In The Playroom

Private tours of England are custom, chauffeur-driven itineraries built around one traveller or one group, rather than a fixed departure shared with strangers. For a long weekend, the format works best around a single region — the Cotswolds and Bath, the Lake District, or London and its surrounding countryside — rather than trying to cover the whole country in 72 hours.

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A Northern Ireland itinerary works best as a Belfast-to-Derry loop along the Causeway Coastal Route: Titanic Belfast, the Dark Hedges, Ballintoy Harbour, the Giant’s Causeway, Dunluce Castle and Derry’s city walls. Five to six days covers it without rushing the coastline’s Game of Thrones filming sites.

The Route at a Glance

Northern Ireland is compact enough to...

A Cotswolds itinerary works best over three days from a single fixed base, day-tripping out to Bourton-on-the-Water, Bibury, Castle Combe, Stow-on-the-Wold and Chipping Campden. That’s enough time for the villages most people come to see, without the one-village-per-hour pace of a London day trip.

The Route at a Glance

The Cotswolds is a single continuou...

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