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If you’re looking for the Cotswolds you see on postcards: the ones without the tour buses, gift shops, and crowds of people wielding selfie sticks: you’ve found it. Upper Slaughter is the quiet, sophisticated sibling to the more famous (and often crowded) Lower...

If you’ve ever looked at a postcard of the English countryside and thought, “There’s no way a place actually looks like that,” you haven’t been to Lower Slaughter. At Shakespeare Coaches, we spend a lot of time driving through the Cotswolds, and while every village...

If you only have time to visit one village that captures the essence of English rural perfection, Broadway is usually the top of the list. Often referred to as the "Jewel of the Cotswolds," this village manages to be both grand and incredibly cozy at the...

If you’re driving into the Cotswolds from London or Oxford, there is one town that practically stands at the door, waving you in with a pint of ale and a honey-colored stone greeting. That town is Burford. Known globally as the "Gateway to the Cotswolds,"...

![Shakespeare Coaches Logo If you’ve ever picked up a British passport or scrolled through a travel blog about England, you’ve seen Bibury. It is, quite literally, the poster child for the English countryside. William Morris, the famous 19th-century designer and...

Let’s be honest for a second: if you search for "Cotswolds tours," you’re going to be flooded with results from big-box operators based in London. They’ll promise you the world, wake you up at 6:00 AM, shove you onto a 50-seater bus that smells faintly of...

Let’s be honest: nobody comes to the English countryside to sit in the back of a massive, 50-seater bus that feels like a mobile classroom. You’re here for the charm, the honey-colored stone, and the rolling hills, not to be part of a herd. If you’re staying in...

Let’s be honest: nobody comes to the English countryside to sit in the back of a massive, 50-seater bus that feels like a mobile classroom. You’re here for the charm, the honey-colored stone, and the rolling hills, not to be part of a herd. If you’re staying in...

If you’ve ever scrolled through Instagram and seen a photo of a honey-colored stone village that looks like it was plucked straight from a fairy tale, chances are you were looking at Castle Combe. Often cited as the "prettiest village in England," it sits in...

Let’s be honest for a second: if you search for "Cotswolds tours," you’re going to be flooded with results from big-box operators based in London. They’ll promise you the world, wake you up at 6:00 AM, shove you onto a 50-seater bus that smells faintly of...