One of the best ways to explore the Cotswolds is to hire a chauffeur driven car for touring the Cotswolds. The Cotswold region is full of hidden charm and idiosyncrasy that only an experienced and knowledgeable driver will be able to deliver the best tour experience to give you those unforgettable memories of this truly remarkable region of the UK where time has stood still for 300 years.
You will be collected from your hotel and shown a wealth of beautiful sights in this very special part of England, in comfort and at your own pace.To see ancient villages, medieval churches, Manor houses, wonderful gardens and the enchanting Cotswold countryside.You will then return you to your Hotel at the end of the tour.You will not be part of a group with set times frames and routes.
You can also be collected from your airport/seaport/train station, have tour itineraries tailor made, your accommodation arranged and be returned at the end of your stay in the Cotswolds.
A Cotswolds Packaged Tour by coach or mini-bus is a wonderful way of having companionship and sharing your tour holiday with others.
The Cotswolds area is large, taking in parts of six English Counties, and stuffed full of glorious gardens, stately homes and castles, and 'chocolate box' villages around every corner. We recommend at least a minimum of a three day tour but you could easily spend two weeks and more savouring this unique region.
Below we recommend Touring Companies that will offer you Chauffeur Driven Car Hire services to give you a relaxing and rewarding holiday vacation. Most of the companies listed also provide similar services for Cotswold weddings, events and business or just airport collections.
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CJP COTSWOLD TOURS AND PRIVATE HIRE
(BROADWAY)
CJP Tours is a family owned business
located in Broadway, and is operated by Chris and his wife Ruth, who have two very
'expensive' teenage daughters, Charlotte and Hannah.
Chris is an advanced driver, and has covered over 'one million miles' during his
driving career, so you will be in very safe hands.
Having resided in the Cotswolds for over 30 years, Chris has become very familiar
with those 'off the beaton track' locations, which are often missed if not familiar
with the area.
Every Tour is 'tailor-made' to ensure we visit the attractions that you would like
to see. We are not just restricted to The Cotswolds region, just let Chris know where
you would like to visit, and he will endeavour to build each destination into the
itinerary for you.
The vehicle is a new six seater Chrysler Grand Voyager, which is fully insured for
Private Hire and Public Liability, and is also fully licensed by Cotswold District
Council. There is plenty of room to stretch your legs, and you also sit higher than
in a standard saloon car - So you get to see more too!
Every tour is extremely relaxed and unrushed, this way we get to stop for strolls
around the beautiful Villages and Hamlets, and also have chance to visit the many interesting
attractions as we go.
Some of the Villages we can visit are; Broadway, Chipping Campden, Stow on the Wold,
Bourton on the Water, The Slaughters, Burford, Snowshill and Bibury to name but a few!
Please contact Chris and Ruth to discuss your touring itinerary.
For the discerning traveller, seeking a ‘premium product’, Absolute Touring offers tours from Oxford of the Cotswolds, Bath, Stonehenge and Stratford - indeed anywhere else you wish to see - in comfortable air-conditioned vehicles with experienced, friendly chauffeur guides.
DailyTours
Join one of our regular small-groups (maximum eight passengers) daily tours [every day April to October - on request at other times] which take in picturesque villages, historic sites and beautiful countryside.
Personal Tours
Ask us about arranging a personal tour - tailor-made to your particular interest. Feel
free to stop where and when you wish. Change the route as you go, if you wish: just
like driving your own car, but with your own guide.
Visit our interactive map for a selection of possible tour destinations: the Cotswolds – and many other places too.
Travelling to Oxford?
We will be pleased to collect you from any airport, hotel or other venue in the
UK, to bring you to Oxford to join one of our tours – just ask us.
Local knowledge and a thoroughly personal service are the key to our success.
We pride ourselves on making sure clients have a memorable day with us.
"We deliberately pitch to the upper end of the market. We want to take people who are really
interested, and who will enjoy the interaction of having their own personal guide"
Rob
Little has three competing passions; photography, motorcycling and the Cotswolds! Coming
in a close fourth is to be able to share his love and knowledge of the area where
he indulges those passions, with visitors.
A tour with Rob will give you a taste for the beautiful Cotswold hills - rolling
green countryside broken only by lines of “dry stone” stone walls, quaint
villages, stone houses, thatched cottages, country homes, formal gardens and narrow
winding roads - the "real" England outside of London.
Although Rob’s private tours extend across the United Kingdom and Western
Europe, his home is in Tetbury, “Gateway to the Southern Cotswolds”. Tetbury
is renowned for being the town close to Prince Charles’ home at Highgrove and
is famous for its High Street full of antiques stores.
Travel is supremely comfortable in a large luxury fully air-conditioned Van with
leather seats and privacy glass - elevated so you can see over the hedges and walls!
Tours are designed for each Customer based on their individual wishes and dreams – ancient churches, gentle countryside walks, photography, castles, Shakespeare’s country, formal gardens, country pubs – even Harry Potter film sets! You can be assured your tour will be delightfully memorable and filled with historical insight and lots of local colour.
Your group can be collected and dropped off at the airport, your hotel, a seaport or at a railway station.
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Lets Tour England
20 Springfields, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8EN
Please note I am offering tours as normal throughout the Olympic period.
My name is Ken Fowler and I was born and educated in the Cotswolds in the heart of England. I am passionate about my heritage and love to share it with visitors and friends. My family go back hundreds of years in this part of the world.
I am offering personal tours of the Cotswolds throughout the year in my air conditioned Nissan X Trail 4 x 4 which can take you where a tour bus might struggle. My personal tour also allows you to adjust your itinerary to meet your individual wishes so that you can stop whenever and wherever you wish, move on when you are ready, and dwell a little longer perhaps if something particularly interests you. I am completely flexible and will be there to act as your driver, guide and friend.
My career encompasses service as an army officer, merchant banker and civil servant. However, I started my career working for the family building business based in Burford which specialised in restoring and building Cotswold stone properties. I can show you the Cotswold houses where I grew up in Burford and share with you a wealth of stories about growing up and working in this beautiful part of England. I can therefore provide you with a unique personal insight into the Cotswolds as well as ensuring you see and experience the more well known villages and sites such as Bibury, Burford, Chipping Campden, Stow on the Wold and many more. The tour will be specifically designed to meet your wishes and of course I will be very happy to advise you. I offer an exclusive and personal service for discerning customers who are looking for a special day.
I can pick you up from a local hotel, or, if you are coming from London, I can pick you up from a local railway station such as Charlbury, which is just over an hour from London, so returning to London in time for dinner is quite feasible. I will of course return you to your hotel or railway station at the end of the day.
I really hope you decide to consider my personal tour of the Cotswolds. I can assure you I will look after you, and ensure your tour is memorable, fascinating and fun.
Read what others think about my tours on my website.
Tour the Cotswolds with Michael and live for a while in the
timeless land of stream & stone!
The Cotswolds hills are quintessentially English. There is nowhere else in England where landscape and architecture harmonise so perfectly. Cottages, Farms, Manor Houses & Churches all built from the local oolitic limestone seem to have literally grown up out of the ground. They seem to glimmer golden with the lost sunlight of centuries and the overall effect is that of a magical domain lost in its own timescale. Indeed the wonderful illusion is that time really has forgotten the Glorious Cotswolds and left the area preserved as in a dream of a bygone age. It is an Artist's and Photographer's paradise. There is a magical "Brigadoon" effect!
*Tour the Cotswolds
*With your own Cotswolds Driver-Guide
*Cotswolds Gardens
*Cotswolds Villages
*Historic England
Touring the Cotswolds is one of lifes rare and unique pleasures. To do so at your own pace and at a time that suits you escorted by an historically knowledgeable Cotswolds Touring Driver Guide will enhance dramatically your enjoyment of this famous domain.
THE CARS
Chrysler Grand Voyager
Touring the Cotswolds is best experienced in our Chrysler Grand Voyager which has comfortable leather seating for up to 6 guests not including your driver-guide Michael. The vehicle is spacious, luxurious air conditioned barouche that is somewhat higher riding than an ordinary car and has large and clear windows that afford greater enjoyment of the spectacular scenes we shall savour.
On certain occasions there is available a BMW 530 Station Wagon sedan. Both cars have extensive luggage carrying capabilities.
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Michael Neilan
Shenberrow Hill, Stanton,
Broadway, Worcsestershire
WR12 7NE
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At Kooky Cotswold Tours we make sure you see the best of what´s on offer – plus a little bit of what you never knew existed. The Cotswolds are all about honey coloured villages, cream teas and grandiose manors, but what about the underbelly? The people behind the scenery? What is off the beaten track?
Kooky Cotswold Tours is owned and operated by Lee & Emma, two travel nuts who after many years travelling the globe returned to the Cotswolds, which is where they call home. We combined our love of travel with the beauty of the Cotswolds, threw in our way of touring based on our own experiences and the result is Kooky Cotswold Tours!
At Kooky Cotswold Tours we ensure you see everything the Cotswolds is renowned for – plus a little bit of what you never knew existed. Most visitors expect to see honey coloured villages and grandiose manors surrounded by beautiful countryside, and these are plenty. But there is so much more to be seen if you venture a little deeper. You’ll be charmed by what we’ll find.
Let us take you down hidden lanes and back roads in your own chauffer driven luxury transport to places where large buses and tour groups can’t go! We use a brand new Volkswagen Transporter – a luxury eight seater with plenty of luggage space. The vehicle is air conditioned and the elevated seating position means you get better viewing above those hedgerows!
We create relaxed and unhurried tours for up to eight people to suit any taste and are not restricted to the Cotswolds. We can pick you up and drop you off from any location at the beginning and end of your time with us.
Let me transport and guide you to places that you have heard of and many you have not.
Top quality, knowledgeable, and friendly service. Excellent Value.
Unique opportunity to discover The Cotswold's past and recent history
Take the stress out of driving and be driven in luxury and comfort around The Cotswolds or any part of Great Britain with a friendly personal tour guide.
Tim has lived and farmed sheep in the North Cotswold Village of Snowshill all of his 60 years and has a fountain of local and National knowledge and tour guide experience.
Tim will arrange your tailor-made tour around your suggestions and he will organise your itinerary around them, or you can leave it all to Tim.
Tim will pick you up from your accommodation. He can also meet you from your flight, train, or port and transfer you to and from where you are staying safely and on time.
Whether your Cotswold tour is for a day or for a week or more Tim will help make your Cotswold holiday experience in our beautiful countryside even more special for you.
Tim will drive you himself in his spacious car.
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Tim Harrison,
Sheepscombe House,
Snowshill, Broadway
, Worcs, WR12 7JU
History Tours : Family History : Genealogy : Welcome to Historical Quests
Cotswold Tours by Rolls-Royce!
Do something different on your trip to England - tour with me and my very special car. I'm a former history teacher and High School Principal.
History is my passion, and I specialise in tours with a historical slant. My car is a piece of history in its own right - a 1987 Rolls-Royce Silver Spirit.
Join me and my 'Roller' on a tour lasting for as short a time as half a day, or as long as a week, seeing the best-known (or sometimes best-hidden!) parts of the Cotswolds. Every trip is individual and tailor-made to your interests and preferences - or you can simply sit back and let me show you my favourite parts of this beautiful area.
Rolls-Royce is an international byword for quality and excellence. I can offer a quality experience for up to four people, in the Cotswolds or anywhere in the UK. Every tour I do is different because every guest is different, and every tour I do is a voyage of discovery for me as well as for them.
Check out my website or or contact me direct to find out if a historical quest is the adventure you are looking for.
Welcome to International Friends, part of the GTI Travel Group Limited
Guided short breaks to the Cotswolds for overseas and UK visitors.
Oxford, Cotswolds, Bath, Lacock and Stonehenge - 2 days
Guided tour of Oxford, Stow-on-the-Wold, Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury – described as the most beautiful village in England, Gloucester with its impressive Cathedral which was used in the making of 2 Harry Potter Films, Bath – Guided tour of Bath, visit to beautiful village of Lacock and entrance to Stonehenge included
Small Group Promise - No more than 16 clients per driver/guide.
This tour includes:
Guided tour of Oxford
Visit to Stow-on-the-Wold - pretty Cotswolds market village
Visit Bourton-on-the-Water - with lovely river and village green
Visit to Bibury – described as the most beautiful village in England!!!
Gloucester Cathedral - used in filming of Harry Potter movies (entry outside control of International Friends)
Bath – fully guided tour with a local guide
Visit to Lacock
Entrance to Stonehenge with audio guided tour
Optional evening visit to nearby pub (food/drink extra)
Hotel accommodation in twin bedded room with private shower, toilet and TV
Breakfast at hotel
Return travel from your chosen departure location by luxury minibus
100% Financial protection insurance for your payment to us - click here for details
Price for this tour: £159 per person,
£30 supplement for single room if required (we can arrange a room share if you want).
The Cotswold Village of Bibury
The City of Dreaming Spires - Oxford
This is without question the best value tour available to this region, combining the Cotswolds, Bath and Stonehenge over a leisurely 2 days. This tour is driven and guided by a friendly driver who is very familiar with the area its many back-roads. This means that you will venture off the beaten track to see and enjoy some of the area's most beautiful places. Your transport for this tour is in a spacious luxury 16 seat minibus with large windows and the ability to travel down some the narrow lanes which are not normally used by large coaches. We promise you a first-class experience and memories that you will treasure for many years!
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International Friends LtdHead Office Unit C Ronald Rolph Court, Wadloes Road Cambridge CB5 8PX
Welcome to Tour Gems operated by Genny Stallabrass
Come with me on a journey of discovery through the area I grew up in and know so well. Travel in the comfort of my air-conditioned 'people-carrier' and get good views over the hedges and walls, not to mention the other cars on the road! I carry a maximum of six people, so you can be assured of plenty of personal attention.
Choose a fixed tour at a fixed price, or let me work one out for you to include all the places you would like to see (within reason), where I charge an hourly rate - contact me for a quote. Or maybe you haven't got a whole day but would still like to see something. No problem - I can work out a shorter tour.
My fixed tours have been worked out to include a bit of everything, so you will see the loveliest villages and plenty of gorgeous scenery; green fields crisscrossed with dry stone walls, clear trout streams, wooded valleys and so much more. And then there are the superb views from the Cotswold Edge, among the best in England. Because I know the area so well I can take you along all the little back roads that lead to the less well known and often more beautiful small villages. It is in these peaceful places that the true essence of the Cotswolds lies.
My tours are relaxed, with plenty of time to see everything. I will stop at your request whenever possible so that you can take photographs; believe me, I know how frustrating it can be to see that perfect picture flashing by the car window! Also, I will not herd you around like cattle and give you no time to enjoy yourselves, and if the weather is bad, I can vary the tours - there's no point going to a great view point if the hills are covered in mist!
The day is yours to enjoy - after all, it's your holiday. So why not give me a try?
I don't think you'll be disappointed.
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Tour Gems
40 Melville, Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucestershire, England, GL54 2EU
Senator Travel is a family run business, established in 1991. We aim to combine the best elements of experienced guiding with high quality chauffeuring.
Over the years, we have served all manner of clients, from retired couples to heads of multi-national companies. We are proud to receive recommendations and referrals from previous customers, the local tourist offices, and from leading travel agencies in America specializing in Tours of Britain.
Helping you plan your itinerary, and offering suggestions for accommodation is all part of the service. Tours are tailored to your specific interests, and conducted at your preferred pace.
Your guide can answer questions on a wide range of subjects, helping you to appreciate your visit to the full. History, Architecture, Wildlife and Countryside, are just some of the areas of expertise about which he can enlighten you in an informal way.
The other duty of a driver-guide is to act as a mindful host, looking after your interests. Our main driver/guide is Christopher, who can soon establish a rapport with all age groups.
Senator Travel drivers all hold an Advanced Motoring qualification. Our cars are top-of-the-range luxury and executive models. Plus, we have years of experience guiding. There are other companies offering ‘Heritage’ Tours, but they cannot match this combination of cars, qualification and experience, plus the daily mileage allowance is not as generous.
See our website for more information.
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Senator Travel,
Painswick Slad Farm, Slad, Stroud, Gloucestershire GL6 7QB
Learn to take great pictures during Walking Tours or Exclusive Chauffeured Excursions of picturesque locations. We have selected the best routes for picture taking opportunities and guide you in how to capture great shots, both on the tour and for the future.
Viewfinder Tours are photo workshops with a built-in sightseeing experience. Whether you simply want to enjoy a guided tour and learn to take better pictures, or you’re an enthusiastic amateur wanting to experiment, Viewfinder Tours are great ways to gain valuable information.
Suitable for all abilities, a Half-day Walking Tour with photography instruction will show you many ways to improve your camera skills whilst enjoying some wonderful locations. And on an Exclusive Chauffeured Excursion, you will have many opportunities to develop some new skills, whilst at the same time being chauffeured for a day amongst some of England’s most beautiful landscapes.
A Viewfinder Tour is a great alternative way to visit a location and have fun with photography.
Please visit our website and check the current list of Tour Locations.
Tour the beautiful Cotswolds with a local Driver / Guide who can't wait to
enthuse you in his passion for the area!
The Cotswolds are a scenic area with gorgeous villages, picturesque market towns. Wonderful vistas, quiet woodland, birdsong, open meadows, babbling brooks, stone houses, thatched cottages.....the list is endless. Smell it, hear it, see it and feel it…..this is the real England outside of London!
I’ll tailor the tour to your particular interests be they antiques shopping, formal gardens, manor houses, photography, countryside walks or just leave it to me and I’ll show what I consider to be the best sights to see. And we can punctuate the day with coffee stops, a pub lunch and / or cream tea, if you wish!
We can offer both day tours and extended tours of the Cotswolds and the wider area in a comfortable Van with eight seats. Check my website or call / email for more information.
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Cotswold Tour Guide.com
20 Springfields, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, GL8 8EN
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I am offering personal tours of the Cotswolds throughout the year in my air conditioned Nissan X Trail 4 x 4 which can take you where a tour bus might struggle. My personal tour also allows you to adjust your itinerary to meet your individual wishes so that you can stop whenever and wherever you wish, move on when you are ready, and dwell a little longer perhaps if something particularly interests you. I am completely flexible and will be there to act as your driver, guide and friend. 
I can pick you up from a local hotel, or, if you are coming from London, I can pick you up from a local railway station such as Charlbury, which is just over an hour from London, so returning to London in time for dinner is quite feasible. I will of course return you to your hotel or railway station at the end of the day.
Honey coloured limestone villages, beautiful gardens, historic Manor Houses, Castles, and breathtaking views.
Tim will pick you up from your accommodation. He can also meet you from your flight, train, or port and transfer you to and from where you are staying safely and on time.
Cotswold Tours by Rolls-Royce!
