Stonehenge Tours From London
A Wide Range Of Tours From London Every Day Of The Year
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The world famous Stonehenge is situated around 90 miles (145 kms) west of Central London. Taking into consideration traffic in London its best part of a 2 hour journey for a tour bus. If there is one thing you are not short of is choice in tours that go to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge is isolated and not served by public transport. If you just want to see Stonehenge its both quicker and cheaper to take a tour bus than travel independently. Because of the travel time out to Stonehenge and the fact few people need more than an hour at Stonehenge the vast majority of tours to Stonehenge are full day tours that combine Stonehenge with one or two other major attractions, the most popular tour being the Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath tour.
For the rest of this page we go through the broad choices of tour available on the market.
Windsor, Bath & Stonehenge Tours
The Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath itinerary is the most popular itinerary for a day tour from London that visits Stonehenge. There are several tours every day of the year including Christmas Day when Stonehenge isn't even open!.
Although the basic itinerary of 2 hours at Windsor, an hour at Stonehenge and 90 minutes at Bath is fairly constant there are tweaks to this format between the tours available.
All but the International Friends small group tours have the visit to Stonehenge after Windsor Castle, arriving around lunch time or early afternoon.
The International Tours Small Group tour has Stonehenge as the first stop and is normally the first tour bus to arrive at Stonehenge from London each morning.
The standard full size bus tours typically use around a 50 seat touring coach to operate their tours. One variation on the standard Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath tour is to limit the maximum size of the group to 35 and make an additional lunch stop at Lacock. This routing offers a slightly enhanced tour for a slight premium, what you get is the guarantee of a lid on the numbers on the tour bus plus exposure to some very nice English countryside and time in a very nice village off the beaten tourist track with lunch in a 14th century historic village pub.
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Just Stonehenge Tours
If you just want to see Stonehenge then the trip will still take around 5 hours of your time from London. There are afternoon tours leaving London around lunch time and between April and October morning tours leaving London around 8:15 a.m.
Stonehenge & Bath Tours
For many, 90 minutes at Bath on a tour visiting also Windsor and Stonehenge is not long enough. Missing out Windsor results in you getting a full 3 hours in Bath. The biggest single attraction in Bath are the Roman Baths, but for many their priorities for sightseeing in Bath lie elsewhere and the Roman Baths do not figure in their plans.
The good news is that there is a tour for either requirement, one tour that includes admission to the Roman Baths, one that doesn't.
Salisbury & Oxford An Alternative Destination To Twin With Stonehenge
Although Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath is the most popular itinerary, there are alternatives.
Small Group Stonehenge Tours Ideal For Those Who Are Into The Mystical/Alternative Stonehenge
If you are more impressed with the mystical and alternative than viewing major tourist attractions the small group tours are probably going to be the right solution. These tours will visit the other neolithic sites like Avebury, and alternative Glastonbury and also get you off the tourist trail and seeing some of the delightful English countryside in this area.
Special Access Stonehenge
All the tours further up the page enter Stonehenge during public opening hours of Stonehenge. On these visits you have to stand behind a low rope several yards from the stones themselves. Outside of public opening hours there are very limited sessions where you can actually walk among the stones. These sessions are very early morning or evening so on a tour its either a very early start from London or a late return in the evening.
2 Day Weekend Tour Including Stonehenge
A very good value weekend tour on a small group format operates ever weekend from London throughout the year. The tour covers all that is worthwhile west of London and the last stop on the tour on Sunday afternoon is Stonehenge. Prior to that it the tour has visited Oxford, the Cotswolds extensively, Bath, Castle Coombe and Lacock.
