London by Tuesday, the Highlands by Friday.
Which studio tour includes the transfer out to Leavesden. What the Loch Ness day costs when it leaves Glasgow instead of Edinburgh. Reviews of every tour you can book across England, Scotland and Wales.
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from $9The five days a first British trip is built on.
A film studio, a loch, a stone circle, an hour on the Mersey and a canal in mid Wales. What each costs, and what the travellers who booked it said.
01The one that sells outHarry Potter Warner Bros Studio TourStudio tickets are released in blocks and the school holidays clear in days. The version with coach transfers saves you the Watford Junction shuffle.
02The long Scottish dayLoch Ness, Glencoe & the Scottish Highlands TourTwelve hours out of Edinburgh for Glencoe, the Great Glen and the loch itself. Leaves early, back after dark, still the best value day in Scotland.
03The stonesStonehenge Admission TicketTimed admission on Salisbury Plain. Book the slot rather than the day, and take an early one before the London coaches arrive.
04An hour on the MerseySightseeing River Cruise on the Mersey RiverThe Liverpool waterfront from the water, which is the only angle that explains the place. Short, cheap and running most of the year.
05The Welsh onePontcysyllte Aqueduct Canoe Tours in LlangollenA canoe across the Pontcysyllte aqueduct, 126 feet above the River Dee. There is nothing else in Britain quite like paddling over a valley.
Four shapes of London day, priced from the bottom.
On foot, on the water, under a roof or on the top deck. Pick the shape first and the cost follows, because the difference between a walking tour and a guided collection is forty pounds and a pair of dry shoes.
Six more cities, every one of them a train ride from London.
Beatles docks and a Roman bath house still full of hot water, two university towns, a Regency seafront, and the best preserved medieval streets in England. Each one earns a day.
Scotland: lochs by lunch, a distillery by four.
Edinburgh and Glasgow both empty northwards after breakfast. Glencoe and the Great Glen fit into one long day, Skye needs two, and the weather decides which of them you get. Every one of these leaves from a city centre.
Britain’s most booked days out.
Every British review →These carry more travellers than anything else on the island. What each one is, what it costs, and whether it deserves the crowd it draws.
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The London Eye Entry Ticket
Ride the London Eye 135 meters above the Thames for wide city views, a smooth 30-minute turn, and a choice of standard or fast-track entry.
From · $39
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Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour
from $117
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Westminster to Greenwich River Thames Cruise
from $22
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Magical London: Harry Potter Guided Walking Tour
from $20
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Madame Tussauds London
from $36
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Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers
from $144
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Loch Ness, Glencoe & the Scottish Highlands Tour
from $62
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Tower Bridge Entry Ticket
from $21
Britain is expensive. These are the days that are not.
Every review on the site sorted by what it costs to walk up. A good number of the best British days out come in under the price of lunch in the same city.
Cathedral entries, city walks, river cruises and the ghost tours that only run after dark.
The full day standards: Stonehenge and Bath, the studio tour, the Great Glen out of Edinburgh.
Private guides, three day Highland runs and the steam train that sells out before the season starts.
Wales is two hours from Bristol and nothing like it.
A castle in the middle of the capital, a bay you cross by boat, and a valley where the canal runs 126 feet above the river. The Welsh catalogue here is small and unusually physical: canoes, rafts, axes and a distillery in a country house.
- 1Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Canoe Tours in Llangollenfrom $90
- 2The Wandering Bard’s Valley Tour or the Swansea Bay Tour.from $124
- 3Whitewater Rafting on the River Dee in Llangollenfrom $90
Three British things that happen nowhere else.
Castles and cathedrals stand all over Europe. A film studio with the actual Great Hall still standing in it, the links golf was invented on, and the four streets a band came out of do not.
The Warner Bros. Studio Tour
The sets were never struck. The Great Hall, Diagon Alley, Privet Drive and the platform with the Hogwarts Express on it stand where they were built, twenty miles north west of London, with the original props and costumes in the cases beside them. Tickets go on sale in blocks and the school holidays clear first, so the date decides itself weeks before you fly.
- 1Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 26,588 reviews
- 2Magical London: Harry Potter Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 22,044 reviews
- 3Warner Bros. Studio Tour with Transfers★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 17,586 reviews
The Old Course at St Andrews
Golf has been played on this stretch of links since the fifteenth century, and the town still treats it as common ground: on Sundays the course closes to golf and opens to anyone who fancies a walk across it. The tours take in the Swilcan Bridge, the Road Hole and the clubhouse without asking what your handicap is.
- 1Golf Origins and Old Course History Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 322 reviews
- 2Top Sights Guided Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 223 reviews
- 3Town, Golf, and Old Course History Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 162 reviews
Where the Beatles started
Penny Lane, Strawberry Field, the church hall in Woolton where Lennon met McCartney and the barber shop from the song are all still standing and mostly still working. The Cavern on Mathew Street is a rebuild a few doors from the original cellar, which is a thing Liverpool guides tell you before you ask.
- 1City & Beatles Tour with Live Guide & Live Music★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 5,249 reviews
- 2The Beatles Story Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 4,197 reviews
- 3Liverpool Beatles Museum Entry Ticket★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 1,192 reviews
Four British bookings you cannot sort out on the day.
Most of this island can be arranged over breakfast. These four run on release dates, timed slots and a season that shuts, and none of them care what time your flight lands.
- 01Harry Potter Warner Bros Studio TourTickets are released in blocks and the holiday dates clear within days. Nothing is sold at the gate on the morning.
- 02Buckingham Palace: The State Rooms Entrance TicketThe State Rooms open for roughly ten weeks in late summer, while the King is in Scotland. For the rest of the year there is nothing to go inside.
- 03Hogwarts Express and Scottish Highlands TourThe steam train runs a summer timetable and the carriage seats go months ahead. Out of season the viaduct is still there, but you are looking at it from a lay-by.
- 04Stonehenge Admission TicketEntry is a timed slot with a cap on each one. Without a ticket the closest you get is the byway across the field.
Rain is the British constant. These are the days it cannot spoil.
It rains here in every month of the year, usually for an hour at a time and rarely all day. The answer is the same in every city on this site: a collection, a cathedral, a distillery, or a table with a teapot on it.
By city, from London to Glasgow
By kind of day, from a walk to a whisky
London, Bath, York, Edinburgh: the line most first trips follow.
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