I am traveling to London in May. I would love to see Bath and Stonehenge. When looking online, I found a lot of one day tours for Bath, Stonehenge, the Windsor Castle. I was wondering if anyone has done any tours like this? What ones would you recommend?
Thanks in advance!
Hi Lizzie-
we did a tour through International Friends about a year and a half ago. We drove through the Cotswolds, visited Laycock, Bath and Stonehenge. It was a van tour, so small group. The guide was wonderful, very personable and informative. Here is the website
http://www.internationalfriends.co.uk/
Our first trip to London , more than 20 years ago included a day trip with Frames Rickards that included all that you mention. It was OK. Now that we have learned to use the trains and tube, etc. we do our own day trips most of the time. Most of the day trip tour companies in London do a good job. Just realize you are on their schedule and enjoy the comentary.
Lizzie, Evans Evans is also a reliable comanpy that does day trips out of London.
I recently did a Bath, Stonehenge, Windsor Castle tour. It was great to see all 3 places. Our guide gave excellent commentary. I thought about going to Bath on my own, which isn't that hard to do, but this ended up working best for our trip with limited time. Other days we did day trips on our own from London. We had plenty of time at Stonehenge and Windsor Castle, thought I would have enjoyed more time in Bath. I may revisit Bath a future trip, thought it was enough time to see the Roman Baths and get a feel for the city.
Thank you all for your suggestions and input! I will take it all into consideration.
Karen- which tour group did you use?
We used Evan Evans last year and found them quite good.
Hello. My husband and I are in our 60's. We just visited London in May. We used "Gray Line Tours" for our trips to Stonhenge, Windsor and Bath. We like "Gray Line". We had seen Windsor back in 1970. The small town of Bath is kind of quaint. Stonhenge is weird. You are ony allowed a few minutes there, when you are on a tour. There isn't anything to do there anyway, but look and say "Wow those are odd." It is a long ride out there, but pretty. Frankly we enjoyed seeing the country sides from the buses, better than actually visiting Windsor, Stonhenge and Bath though.
The Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath tours are very rushed. Below is the Premium Tours and Evan Evans Tour schedule. There are onl 3 main operators running this tour daily (Evan Evans, Golden Tours and Premium Tours), everyone else is an agent. (Gray Line tours are operated by Golden Tours)
If you really just want to see Stonehenge and Bath, forget these tours and Windsor, you can easly see Windsor by public transport from Central London independently. Anderson Tours run a daily tour visiting just Stonehenge and Bath. You get the whole afternoon in Bath, much more satisfactory than the glimpose you get with the other tours.
Premium Tours
08:15 Depart Victoria Coach Station Gate 6
09:30-45 Arrive Windsor Castle
11:40 Depart Windsor
13:00 Optional Lunch at traditional British pub
14:00 Leave pub
14:20 Arrive Stonehenge
15:10 Depart Stonehenge
16:10 Arrive Bath - Panoramic tour
16:15 Enter Roman Baths
Free time
18:00 Depart Bath
approx. 20:30 Arrive London
Evan Evans
Leave London (VCS) @ 09:00
Arrive @ Windsor @ 10:00
Leave Windsor @ 12:00
Arrive Stonehenge @ 13:10
Depart Stonehenge @ 14:00
Arrive Bath @ 15:15
Depart Bath @ 17:00
Arrive London @ 19:30
