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Driver Guides
Some of the best destinations can not be reached by coach

Many of our members are able to drive you around town or country in their cars, or your own if you prefer, enabling you to explore some of those narrow by-ways with a chance to visit smaller remote villages or picturesque wayside inns.

The freedom from a fixed itinerary, allowing you to set your own pace, is often the best way for a family or small group to get the most from their all-too-short stay.


Driver Guide Rates from April 1st 2009 - 31 March 2010

Tour  Large Car 
Up to 4
passengers
£
 People Carrier 
Up to 6/7
passengers
£
 Distance 


Miles
 Duration 
of Tours

 
Hours
HALF DAYS
London 275 310 35 4
Windsor / Hampton Court 300 335 65 4

LONG HALF DAYS

e.g. Hever / Chartwell / St Albans 330 355 65 6
e.g. Leeds / Waddesdon / Sissinghurst 375 405 110 6

FULL DAYS
London 415 450 45 7-8
Windsor & Hampton Court 415 450 65 9
Hever & Chartwell 415 450 80 9
Rochester & Leeds Castle 450 485 100 9
Knole & Sissinghurst 450 485 120 9
Leeds Castle & Chartwell 450 485 120 9
Canterbury & Rochester 450 485 125 9
Thames Valley 450 485 125 9
Oxford & Blenheim 450 485 130 9
Canterbury & Dover 500 540 160 9
Cambridge & Ely 500 540 170 9
Winchester, Salisbury & Stonehenge 565 605 210 9
Stratford & Warwick 565 605 220 9
Oxford & Stratford 565 605 225 9
Cotswolds 565 605 230 9
Cambridge & Constable Country 585 625 220 10
Cotswolds, Stratford & Warwick 585 625 230 10
Stonehenge & Bath 585 625 250 10
Stonehenge, Salisbury & Bath 585 625 260 10

EXTENDED TOURING
480 520 150 8

TRANSFERS
available from/to stations, ports, airports, theatres etc.

ADDITIONAL CHARGES
Car
People
carrier
Guide overnight subsistence   per night   £ 100.00   £ 100.00
Extra miles   per mile   £ 1.10   £ 1.20
Extra hours   per hour   £ 48.00   £ 55.00
Car parking and entrance fees   at cost
Foreign language supplement   per day   £ 36.00   £ 32.00
  per half day   £ 18.00   £ 16.00

Tour Guides Ltd cannot accept responsibility for interpretation of the insurance requirements covering a driver guide's services; the user of any driver guide's vehicle must ensure that legal insurance cover is provided in accordance with the Road Traffic Acts. In this context "User" shall include any person booking, hiring, being a passenger in or acting as an agent for the owner or other user.

We will ensure that any driver guide booking is made under a Public Carriage Office operator licence.