Southampton to London via Cotswold Villages, Oxford & Pub Lunch
Description
Turn your Southampton post cruise transfer into a small-group day trip and experience a world of delightful villages, hidden valleys and meandering streams throughout the Cotswold Hills. Enjoy a classic county pub lunch in an old English tavern before visiting the iconic city of Oxford for a tour through its history and academia, with entry to the Divinity School. This service is available on all dates when Royal Caribbean, Oceania, NCL, Celebrity, Princess & Disney cruise ships are visiting Southampton. The service is also available to passengers on other ships if your arrival dates and arrival times coincide with ships listed. Please note you will need to make your own way to the ship we are servicing on that date.
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Our first stop is in the delightful village of Bibury with its famous collection of houses known as Arlington Row. After meeting your friendly driver and expert guide in Southampton, please take your seats on our luxury coach as we depart northwards into the delightful and much loved Cotswold region of England, famous for its honey coloured stone villages and leafy valleys. Your local guide has a wealth of information about this beautiful part of the world. Learn of the wool trade and how it played an important role in the shaping of the history of the area, and hear how the regions decline as a cloth producer saw the Cotswolds become a sleepy backwater, frozen in time.
We then drive along meandering lanes and rolling hills to the beautiful village of Burford, where the ancient stone cottages seem to cascade down to the River Windrush. After a guided walk through the town to see the ancient church of St John the Baptist, we will enter a traditional Cotswolds tavern, built in 1402, for a classic pub lunch.
After our lunch in Burford, we head on to the historic city of Oxford. Here, your guide will provide you with an hour long walking tour of some of the city's most famous university buildings, cloisters and quadrangles, including entry to the Divinity School, the oldest original purpose-built structure of the university. You'll also have the chance to see the Bodleian Library and Radcliffe Camera. After the tour, enjoy an hour of free time to explore at your own leisure before returning to the coach to finish the day with a drop off at your designated address in London or Heathrow.
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Important Information
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Each person is allowed a maximum of 2 items of hold luggage (75x51x28 cm - 23kg each) and 1 item of carry-on luggage (55x40x20 cm - 10kg each). If you bring extra luggage it will not fit in the vehicle. In this instance you will be responsible for arranging separate transportation for your luggage to your cruise ship.
- Should you wish to bring any mobility aids (wheelchairs or walkers) you MUST contact the operator in advance and provide full dimensions and weight. These items must be able to be folded and stored in the luggage hold. Wheelchairs must be counted as 1 item of your hold luggage.
Reviews(48)
Had a fabulous and informative day with our guide Marek, thankyou. But the actual driver we all felt was abrupt and offhand especially doing the drop offs.
International Friends met us inside the terminal as we disembarked from our cruise. Excellent way to travel back to London. Our guide Marek was very knowledgeable. The Cotswolds is like walking into a fairy tale and so beautiful. We had an excellent lunch in a great pub. Marek purchased some trout pate to share with us from the trout pond. It was a long day but really enjoyed all the stops. Oxford was very busy but well worth the tour.
Great tour. The small towns in the Cotswolds are beautiful. Good balance of guided tour and free time. The included lunch was delicious! The guide Robert is full of great information.
We absolutely loved our small group tour of the Cotswolds and Oxford on our way to Heathrow from the cruise port in Southampton. The two Cotswolds towns we visited, Bibury and Burford, were both beautiful and very different The lunch at The Lamb Inn in Burford was delicious. After lunch we had about an hour of free time in Burford which was a perfect amount of time to shop and buy some goodies at the bakery. After that we headed to Oxford which was totally different, a very busy vibrant town. Our tour guide, Marek, made sure we saw a lot of the highlights in the two hours we were there. Marek was an excellent guide. He was as excited about telling us about the Cotswolds and Oxford and showing us them. I highly recommend this small group tour ( you can see so much more with a smaller group) and would highly recommend requesting Marek as your guide. You will really enjoy it and, especially, him!
This was a great tour. Mereck, our guide was excellent, very knowledgeable and personable and the mini bus was one of the most comfortable I've ever travelled in. WE visited the Cotswolds and Oxford. I highly recommend this tour!
Jane was terrific, she was fun and full of knowledge. Made our day extremely enjoyable. Our driver Afifi rocked
We had a lovely day exploring the Cotswolds and Oxford. Our lunch was delicious. Our guide had lots of extra information having lived in Oxford and Southampton
The Cotswalds were lovely and Nigel, our guide, was knowledgable. Our expereince in Oxford was less successful with no maps and lack of clarity on our plan.
Rob Russell's knowledge and expertise of history, geography, and his use of context in his narration were key to the enjoyment of this excursion. Not only that, his enthusiasm and effervescense were contagious. Learning about places I'd only read about and seen in picture books and videos brought the Cotswolds and Oxford to life. Rob was a great caretaker of our small group througout the tour. I am a return visitor who has used International Friends for tours in the UK and hope to do so again in the future!
Great tour from the port to the airport. Our guide Rob was very informative. We especially enjoyed visiting Oxford.
