THE VIEW FROM THE SHARD

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Alesha, "The bullet" and Mrs. Bullet are finally heading up to the top of The Shard here in London. Almost 1000 feet high up for visitors, and it's the highest building in Europe (ok excluding one other). Please remember the EU is not the same as Europe before you comment on that. What does it look like at the top, and is it worth the money?!
See London from the city’s highest viewing gallery. Offering breath-taking 360° panoramic views day and night, The View from The Shard is the ideal spot to unwind with glass of champagne as you overlook the city or share a moment with a loved one spotting London’s famous landmarks from the open-air sky deck on Level 72.
Located moments from London Bridge station, your journey up starts with an extraordinary high-speed lift that carries you from Level 1 to Level 68 in sixty seconds. Once there, enjoy spectacular panoramic views of the capital from the Level 69 observation deck where you’ll find a Champagne bar offering a variety of drinks and a small selection of light bites. Continue up to the open-air sky deck on Level 72, where exposed to the elements you can take in the atmosphere and sounds of the city below.
The Shard, also referred to as the Shard London Bridge and formerly London Bridge Tower, is a 72-storey skyscraper, designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano, in Southwark, London, that forms part of The Shard Quarter development. Standing 309.6 metres (1,016 feet) high, The Shard is the tallest building in the United Kingdom, and the tallest building in Western Europe. It is also the second-tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, after the concrete tower of the Emley Moor transmitting station. It replaced Southwark Towers, a 24-storey office block built on the site in 1975.
The Shard's construction began in March 2009; it was topped out on 30 March 2012 and inaugurated on 5 July 2012. Practical completion was achieved in November 2012. The tower's privately operated observation deck, The View from The Shard, was opened to the public on 1 February 2013. The glass-clad pyramidal tower has 72 habitable floors, with a viewing gallery and open-air observation deck on the 72nd floor, at a height of 244 metres (801 ft). The Shard was developed by Sellar Property Group on behalf of LBQ Ltd and is jointly owned by Sellar Property (5%) and the State of Qatar (95%).
In 1998, London-based entrepreneur Irvine Sellar and his partners decided to redevelop the 1970s-era Southwark Towers following a UK government white paper encouraging the development of tall buildings at major transport hubs. Sellar flew to Berlin in the spring of 2000 to meet the Italian architect Renzo Piano for lunch. According to Sellar, Piano spoke of his contempt for conventional tall buildings during the meal, before flipping over the restaurant's menu and sketching a spire-like sculpture emerging from the River Thames.