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Is Wi-Fi access in this tourist attraction really newsworthy? Ridcully Jack (talk) 08:10, 24 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I wouldn't say it's "newsworthy" as such but it's a feature of the attraction so I kept it under a new amenities section. :) --BZTMPS ★ · (talk? contribs?) 16:44, 25 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Height of the viewing platform.

Something is rather odd about the information about "The View from the Shard". One website gives a height of 288 metres (945 ft) [1] for the viewing platform and another gives a height of 800ft/244m [2]. Both appear to be genuine, unlike the Guardian, which told the breathless viewer that the height of the public gallery was 309.6m above London while also telling us that the building was 309.6m high! [3]. By contrast, the Telegraph says the viewing platform was 800ft/244m [4].

As the building is 309 metres high, it seems a little odd that the main viewing platform would be at 244m, more than 60 metres or 200 ft from the top. However, there are two viewing platforms, one on level 69 and the other on level 72. [5] and that web page says that the open air platform is 288 metres high. You can see from this web page [6] that the open viewing platform is quite different from the other viewing area which is pictured here [7].

So is there a 44 metre difference in height between the two viewing areas? The website doesn't say so directly. However, as the enclosed gallery is very high ceilinged room, that alone could account for at least some of the difference in height and this could explain why there are two figures given for the height of the viewing platform or platforms. Michael Glass (talk) 00:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The source cited for the figure of 288m is a personal website (providing several opportunities to click through to their "recommended" private ticket setting site). 244m, not 288m, is given on the Shard's own website, as well as other mainstream sites, for the highest viewing point. Please do not restore that 288m figure without a consensus for it, and that will, presumably, require at least one reliable source to corroborate it and good reason to doubt the official figure. Timpace (talk) 06:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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	So is there a 44 metre difference in height between the two viewing areas? The website doesn't say so directly. However, as the enclosed gallery is very high ceilinged room, that alone could account for at least some of the difference in height and this could explain why there are two figures given for the height of the viewing platform or platforms. [[User:Michael Glass\|Michael Glass]] ([[User talk:Michael Glass\|talk]]) 00:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)		So is there a 44 metre difference in height between the two viewing areas? The website doesn't say so directly. However, as the enclosed gallery is very high ceilinged room, that alone could account for at least some of the difference in height and this could explain why there are two figures given for the height of the viewing platform or platforms. [[User:Michael Glass\|Michael Glass]] ([[User talk:Michael Glass\|talk]]) 00:20, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

			:The source cited for the figure of 288m is a personal website (providing several opportunities to click through to their "recommended" private ticket setting site). 244m, not 288m, is given on the Shard's own website, as well as other mainstream sites, for the highest viewing point. Please do not restore that 288m figure without a consensus for it, and that will, presumably, require at least one reliable source to corroborate it and good reason to doubt the official figure. [[User:Timpace\|Timpace]] ([[User talk:Timpace\|talk]]) 06:25, 20 May 2015 (UTC)