Highlights: Hampton Court Palace * Tour of the Cotswolds and a typical English lunch * Blenheim Palace Gardens

The Cotswolds is one of the most beautiful areas in England, known and loved by people across the world. It is an area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, an area of warmth and clarity whose stone walls and buildings, thatch cottages, open skies, rolling grasslands, beech woods and captivating villages make it an outstanding English landscape - a landscape once experienced, never forgotten.

HAMPTON COURT
Hampton Court is perhaps the most spectacular royal palace in England. Built by Cardinal Wolsey in the early 1500s, it later became King Henry VIII's principal residence and remained the centre of royal and political life in England until 1737. You will see King Henry VIII's Great Hall, King William III's State Apartments and the unmissable Tudor Kitchens, which remain largely unchanged since the 16th century and no doubt used to cater for raucous banquets. The palace is probably most famous for its grounds and the famous maze, which has entertained children since it was planted in 1705.