London’s Warner Bros. Studio in Leavesden has been offering “The Making of Harry Potter” tour experience for fans of all ages since 2012.
Originally a filming location, the studio slowly transformed into a permanent exhibit featuring over 500 sets and authentic props, drawing in two million visitors annually.
Here’s everything you need to know before booking your Harry Potter Studio Tour tickets.
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# Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers
# Harry Potter Studio Family Package
# Harry Potter Studio Tour + Oxford Day TourIt’s highly recommended to book your Harry Potter Studio London tickets in advance. These tickets sell out quickly, so securing your spot early ensures you don’t miss out on this unforgettable experience.
Key Takeaways
The Warner Bros. Studio Tour is around 32 km (20 miles) outside of London and as a result, tickets with transfers are popular with tourists.
Harry Potter Studio Tour tickets are only available online as there are no ticket counters at the venue. Book your tickets and select your timeslots in advance.
Kids aged 2 years and below can enter the studio for free while children aged three to 15 years are eligible for exciting ticket and transport discounts
The Warner Bros. Harry Potter experience opens at 9.30 am, and the first tour begins at 10 am; this is also the best time to visit the attraction. The final tour is at 4 pm and the studio closes at 8 pm
What’s ahead
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Things to know before booking tickets
Harry Potter Studio Tour tickets are only available online as there are no ticket counters at the venue. Since the attraction sells limited tickets every day, they may sell out during peak days. Booking early helps avoid last-minute disappointments, and you also get your preferred time slot! Immediately after purchase, your tickets will be emailed to you. On the day of your visit, reach the coach 15 minutes before the start time, show your e-ticket, and begin your journey.
Harry Potter Studio tour tickets

Harry Potter fans can choose from three different tickets to experience the world of J.K. Rowling and all her literary creations first-hand.
For instance, the Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers ticket makes your to-and-fro journey a breeze, and the Harry Potter Studio Family Package ticket is meant for a family of four.
There’s also a Harry Potter Studio Tour + Oxford Day Tour ticket which takes you to the Warner Bros. Studio first, and then to the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers
This spectacular full-day tour of the Warner Brothers Studio begins with a bus ride from just outside Victoria Station in downtown London.
Once you enter the attraction, enjoy the spellbinding settings at the Harry Potter studio, the most renowned items used in the movies, and the outfits worn by the trio of Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
Get your photo taken at your favorite filming locations such as the impressive Great Hall, Dumbledore’s office, and the Gryffindor common room.
Visit the famous Platform 9 ¾, ride the Hogwarts Express, and pose with a luggage trolley right before it disappears through the wall.
Find out about Hogwarts’ best-kept secrets, including interesting tidbits and trivia about special effects and animatronics.
The total duration of this tour (including transportation) is 7.5 hours, and you can spend 4+ hours at the studio.
There are 8 timeslots available for this tour starting from 8 am and ending at 2 pm.
Note: This a self-guided tour, but you can buy a digital/audio guide (available in 10 languages) for a fee of £4.95 at the studio.
Ticket Prices
Adult ticket (16+ years): £98
Youth ticket (5 to 15 years): £94
Child Ticket (3 to 4 years): £55
Harry Potter Studio Family Package tour
This self-guided tour ticket includes transportation from London, and with that taken care of, you can get to spend a wonderful day with your family at the Warner Bros. Studio in Leavesden.
The tour lets you choose from multiple coach transfers from central London, as you journey to the home of Firebolts, chocolate frogs, and Polyjuice potions.
This special family package (valid for two adults and two children under 15 years) offers access to Platform 9¾ and a ride on the Hogwarts Express.
You can wind up your day by getting a family photo clicked at the Great Hall or at Dumbledore’s office, enjoying some frothy Butterbeer, and having tried your hand at riding a broomstick!
Ticket cost (family of four): £375 (£94 per person)
Buy This TicketHarry Potter Studio Tour + Oxford Day Tour
This 11-hour tour starts with a two-hour bus trip from London’s Gloucester Road Station to the ancient city of Oxford, followed by a visit to the Harry Potter Studio in Leavesden.
Once you reach Oxford, you will be taken on a guided tour across the city’s famous college buildings, cloisters, quadrangles, and cobblestone squares.
The next leg involves an hour’s drive to the Warner Bros. Studio, where your magical adventure begins with ‘The Making of Harry Potter’ tour.
After a wonderful day filled with nostalgia and magic, board your coach and return to London, where you will be dropped off at your original starting location (South Kensington).
Note: Please select the correct age bracket when booking tickets for your kids; a wrongly chosen age bracket will result in your kids being denied entry at the attraction.
Ticket Prices
Adult ticket (16+ years): £149
Youth ticket (5 to 15 years): £145
Child ticket (3 to 4 years): £102
Did you know?
J.K. Rowling came up with the name of her much-loved character when holidaying in the village of Lacock. It is here she met an old man with a dog called ‘Harry’. She also happened to be staying next to a pottery shop!
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Other popular Harry Potter tours
Apart from the above-mentioned tours, you can also opt for a Warner Bros. Studio Harry Potter tour clubbed with the below attractions.
Warner Bros. Studio hours
The attraction opens at 8.30 am and the first tour begins at 9 am during the peak tourist months between May and October. The final tour is at 6.30 pm and the studio closes at 10 pm.
During the lean months of November to April, Warner Bros. Studio opens at 9.30 am, and the first tour begins at 10 am. The day’s final tour is at 4 pm and the studio closes at 8 pm.
How long does the tour take
With newer sections added to the attraction, visitors tend to spend at least 4 hours exploring the Harry Potter Studio.
But if you’re a hardcore Harry Potter fan, you might end up spending 5-6 hours, if you were to consider lunch and queuing up for extras like riding a broomstick.
During peak seasons and weekends, you might have to wait for 15 to 30 minutes before you can enter the attraction.
Did you know?
Daniel Radcliffe went through 160 pairs of glasses and around 70 wands during filming for the Harry Potter film series. In total, an incredible 588 sets were created at the studio from 2001 to 2011.
What to see at London’s Harry Potter Studio
There is much to see at the Warner Bros. Studio Harry Potter tour.
From fascinating sets, props used in the movies, and costumes the characters wore, to special and visual effects, here’s a list of what you ought not to miss when touring the Harry Potter studio.
Great Hall
The Great Hall is the setting for some of the most memorable moments in the Harry Potter films, including the Yule Ball and the Battle of Hogwarts.
It was created in 2000 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and has since been utilized as a significant set for six more films.
The magnificent Great Hall houses students’ costumes from each Hogwarts house and two huge tables prepared for supper.
The Hogwarts professors were known for sitting at the top of the room at the instructors’ table.
Forbidden Forest
The Forbidden Forest in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was shot on-site and in the studio.
It was relocated to the Studio for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets to house Aragog’s lair and grew throughout the film series.
Scenic designers built backgrounds up to 600 feet long (183 meters) for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
The Forbidden Forest has 19 trees, each with a diameter of more than 12 feet (3.6 meters).
Platform 9¾
The iconic Hogwarts Express carried hundreds of students from Platform 9¾ to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Most of the sequences on Platform 9¾ were filmed at King’s Cross Station in London.
However, during Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2, the art team built a portion of the station platform on a set at Leavesden, complete with the track and train.
The Hogwarts Express served as the backdrop for the first shot ever taken for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone and the final scene of the series in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows—Part 2.
Diagon Alley
Throughout the film series, the Diagon Alley set was continually changing.
Many Diagon Alley set pieces were also re-dressed for the Hogsmeade village in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.
The street’s initial design included rich features from the Harry Potter novels and influence from the roads depicted in Charles Dickens’ writings.
Diagon Alley is home to the dusty Ollivanders wand store—where Harry’s wand famously selected him, as well as Gringotts Bank, Flourish and Blotts, and Mr. Mulpepper’s Apothecary.
Props at the Studios
Four of the numerous props you can see at the Harry Potter Studio Tour in London stand out. They are:
Potions Classroom: Over 950 potion jars line the classroom walls, each containing a unique item, such as baked animal bones from a local butcher shop, dried plants, herbs, and shrunken heads created by the props department.
Memory Cabinet: Vials and labels were designed for the cabinet in Professor Dumbledore’s office. The Graphics Department hand-designed each label before sending it to the Props team, who applied it to each bottle.
Professor Umbridge’s office: The interior of Professor Dolores Umbridge’s pink office at the Ministry of Magic is home to her 130-plate collection showcasing different moving kitties.
Puking Pastilles: Weasleys’ Wizard Wheezes, which sold everything from Extendable Ears to fireworks, was built to appear like an 18th-century shop. Head Propmaker Pierre Bohanna designed the Puking Pastilles dispenser to be both funny and disgusting.
Costumes at the studio

Of all the costumes on display at the Harry Potter Studio Tour Warner Bros, four get the most attention: The Quidditch uniform, the clothes worn by the gang in the final scene 19 years later, the Yule Ball costume, and the Beauxbatons uniform.
Special & Visual Effects
A must-see when touring the studio, this section is home to the Chamber of Secrets door, the Invisibility Cloak, and the Whomping Willow during your visit.
Most Harry Potter fans mistake the Chamber of Secrets door for a visual effect, and on tour, you will see why it is not.
Remember seeing branches that would ‘whomp’ Mr. Weasley’s flying car? During your tour, you will see how the team created this Whomping Willow special effect.
You also get to participate in the studio’s green screen experience and fly a broomstick over London just as the actors did during the movie’s shooting.
Creature Effects
One of the things young visitors on the Harry Potter Warner Bros. Studio tour love is the creatures they saw in the movies.
The imaginary creatures to look for are Basilisk, Buckbeak, Goblin Heads, and Aragog.
When you stand before the Goblin heads during the tour, marvel at how 140 make-up artists from Europe turned 60 actors into goblins daily in just four hours!
Art Department
For most people, the effort required to create all the artwork for the movies is challenging to comprehend.
Remember Hogwarts Castle? During your Warner Bros. Studio tour in London, you will see the model built by 86 artists and crew members for the first movie.
If we were to add up all the person-hours spent building and modifying the model, it would amount to over 74 years!
You will also see a lot of graphic designs, white card models, and technical drawings on this leg of the tour.
Did you know?
The paintings and portraits around Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are mostly the faces of the cast and crew members of the Harry Potter movies!
Digital Guide & Souvenir Guidebook
Before entering the attraction, you can rent a Digital Guide for approximately £5 from the counter in the foyer, providing you with more information on the Studio Tour.
This digital guide is available in 10 languages—English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Chinese (Mandarin), Brazilian, and Portuguese, keeping in mind the universality of the tour.
For about £10, you can buy a Warner Bros. Studio Tour London Souvenir Guidebook, which includes behind-the-scenes secrets and stunning photographs from the Harry Potter movies.
Map of the Warner Bros. Studio tour in London

Only the initial part of the Harry Potter London studio tour is guided, after which you can explore the attraction on your own.
Since there is so much to see, visitors tend to get lost and miss important sets and props. That’s why keeping a map of Warner Bros. Studio comes in handy.
Besides the location of the sets and exhibits, a layout of the studio tour will also help you find visitor services such as restrooms, cafes, audio guide desks, information desks, etc.
Food and drinks
The Harry Potter Studio Tour in London has four places to eat and drink—Chocolate Frog Cafe, Hub Cafe, Food Hall, and Backlot Cafe.
Most of these cafes open when the Studio tours begin and close when the attraction shuts for the day.
If you want to enjoy a frothy Butterbeer, we recommend the Backlot Cafe which is located halfway through the Studio Tour.
FAQs about the Warner Bros. Studio Tour in London
Here are some frequently asked questions about the Warner Bros. Studio Tour London:
Do the WB Studio Tour tickets include transfers to and from London?
Yes, the tickets for this tour include convenient round-trip transfers from central London to the studio, making it easier for visitors to reach the location.
Can I visit the studio without purchasing the transfer option from London?
Yes, it is possible to visit the Warner Bros. Studio Tour independently by arranging your transportation. The transfer option is provided for convenience.
Is the Warner Bros. Studio Tour suitable for all ages?
Yes, the tour is designed to suit all ages, making it a great experience for families and Harry Potter fans, no matter if you’re 3 or 92!
What can I expect to see at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour?
During the tour, you can expect to see the actual film sets, costumes, props, and other behind-the-scenes elements from the Harry Potter movies, including iconic locations like the Great Hall and Diagon Alley.
Are there food and dining options at the Warner Bros. Studio?
Yes, the studio has a café where you can enjoy various food and beverages. You can also try butterbeer, a popular Harry Potter-themed drink.
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How to reach Warner Bros. Studio
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London is at Studio Tour Drive, Leavesden, WD25 7LR. Get Directions.
It is 32 km (20 miles) northwest of London and less than 5 km (3 miles) from the M1 and M25 motorways.
By Train
Watford Junction is the closest railway station to Warner Bros. Studio.

If you board a train from London Euston, in 20 minutes, you will reach Watford Junction.
If you board a train from Birmingham New Street, the journey to Watford Junction is 70 minutes.
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London is 5.5 km (3.4 miles) from Watford Junction, and it is best to take a shuttle bus.
Shuttle from Watford Junction
Mullany’s Coaches run regular shuttle buses from Watford Junction to the Studio Tour.
These buses run every 30 minutes and take around 15 minutes to reach the attraction.
When the Warner Bros. Studio opens at 8.30 am during the peak season, the first bus starts from the station at 8.15 am.
When the studios open at 9.30 am during the lean season, the first bus leaves the station at 9.20 am.
The last studio tour shuttle back to Watford Junction is always after the studio shuts down for the day.
This is a free service; you only need to show a valid Studio Tour ticket or booking confirmation for the travel date.
Bus tour packages
Several tour operators offer a packaged tour of Warner Bros. Studio, including entry tickets and return transport.
Two such tours are most popular with Harry Potter fans: One starts from outside Victoria Station, and the other from outside Kings Cross Station.
We recommend the Harry Potter Family Package from London if you are a family visiting the attraction.
Visitors who don’t mind stretching the day opt for the Harry Potter and Oxford Tour, where they also get to tour Oxford University besides visiting London’s Warner Bros. Studio.
Car parking
If you plan to drive to the Warner Bros. Studio in Leavesden, it is best to open Google Maps and follow these directions.
Brown traffic signs labeled ‘Warner Bros. Studio Tour’ will direct you to the car park entrance as you approach the attraction.
All ticket holders are entitled to free parking. Keep your booking confirmation ready at hand to present to the gate sentinel.