Southampton: London via the Cotswolds, Oxford and Pub Lunch｜United Kingdom

Turn your Southampton post cruise transfer into a small-group day trip and experience a world of delightful villages, hidden valleys and meandering streams throughout the Cotswold Hills, before we make a stop for a fabulous lunch in a 15th century inn and then a visit to Oxford.

Our first stop is the delightful village of Bibury with its famous collection of houses known as Arlington Row. After meeting your friendly driver and expert guide in Southampton, please take your seats on our luxury coach as we depart northwards to the delightful and beloved Cotswolds region of England, famous for its honey coloured stone villages and leafy valleys. Your local guide has a wealth of information about this beautiful part of the world. Learn of the wool trade and its important role in shaping the history of the area, and hear how the region's decline as a cloth producer saw the Cotswolds become a sleepy backwater, frozen in time.

We then drive along meandering lanes and rolling hills to the beautiful village of Burford where ancient stone cottages seem to cascade down to the River Windrush. After a guided walk through town, and a chance to see the ancient church of St John the Baptist, we enter an old tavern built in 1402. Here, we will enjoy a delicious lunch amongst the old stone floors and wood fires.

We then continue to Oxford to begin an hour's walking tour of this world famous university city with your professional guide. Founded in 1167, Oxford is England's oldest university. On the walking tour, we'll walk past some of the most famous university buildings, cloisters and quadrangles, explore the back streets and wander across cobblestone squares, all while standing in the shadows of the famous 'dreaming spires'. Our guided walking tour will take you into the heart of this land of hallowed academia, where you'll have a chance to see the Bodleian Library, the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian Theatre and selected colleges. Some of the university colleges our tour will take us past include Christ Church, Merton, Oriel, Corpus Christi, Magdalen, University, Queen’s, All Souls, Hertford, Trinity, Balliol and St John's. The University has 38 independent, autonomous colleges and we will also pass alongside many others on your tour. Entry is included to the Divinity School, Oxford - the oldest original purpose built structure of the University. We end our visit to Oxford with some free time, a chance for you to explore at your own leisure before heading to Heathrow airport and London to be dropped at your designated hotel or airport terminal.

This service is available on all dates when Royal Caribbean, Carnival, Oceania, NCL, Celebrity, Princess & Disney cruise ships are visiting Southampton. Service also available to passengers on other ships not listed when dates and arrival times coincide with ships listed. Please note you will need to make your own way to the ship we are servicing on that date.