Small group day tour Oxford, Cotswolds & Stratford from London

• Entrance to Shakespeare's Birthplace Museum

• Panoramic tour of Stratford Upon Avon, including photo stop at Anne Hathaway's Cottage

• Lunch stop in Stow-on-the-Wold, in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the Cotswolds

• Explore Cotswolds villages that the big buses cannot get to!

• Drive through Bourton on the Water and Burford in the Cotswolds

• Entry to Divinity School, Oxford, masterpiece of English Gothic architecture

• Guided walking tour of Oxford

• Luxury air conditioned 16 seat purpose built touring bus

• Guaranteed departures, no minimum numbers, maximum 16 people

• Fully refundable and amendable up until 7 days before travel

Tour details

Runs every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday all year round.

Departure

8am - Central London (3 departure points)

Return

6.30pm - London Victoria Train Station

Your day begins with a visit to Stratford Upon Avon, a charming market town set in the heart of rural England. Your first stop is Shakespeare's Birthplace Museum where Shakespeare and his brothers and sisters were born and brought up.

This house is furnished in period style, with rare artefacts on display and costumed guides, as well as up to date exhibitions.

Following the museum you will visit the Holy Trinity church where Shakespeare was both baptised and buried.

A panoramic tour of the town gives you a good overview of Stratford with some free time before you continue for a photo stop at Anne Hathaway's cottage. This is a beautiful timber-framed thatched farmhouse that was Shakespeare's wife's childhood home.

Stratford - more about

From the Cotswolds your journey to Oxford takes just thirty minutes.

Your visit begins with a guided walking tour amongst the cloisters and quadrangles of Britain's oldest University, founded in 1167 when King Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris. This guided walking tour will take you into the heart of this land of hallowed academia, to the Bodleian Library, to the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre, Harry Potter film locations and University buildings.

Entry is included to the Divinity School, built in 1488 for the teaching of theology. This splendid room is the University's earliest purpose built teaching room, and its first examination hall.

After the guided tour there will be some free time to enjoy the city, before you depart Oxford and drive back to London.

Oxford - more about

On this small group tour you travel in a small touring bus with a passenger capacity of 16 people. Other “standard” coach tours from London use full size touring coaches with around 50 passengers, and on a few tours over 70.

On a small group tour you will receive a personalised guiding service. The driver/guide is able to gauge where the interests of the passengers line, tailoring commentary, sometimes itinerary to those interests And of course you have much better access to the guide to ask questions and be more informed.

Where possible, the tour will venture off the main roads down the country lanes into the countryside where the large tour groups cannot venture.