From the Tower of London to Glencoe.
Which studio tour includes the coach out of central London. Whether the Loch Ness day from Edinburgh is worth fourteen hours. What Stonehenge costs once Bath is added to it. Reviews of every tour in Britain, with prices.
Stonehenge, the studio sets and the road to Loch Ness.
Six days out that most British itineraries are built around, and the ticket that actually gets you in: the stone circle, the Warner Bros. sets north of London, the Tower keys, a boat down to Greenwich, the Highland loop and a proper afternoon tea.
Half of Britain’s bookable days sit inside the M25.
All London tours →The wheel, the Tower, the Whitechapel lanes, a boat down to Greenwich and a studio an hour up the line. London holds more bookable days than the rest of the country put together, so the order you book them in decides how much of the city you actually see.
- 1The London Eye Entry Ticketfrom $39
- 2Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tourfrom $117
- 3Westminster to Greenwich River Thames Cruisefrom $22
Westminster down to Greenwich by boat
The Thames does the sightseeing for you: Parliament, the Eye, the Tower and Tower Bridge from below, then the Cutty Sark and the meridian at the far end.
The Tower, the Crown Jewels, the Beefeaters
Nine hundred years of prison, palace and mint. Go at opening, take the Yeoman Warder tour that starts inside the gate, and see the jewels before the queue builds.
Whitechapel after the light goes
The 1888 murder sites are a ten-minute walk from Liverpool Street and the good guides stay with the police files rather than the theatrics.
What everyone books in Britain: the wheel, the studio, the river.
The full catalogue →The tours with the most travellers behind them, from a wheel over the Thames to a coach that reaches Loch Ness by lunchtime, and what each is like on the day.
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The London Eye Entry Ticket
Review the London Eye at 135 meters, with practical advice on views, queues, price, accessibility, timing, and who should book.
From · $39
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Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour
from $117
3
Westminster to Greenwich River Thames Cruise
from $22
4
Magical London: Harry Potter Guided Walking Tour
from $20
5
Madame Tussauds London
from $36
6
Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers
from $144
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Loch Ness, Glencoe & the Scottish Highlands Tour
from $62
8
Tower Bridge Entry Ticket
from $21
A British day out, priced from a pub lunch upwards.
Every tour on the site, sorted by what it costs. Entry tickets and walking tours sit at the bottom, the long coach days in the middle, private guides at the top.
Museum entry, the walking tours, a ghost walk, an hour on the river. Most of a London week can be booked in this band.
The coach days: Stonehenge with Bath or Windsor, the Cotswold villages, the studio tour with transfers included.
Long Highland days out of Edinburgh, small groups with entry tickets included, and private guides who set the pace to yours.
The Highlands are a long day out of Edinburgh, and worth it.
Three lochs, Glencoe, and a great deal of window. The Loch Ness runs leave Edinburgh before eight and are back after dark, which is the price of seeing the far side of Scotland without moving hotel.
Rain is the one thing Britain guarantees you.
Three wet afternoons in a week is an ordinary week, and the country is built for it. The Great Court at the British Museum is under glass, the Roman Baths steam harder in the cold, the Tower is mostly indoors, and tea at four is a national plan rather than a snack.
- 1Afternoon Tea Cruise on the River Thamesfrom $53
- 2Afternoon Tea Bus with a Glass of Proseccofrom $64
- 3British Museum Guided Tourfrom $23
Only in Britain: the studio, the Guard and the Ripper lanes.
Castles and cathedrals are everywhere in Europe. A film studio you walk through, a household cavalry that changes at eleven, and the Whitechapel courts belong to this country alone.
The Studio Tour
The film sets are still standing twenty miles north of London and you walk through them: the Great Hall, Diagon Alley, the Forbidden Forest, and the castle model in a dark room at the end. Tickets are dated and released in batches, never sold at the door, and the coach packages from central London save you the Watford Junction shuffle.
- 1Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 26,588 reviews
- 2Magical London: Harry Potter Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 22,044 reviews
- 3Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 17,586 reviews
The Guard Change at Eleven
Bearskins, a military band, and a forecourt full of people who arrived twenty minutes too late. It runs most mornings in summer and every other day the rest of the year, weather allowing, and it costs nothing to watch. What a guided ticket buys is a sightline and someone explaining what the regiments are actually doing.
- 1Buckingham Palace & Changing of the Guard Experience★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 2,971 reviews
- 2Buckingham Palace Entry & Changing of the Guard Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.2 · 2,221 reviews
- 3Westminster and Changing of the Guard Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 2,171 reviews
The Ripper Walk
The 1888 murder sites sit a few minutes east of Liverpool Street and most of the street plan survives. The good walks stay with the police files, the coroner reports and the layout of the courts, and leave the theatrics alone. They go at dusk, which in December means half past four.
- 1The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 7,833 reviews
- 2Jack the Ripper Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3,159 reviews
- 3Jack the Ripper Walking Tour – Ripper Vision Tours★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,752 reviews
Four British tickets that will not wait for your arrival.
Most of Britain can be booked from a phone the night before. These four cannot. They run on dated releases, a summer opening season, a small number of permits and a football fixture list.
- 01Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio TourDated tickets released in batches and gone weeks ahead. Nothing is sold at the door.
- 02Buckingham Palace: The State Rooms Entrance TicketThe State Rooms open only for the late-summer season, and the timed slots go first.
- 03Stonehenge Inner Circle and Windsor Day TripWalking inside the stones happens outside public hours on a small number of permits.
- 04Liverpool Football Club Museum and Stadium TourThe stadium tour follows the fixture list and shuts around match days.
Oxford, Cambridge and the Cotswolds are day trips, not detours.
An hour out of Paddington or King’s Cross and the country changes: college quads you can only cross with a guide, a punt on the Cam, and honey-coloured villages that one coach day strings together. Most of these leave early and are back for dinner.
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York22 tours
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Bath12 tours
The Lake District6 tours
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