For summer 2015, guests will be able to choose from a high tea 'Hamperling' with or without a bottle of champagne. Both packages consist of a ticket to The View from The Shard - western Europe’s highest venue - an afternoon tea sandwich selection, scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream, tea fancies, tea or coffee and a blanket.
Fortnum & Mason is also offering visitors the chance to avoid a rainy picnic at its Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon in Piccadilly. Tickets for The View from The Shard will be available from the in-store eatery for guests to experience the vista before enjoying afternoon tea undercover at the salon.
The experience will be available to enjoy from 23 June until 8 September, with bookings available from 1 May. Only 40 picnic tickets will be available per day.
'Hamperling’ Picnics from Fortnum & Mason will also be available on request to enhance private hire bookings throughout the summer.
Zia Zareem-Slade, customer experience director at Fortnum & Mason, told Event: "Fortnum & Mason has been ensuring customers enjoy the pleasures of eating outdoors since 1707 with picnics that delight and hampers that endure. This year, we’re thrilled to team up with The View from The Shard to offer a celebrated Fortnum’s experience in one the most spectacular settings in Europe."
The View from The Shard revealed at an event showcase last week (26 September) that it would be transforming its highest level into a .
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