Here's what our American cousins call a 'no brainer'!

First of all, let's look at what this tour includes - virtually, all of the 'must-see' icons a first time visitor to London and England wants to see. Oxford, Stratford, the Cotswolds, 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 traffic going out and coming home. People totally underestimate the time it takes getting to and from these sites from London. It doesn't take a math expert to equate this to a day lost.

Now, doing it the Back-Roads way, you see the main icons AND in the time we've saved not travelling freeways and fighting

London traffic every day, you also get 'real England' sights others miss - Kenilworth, the Chilterns, Parish churches, Beaconsfield, the Mayflower Barn, the Avon canal, Hungerford and much more. In addition, you also spend two lovely evenings in a charming, edge of the Cotswolds inn with dinner and a local pub atmosphere to enjoy.

And the economics? Three day-tours will normally cost you approximately £180. Two nights in London with quality, three course dinner no less than £140. Plus local transport costs getting to and from the drop-off points. That's £330 per person. So, there you are, combine your three day-tours into a Back-Roads Touring Co. three-day tour and you've basically got four days real time touring for the price of three (and with a lot more style and flexibility that a small group gives)! Yes, it's a 'no brainer'!