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UK Travel Planning – Directory of Preferred Partners

Welcome to our Directory of Preferred Partners. These tour companies, private driver tour guides and services are handpicked by us. We only work with the best and we are proud to endorse them.

Find more information below including links to book the services and tours.

This post may contain compensated links. Please refer to my disclaimer here for more information.

NameWhere?More info
🚕 Riz – London transfers & beyondLondon airport transfers & beyondClick for info
🇬🇧 Discover Real LondonPrivate Black cab tours of London (& beyond)Click for info
📷 Scalens Studio – London PhotoshootLondonClick for info
🏰 John England ToursSouth East England (& London)Click for info
🧳 Tailored ToursStonehenge, Bath, Salisbury etcClick for info
🧁 Cotswold Teacup ToursThe CotswoldsClick for info
🌊 Meneage ToursCornwallClick for info
🏰 Northumberland ToursNorthumberlandClick for info
🦌 North Coast Explorer ToursFar North ScotlandClick for info
⭐️ Expedition YorkshireYorkshireClick for info
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Boutique Tours of WalesWalesClick for info
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Edinburgh Black Cab ToursScotlandClick for info

LONDON

RIZ – LONDON AIRPORT TRANSFERS

Riz

Hi! I’m Riz, your trusted companion for stress-free airport transfers.

My small business thrives on trust and integrity, ensuring your utmost satisfaction. With meticulous attention to detail, we provide friendly and experienced airport transfers that go beyond your expectations, creating an exceptional travel experience.

Driven by our love for hospitality and dedication to excellence, we’ve been delighting customers for nearly four years and counting. Our team of highly skilled and professional drivers are dedicated to making your journey comfortable, efficient, and stress-free.

From the moment you step off the plane, we are here to take care of all your transportation needs, ensuring you reach your destination with utmost convenience. What sets us apart is our unwavering focus on customer satisfaction.

We understand that travelling can be exhausting, which is why we go the extra mile to ensure your transfer is as smooth as possible. Whether you are travelling for business or pleasure, we cater to all your requirements.

We pride ourselves on our commitment to cleanliness, ensuring that every vehicle is impeccably maintained and sanitised for your safety and comfort.

Our friendly and knowledgeable customer support team is available around the clock to assist you with any queries or special requests you may have, ensuring that your journey is truly personalised and memorable.

We believe that the journey is just as important as the destination. So, whether you are a frequent traveller or a first-time visitor, let us be your trusted companion in making your airport transfers exceptional.

Contact us today and embark on a remarkable journey with us!

We offer

  • London Airport transfers
  • London to cruise port transfers
  • London to any UK destination (pick up/drop off)
  • London to Cotswolds transfers

➡️ CONTACT US FOR A QUOTE TODAY

DISCOVER REAL LONDON

Black cab and two people standing in front of Westminster Abbey and a red lonond phone box.

Explore London in your very own Black Cab

We are a London based tour company that offer exciting and intimate private excursions.

Our tours navigate around this magnificent city and its surrounding areas, in the comfort and style of an iconic London black cab. We aim to offer our clients a unique experience seeing the world-class sights on offer in an informative and engaging way.

Our qualified guides know exactly how to beat the crowds and gain unrivalled access to all of London’s top sights as well as all of the secret spots that only a local would know.

So whether you are a first time visitor looking for the world famous sights, or you are a more seasoned visitor looking to scratch beneath the surface of our city – We have an amazing Experience for you

Popular tours include

  • 4 Hour Discover London Tour (Big Sights)
  • 4 Hour London De-Tour (Hidden Gems)
  • 4 Hour City Sunrise Tour
  • 6 Hour Big Sights & Hidden Gems
  • 8 Hour Ultimate London Tour
  • Touchdown Tour – Tour starting at Heathrow Airport

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT DISCOVER REAL LONDON TOURS

SCALENS STUDIO

Directory of preferred partners includes Domi of Scalens Studios pictured with Tracy Collins.

Forget selfies and pestering strangers, your own personal travel photographer will capture your journeys. After you return home your photos will be cherished souvenirs for years to come!

A vacation photographer will show you the best spots in London and as well take beautiful holiday photos of you.

  • Listen to Domi discuss her London photoshoots in episode #16 of the UK Travel Planning Podcast.
  • Domi also chats to me in episode #54 of the podcast about my top 10 experiences in London

📸 CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SCALENS STUDIO – USE CODE UKTP10 AT CHECKOUT FOR 10 EXTRA SHOTS FOR FREE

JOHN ENGLAND TOURS

Two people standing in front of Hever castle.

John is a fully insured private driver-guide. He’s also the proud owner of John England Tours.

As a local professional tour guide, John lives in South East England and is able to give guests easy access to historical places that are absolutely teeming with British history.

John shares local insights and stories on his private tours of England’s south east, showing his guests some hidden and picturesque villages in Kent, Sussex, and Surrey which are inaccessible to large buses and coaches. His intimate knowledge of the region means he knows the beautiful hidden places, those rare gems, that many London-based tour operators, drivers, and chauffeurs simply aren’t aware of.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT JOHN ENGLAND’S TOURS OF SOUTH EAST ENGLAND

TAILORED TOURS

OZ AT STONEHENGE

If you’re looking for a private day tour out of London, look no further. Tailored Tours is a London based private tour company that specialises in some of England’s top attractions, including Stonehenge, Bath, Windsor Castle, Salisbury and Glastonbury. 

Our Stonehenge experts will ensure you arrive at the stones before the large crowds arrive so that you get the best possible experience for photos with your private tour guide.

In Bath we’ll take you back in time to see some of the best Roman ruins in Britain, walking on the Roman floor inside the ancient temple of Sulis Minerva. For the Jane Austen and Bridgerton fans amongst you, we’ll also show you iconic Georgian rows of houses that featured heavily in these wonderful period dramas. 

Whether you’re staying in London, arriving at Heathrow Airport or even departing a cruise ship from Southampton, we’ll tailor your tour to your specific requests and you’ll be able to travel at the perfect pace to suit your own interests.

Oz and his friendly team of driver/guides share a keen interest in history and will teach you all about England’s fascinating past in an engaging way that will be fun for all the family.’

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT TAILORED TOURS

THE COTSWOLDS

COTSWOLD TEACUP TOURS

Victoria

Live like a local for the day! Spend a day or more exploring the Cotswolds with your knowledgeable and friendly local guide, Victoria.

Teacup Tours owner Victoria will design a unique tour for you, depending on your areas of interest. Victoria knows all the prettiest villages in the Cotswolds, where to get the best fish and chips, most authentic country pubs and more!

Your tour could include any or all of the following: 

  • historic locations – churches, Roman sites, neolithic sites
  • serene countryside with short or long walks
  • boutiques and high-end independent shops in small towns
  • antique shops
  • wonderful country pubs
  • English country gardens

Victoria will take care of the driving, to allow you to enjoy some of the finest beauty spots, unmissable views and historic locations the Cotswolds has to offer.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT COTSWOLD TEACUP TOURS

CORNWALL

MENEAGE TOURS

Doug

Meneage Tours offer private tours around the whole of Cornwall, including both the Lizard and Roseland Peninsulas, West and North Cornwall, as well as bespoke family history, genealogy and extended tours.

Meneage Tours can take you to the famous filming locations for Poldark, Doc Martin and the Rosamunde Pilcher series. See the fabulous stone circles and land formations of this beautiful county, visit one or several of Cornwall’s enchanting gardens, or beautiful places such as Frenchman’s Creek, Lizard Point, St Michaels Mount, Porthcurno, Cape Cornwall, St Ives or Botallack. The choice is yours!

Tours are itinerary based but Doug at Meneage Tours is happy to tailor them individually if you have any special requests on where you want to go, create your own perfect tour!

Meneage also offers a collection service from all national airports, train stations and seaports. A seamless journey awaits you with Meneage Tours for a door-to-door service from anywhere in the UK.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT MENEAGE TOURS

NORTHUMBERLAND

NORTHUMBERLAND TOURS WITH MARC WAKEMAN

Marc Wakeman Northumberland Tours

Northumberland Tours are designed to make your visit to Northumberland a once-in-a-lifetime tailored experience.

Every visit is unique, whether you would like to visit four castles in a day, a waterfall and castle, some of the many beautiful villages, the wild coast, Hadrian’s Wall, take boat trips to Coquet Island or the Farne Islands or explore Holy Island where the Vikings landed in 793, we truly are spoilt for beauty and history in Northumberland.

On the Northumberland Tours Facebook page, you can see a fraction of where you can visit. I recommend having a rough idea of what and where you would like to visit and I’ll advise if it is possible and how you could get more and see more from your visit.

If you are travelling by train to the Northeast, Morpeth is my station of choice to begin our tour although I do also collect from Central station in Newcastle and surrounding areas.

Holy Island and the Puffin boat trip from Amble are tide sensitive and will need to be checked by myself before your visit. Some walks are more arduous than others, depending on your fitness and capabilities some walks I wouldn’t recommend to all. There are no walks over 3 miles (there and back) and they have an Ordnance Survey rating of moderate.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NORTHUMBERLAND TOURS

FAR NORTH SCOTLAND

NORTH COAST EXPLORER TOURS

Robert and Sally Ann of North Coast Explorer Tours

Travel in style as you join Robert & Sally-Ann James at North Coast Explorer Tours for a private chauffeured tour of the North Scottish Highlands and North Coast 500.

Allow them to introduce you to the sights and sounds, people and culture of the area, enabling you to sit back, relax and enjoy the experience.

Local knowledge gained from almost 20 years of North Highland exploration enables us to create a customised tour itinerary which provides unique, immersive and unrivalled experiences for our guests.

Our multiple day tours accommodate a maximum of four people giving you a very personal opportunity to discover this beautiful area and we travel no more than 100 miles per day, in our premium 4X4, leaving plenty of time for exploration.

Robert is a trained Scottish Tour Guides Association driver-guide and loves nothing more than to share his knowledge with others.

Whether you like beautiful views, evocative history, amazing wildlife, stunning beaches or a wee whisky dram, a tour with North Coast Explorer Tours can provide it all.

Join us for the ultimate Far North Scotland experience.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT NORTH COAST EXPLORER TOURS

WALES

BOUTIQUE TOURS OF WALES

John Wales

Boutique Tours of Wales is a private and small group tour specialist.  All our tours are exclusive and custom-designed to help you ‘make the most of your visit’ to our beautiful country of Wales.  

During your tour with us, we will introduce you to our amazing history, the unique culture and language, along with the most stunning landscapes and scenery to be found in Wales. 

So if you aspire for one of the best rated private tour experiences, then come and join us on your very own exclusive private tour of Wales and let us show you one of the most beautiful corners of Britain.

⭐️ CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT BOUTIQUE TOURS OF WALES

✅ More partnerships in Scotland, the Lake District & Devon coming soon to our directory of preferred partners.