Information on opening hours and planned closures
Palace closure in June 2024
Banqueting House will close in June 2024 for a period of essential re-servicing, conservation, and maintenance work.
Historic Royal Palaces is grateful to the Garfield Weston Foundation and Wolfson Foundation, whose generous support of the project will help us conserve this magnificent building for generations to come.
Explore What's On
- Events
- Things to see
Open Day
Visit Banqueting House for our Final Open Day before the palace closes for essential conservation and maintenance work.
- Sunday 19 May
- 10:00 - 16:00. Last admission 15:30.
- Banqueting House
- Separate ticket (advance booking required)
- Things to see
Banqueting Hall
Experience James I's breathtaking Banqueting Hall, created in 1622 as a venue for extravagant Jacobean entertainments.
- Open for guided tours on specific dates
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)
- Things to see
The Undercroft
Explore the vaulted drinking den beneath the Banqueting House, which was used by James I for decadent royal parties.
- Open for guided tours on specific dates
- Banqueting House
- Included in palace admission (members go free)