Stonehenge
& Bath Day Tour
This template for a custom day tour from London is the basis of one
of our most popular custom tours.
Stonehenge is perhaps the single most popular destination from London
on a day tour. And Bath,
just over an hours drive from Stonehenge is a great combination.
The great
thing about a custom tour is that you choose when you want to go and
how long you spend at each destination
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Stonehenge |
Custom
tours are also flexible, you can make adjustments on the day according
to weather and your reaction to each place visited.
Stonehenge
& Bath
Tour Template
Starting Out
Its just
under 2 hours from your London hotel to Stonehenge, most visitors
invariably take around 45 minutes at Stonehenge before they want to
move on.
Normally we feel that 08:00 is a good time to start the day, so you
are in the field when most of the attractions at Bath are open. You
could of course leave much, much later, perhaps making time for an
evening dinner in Bath or a country pub perhaps. |
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Stonehenge
The road down to Stonehenge is a along major highways. Once clear
of London, there is rolling countryside and habitation gets thinner
and thinner.
Assuming we leave your hotel at 8 a.m., you should be in the Stonehenge
monument before 10 a.m.
Visitors invariably take around 45 minutes to visit Stonehenge. The
driver will provide full background information on things Neolithic
on the bus down to Stonehenge. At Stonehenge an audio tour device
is part of the admission fee.
Your party should be ready to leave Stonehenge around 10:30 a.m. You
could choose to make for Bath direct, arriving around midday. This
would leave you just under 4 hours in Bath itself before returning
to London. A popular alternative is to take a countryside excursion
along country lanes and passing through delightful villages and landscape
and take lunch in a 13th Century Inn in Lacock, 30 minutes outside
Bath.
Lacock
Lacock is an old wool town where all the buildings in the village
are more than 200 years old. It is not a museum piece, but a living
working village with school, post office, church, tithe barn, bakery
and several pubs.
Jane Austen and some scenes from Harry Potter films were shot here.
Adjacent to the village is Lacock Abbey, one of the few abbeys to
survive the Reformation in Tudor times.
Most people take lunch in the George Inn, a 13th century Inn complete
with stocks and medieval fireplace, a highlight of the day. Tea rooms
in the Stables are a popular alternative.
Leaving Lacock at 13:00, you'd be in Bath at about 13:30. |
Bath
Bath itself is very compact, nearly everything you want to see is
within 10 minutes walk of each other. On arriving in Bath the driver
will offer to take you on a brief orientation tour on the bus.
The driver could park the bus in the coach park (parking charge not
included) and provide a walking tour of the main highlights. This
takes at least an hour. Most people, are happy to explore independently
after an orientation on the bus. |
Roman
Baths Bath |
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which case the driver will drop you off at the official drop off point
by the Roman Baths and agree a pick up time. (At any time you can
call the driver using a mobile phone for an early departure) |
Bath's
attraction is crudely split between the Roman Baths from 2,000 years
ago and the Georgian period in the 18th century where much of what
you see now was built.
The Roman Baths normally take around an hour for visitors. An audio
guide is part of the admission fee. The Pump Room, part of the Roman
Baths complex is 'the' place to take afternoon tea.
In the 18th century Bath had a 'season' where if you were anybody
this is where you came to network. |
Pulteney
Bridge
Bath |
The
Georgian architecture built to facilitate this 'polite' society is
still very much the attraction now. This is the world of Jane Austen
who lived here for a time. There is a Jane Austen museum you can visit
and many of the streets in her books you can still follow today.
The shopping area is worthwhile. In the very centre are medieval style
alleyways and an old indoor market.
Leaving Bath before 16:00, you should be back at your London hotel
about 18:30. |
| Private
Tours - Price Menu & Terms |
Passenger
Capacity |
Part
Day*
Short Range
7-8 Hours |
Full
Day*
Long Range
10 Hours |
Main
Booking Conditions |
| Mini
Van With Driver/Guide |
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1-3
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£295 |
£370 |
$US
100 Deposit
Full refund up to 60 days before day.
Price not inclusive of admissions |
| Mini
Bus With Driver/Guide |
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5-8
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£350 |
£425 |
No
deposit, credit card secures day.
Pay on day.
Price not inclusive of admissions |
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16
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£425+£25
Each Passenger Over 8
(e.g. 11 passengers = £500) |
* A
short day is 7-8 hours, enough time to visit locations like Windsor or Hampton
Court relatively close to London at leisure or a visit to Stonehenge/Salisbury
or Stratford Upon Avon a couple hours travel from London.
A long day, around 10 hours enables you to visit places like Bath or Glastonbury
or combine popular destinations like Stonehenge, Cotswolds & Bath or
Oxford with Stratford Upon Avon and Warwick Castle. (See example tours for
guidance) |
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