Why choose this Oxford tour ?
NOTICE: the pricing offered is ONLY my rate to hire me as your guide for the day. The price does NOT INCLUDE any additional costs to hire the taxi driver and his vehicle which currently in 2025, costs £500-550 for the day, or for you alternatively to hire a hire car yourself for you to drive. Note that I do NOT own a car!
The Cotswolds has inspired not just chocolate box tins & tourist photo books but also some of England’s most famous artists, like the pre Rapahelites who lived here in the 1800s. See traditional architecture, picturesque landscape & wander around beautiful villages. You have the choice of joining us for either an active but not too active cycle trip through the Cotswolds or you can sit back & enjoy the sights from our car or minibus hire.
Please note that tours are priced here as tour options for either a full day tour typically from 10am to 5pm or a half day tour from 1pm to 6pm.
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What makes Cotswolds One Day Tour with Local Guide a unique experience ?
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
Don’t tell everyone but in my view, easily the most attractive medieval market town in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds.
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
Actual route itinerary and destinations visited is flexible and options will be introduced before your tour and or at start of the tour. We can for example include visits to historic homes or scenic spots.
The tour lasts average 7-8 hours with various destinations visited.
Tour Description & Additional Info:
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Child seats for infants cannot be guaranteed on driving tours, unless you give us adequate advance notice to bring infants seats. We don’t carry them by default.
Options To Choose for Your Trip:
- FULL DAY up to 8 hours
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Cotswolds One Day Tour with Local Guide Inclusions:
Included with Your Ticket
- Local guide
Not Included
- NOTICE: this tour does NOT include the cost to hire taxi driver or car hire!
- Entry fees to historic homes, if you choose to include such an optional visit
- Any young children requiring child seat, you must give us adequate advance notice!
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Special Instructions:
- This Tour is Provided by Visit Oxford Tours.
- Tour Timezone & Starts at Europe/London.
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted.
- For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
- Minimum 1 Travelers is required to book.
- Maximum 8 Travelers is accepted for booking.
Concerning all bookings here:
Please ensure that you have provided a working mobile phone number with the international country prefix code, so that we can contact you! Our mobile number is a whatsapp number, so you can text or call us free using whatsapp.
What to wear and pack for a day out in the Cotswolds:
Please note the phrase that, ‘Britain has four seasons in a day’ ie. please pack clothes for all weather as weather is unpredictable at any time of year. Please note lunch is not provided during your lunch break but we will stop at some of the best places to eat.
If you are booking the cycle tour, please note the following advice:
It’s essential that you dress sensibly ie no jeans! We recommend wearing shorts for either dry or wet weather. The Cotswolds roads are not especially wide and the reason we use electric bikes, is because the Cotswolds is up and down, so if you are booking with teenage children, please take into account that everyone needs to have their wits for cycling on these country lanes! The guide will issue health & safety advice at start of the tour. It’s also recommend for safety reasons that if you have any bright clothes eg yellow bike jacket, to wear those. Please bring waterproofs. If for any reason, you don’t have waterproofs, please make this known when booking & the guide will try to arrange waterproofs for you, where & when possible. Helmets will be provided.
Finally, please advise what each participant’s heights are, so we can try to pre-set bike seat heights before your arrival.
NB Special Notice for Clients on Cycle Tours, relating to cancellation of tour, due to very wet weather:
We don’t cancel cycle tours, unless weather forecast is very wet indeed. In such cases, we will notify you on the day before your tour, first by email and then by phone that we intend to cancel the tour. We will instruct viator to refund you in full. However, for anyone wishing to instead accept a substitute activity, according to your and our circumstances, we will offer you the opportunity instead of cancelling, to instead be scheduled onto an appropriate rainy day activity such as either taking the tour in the car or instead being booked onto a guided tour of Blenheim palace or being booked onto a private walking tour of Oxford university. You will then be invited to accept the substitute activity or to reschedule your Cotswolds cycle tour to an alternate date or to receive a 100% refund.
