A DAY AT KEW GARDENS PRIVATE TOUR
This tour operates Monday to Friday, subject to attraction schedules and guide availability.

Your personal guide will meet you at your central London hotel or agreed meeting point at 9am. Then, making use of the ‘tube’ (the Londoners’ nickname for the subway transit system), we embark upon the Kew Gardens Private Tour. With so much to see and do, this famous London attraction deserves a full day in its own right. Tickets will be pre-booked and added to your tour price.

HIGHLIGHTS
● Kew Palace
● Palm House
● Princess of Wales Conservatory
● Waterlily House
● Temple of Arathusa

A DAY AT KEW GARDENS PRIVATE TOUR – ITINERARY

Gardens
Kew Gardens is a world famous Royal Botanical Gardens in south-west London. Opened in 1759, the site was originally a royal garden belonging to the eldest son of King George II. Today it covers 120 hectares and contains 1/8 of all flowering species known on earth, plus a number of ‘champion’ trees, and many rare plants.

There are 40 listed buildings such as the humid Palm House, built in 1888, which maintains a rain-forest climate with its own tropical sound system, and contains the world’s oldest pot plant. Also worth visiting is the Princess of Wales Conservatory, featuring ten climate areas and a butterfly zone, and the Waterlily House featuring the Giant Amazonian Waterlily.

Other highlights include the Temple of Arathusa, a Japanese farmhouse traditionally thatched with bamboo, and a tree-walk. Your guide will conduct you on a short walking tour, then you can take advantage of the land-train to see the full extent of the gardens.  With just about everything to pique the interest of the green-fingered gardener, it only remains to add that the bookshop offers the country’s largest collection of horticultural books.

Palace
Within Kew Gardens is a Gothic-style castellated royal palace with a regal occupation that lasted from for a over 100 years. From 1728, George II and Queen Caroline lived here, as did their son, Frederick Prince of Wales. Later, George III and  Charlotte bought the freehold. This is where George III was confined during his bouts of ‘madness’. In 1818, Queen Charlotte died in her bedroom here.

Also briefly staying here were George IV, William IV, and three of Queen Victoria’s children in 1844, The palace held a dinner hosted by King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, to celebrate the 80th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II in 2006.

Highlights include the kitchens, the Great Pagoda and Queen Charlotte’s Cottage.

A DAY AT KEW GARDENS PRIVATE TOUR
PRICES & PRACTICAL INFORMATION

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● Private day tour in London by ‘tube’.
● Monday to Friday, 9am-4:30pm.
● Conducted by officially accredited guide.
● Guide will meet at any central London residence.
● Price for 1 to 10 persons: £460.00*
    – *plus travel tickets (as needed) at £10 pp.
    – *plus pre-booked attraction tickets.

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A DAY AT KEW GARDENS PRIVATE TOUR – PRACTICAL INFO

● Private day tour in London by ‘tube’.
● Monday to Friday, 9am-4:30pm.
● Personal officially accredited guide.
● Guide will meet at any central London residence.
● Price for 1 to 10 persons: £460.00*

Tour price does not include:

● Tube travel tickets. If required, these are added to the price at £10.00 person.
● Tickets to attractions: usually pre-booked by us at the attraction’s standard rate including any transaction fees.
● Meals or refreshments.
● Gratuities or tips to guide (at client’s discretion).

This tour uses the ‘tube’ (the Londoners’ nickname for the subway transit system). Here are five great advantages:

  1. Cost-effective: typically, a family of four can save over £150.00 on the previous car option. We can take larger groups too (up to 10).
  2. Time-effective: usually a faster way to get around the city, giving you more time to enjoy your tour. As London Transport advertising once proclaimed: ‘It’s quicker by tube!‘
  3. Eco-friendly: kinder to the environment, and healthier too, with a little more walking involved. Not too much, but enough to burn off some excess calories!
  4. Engaging: interact with the city, just like a local.
  5. Iconic: adds another dimension to the London visitor experience. As the oldest and largest underground transit system in the world, it’s practically an attraction in itself.

Note: We do not offer this tour by car. The combined increased costs of fuel, parking, road tax, congestion charges and licences means we can no longer effectively provide a product of reasonable value.