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Multi-Day Tours

You'll travel by comfortable air-conditioned mini-van seating up to 8 guests. Tour guests enjoy complimentary drinks and snacks during the day, and frequent stops at places of interest along the way minimize travel fatigue and ensure everyone arrives at each day's destination feeling fresh.

The average day begins after breakfast, around 9 to 9.30am, and ends around 5 to 6 pm. Some days we do more, some days less, to break up the routine. Starting later or finishing earlier allows the group to enjoy that all-important 'free time' and ensures that you won't get the feeling every single moment is planned and controlled - often the very best experiences happen spontaneously!

Because you have a knowledgable driver-guide with you, there will be occasions when you wish to ask advice about adding to or altering the itinerary during the tour; and because his/her only priority is to give you a great tour, without trying to please others, you'll soon realise that your new friend can be trusted to give you 'best advice' at all times! After all, one of the main reasons people prefer to take a private tour is so that they can see what they want to see, do what they wish to do, within a well-planned, but flexible schedule. It's so much better touring with your own family and friends rather than 50 or so strangers!

Equally important - our policy of total luggage handling, to add the final caring touch! 

 
Tour No & Title
Highlights

TME: 2 or more days

Theme Tours

Do you belong to a family, club or society who share an interest? Why not make a specialised interest tour? Together we can create a tour based on your choice(s) of subject. The number of days is up to you ... Or how about a little adventure? Or an activity tour? Golf, Hiking, Riding, etc.

ACT: 2, 3 or 4 days

BIKE TOURS:

Easy    Moderate

Tours are for group sizes up to 8 persons. Novices should go for the easier GREEN TOURS - only two to three hours gentle riding each day; more experienced riders can take the more ambitious BROWN TOURS, with three to four hours cycling each day. Great fun and lots of healthy exercise ..
Stonehenge group

BAC: 2 or more days

Backpacker Specials

How many days do you have free to enjoy doing a wild, personally-planned fun tour designed specifically for the young (and the young at heart) travellers, who know how to travel without needing to be pampered all the way? Get the family or your group of friends around and start making plans! (Up to 8 persons, and the closer to 8 you are, the lower the individual cost).
On the steps at Longleat House

BVT1: 1 night/2 days

The Big Value Tour

Highlights: Hampton Court Palace Gardens - Salisbury Cathedral and town - Stonehenge - Avebury - Marlborough - The Cotswolds villages and countryside - Blenheim park and Woodstock - Oxford university and town.
A happy group

HOE1: 1 night/2 days

The Heart of England

Highlights: Cambridge University & historic city - American WWII cemetery - historic castles - ancient monuments - interesting market towns - Stilton cheese & pork pie country - Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire countryside.
An English garden

GOE1: 1 night/2 days

Gardens of England

Highlights: Rousham House; Hidcote Manor; Prior Park, Tintinhull and Stourhead - some of the very best gardens in England - all in just two days.

COE1: 1 night/2 days

Castles of England

Highlights: Dover Castle; Dover town; South Coast tour with Martello Tower visit; Bodiam Castle; Rye; Herstmonceux Castle; Brighton views and Arundel Castle
HMS Victory

SOE2: 2 nights/3 days

The Beautiful South

Highlights: Winchester - New Forest - Lymington - Historic Ships at Portsmouth - D-Day Museum - Chichester - Brighton - Beachy Head - Eastbourne - Hastings - Tunbridge Wells -
High Force

YD2: 2 nights/3 days

Highlights: Haworth - Keighley - Airedale - Malham - Grassington - Burnsall - Wharfedale - Nidderdale - Ripon - Wensleydale - Middleham - Hawes - Swaledale - Richmond - North York Moors - York
Across the lake at Stourhead

GOE2: 2 nights/3 days

Great Gardens of England

Highlights: Kew gardens; Savill garden Windsor Great Park; Stourhead; Exbury garden; Harold Hillier garden; Hinton Ampner/Houghton Lodge; Leonardslee; Nymans; Sheffield Park - the very best of England!
Classroom location

HP2: 2 nights/3 days

The Complete Harry Potter

Highlights: London - Oxford - Wiltshire - Bath - Cotswolds - Northumbria - Richmond
Bruges: fine architecture

ACA2: 2 nights/3 days

A Continental Adventure

Highlights: France: Pas de Calais - Somme Valley - Lille; Belgium: Brussels; Luxembourg: The Ardennes - American Military Cemetery - Luxembourg City
Beach at St Ives

WCD3: 3 nights/4 days

West Country Delights

Highlights: King Arthur Country - Exmoor National Park - charming towns & villages: Glastonbury, Lynton, Combe Martin, Clovelly, Boscombe, Tintagel - Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon & Cornwall - spectacular & beautiful coastal scenery.
Lower Slaughter

COT3: 3 nights/4 days

The Cotswolds Region

Highlights: Warwick town & castle - Stratford upon Avon - Shakespeare properties - Lovely Cotswolds countryside and villages - good antiques shopping - Bath World Heritage City - Longleat House (or Salisbury Cathedral) - Stonehenge.
In full bloom

GOE3: 3 nights/4 days

More Gardens of England

Highlights: Kew - Syon Park - Savill Garden - Stourhead - Mottisfont Abbey - Sr Harold Hillier garden - Hinton Ampner - Petworth Park - Leonardslee Gardens - Nymans - Sheffield Park - Gt. Dixter - Scotney Castle - Hever Castle or Chartwell
Fantasia otherwise known as Portmeirion

CAW4: 4 nights/5 days

Cotswolds and Wales

Highlights: Cotswolds & villages - Royal Worcester factory - Snowdonia National Park - North Wales - Portmeirion village - Royal Welsh Crystal factory - Mid Wales spa towns - Brecon Beacons - Black Mountains - South Wales landscape.
Horseguards in the Mall

ROY: 4 nights/5 days

ROYAL LONDON EXPERIENCE

Highlights: Airport transfers, to/from your quality hotel. De-luxe twin or double bedroom air-conditioned room, en-suite bathroom, mini-bar, satellite t.v., etc. including full breakfast. Plus travel passes, a personal tour of London and a fully-inclusive country tour. If you only like to go 'First Class', the Royal London is for you!
Westminster Abbey

VAL: 4 nights/5 days

VALUE LONDON BREAK

Highlights: Airport transfers to/from your hotel; room with private bath/shower, continental breakfast. Half-day London tour and fully-inclusive country day-tour, plus information pack, travel passes, & tax all included.
William Shakespeare's birthplace

MWE6: 6 nights/7 days

Magical Week in England

Highlights: - Winchester - Salisbury - Stonehenge - Wells - 'Locksley' Castle - King Arthur's Grave - Glastonbury - The Potteries - the Wedgwood, Royal Doulton or Spode factories - the Peak District National Park - Sherwood Forest & Robin Hood Country - Oxford - Shakespeare's Stratford.
York Minster from the City Walls

AWA7: 7 nights/8 days

Anglo-Welsh Adventure

Highlights: - Oxford - Stratford - Cotswolds - Ironbridge - The Potteries - Wedgwood, Royal Doulton or Spode factory - Robin Hood Country - City of York - Yorkshire Dales and Moors National Parks - English Lakes National Park - Chester - Snowdonia National Park - Mid Wales and South Wales - Bath - Stonehenge - Windsor.

The cottage

LCV8: 8 nights/9 days (variable)

London and Cotswolds Vacation

A chance to combine the best of City and Country life in  one wonderful vacation. Begin with a London visit, based in a comfortable, well-located hotel with everything close by, followed by a stay in the heart of the Cotswolds in your own 16th century cottage in an attractive market town with friendly local driver-guide service at your service. No need to drive at all!

IRE8: 8 nights / 9 days

The Emerald Isle Jaunt

Highlights: Dublin - Tara - The Boyne Valley - Newgrange - City of Belfast - Antrim Coast - Bushmills Distillery - Giant's Causeway - Derry - Co. Donegal - Co. Mayo - Connemara - Co. Clare  Galway City - The Aran Islands - Inishmore - The Burren - Cliffs of Moher - Bunratty Castle & Folk Park - Dingle - Co. Kerry - Co. Cork - Cobh Heritage Centre - Blarney Castle - Co. Waterford - Waterford Crystal Factory - Wexford - Kilkenny.

A castle room (slept in by King James) for tonight?

The Scottish Border

GBT18: 18 nights/19 days

The Great British Tour

Highlights: Oxford University and City - Churchill's Birthplace: Blenheim Palace - The beautiful Cotswolds - Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon - Ironbridge and the Industrial Revolution country - The Potteries with visits to Wedgwood or Spode - Robin Hood Country of Nottingham Forest - the Ancient City of York - Yorkshire Dales and Yorkshire Moors National Parks - Hadrian's Wall - Historic Edinburgh - The Scottish Highlands - historic castles and gardens - Loch Ness - Loch Lomond - the Trossachs - the Malt Whisky Trail - the English Lake District National Park - the unique walled city of Chester - Wales and Snowdonia National Park - Mid Wales Spa Towns - the Industrial heritage of South Wales - City of Bath - the Devonshire Coast - Exmoor National Park - Cornwall to Lands End - mysterious Stonehenge - Windsor town & castle.

Please e-mail me if you need help or advice with planning a trip. If it's your first time, take a tip and go for one of the established itineraries in my most popular tours detailed above; these have been tried and tested over many years, however, if your group have a specialist interest I can create a tour for your specific needs. Check out these ideas.

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