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Itinerary
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Stop At: Christ Church, St. Aldates, Oxford OX1 1DP England

£8-£10 entry fee is included in the ticket price

Duration: 1 hour

Stop At: Bodleian Library Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BG England

£2 entry fee is included in the ticket price but we can never guarantee entry into the Divinity school at the Bodleian library. Plus the medieval library itself does not permit entry to private tours

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: University of Oxford, University Offices 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JD England

We also see most of the other major Oxford sights on this tour as we walk past them.

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Included

All Fees and Taxes
Entry/Admission - Christ Church
Entry/Admission - Bodleian Library

Not included

Skip the queue entry Christchurch tickets, please note that if you book us at short notice, then Christchurch pre-purchase tickets may have already sold out. In this case, the guide and you need to queue for entry to Christchurch to buy tickets on the door. This can take even 30 minutes on busiest days, so please try to book us ahead! Tours are only cancelled, if Christchurch itself is closed to entry.
Tours will run as normal itinerary as the dining hall is not the Harry Potter film site anyway. Christchurch staircase & cloister are the film sites.
Christchurch view from door only on Sep 8, Sep 14, Oct 6, Oct 11, Oct 19th of 2019
Christchurch dining hall only closed on Oct 6, Oct 11, Oct 19, Dec 19 2019
NB Saturday mornings, Christchurch dining hall is usually closed. We still run the tour then
Christchurch Dining hall is open from 10am but is closed from 12.30 on Dec 20 2019
Christchurch Dining hall is closed EVERY day from Dec 21 2019 UNTIL Jan 1 2020
Divinity School will be closed on Sep 14 & 27& 28 plus on Nov 1 & 2 & 9th of 2019

Additional

Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 13 hours of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
NB Saturday morning tours, we cannot guarantee entry to Dining Hall but we can show you the two HP film sites at Christchurch.
NB Please plan much more time that you expect to arrive in Oxford, especially if you are driving and need to park.
These tours MUST START ON TIME
as we may pre purchase entry tickets for fixed entry times. If you arrive after the tour has started, you will unfortunately therefore lose your booking. Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point. If you arrive more than 5 minutes later than the scheduled tour, then you will likely forfeit and lose your booking as it interrupts the guide and other customers, if we are trying to find you after a guide has started and left the meeting point.
INFO FOR DRIVERS AND PARKING:
If you are driving, then please allow extra 30-60 minutes over whatever time you think it will take you to get here. Oxford is NOT car friendly and it is congested roads and hard to find parking spaces....unless you park at the sign posted 'park and rides' on edge of town on any major road into the city and hop on their buses into city centre. The park and ride buses leave every 15 or every 30 minutes and take anything from 10 min to 30 min (depending on traffic) to reach city centre. So if you are going to drive, then please assume you should be aiming to park your car about one hour before your tour starts.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT:
We actually recommend instead using the much faster and reliable train services but again please aim to arrive about an hour or earlier before your tour starts as trains can be delayed and the train and coach station are about 15 minutes walk from our meeting point. There is also the coach service from London called the Oxford Tube which leaves every half hour or more but it can take much longer than its advertised 105 minute journey time. It drops you off either at High street Oxford or Gloucester Green coach station. It's quicker to ask to get off on High street near Carfax tower, then it's a 10 minutes walk to Broad street.
Our higher ticket price reflects the special quality of typically having smaller groups than our competitors & our excellence at having almost daily 5 star reviews for this tour! While this tour closes for online bookings with up to 1 hours notice but if you ask Viator to call us up for last minute requests by phone, that may still be possible.
INCLUDED IN TICKET PRICE:
This guided tour with guide includes entry fee to Christchurch film site (entry fee worth up to £11 per person) plus we enter Divinity school film site (at Bodleain library)
as & when
Skip the queue entry Christchurch tickets, during summer, please note that if you book us at short notice, then Christchurch online tickets may have already sold out. In this case, the guide and you need to queue for entry to Christchurch to buy tickets on the door. This can take half hour+ on busiest days, so please book us ahead!
IMPORTANT NOTICE IN CASE OF UNFORESEEN PARTIAL OF FULL CLOSURES:
All these film site venues are private institutions, so we can't always guarantee entry. Thus, please see details below of any dates with possible closures, before you book us.
Please note that occasionally, Christchurch dining hall may be closed or can viewing from the hall entry only. This doesn't prevent us from running the tour, as contrary to public belief, Christchurch dining hall is NOT a Harry Potter film site. What they filmed was the staircase & cloisters. We endeavour to publish below, details of any dates when Christchurch has published that the dining hall is closed or can only be viewed from hall entrance lobby. However, these can be last-minute.
REFUNDS POLICY:
Please note that we do not offer refunds, unless there are exceptional circumstances to prevent the tour from running. Please therefore check the published dates of known Christchurch full or partial closures, as published on this website page!
If you opt to book a foreign language tour, this may be possible if you give us adequate advance notice of at least 24 hours. If we cannot offer a tour in a foreign language, then you will be refunded or invited to join the tour in English with any cost difference refunded.
2019 Closures Divinity School only:
Divinity School will be closed on Sep 14 & 27& 28 plus on Nov 1 & 2 & 9th of 2019
Divinity school Xmas Closure dates TBC but likey from Dec 23 to Jan 1st
CHRISTCHURCH FULL OR PARTIAL CLOSURES 2019:
Tours will run as normal itinerary as the dining hall is not the Harry Potter film site anyway. Christchurch staircase & cloister are the film sites.
NB on most or all of these dates, our New College Harry Potter tour is running- it's listed separately on Viator, so please look it up!
2019 CLOSURE DATES- NO TOURS RUNNING:
Sep 20th, Dec 25th. Dec 26th of 2019
2019 DINING HALL ONLY CLOSED- TOURS STILL RUNNING ON THESE DATES:
Dining hall viewing from door only: Sep 8, Sep 14, Oct 11, Dec 19th 2019
Dining hall is closed on Oct 6, Oct 11, Oct 19, Dec 19, then EVERY day from Dec 21st 2019 until Jan 1st 2020!
Divinity School film site £2 entry included, where & when it is open
Wheelchair accessible
Stroller accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation
Transportation is wheelchair accessible
Surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Most travelers can participate
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 14 travelers