London: Churchill's War Rooms; Private Tour with Blue Badge Guide

Explore the Churchill War Rooms, a Whitehall basement that was the British government's command center during World War II. Discover the secret rooms and corridors where Winston Churchill and his cabinet made crucial decisions that changed the course of history.

Start your tour at the entrance to the Churchill War Rooms, where you can see the concrete slab that provided protection for the populated basement below. Visit the underground Cabinet Room from which Churchill directed the war and see how Churchill's encrypted SIGSALY telephone hotline to President Roosevelt was hidden behind a locked rest room door.

Check out the Churchill Museum and learn about Churchill's life. Born into an aristocratic family at Blenheim Palace hear about Churchill's schooling at Harrow. his army and journalistic adventures in South Africa and India, his early political career then WW2 war leader and Cold War statesman.

Visit the extensive gift shop filled with "Churchilliana" or the in-house cafe