Windsor, Stonehenge and Bath Guided Small Group Tour from London

Fantastic way to get out of London, see the countryside, and see some amazing sites! Our tour guide, Brigid, was excellent as was the bus driver.

Easy to locate meeting at the former Cumberland Hotel, now Hard Rock Hotel, and bus on time. Tony was our guide and had personality. We started by driving way out for the obligatory Stonehenge visit. There really isn't much here and we did not spend much time, about an hour to see the stones and visit the gift shop. If you are really into the theories of the origin you may want to book a different tour. Our second stop was in the town of Bath where we stayed about 1.5 hours. We had enough time to eat lunch, walk around the shops, see the outside of the bathhouse where the hot springs are located, get a treat, and hop back on. Since this is the area where Jane Austen spent some time, I may have to return to see those locations. Third and final stop was the Windsor Castle. I normally remember to take off my hat when entering buildings but embarrassingly had to be reminded when entering St. George's Cathedral where British royalty is buried including recently deceased Queen Elizabeth. We had time to walk through the public portions and it was terrific though photography is not permitted inside any of the buildings on the grounds. Despite the weather being dreary much of the day, we mainly were fortunate and only endured light rain at Stonehenge. At Bath it was cloudy and at Windsor it was sunny so we were quite fortunate.

Our tour guide was very sweet but inexperienced. I believe her name was Anna or Emma. We paid for a small tour hoping for more personalization yet our guide gave us information as we drove via a script but did not come with us in any of the actual tours. She did provide us with information to the places we were going none of which we would have had time to do. Our first stop was Windsor Castle and the line for tours was outrageous and there was no way we were getting in. She immediately was like well I’ll reimburse you the fee of the castle and you can come another day. Another tourist with us suggested we split our group in to 2 to get in and that worked. Thankful for the suggestion. We ran through the Windsor tour. In short the timing was very poor for the day. The long line on Saturday should have been expected at Windsor, and we arrived after our time slot. We felt rushed at every stop, barely had time to eat, and the only advantage we had for paying extra for the Small Tour was we rode in a smaller bus. Then lastly we were told it would take too long for the bus to drop us off at the same spot we were picked up therefore we should take the tube and they will drop us off at one of the other 2 locations. Both of which were further away. I would not take another tour with Anderson or refer them to others.