Harry Potter PUBLIC Tour + Self Guided Christ church Daily 12.45 | La Vacanza Travel

Harry Potter PUBLIC Tour + Self Guided Christ church Daily 12.45

Duration: 3 hours
Destination: United Kingdom, England, Oxford
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  • 3 hours
  • Oxford
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

This tour includes from two hours guided tour followed by one hour self guided audio guide entry inside Christ church. Minimum numbers may apply to book during low season. If ticketing won't let you book less than 4 persons, just call us.

Find out how studying at Oxford University compares with Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry? Two hour walking tour of Oxford Harry Potter film sites. Your ticket includes up to £20 per person entry fees.

Fun tour for Muggles of all ages. Guide will cater tour according to everyone's interests, introducing also Oxford heritage. 

During the tour, you will also see inside the Divinity School film site at the Bodleian library. Entry worth £3 paid for. Please note we don't enter Duke Humfreys library- that can only be accessed by booking the Bodleian's own tours.

On dates when Divinity school closed, we will replace entry with New college film site- presuming it's open too. See notice below for any known closure dates....

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

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

Christchurch entry fee worth £17 or 18 per person is included in your ticket. Please note that entry to Christ church is self guided with audio guide as guiding is no longer permitted inside.
The first two hours+ are a guided tour with the guide, followed by one hour self guided audio guide guaranteed pre booked entry ticket.

Notice: even if Christ church website shows entry tickets are sold out, we still have VIP access to continue buying entry tickets up to 3 hours before the tour starts.

Duration: 1 hour

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

Your guide will take you inside the Divinity School film site at the Bodleian library, as & when it is open. This £3 entry fee is included in ticket price.

NOTICE:

We do NOT visit inside the Bodleian medieval library though as it is NOT accessible to any tour operator or guide, nor to any children aged under 11 years old.

On any dates that Divinity school may be closed- see such dates published on this page for closures notice- the tour will instead visit New college film site. If New college is also listed as closed on such dates, then this tour will only include entry to Christ church.

Duration: 30 minutes

Pass By: Radcliffe Camera, Radcliffe Square, Oxford OX1 4AJ England

We pass by & mention such famous sights

Pass By: Bridge of Sighs, New College Ln., Oxford OX1 3BL England

We pass by & mention such famous sights

Pass By: New College, Holywell Street, Oxford OX1 3BN England

We will introduce New college Oxford university college from the outside only. This is where they filmed several scenes from the Goblet of Fire movie.

If you wish to visit New college on your own after the tour ends, then you can just pay on the door without pre booking tickets to enter New college. Last entry to New college is about 4.30pm.

Note also that New college is not open on Mondays during winter season mid October to mid March. During summer season, New college is open daily from 10.30am to last entry at 4.30pm & currently its entry tickets cost £8 per adult in 2023.

Stop At: The Turf, 4 Bath Place, Oxford OX1 3SU England

The Turf Tavern is often described as Oxford's 'Three Broomsticks pub', due to its quaint look and odd location hidden away an alleyway that looks surprisingly like Knockturn alleyway.

We don't visit inside the Turf but so long as the tour group size is not too large, we walk past this pub to introduce it as this is where Robbie Coltrane who plays Hagrid, used to drink with the other adult actors, while filming next door at New college.

Duration: 5 minutes

Pass By: Hertford College, Catte Street, Oxford OX1 3BW England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

Pass By: All Souls College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AL England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

All Souls is the most exclusive college in Oxford as it's only a college for research but we like to point out to children how its towers signpost a 'W'- thus possibly making it a secret call sign for where witches or wizards study in Oxford!

Pass By: Brasenose College, Radcliffe Square, Oxford OX1 4AJ England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

This is where the likes of a famous Slytherin master of dark arts called David Cameron studied! It's also where Michael Palin and William Golding studied too.

Pass By: Exeter College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DP England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

This college gave the title of, 'honorary lecturer' to JK Rowling and it's where one of Rowling's favourite authors studied- namely JRR Tolkien.

Pass By: Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DW England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

This is where Lawrence of Arabia studied....and maybe Jesus too!

Stop At: Lincoln College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DR England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. If the entrance is open, we usually stop here for 5 minutes to take photos from the entrance.

This is where the current Slytherin Prime Minister studied but also where the write of Dr Seuss children's stories was a Rhodes scholar.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Oxford Covered Market, Market Street, Oxford OX1 3DZ England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. We briefly visit here to see the Harry Potter chocolate cakes in the cake shop window and to see and hear about the connection between Alice in Wonderland and Oxford, with several Alice related characters on display.

This is the oldest Covered market in England.

Duration: 5 minutes

Pass By: Balliol College, Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BJ England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.

This college dating back to 1263 has produced 4 Slytherin Prime Ministers including...the Boris.

Adam Smith was a member of this college.

Pass By: St. Michael at the North Gate, Cornmarket Street, Oxford OX1 3EY England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. This church we discuss from outside. Shakespeare in Oxford stories are discussed here and the tower dates back to 1040 AD!

Pass By: University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, The High Street University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4BJ England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. We introduce Mr Tumnis figure and the street lamp outside the church here as it's said to have inspired CS Lewis.

Pass By: Merton College, Merton Street, Oxford OX1 4JD England

We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. This is where Tolkien taught.

Inclusions
  • Please check 'Exclusions' or 'Additional Info' for dates of any closures.
  • Your ticket includes up to £20 in entry fees per person as part of your ticket from 2020 onwards
  • Entry/Admission - Christ Church

Exclusions
  • 2023 Notice: entry to Christchurch is self guided audio guide since guiding inside prohibited
  • CHRISTMAS 2023, Divinity school is closed from Dec 24- Dec 26 and on January 1st 2024
  • Divinity school is presumed closed on these dates in 2024 below....
  • Jan 20, Feb 24, March 2, May 11 + 18 of 2024
  • Christ church HALL only closed on Dec 14 + Dec 15 of 2023
  • Wheelchair accessible
  • NOTICE:
  • Stroller accessible
  • These tours MUST START ON TIME as we prebook fixed entry times!
  • Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point.
  • Service animals allowed
  • IMPORTANT NOTICE IN CASE OF UNFORESEEN PARTIAL OF FULL CLOSURES:
  • Near public transportation
  • We do publish known Christchurch closures on this website page & we will advise of any closures at the time of booking or before the tour but occasionally some closures are last minute. In this event, our policy is either the guide can substitute entry for Christchurch to another college such as eg New college (also a Hogwarts film site). Alternatively, you may opt to reschedule your tour onto another date or to instead join one of our other tours running the same date such as the Oxford cycle tour of food tour (which cost approximately same)
  • 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.
  • Transportation is wheelchair accessible
  • Most travelers can participate
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 20 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking, unless booked within 16 hours of travel. In this case confirmation will be received as soon as possible, subject to availability
Departure Point

15-16 Broad St, Oxford OX1 3AS, UK


Departure Time

12:45 PM


Return Details

Christ Church, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1 1DP, UK

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

3 hours


User's Reviews

Bettina_P

25 Mar, 2024

We did the Harry Potter Tour yesterday, and are slighty disappointed. The tourguide was not enthusiastic at all, there was no fun, no Harry Potter vibes, no questions about Harry Potter like a quiz we had at other Harry Potter walking tours, we did not learn anything new about the films etc. Most of the the things he did explain about was Alice in Wonderland, but not about Harry Potter. Out of the many pictures he had in his backpack showing the film scenes, he only showed us 2. Also the guided tour was too short, it should have been 2 hours, but we arrived at Christchurch college already after 1 hour and a half. There we stumbled over another Harry Potter tour that was just having lots of fun in a quiz earning house points in the end, and they even could ask him about recommendations where to have dinner etc, what we didn't have in our tour at all. We have seen everything mentioned on the website, but could have done that for ourselfs without a tour too.

Murali_K

26 Nov, 2023

Fantastic experience. The tour guide made it all the more interesting with his humor. In addition, very honest tour guide/company. My daughter was not able to join at the last minute. The tour guide said they will refund her portion of the fees.. and they stood by it.

stuartcF353

01 Nov, 2023

Peter was extremely enthusiastic and gave us his all. Great with the children and certainly knew his audience. He chatted to all as a group and individually and was generous with his knowledge. i spoke about a separate and unrelated issue from the evening before, and the very next day Peter sent me a link that explained that incident that I had casually mentioned. He was also very thoughtful in many other ways. his anecdote about C.S. Lewis and some of the inspirations that influenced his writing were wonderful to him. (I`m more of a C.S.Lewis fan than J.K.Rowling) I wish him well in his MSc studies. But don`t get him started on Tom Cruise!!

Stuart_C

27 Oct, 2023

Peter was extremely enthusiastic and gave us his all. Great with the children and certainly knew his audience. He chatted to all as a group and individually and was generous with his knowledge

Anonymous

24 Sep, 2023

The tour guide was wonderful - sweet , knowledgeable and very nice. She went out of her way to bring and offer to dress up as Harry Potter with the wand for us to take pictures with but it was rainy. She gave us a lot of informations and even answered our questions which were a little bit out of the main topic. We just wish La Vacanza Travel had provided us with radio+earpiece so we could hear our tour guide better which is not her fault with us being busy most of the time with our umbrellas on that very windy and rainy day.

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