Bath - (4 hours) Extended Walking Tour - Blue Badge guide

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About this activity

The tour will:

be delivered by the UK's only qualified tourist guides - the internationally respected BLUE BADGE registered / fully insured / Institute of Tourist Guiding qualified guides.
walked in a more relaxed way, take in a coffee stop, see other parts of Bath just off the city center, including Victoria Park or the Pulteney Estate perhaps!
ensure the clients will take away a complete understanding of the tour location, including how it fits into the history and geography of the UK as a whole.
be informative, interesting, appropriately entertaining!
OPTIONAL: Roman Baths & / or Bath Abbey entries possible (depending on availability ) on the day at an additional expense by the client (as part of the tour if preferred i.e. being personally / expertly guided in these locations by your guide - PLEASE YOUR GUIDE ON THE DAY OR BEFORE BY EMAIL TO ARRANGE IN ADVANCE.

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At a glance

Duration: 4 hours
Confirmation: Instant confirmation
Ticket: Mobile or paper ticket accepted
Group: Your group only
People per booking: 1–15
Guide: English
Operated by: Avalon Heritage Tours

What is included

Included

Included: Expert, informative, appropriately entertaining commentary relevant to the clients

Not included

Not included: Gimmicks!
Not included: Entrance fees: The Roman Baths
Not included: Entrance fees: Abbey Church entrances

Itinerary

Bath Abbey

15 min Admission not included

Beautiful 500 year old church (voluntary contribution) - the walk around Bath will start and finish here. During the walk, your Blue Badge qualified guide will stop at many attractions / sites and present information in a way that only these highly educated / trained and skilled individuals can do, ensuring the complete story of Bath's 2000 years plus of history and associated stories are delivered professionally to all.

Please note the price is per tour, not per person, so within the price, up to / around 15 of you and friends / family are included!
The Roman Baths

15 min Admission not included

View from outside (express entry tickets, normally available from your guide at £25 per person, to use after the walking tour)
Assembly Rooms

10 min Admission not included

Normally, entry is permitted with your guide (small voluntary donation is requested), where you will see the grandeur and the location of the dancing of the polite company of Bath in the 18th century.
No. 1 Royal Crescent

15 min

View Neo-classical architecture
The Circus

15 min

View Neo-classical architecture
Pulteney Bridge

15 min

View Neo-classical architecture / River Avon
Sally Lunn's Museum

15 min

View late medieval architecture / listen to stories of Bath in the years leading up to Bath's revival in the early 1700s
Bath Abbey

15 min Admission not included

Your guide will ensure you have had a great experience and are positioned to go about your free time with the knowledge obtained on your informative and appropriately entertaining tour.
Great Pulteney Street

15 min Admission not included

Part of the Pulteney Estate - walk / see some of the estate, including the Holburne Museum / Sydney Gardens
Royal Victoria Park

10 min

See some of this stunning municipal park set out in 1830.
Kennet & Avon Canal

15 min

Marvel at the work (tunnels, locks, bridges etc) of the 'navigators or navvies' back in the late 1700s / early 1800s as they built their man-made canal, joining the river Avon in BAth with the rivers Kennet & Thames near London.