Want to have a happy insightful personalised tour of London and Southern England? Want to have some input into how long you spend at a given site or location? Want to have direct and complete attention from a pleasant knowledgeable guide?
Do yourself a favour and check out what Yee Olde England Tours has to offer. Better still contact Ye Olde England Tours and book a tour -- and leave behind crowded tour busses and waiting to get on and off busses with steep stairs and slow passengers and having controlled three minute only photo stops. If you have a tour in mind and it is not listed, enquire -- if the company can do it you will get value for your money.
Recently (September 2014) I took 3 tours to Portsmouth (naval dockyards, HMS Victory, Mary Rose, Harbour cruise), Hendon (RAF museum) and Southampton with Yee Old England Tours. I found the guide-driver personable, polite, and very knowledgeable, with a good sense of humour. He has designed tours for several of the large tour companies and is an accredited tour guide. The journeys by car were safe, comfortable, relaxing, fun. I had input into what I saw and how long I stayed at tour stops. As the tour size was small there was more chance to talk not only with the attentive guide-driver but also with guides and workers at many of the sites to gain even more inside knowledge. The pace and focus of the tour was on what I needed and desired. There was space in the car for any souvenirs or items I needed to bring with me.
All in all the tours were excellent and great value for money not just in what each day delivered in terms of comfort and driver-guide attention but also when compared to what is on offer in large group (bus) tours and other smaller (car and people carrier) offerings. Be a happy and comfortable tourer and go home with happy memories as I have done with Yee Old England Tours.
Robert from Australia
Hi Robert, thanks so much for your really fabulous review. I'm really glad that you enjoyed your tours with me. It was really great to meet you too. Thanks for doing my PR work for me, I really appreciate it and am so glad to hear that you enjoyed your time in Portsmouth. I hope you're keeping well.
When my husband and I were planning our recent trip to the UK, we decided to include a tour of Stonehenge, Salisbury, Old Sarum and Avebury. We wanted a small personal tour rather than a big coach group and found Ye Olde England Tours on the internet. We got in touch with Stephen and from the start, he was helpful, friendly and obviously knowledgeable. He kept in touch with us until until it was time for us to leave to reassure us everything was on track for the tour. The day was brilliant. He picked us up from our hotel in London and took us on a journey which kick started our holiday in the best way possible. He is knowledgeable, courteous, friendly, a very safe driver (important) and nothing was too much trouble. He even dashed us back to Salisbury Cathedral from Old Sarum to retrieve my mislaid camera! If we happen to have another holiday in UK, we would certainly have at least one more tour with Stephen, if not more. He does it well.
I'm so glad that you both had such a great day out in Wiltshire. It was a real pleasure meeting you and I was almost as relieved as you were that your camera was awaiting for you back in the cathedral.
I hope that the rest of your holiday lived up to the first day! You'd always be welcome back :-)
Stephen escorted us on a day trip to Oxford and Blenheim Palace during September.
His knowledge of the areas meant we skipped most crowds and saw the highlights relevant to us.
He accommodated our requests and also helped us navigate our way to just out of London to avoid peak hour traffic.
He was kind and courteous and we had a lot of fun.
It was a real pleasure to meet you both and share a bit of the English countryside. Oxford is always a great place to visit but Blenheim is the icing on the cake. I'm glad we managed to beat the crowds everywhere we went and hope you'll have happy memories now you're back home in Australia.
I discovered Stephen Liddell by reading his blog, and felt like I already knew him. This is important because when traveling with my two sisters we want to feel comfortable with our guides. With Stephen I felt like we were with a good friend or a cousin. When I first contacted him for a tour of Avebury, he not only suggested making a day of it with Salisbury Cathedral and Lacock, he also offered to give us a walking tour from Westminster to Trafalgar Square. Long story short, we had a wonderful time on both tours, learned a lot, and even met Winston Churchill's grandson. When we parted ways we all missed him. Thanks for making our adventures so memorable Stephen!
Hi Nancy, thanks for your wonderful review. I am delighted that you had such a good time on our tours. You and your sisters were such nice and fun people that it really was like a family holiday. I'm pleased that you all enjoyed your days out with me and still cannot quite believe that we met the grandson of Sir WInston Churchill. It was a very special day! Hope you are all keeping well and hope to see you again one day over here or over there.
Since we didn't want to try navigating a car around England we decided to hire a tour guide. Our hotel concierge recommended Stephen Liddell of Ye Olde England Tours. He picked us up right on time and spent the entire day showing us around. We really wanted to see Bath and Stonehenge which were both fantastic. Stephen also took us to Lacock for a quick tour and Chilten for dinner at a pub. It is obvious that Stephen loves history and was able to share lots of facts with us. Since we were in the car a good part of the day going between sites, we had a lovely conversation and he answered our questions on English politics, school system, the monarcy, etc, All in all it was a fun day and well worth the money spent to let someone else do the driving as well as being very knowledgeable.
Thank-you for your kind review. It was a wonderful day out wasn't it? I am so glad that you both had a good time time out at Bath and Stonehenge. Lacock is always a interesting place to visit especially in the nice weather that we had. It was lovely to meet you both and I hope the wedding went well!
