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Individual Guided Tours of London and the UK by Private Car Driven by Blue Badge Guides
Driver-Guiding Fees* - (London)
(To download a copy of these fees as an Acrobat file click here)
  • Travelling by private car gives you complete freedom to devise itineraries that suit your pace and interests.
  • This list illustrates charges for some of the more popular tours from a London base.
  • Our reservations department will be pleased to help you with prices for all other tours and destinations

1 April 2003 to 31 March 2004

Rates are per car with an English-speaking Blue Badge Driver-Guide
Half Day Tours Hours Car
1 - 4 people		 Car
4 - 7 people
London 4 £200 £225
Windsor Castle or Hampton Court 4 £225 £260
Full Day Tours
London 8 £300 £325
Windsor Eton & Hampton Court 8 £315 £340
Chartwell & Hever 8 £325 £350
Leeds Castle & Chartwell or Hever 8 £370 £390
Oxford & Blenheim 9 £380 £420
Cambridge & Ely 9 £380 £420
Canterbury & Leeds or Chartwell or Dover 9 £380 £420
Brighton & Arundel Castle 9 £380 £420
Kent / Sussex Gardens 9 £380 £420
Cambridge & Constable Country 9 £450 £495
Cotswolds 9 £450 £495
Winchester, Salisbury & Stonehenge 9 £450 £495
Oxford & Stratford or Cotswolds 9 £450 £495
Cotswolds Stratford & Warwick
10
£460
 £515
Stonehenge & Bath and/or Salisbury 10 £460 £515
Extended Touring
Up to 150 miles per day 8 £390 £420
Transfers
To and from airports, seaports, stations, theatres, restaurants etc. are available.
Extra Time and Mileage
 Per hour  £35.00  £40.00
 Per mile  £1.30  £1.60
Additional Charges
Guide's overnight subsistence -  at client's expense or per night  £75
 Car parking, road tolls, entrance fees, etc.  Cost
 Foreign language supplement: Half day - £15
Full day -  £24
Driving a vehicle supplied by someone else
Written proof of Private Hire Insurance must be provided. PHV licences may be required  per day £200
Cancellation Charges   
Notice Given
  % of fee
 Over 14 days
 by negotiation
14 to 8 days 50%
7 days to 48 hrs 75%
After 48 hours 100%

Please Note:
  • No extra charge for car parking or road tolls.
  • This list of tours is by no means comprehensive. Tours can be tailor-made to suit individual requirements.
  • These are recommended prices for freelance Driver-Guiding engagements.
  • Fees charged by individual members are likely to vary according to the specification, capital outlay, maintenance and running costs, of their vehicles.
  • Charges are calculated as starting and finishing in central London.
  • When driving someone else's vehicle, written proof of Private Hire insurance must be provided. PHV Regulations may apply

 * For Information

Legal Notice
This recommended fee scale applies only to those guides who conform to the description of "Worker" as viewed by the Office of Fair Trading in respect of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976.

In terms of the members of the DGA:
~ A "worker" is any Guide who works under a contract personally to execute any work or labour, i.e. who is a sole trader and the subject matter of whose contract, subject to only very minor exceptions, will be executed by that Guide personally.
~ A "non-worker" is any Guide who accepts work in order to refer it to another Guide (and so will not carry out the work himself). The Guide may be acting as an individual, an officer of a company, a partner in a partnership or be acting through another business vehicle and as such will not be a "worker".
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