{"id":8963,"date":"2012-07-25T11:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T10:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=8963"},"modified":"2012-07-25T15:07:58","modified_gmt":"2012-07-25T14:07:58","slug":"a-drink-on-the-fifth-floor-balcony-at-the-festival-hall-on-the-southbank-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/a-drink-on-the-fifth-floor-balcony-at-the-festival-hall-on-the-southbank-london\/","title":{"rendered":"A drink on the fifth floor balcony at the Festival Hall on the Southbank, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re looking for a great place to meet up with friends for an\u00a0afternoon\/evening drink\/picnic, I can warmly recommend the fifth floor balcony at the Royal Festival Hall, located on the Southbank near Hungerford bridge.<\/p>\n

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We met up on the terrace for a friend’s birthday, tucked into the snacks we’d brought along while I happily downed a\u00a0delicious\u00a0Welsh ale or three.<\/p>\n

No one seemed bothered that we’d brought along our own food and drink, so it turned out to be a very pleasant and very affordable\u00a0way to spend a few hours in the centre of town.<\/p>\n

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Free and open to all, you can feel like you’re looking out of your own milllionaire’s penthouse suite, as you gaze across the Thames and watch the world go by.<\/p>\n

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One thing: the balcony is sometimes hired out for corporate shindigs, so it might be worth\u00a0checking\u00a0wha’g’wan before you set off for an evening’s imbibing on the terrace.<\/p>\n

[Southbank website<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re looking for a great place to meet up with friends for an\u00a0afternoon\/evening drink\/picnic, I can warmly recommend the fifth floor balcony at the Royal Festival Hall, located on … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[194,193],"tags":[10,139,48],"class_list":["post-8963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london-features","category-places","tag-london","tag-southbank","tag-thames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/royal-festival-hall-drink-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-2kz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8963"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9135,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8963\/revisions\/9135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}