Top London Bus Tours - page 10

Great combination of 3 iconic places in one tour. Peter, our guide, was great. Just the right combination of giving all the information/interesting facts and letting us take naps on the long rides between locs. Yanus, the driver did a greater job, too.

Claire was the Driver and Guide, she provided excellent information and made everything really interesting. We understood everything clearly. We visited four villages, was provided with all the information required to know how to use our time and was given sufficient time at each stop. Because we were in a smaller bus we were able to go down smaller roads and drove through a lot of small villages. The bus was very comfortable, and Claire was a very competent and patient driver. I felt we were in good hands and Claire’s music sense was outstanding. I didn’t sleep on the journey at all, I was enjoying the music so much.

We booked this a few days ahead of the day we wanted to go while we were in London. Booking was easy. We knew we wanted to do Stonehenge and Windsor Casyle but I couldn’t decide if we wanted to do admission to the Roman Baths or not and we ended up selecting all three. Checking in a the pickup location was easy. The bus departed in time. The seats were comfortable. There was a toilet on the bus however we were encouraged to use it only in an emergency. That wasn’t a problem for me. There were restrooms at all of the stops so all was good. Manon was out tour guide and she was awesome. Lucian was our driver and he did a great job getting us to and from the locations. We did Windsor Castle first. We had a little over an hour there. It was a bit rushed but we did have enough time to see the Venus garden, state rooms and St George’s Chapel. We arrived there at 9am and our tour guide led us to the group entrance line. We did have to wait about 20 minutes in line to get in. A different group tried to jump the line ahead of us and Manon handled that with the venue management staff. We were given a time to meet back at the bus. There was one group of people that were about 10 minutes late coming back and we did wait for them. I think we departed around 11:15a and headed to Bath. We arrived in Bath a little after 1p. We had about an hour to tour the Roman Baths. It was estimated that it would take 45 minutes to tour and I think we were done in 15. We fast tracked ourselves because we were hungry and wanted to get something to eat before we got back on the bus. There is a lot of informational displays within the Roman Baths building about the history and architecture. We didn’t read much and we bypassed a bunch of people to get to the actual bath. It was cool to see but if I were to book again I don’t think I would do admission to the baths. We would have rather walked around the town and checked out the shops and sights. We did have a nice Mezze platter at a restaurant and had just enough time to eat it before departing for StoneHenge. Everyone was there to load the bus on time although the bus was running a few minutes behind. In hindsight that was a blessing because there end up being a car accident - a car was in the bus drop off area and ran into a bus. If out bus was on time they might have run into our bus. The driver of the car was not wanting to move out of the way and Manon, again, hopped into action and talked her into moving out of the way. We departed Bath around 3:10p and arrived in StoneHendge around 4:15p. We had about an hour there and that was plenty of time. We got back on the bus to head back to London around 5-5:15p. I don’t remember what time we got back I think it was around 7:30p. I know I was eating dinner before 8p. We really enjoyed this experience. Manon was a wonderful guide and she was very knowledgeable about the locations we visited as well as London. The whole tour was about 11.5 hours from the time we checked-in until we got back and departed the bus station. The price we paid which included admission at all three locations was very fair considering the time and the driving. It was nice not to have to worry about getting a car, getting to all the places, getting tickets, end rushing around to make it places on time. I don’t think we would have been able to do all three locations in one day if we had done that on our own. It was helpful to be with the group because we didn’t have to stand in too many lines for very long.