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A Cotswold Tour in One Day
This example of a one-day Cotswold tour will give you a taste for beautiful Cotswold hills with its quaint villages, stone houses, thatched cottages, country homes and formal gardens - the "real" England outside of London. However the whole idea of our tours is we can customize the tour to include only what you want to see. Guide price for a "One Day Tour" is £375 / $580 for up to eight people. This includes the
vehicle, fuel and driver - accommodation and other expenses are in
addition.
With the
current volatility of the markets we are updating the cost of tours as
regularly as possible but please be assured that charges are based on
the pound Sterling (GBP) at the prevailing exchange rate. These prices were last updated on 2nd December 2011 when the exchange rate was 1.55USD to 1GBP.
Your Custom Cotswold tour can include:
- Pick-up service
from your Hotel.
- Tetbury –
an “antiques” town and home to Prince Charles
- Cirencester –
“Capital of the Cotswolds”
- Bibury
– once described as the most beautiful village in England
- Burford
– lovely Cotswold village with interesting shops
- Bourton-on-the-Water
– quaint village “Venice of the North”
- Upper & Lower Slaughter
– not as macabre as it sounds – “Slaugh” translates as “marshy or boggy
place” in Olde English! Idyllic villages.
- Lunch in an English Country Pub
– No trip to England would be complete without wonderful ales,
fantastic food, festive surroundings.
- Broadway – beautiful
town with some of the most typical of Cotswold architecture
- Chipping Camden –
typical Cotswald town with old marketplace, famous for its
shin-kicking and cheese-rolling competitions.
- Drop off at Hotel or other place after your Cotswold tour
Note
If you are based in central London, Cotswold Day Tours by road can be arduous. In heavy traffic it can take between 2-3 hours just to get to the Cotswolds by road, and then you have to get back into London again after your tour.
Also the London guides do not have the intimate knowledge of those "special" places that those of us that live in the Cotswolds enjoy!
For a one day tour from London, the best option is to take a train from Paddington to either Morton-in-Marsh or Kemble. You can get a train from London around 8:00am which arrives in the Cotswolds before 10:00am - it takes just 90 minutes and without any changes. A very much more relaxing way of doing things! Ideally you get a train to Moreton-in-Marsh and back from Kemble or visa versa to avoid any backtracking and to see as much as possible. Then leaving the Cotswolds between 5:30pm and 6:15pm you would be back in London in 90 minutes.
Believe me....there is nothing remotely aesthetically pleasant about the drive in and out of London !
Check this web site for more information - www.thetrainline.com - and please make sure you purchase your tickets on-line in advance as its very much cheaper than buying on the day. Its best to do this with a Visa Debit card with a chip and PIN - make sure you bring the same card with you to pick up the ticket from the machine when you get here that you know your PIN number !!!
Finally, if your tour is for more than one day then of course I can pick you up from your London hotel !
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