Oxford food and sightseeing tour
Overview
Enjoy sampling 4 or 5 of Oxford's best and unique local food or drink market stalls or shops on this Oxford food tasting & sightseeing guided walking tour which takes in the top Oxford sights. We can cater to special dietary needs.
Food & drinks usually wine or gin tasting at a micro-brewery stall, a visit to the Oxford cheese company and or Italian style gelato plus a choice from a wide range of local, international food stalls at Oxford's international food market. You can also sample a micro brewery drink inside the Covered Market, if you wish to.
This tour introduces each college we pass on the route and sometimes it also includes entry to one of the university colleges.
NOTICE: this is NOT a tapas tour as one finds in Spain, where they enter bars and sit down. Instead we visit food stalls but there is no restaurant or bar service. Plus it's not a set fixed every time menu of choices. We make suggestions and the guide pays for the food and drink.
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What's Included
✓ Included
- Experienced local guide from tour company with hundreds of 5 star reviews!
- 4-5 x Food and drinks tasting portions
- Includes entry paid by guide up to £4 to see inside a college or the Divinity school HP film site
✗ Not Included
- We cannot guarantee entry to anywhere during Xmas dates on Dec 24 + from about Dec 27 to about Jan 2
- We cannot guarantee entry on graduation dates. "2025 dates includes...
- Sep 26 + 27, Nov 7+ 8+9+14 +15 of 2025
Itinerary
Meeting & End Point
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Good to Know
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- 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.
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Special Instructions
PLEASE ARRIVE ON TIME:
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. 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.
• Departure and meeting point for tour is OUTSIDE visitor info centre, 15 Broad street, OX1 3AS
• We have several bikes which will fit adults from height of 1.5m upwards but we have only two bikes which will fit a child or adult of height from 1.4m to 1.5m. In addition, we don't stock any parents tandem bikes or parents bike with child back seats or any bikes for children under 1.4m. So all such bike requests, we will need at least 24 hours to try to hire in such bikes with notice.
• Regarding poor weather on the day of your tour, UK weather is highly unpredictable, so you need to dress for all weather and carry waterproofs. Nearly all of our bikes have a basket to put a small day backpack or hand bag into. Unfortunately you CANNOT cancel bike tours just because it's wet but if the weather was very wet, we may offer (upon customer request) to go ahead with the walking tour element of the tour but to replace the cycle tour with a substitute activity on foot.
• If we believed that the cycle tour was not safe to conduct due to storm weather conditions or ice or snow, then either we may either offer to reschedule your booking or to refund the tour or upon your request and our offer, we could either offer you a substitute activity on the day to miss out the cycle part of the tour, as described above or we could offer to reschedule your tour.