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SELF-DRIVE TOURS

Our Self-Drive WW1 tours have become one of the most popular ways of visiting the battlefields.  Click here for details.  The biggest attraction of our Self-Drive tours is they can be taken anytime you wish (but try and give us at least a week's notice!). 

You either drive from the UK or pick up a rental car in France or Belgium (not provided by us) and we arrange your hotel and Channel crossing (not necessary for non-UK travellers) as well as providing our all-important detailed written guides to the Somme and Ypres battlefields.  We can also arrange for an experienced English battlefield guide to pick you up at your hotel and take you on a one or two day personal tour to the battlefields you wish to see (ideal for visitors from Australia, Canada, New Zealand etc).  YOU decide when you wish to travel - just let us know what you have in mind and we'll give you an idea of cost. 

For more information about our popular Self-Drive tours please click here for details (or click the Self-Drive tours link in the menu on the left (if no menu then use our Site Map)


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CONDUCTED TOURS

Our conducted tours for the remainder of this year are now fully booked.  We are currently reviewing our tours and will most likely discontinue conducted tours starting from the UK with effect from 2010 in order that we may put all our efforts in to providing our increasingly popular Self-Drive tours (above).

People who wish to visit the battlefields of the Great War understandably first think of a conducted tour.  However, for those truly seeking to reveal the legacy of the Great War, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields without the constraints of a coach/minibus group dictating the pace. Please have a look at our Self-Drive tours page as you can now combine a Self-Drive tour with the luxury of a personal guide to meet you at your hotel to take you (and just you...)  where you wish to visit.

If you have your heart set on a conducted tour starting from the UK then there are many companies to choose from (as you may have seen when searching the internet!), some better than others....   We will be happy to recommend a company we have known and respected over the years we have been organising tours - just email us and we'll let you have details.

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Please also note - Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd fully complies with the provisions of the UK Tour package, Tour Travel etc Regulations 1992.  We are fully insured in accordance with these regulations (especially Tour Liability, and comprehensive 'Private hire' vehicle insurance, a legal requirement  which not all small tour operators have - always check), as well as all provisions regarding the handling of client's monies.
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The regulations provide that such monies be held in a separate Trust Account which can not be released to our company until the tour has been provided (see Terms and Conditions). Always be cautious of anyone asking for cheques to be made payable to an individual as opposed to a Trust Account or similar. Full details of our trustees (Barclays Bank) are available upon request.  We also operate as a fully registered Limited company and as such our accounts are open to inspection by any person (upon payment of a small fee to Companies House).

The above regulations are rightfully intended to protect travellers such as yourself.  The small rise for 2007 reflects the higher insurance and hotel costs we are obliged to pay, especially client liability and private hire insurance which are there to safeguard you as our customer.
 

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