Tour to Cotswalds from London

London Walks. www.walks.com

It's The Cotswolds BTW. :-)

Do London walks even do Cotswolds Tours anymore? There is suggestion they might happen on a Thursday and Saturday but they are not listed for this week, and there doesn't seem to be a useable look ahead beyond this week search function.

Go Cotswold tours get good reviews. However you woulkd need to catch a train from London to Morton in Marsh and pick up the coach tour at the station.

isn31c, I answered the OP’s question.

Up to them to research London Walks.

Did you offer an option for the OP? Tour company you’ve worked with?

I took a tour with Go Cotswolds. I enjoyed the day.. They pick you up at the Moreton-in-Marsh train station and also drop you back there. I traveled that day from Oxford, but there were several people on my tour who had made the trip from London.

isn31c, Yes, London Walks does still do the Cotswold walk as the schedule is here:
https://www.walks.com/our-walks/the-cotswolds-excursion/

To the OP - I’ve also taken the London Walk Cotswolds walk (20+ years ago) and it was also good. When I took it, It didn’t cover as many places as the Go Cotswolds walk but it was still very good.

My solution, if the OP isn't around on one of the apparently 12 dates this year when London Walks are running would be, as Wasley's suggests a train to Moreton in Marsh then other posts have suggested several companies who run daily tours from Moreton in Marsh.

Or, on a daily basis, Rabbies run from London Victoria- https://www.rabbies.com/en/england-tours/from-london/day-tours/oxford-traditional-cotswold-villages-day-tour

They leave from the former Greenline Bus Station, opposite Victoria Coach Station.

Everyone on this forum treats Rabbies as a reputable company- in Scotland, Yorkshire and the Lake District.

Everyone on this forum treats Rabbies as a reputable company- in Scotland, Yorkshire and the Lake District.

not everybody.

Just three days ago there was a scathing review where the guide driver asked the group where they thought she should take them on Skye. A couple of replies echoed the sentiment of unprofessionalism in the company.

That was https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/scotland/tour-guide-wants-requests-for-skye , to which the writer of the above was party.

As the issue of Rabbies has been widened out I will add what I deliberately omitted earlier specifically about their Lake District tours- trying not to rock the boat.

As they do elsewhere their pricing depends on the season (when the costs, at least of their tour) are identical all year round.

Whereas their competitor - Mountain Goat- offer a fixed price regardless of date and IMO offer a better itinerary (a more honest approach to business).
Specifically Mountain Goat include the Windermere cruise and the Haverthwaite steam train where Rabbies do not (that is an extra payable on site and as an cheaper island option, no steam train option offered ). That is a £21 cost difference (so 25%) but in peak season the tour fares are identical.
But Rabbies include a drive by of Ullswater and (seemingly) Howtown- Mountain Gate instead include Tarn Hows- to me far superior and somewhere a non driver would find harder to reach.
As a resident of the area I see Rabbies as a very unwelcome over expanding interloper- muscling in on an incumbent operator (who actually does much more than tours). I don't know if their appearance in the area pre or post dates the sad closure of the other major local long standing operator-Lakes Super Tours.

Rabbies seem to me to be trading on their Scottish reputation- but apart from the thread highlighted above ne'er a bad word seems to be said about them on this forum.

It is also worth saying that, for groups, we have a number of local bus companies who can run bespoke tours.

The thread above (by @abbeygurl) also highlighted what I see as a weakness of Rabbies multi day tours- not putting all tour members in the same hotel.