Private Tours in London, England

• Tour 1 - London Walking Tour 1
• Tour 2 - London Walking Tour 2
• Tour 3 - Shakespeare & Dickens walk
• Tour 4 - Literary London Pub Walk
• Tour 5 - Jack the Ripper Walk
• Tour 6 - London Walk & Thames cruise

Things to Know

• Private group of up to 8 people
• English speaking Licensed Guide
• Meet & end at your hotel
• Prices per group, not per person
• Tours available with transport
  
• More than 8 people? E-mail us: info@privateguidesineurope.com

Tour 1- London with Changing of the Guard

London - seven million people, three hundred languages and 500,000 years of history! It is a city full of secrets and surprises that only a local guide can reveal. Start your private tour with your licensed guide at Trafalgar Square and walk via the Jubilee Garden to London Eye, passing the Houses of Parliament, Big Ben, and Westminster Abbey while you learn the storied history of this beautiful city. At Buckingham Palace you'll see the famous changing of the guard (about 40 min. at 11:30 am, weather permitting). We recommend this tour start at 8:30 or 9:00 AM.

Tour 2- London with Westminster Abbey

Start this private London City Walking Tour with your licensed guide at Trafalgar Square and learn the city's history as you continue to Buckingham Palace and then on to Westminster Abbey for a visit. The Abbey is a must-see 700 year old living pageant of British history. Once you have experienced its history you'll continue along the House of Parliament and past Big Ben. Your tour will end at the London Eye where your group can ride the amazing London Eye on your own to take in spectacular views of London from high above the River Thames.

Tour 3- Shakespeare & Dickens Walking Tour

This private walking tour with your licensed guide will explain how London held both Shakespeare & Dickens in its thrall. The city was their canvas, inspiration, workshop and raw material. Each in turn made it his own, imaginatively colonizing it with characters passed down to us today. Now, despite the ravages of time, bombings, and fire, traces of their London still abound in corners of the city you could never find on your own. Discover the secret locales that were a part of their world.

Tour 4- Literary London Pub Walk

This private walking tour with your licensed guide will show you how London became a moveable feast - a procession of Georgian squares amid the busy warren of streets with some of the best old pubs in London. Your guide and host - a born raconteur - will stir things up as he tells you about how the literary greats lived, loved, laughed, caroused, quarreled and spun their nimble words. Learn how London touched the lives of Oscar Wilde, G. Bernard Shaw, Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot.

Tour 5- Jack the Ripper Walk

Begin your private Jack the Ripper Walk at Tower Hill, right on the boundary between Scotland Yard territory and the City of London Police territory. It was this conflict of jurisdiction that hampered the investigation and made it easier for the Ripper to slip through police nets. You'll enter the pub where one of the Ripper's victims drank, and enjoy the speculation that continues to this day about the Ripper's identity. The walk ends at the site of the last ghastly murder.

Tour 6- London Tour with Thames Cruise

You begin as London began - with the River Thames. This silvery lifeline, main highway, and chief processional route is London's Grand Canal. You'll cruise from the Tower Bridge to the Westminster Bridge carried along by the same current that cradled Kings and Queens on golden state barges past St.Paul's Cathedral and Shakespeare's theaters. Once ashore you'll see the Tower of London, Westminster Abbey, St. James's Park, Whitehall, Buckingham and St. James's Palaces, the Mall, and Trafalgar Square. This private tour with your own licensed guide is a varied and educational introduction to a city alive with history.