Highlights of Britain

Tour leader Justin and bus driver Stephen were excellent. Justin knew a lot about the route we travelled, loved the interaction with the tour group. I felt safe in the bus, great driving. The places we visited were good. The accommodation was mixed quality, The Mulberry Inn was fantastic. The one in Mickleton, The Three Ways Hotel was poor, bed uncomfy, room shabby, and tiny. The Churchill was average, tiny room next to front of complex where guests were drinking in courtyard making sleep difficult.

I would highly recommend this the guide, driver And destinations were first class our coach was able to get us places that no larger tour could get near and we definitely be travelling with this company again.

Great itinerary, excellent tour guide who managed the tour group well.

Very good guide and driver. Very informative and looked after us. Stopped at many places of interest. Best place was in Snowdonia

I thoroughly enjoyed my tour. The tour content was excellent, the accommodation also was excellent. The Tour leader and driver could not have been more helpful. I would highly recommend a Back Roads Tour to my family and friends.

As Dr Suess would say "Oh, the people you meet and the places you go" We enjoyed the whole experience of our Back Roads tour of Highights of Britain. Our guide Darren was extremely knowledgeable with the history and local knowledge. We loved the way we could go off wandering but he would always know where to find us. We would highly recommend this tour.

Would go on a Blue-Roads again & again & again!!! Guide full of historical & all round information. Excellent driver & saw a lot in a short time.

Fantastic tour, great tour guide with knowledge, personality and a sense of humour. Lovely places visited.

Great driver/guide and accommodation. Good excursions and tour information.

The tour was excellent, our tour guide Daz made the trip a special one, his knowledge and enthusiasm for the journey was amazing, he brought the whole group together as one. Vince the driver was great as well. We will definitely be returning one day, and recommending the company to our friends.

The tour was scenic and interesting. I would have preferred to tour with a mixed aged group which included younger adults. My group was mainly elderly folks 60+, retired, with limited mobility. Please don't use age as a primary placement factor.

It was the best experience l have had, Ben was full of knowledge & was an amazing guide, Dimitri interest on our entertainment, he was a fantastic driver. I felt sorry for him at the Churchill hotel, the backing camera was not working. Every place we went , will be beautiful memories. I have told everyone about my experience with Back Roads. Kind regards Arlene Mills

Best organised holiday ever. Well planned and excellent guide and driver. First time with Back roads but won’t be the last. Excellent choice of hotels along the way as well.

Great guide...Ben.

TED and Vince were amazing. There was a passenger who complained and who whinged the whole trip. Everything was done to help her, but it got to the point, we were thinking of leaving the tour. She would move from front seat, and as I do suffer from motion sickness this impacted me greatly. It was clesr fr po m her actshe did not, just wanted the best view. Because she would not move I was unable to sit with my husband. Not my idea of a great holiday. Ted and Vince tried everything to appease her. Nothing worked. She demanded and if not her way, sulked. She ruined a lot of the trip. Again Ted and Vince went above and beyond. ALANS hotel in Snowdinia is amazing. The Cotswold food terribly cold and no flavour. Storm meant the lake district was not able to go ahead, but safety first. Ted and Vince are asessts to the experience.

I enjoyed the trip and meeting some great people. I did find it a bit rushed.

Great tour. Wonderful safe driver. Tour guide not so great Accommodation average but staff always friendly and helpful

Great tour,well organised and executed with excellent accommodation for the remote locations and the back roads we travelled and the wonderful scenery we passed through

Our tour guide and bus driver worked as a team to make sure we had a cheerful and inclusive tour group. The small bus enabled us to fit down narrow country lanes and see towns and features we would not otherwise have seen, our tour guide made an effort to include a few ‘surprises’ on the way which created a sense of adventure and our highly skilled driver made it fun. Some of the accomodation was in ‘quirky’ little villages that again added an element of surprise and fun that I would never have managed on a self drive tour. We added a day in London before the tour and a day in Edinburgh after it ended and that was enough big city experience. The Villages were far more interesting

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Perfection from beginning to end. Charlie was a wonderful tour guide! He was extremely well organized, provided detailed information about each location, and even kept us entertained on the bus. Oh, and yes, he even provided fun treats along the way! We felt safe with our driver Dan, and he definitely added to a most pleasurable trip. All the stops along our journey were truly highlights of Britain.

Our tour leader Charlie was outstanding- at all times he was entertaining, informative and professional. Dan the driver was also very friendly and at all times he was a careful driver in all conditions- busy city roads or narrow country roads. The itinerary of the tour was great and we visited lots of different places with a vast array of experienced

Great small group experience with excellent host and driver

The tour was amazing. The accommodations and food were all excellent. The tour guide, Justin Walley, was the best as was his driver Dimytri. There were some problems initially with Tour Radar in setting up accommodations in London and in understanding that Blue Roads and Back Roads were the same company. A little explanation of this at the outset would have been a big help.

Excellent tour. Tour guide and driver were impeccable.

The tour was all we hoped for and more. Ed was the perfect host and an encyclopaedia on legs being able to link all the experiences within a historical framework. Made Google redundant. Simon our driver, navigated all the back roads and narrow village lanes in a manner that made us feel safe at all times - no mean feet. Accommodation along the was great with a mixture of history, comfort and modern amenities - each offered something different.

Had a great time Ben was very knowledgeable and Paul’s driving was great

What a wonderful experience. Tony was an amazing tour guide with a wealth of knowledge. Accommodation was great and places visited were off the beaten track. Always felt safe with driver Ash. Will be doing a Blue-Roads tour again very soon.

Very organised, friendly, the tour guide Ben extremely knowledgeable. The coach driver, Paul, professional & competent. Our accommodation, meals were good. All our tours were on time and informative. We had an enjoyable 10 days travelling in a clean, comfortable coach.

Interesting ,covered most areas we wanted to see.no stress good size group and learned heaps from our knowledgeable guide.

Our tour with Back Roads was literally on back roads which meant we saw Britain countryside in detail. The guide and driver interacted professionally and with humour. Don’t expect five star accommodation but more authentic British countryside. A very enjoyable and fun trip.

certainly back roads authentic experience

Amazing tour, with the best tour guide Tony! Jimmy our driver was excellent. Tony was a wealth of knowledge. His commitment to our tour was first class. Exceptional history knowledge, but also his intuition for everyone’s comfort was first class! We felt calm and confident in the days of our tour!!

With the Highlights of Britain tour we were taken to many well known places and lesser known places on the back roads. I thoroughly recommend this tour. The tour was made all the more memorable by our guide Darren McGurrin. Darren (aka Daz) answered all our questions and assisted us whenever we wanted help for anything and everything. Darren was the icing on the cake 😀.

Highly recommend... This is our firsr tour with Blue-Roads and it was Amazing.. Ben Sims out tour guide was the ultimate. Bens friendliness, his knowledge of history, fauna infact there wasn't a question that Ben could not answer was above and beyond. Along with our bus driver Ash Laurence the trip was a definite 10/10 rating. Having the 2 Night stopovers meant we had time to venture out and see things, buy souvenirs and not feel rushed. The only downside was the threeway hotel, very small rooms. And the wait for us to order a meal after arriving was 45 minute to an hour, even for a salad. Ben, and Ash were both knowledgeable in the surrounding areas, and could give great recommendations for meals, places of interest in our spare time. This made them the perfect combination.

Excellent Back Roads Highlights Of Britain Tour including friendly and informative tour guide Ben Sims and Ashley Lawrence's driving was classy. We felt safe and well looked after as we travelled through the UK. A well organised and very interesting holiday filled with great scenery, historic buildings, tasty culinary delights and comfortable accommodation.

Fantastic trip!

Our tour guide Peter and Driver Angela were excellent They made the trip more exciting and informative .Peters sense of humour kept us entertained .They bus was comfortable and all the Guests got along great . They adapted the itinerary so we saw as much as possible. The varied accommodation was adequate and the meals supplied excellent..The accommodation was also near local town so access to dinner when not supplied was good. I would highly recommend this tour for both Couples and Singles

Travelled on the highlights of Britain tour, our guide was Peter and driver Angela. Both were extremely competent and worked well together meeting the needs of the travelling party. Nothing was a trouble to them. Itinerary was good and allows for plenty of time to see things and have the breaks that made the trip easy. Would recommend the tour

Relaxed tour with a small group of people, great tour guide and driver. Tour was adjusted slightly to suit the groups interests. Had a few day which was good and meals were great.

What an amazing experience we had on the Highlights of Britain Tour. From dinner on the first night together we knew we were in for a good time with Ben our tour leader. He chatted in a friendly manner with everyone in the group and put strangers at ease and made us excited about our upcoming tour. Ben has a wealth of knowledge and experience and he shared so much of it and himself over our 11 days together. Ash, our driver, was always there with a cheerful greeting and some cheeky banter to boot. I never felt unsafe as he skillfully drove the bus through some challenging roads.

Both the tour guide and the driver were excellent. The tour guide was extremely knowledgeable regarding all our stops and the surrounding country. He watched over us all very well. As an elderly traveller and traveling on my own he could not have been kinder. The driver was a very skilled driver and thought about our needs

We loved the areas we went to, the roads that we took down narrow lanes and the people who were in our group! The places we saw were fantastic and made even better with our guide and his driver. We wished the highlights went for longer. 4 nights in each place would be even better. We also wished 2 accommodation places we stayed at were of a higher quality. The 3 ways hotel was pretty old and tired looking as was the Woodland Hotel. The rest were amazing. The hospitality at Woodland was amazing! Just the rooms looked old and tired. People were lovely and our guide and driver Gio and Carlos were exceptional!

The selection of places, stores, roads, and hotels was excellent. The tour parts of Britain we saw were wonderful. I would recommend that the tour guide commentary be much more positive about Britain and its history. The commentary was difficult to listen to at times, and it tended to fit a particular view of politics and history. I would've enjoyed the trip more if we could have visited places of cultural greatness without a commentary that deconstructed it--such as making the greatness of Britain an expression of class, power, and luck.

Tony Wade was an excellent guide; conscientious, knowledgeable, kind, good natured and accommodating to everyone on our tour. Almost every site we visited was of cultural or historic significance and we were given information about various towns, villages or other sites we were passing on the sometimes-long travel times. Accommodations and meals provided were excellent. There were a few towns where I wish I could’ve spent more time but it’s the nature of this trip to fit in a lot of different sites.