The home of great football, bold new architectural projects and the pivotal City of Britain's Industrial Revolution, Manchester still retains a friendly and welcoming atmosphere. Travel to the Trafford Centre, paradise for shop-o-holics! See the world's first railway terminus, find out the connection between the railways and the football teams, and visit the world's first Urban Heritage Park!

You can hop on and off as many times as you like aboard this open-top double-decker bus. There are 15 stops and the entire route takes approximately 55 minutes. The bus departs every 30 to 60 minutes from each stop. Tickets are valid for 24 hours from first use.

Want to tour the back roads of the Cotswolds and Shakespeare's land but don't want to join a large coach group? Looking for a little flexibility and spontaneity in your itinerary? Do you have a few days to really get deep into the English countryside?

Virtually, all of the "must-see" icons a first time visitor to London and England wants to see. Oxford, Stratford, the Cotswolds, Stonehenge, Avebury, Lacock, Blenheim Palace and Warwick Castle. Usually, it takes three separate day tours from London to cover all of these. If you do it this way, however, over the three days you waste at least eight (yes, eight!) hours of your precious holiday time sitting on a coach travelling the freeway and fighting London. People totally underestimate the time it takes getting to and from these sites from London.

With a maximum group size of 11 and a university educated guide/driver, you are sure to have a memorable and personal experience.

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Historic London Pub Tour - Visit pubs where Dickens and Shakespeare drank, pirates and smugglers met, highwaymen found their victims, revolutionaries plotted and Royalty consorted. See Victorian "Gin Palaces", haunted pubs with prison cells beneath them, pubs where great literature was written and even a pub built from timbers of the Mayflower ship! This tour is not suitable for children.

Sinister London Tour - Immerse yourself in the darker side of London's colorful history. Explore Jack the Ripper's haunts, mysterious underground prison cells, the notorious East End ganglands, and tour the back roads of Soho. This tour is not suitable for children.

You will be required to call the tour operator to book your free tours (contact details advised on confirmation voucher).

Enjoy three nights stay in a comfortable family run guest house in Windermere Village within easy walking distance of the railway station, shops and restaurants.

Ten Lakes Spectacular tour covers Ten Lakes, three mountain passes and an extended lake cruise from the mountains to moorland on Ullswater - "Queen of the English Lakes", a beautiful waterfall, Castlerigg Stone Circle and the ancient township of Keswick for lunch. Certainly the most comprehensive, popular and satisfying tour in the Lake District, visiting central, north, north-west and north-east parts of Cumbria with so many stops for photographs and short walks.

Your short break also includes the High Mountain Passes Spectacular. The route is one fashioned by Emperor Hadrian's Roman legions in the first century. Over the Wrynose and Hardknott passes, the steepest in England, pausing to view the extensive remains of Hardknott Roman Fort, before descending to lovely Eskdale. Following lunch you embark on the famous steam railway journey through Eskdale and onwards to Wasdale and Wastwater (England's deepest and most dramatic lake).

The next destination is the splendid 14th century castle of Muncaster, a treasure chest of fine period furniture, tapestries, silverware, paintings, portraits and porcelain. In its internationally acclaimed gardens you will find magnificent examples of azaleas, camellias and rhododendrons and also have opportunity to visit the World Owl Trust.

The beautiful scenery of the Coniston Fells and Coniston Water bring to an end this classic of all Lake District tours.