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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.


APTG (Association of Professional Tourist Guides)
Driver Guide Rates from April 1st 2007 - 31 March 2008
These are minimum fees, and charges can be up to £15 higher for some Museum tours

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


Miles
 Duration 
of Tours

 
Hours
HALF DAYS
London 255 290 35 4
Windsor / Hampton Court 285 302 65 4

LONG HALF DAYS

e.g. Hever / Chartwell / St Albans 310 335 65 6
e.g. Leeds / Waddesdon / Sissinghurst 350 385 110 6

FULL DAYS
London 385 420 45 7-8
Windsor & Hampton Court 395 430 65 9
Hever & Chartwell 395 430 80 9
Rochester & Leeds Castle 420 460 100 9
Knole & Sissinghurst 420 460 120 9
Leeds Castle & Chartwell 420 460 120 9
Canterbury & Rochester 420 460 125 9
Thames Valley 420 460 125 9
Oxford & Blenheim 420 460 130 9
Canterbury & Dover 470 515 160 9
Cambridge & Ely 470 515 170 9
Winchester, Salisbury & Stonehenge 525 575 210 9
Stratford & Warwick 525 575 220 9
Oxford & Stratford 525 575 225 9
Cotswolds 525 575 230 9
Cambridge & Constable Country 545 595 220 10
Cotswolds, Stratford & Warwick 545 595 230 10
Stonehenge & Bath 545 595 250 10
Stonehenge, Salisbury & Bath 545 595 260 10

EXTENDED TOURING
450 495 150 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   £ 1.10
Extra hours   per hour   £ 43.00   £ 49.00
Car parking and entrance fees   at cost
Foreign language supplement   per day   £ 32.00   £ 32.00
  per half day   £ 16.00   £ 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.