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City & Village Tours: 0845 812 5000 info@cityandvillagetours.com
If starting a tour at 10.30am doesn’t suit you consider
booking a trip a
Later Start Option.
Instead of arriving at 10.30am you can meet the tour
guide at 11.45am/noon and start your day out with an
early lunch. This is the best option for groups who don't
want to set out during the rush hour and it is also a good
idea to solve the thorny problem of drivers hours for
many groups. Call and ask for us to explain why.
The Later Start Option
is available across the
board, including our Together Tour itineraries where,
instead of starting with morning coffee as on a standard
timing day, you arrive for an early lunch at midday and
a cup of coffee is still included in the tour fee but is
served after your lunch.
Later Start Days cover all the core itinerary points as
described in the tour description. The order of events
may differ but not the tour content and you don't head
home much later than on a standard tour. Usually it’s a
matter of heading for home about 30 minutes later than
an ordinary start day.
Our Blue Badge Guides
Our guides have the Blue Badge – the highest guiding
qualification in the UK. The Blue Badge course is always
over-subscribed and is very demanding, with a terrifying
range of written and practical examinations.
Not everyone passes, not by a long chalk.
And not everyone who passes has the right blend of
skills to be a guide with City & Village Tours.
Beyond and above the knowledge we also require
kindness, patience, warmth, a sense of humour and the
ability to be heard clearly, especially by older folk.
It’s a critical mix of skills that our regular groups
recognise instantly. And it is an award-winning mix –
we have received ten awards for the best guided tours
in the country.
There are over 1500 holders of the Blue Badge in the UK
but there are only 30 guides in the City & Village Tours
team. It’s no lottery when you book a day out with City
& Village Tours.
Later Start Days
For people who don't want to start their day out too early
The Shard Viewing Gallery
With news of tickets for The Shard viewing gallery
costing upwards of £25.00 we have decided not to
offer Shard visits when they start in February 2013.
Nor will we be offering the new three course meals
on the London Eye which have just been launched.
Guests will start with a glass of champagne at a
nearby hotel before boarding the EDF London Eye
for the starter served during the first rotation. Two
more rotations, two more courses, a ten minute loo
break and a pause at the top to enjoy the view are also
included at £5,000 for 8 people or £30,000 for a
whole coach party. Still we thought we’d mention it
just in case the Brunei Probus Club are reading this,
or Abu Dhabi WI which is really fun to say out loud.
However we are a trade partner with London Eye so
you can book trips on the London Eye with us on
very good terms where you don’t have to pay for the
tickets until seven days before your trip and there are
refunds available for cancellations and no shows for
example
Christmas Eye Spy
on page 27 of
The
Little Book of Christmas Trips.