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About
British Tours Ltd.
Showing you
the Best of Britain since 1958
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An
early British Tours Ltd brochure - with one of our
first driver-guides on tour
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In 1958
two University graduates - one from Oxford and one from
Cambridge - founded a London tour operator specialising in
privately guided tours of England's two ancient University
cities, Oxford and Cambridge.
In 1965 they acquired British Tours Ltd, a company in
existence since 1931, and started providing a wider range of
private tours in and around London and personal tours of
Britain.
Today, our central London office in London's Mayfair next to
the Headquarters of English Heritage specialises in personal
and flexible touring, itinerary design, and researching the
best that Britain has offer. We provide tours for all size
groups - private groups of up to 7 travel by car with their
own driver-guide and larger groups by minibus and coach.
Our tours are available in most languages including French,
German,
Spanish, Italian, Russian,
Japanese and Chinese.
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Tour
planning - we are happy to advise you on touring
and design an itinerary to suit your
requirements
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When
CNN recently visited our office they were intrigued
by the above board. It looks like something out of
Bletchley Park - but in fact is just our Guides
Availability Board. Made in 1967 it continues to
defy technology.
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Our tours are
suited to individual travellers, families, people with
special interests or special needs, and anyone who wants the
freedom to travel at their own pace with their own
guide.
As well as covering the most famous sights, we pride
ourselves on also showing our clients authentic, less
"touristy" sights with excellent local guides. Some of our
special interest tours include Stonehenge at Dawn, Jane
Austen, Legal London, England's Gardens, the Normandy D-Day
Beaches by Private Plane, accessible locations for
wheelchairs, and the Bloomsbury Group.
Our expert tour
guides are
personable, knowledgeable men and women with interesting
academic and professional backgrounds. They include a former
Detective in the CID at New Scotland Yard, a senior Foreign
Office Civil Servant in charge of Protocol for visiting
Heads of State, an Archaeologist with many published works
on Art, Archaeology and Architecture, and a former Military
Attache at the British Embassy in Paris to name a few.
We offer private
day tours leaving from London,
as well as personally guided personal
tours of England, Scotland &
Wales with
flexible hotel accommodation, airport transfers, and
special
interest tours.
We can research larger special interest projects for you too
(a research fee usually applies).
Other European destinations include
Edinburgh,
Paris,
the Normandy
Beaches by
private plane and private
tours in Rome and Italy.
British Tours Ltd works with hundreds of Travel Agents
worldwide as well as many UK companies for sightseeing,
ground handling, interpreting and corporate
entertainment in the uk.
British Tours Ltd is a member of the London Tourist
Board, the British Incoming Tour Operators Association, the
Society of the Golden Keys and the American Society of
Travel Agents
Full
list of services
British
Tours Ltd,
London, © All rights reserved.
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