, and I won’t guess at the split.
Travelling as a group changes the maths because the price is per person. This calculator gives the total for your party.
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from per person, before any child or group discount
Prices are the lowest per-person prices on GetYourGuide when I last checked; the final price depends on the date, time slot and age.
Around 1,640 people a month search for Spinnaker Tower Portsmouth tickets, which tells me most visitors want a simple ticket for the Spinnaker Tower. I could not find tickets for the Spinnaker Tower of that kind on GetYourGuide. What exists is the London day trip, so if you are already in Portsmouth, the sensible route to Spinnaker Tower tickets is to wait for the new official website, which the tower says is coming soon with visit-planning information.
For anyone starting in London, these Spinnaker Tower tickets do solve the logistics. You do not book a train separately, and you are in Portsmouth by 10:45am. The listing itself describes Portsmouth as the UK’s only island city, and the walk from Portsmouth Harbour takes you to Gunwharf Quays, where the tower stands.
Height is the first thing people ask about Spinnaker Tower tickets, so here it is. The tower is 170 m (560 ft) tall, which is worth knowing before you buy Spinnaker Tower tickets, per Wikipedia. The three viewing platforms sit one above another at 100 m, 105 m and 110 m. The listing describes the views as reaching 23 miles across Portsmouth Harbour, the Solent, the South Downs and the Isle of Wight.
Residents chose the design in a 1998 public poll from three options, according to Wikipedia. It was designed by the local firm HGP Architects with engineering consultants Scott Wilson, and it opened on 18 October 2005. The tower alone cost 35.6 million pounds.
There is little to read on Spinnaker Tower tickets yet. Reviews are the weak spot of this page, and I’d rather say so than dress up the Spinnaker Tower tickets. The GetYourGuide listing has one rating, 5 out of 5, and the snippet is just the star score with no text. That is not enough to say anything about queues, the lift or the glass floor.
For the tower itself, the better evidence is its history. Wikipedia reports more than 600,000 visitors in its first year, even though only the internal lift was working. I’d read that as proof of demand, not as a review of today’s visit.
I found no discount code for Spinnaker Tower tickets, and none appears on the listing. The official site currently shows a holding page, so there is no visible offer to check. If a code turns up on a voucher site, test it at the booking page and look at the terms before you rely on it.
The GetYourGuide bundle does have one useful safety net. Cancellation is free up to 7 days in advance for a full refund, so you can book your Spinnaker Tower ticket early and still change your mind.
This is the section that matters most today. The official Spinnaker Tower site says the tower is temporarily closed from 11 October 2026 as it prepares for a new chapter. It adds that Portsmouth City Council and Landsec have formed a new partnership and that a new website is coming soon.
No reopening date is published, and I could not find regular hours, so I have none to give you. Before you buy the day trip, check the official site for a reopening date, then choose a date after it. The train times on the listing are fixed, so a closed tower would mean a day in Portsmouth without the view.
Prices for Spinnaker Tower tickets are thin because of that closure. The one I can verify is the $158.62 bundle with rail, and I have no official tower-only price to put beside it. After the new site launches, compare it with the bundle: if you can reach Portsmouth cheaply yourself, a tower-only ticket is likely to be the better value, and if you are starting in London, the bundle’s convenience is the argument for it.
The weather matters more than the month once your Spinnaker Tower ticket has taken you up to 110 m. Open-Meteo’s 2025 data shows April as the clearest month, with 42% average cloud cover, followed by May and the summer months at around 53% to 55%. February was the cloudiest at 76%, with January and October at 75%.
| Month | Sunset (London time) | Cloud cover | Sunshine a day | Rainy days |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 16:27 | 75% | 3.7 h | 13 |
| Feb | 17:21 | 76% | 4.4 h | 13 |
| Marclearest | 18:09 | 53% | 9.4 h | 4 |
| Aprclearest | 20:00 | 42% | 11.6 h | 9 |
| May | 20:47 | 55% | 12.2 h | 9 |
| Jun | 21:20 | 53% | 12.9 h | 11 |
| Jul | 21:12 | 53% | 12.7 h | 11 |
| Aug | 20:24 | 53% | 10.9 h | 8 |
| Sepclearest | 19:18 | 50% | 9 h | 14 |
| Oct | 18:11 | 75% | 6 h | 9 |
| Nov | 16:17 | 64% | 5.5 h | 17 |
| Dec | 15:58 | 66% | 4.4 h | 15 |
Sunset runs from 15:58 in December to 21:20 in June, and the day trip’s 6:00pm return train shapes the plan. In summer you could still watch the sun go down after a late afternoon visit and miss the train, so check the time before you pick your slot. In winter the sun sets before the train leaves, so a sunset visit works. I’d aim for 45 to 60 minutes before sunset, and the planner below shows when that falls on your date.
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book this entry time (50 min before sunset)
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sunset, London time
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typical cloud cover that week
Sunset and cloud cover for the same dates in 2025 at the deck (Open-Meteo historical weather (ERA5), 2025); sunset moves by about a minute between years.
From 110 m the calculator gives a horizon of roughly 37 km on a clear day, which matches the 23 miles the listing quotes. Harbour, ships and the Solent lie in front of you, with the South Downs behind the city.
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110 m · 361 ft
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Geometric horizon d ≈ 3.57 × √h (km, h in metres); refraction adds about 8%. Haze and clouds usually limit the real view first. Formula: Distance to the horizon.
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Portsmouth has no other ticketed observation deck on this site, so the nearest comparisons are outside the city. Ratings below are Google ratings from the decks’ own pages, and distances are straight lines from Gunwharf Quays. Where a deck is on this site, I link its ticket page once.
| Deck | Google rating | Reviews | Distance | Free or paid |
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| Brighton i360 | 4.5 | 15,152 | about 67 km | Paid |
| The Shard | 4.6 | 47,844 | about 104 km | Paid |
| Sky Garden | 4.6 | 78,632 | about 104 km | Free, booking needed |
Brighton i360 is the closest alternative along the coast, and its ticket page is a useful second look if Spinnaker Tower tickets stay unavailable. If you are in London and want a view on the same day, the capital’s own decks are closer than the day trip.
The only Spinnaker Tower ticket I found on GetYourGuide is the $158.62 Evan Evans day trip from London, which bundles return train travel from Waterloo with entry. A tower-only price is not on that listing, and the official site is a holding page right now, so I can't quote one.
Wikipedia says the tower alone cost 35.6 million pounds. The wider harbour project ran over budget, and Portsmouth City Council later contributed 11.1 million pounds. It was dedicated on 16 October 2005 and opened to the public two days later, on 18 October 2005.
From the data, the view is the draw: three decks at 100 m, 105 m and 110 m, a glass floor and an open-air deck with a wire mesh roof, per Wikipedia. The one listing here has a single 5 out of 5 review, so I can't judge it on volume. Right now it is also closed.
I found no discount on the listing here, and the official site currently shows only a closure notice with no offers. I won't invent one. When the new website launches, check it for resident, child and family prices before paying the full $158.62 bundle.
I found no verified 2-for-1 offer. The GetYourGuide listing shows none, and the official site is a holding page while the tower is closed. If you spot one elsewhere, check the dates and terms. This ticket has free cancellation up to 7 days ahead, so you can book and switch.
The listing is a full day trip: the train leaves London Waterloo at 9:00am and reaches Portsmouth Harbour at 10:45am, and the return leaves at 6:00pm. That leaves roughly seven hours in Portsmouth. The listing gives no time for the tower itself, so I'd plan about an hour there.