Excellent Tour - Our guides, Sandra and Julian were wonderful and fun to spend the day with. Very knowledgeable, impeccable driving and they shared many interesting details. Would highly recommend.

Full and enjoyable day. - A memorable day, Jill and Sandra, our guides, were very pleasant and knowledgeable, they gave us plenty of photo opportunities too.

Had the best time exploring Lake District! - Second time doing a tour with English Lakes Tours & I can’t recommend them enough! Tried them out for the first time in December for a winter tour and had such a good time admiring the scenery and beauty of Lake District. Took my family for a summer tour this time and everyone was in awe of the mountains, lakes, and sheep. Our guides Jilian & Sandra (as well as a guy for the winter tour, sorry I’ve forgotten his name!) are so knowledgable and could answer all of our questions and more. + they have amazing driving skills navigating the narrow & hilly roads.

Amazing - Wonderful trip with detailed trip to explore Windermere tour guide took all pain to show best of Windermere,cruise on Ulls water,Keswick town,Honister mines & grassmere ginger bread

The most spectacular scenery you could ever view. - The drive through the passes and the views from the top of the mountains were spectacular. The information and history from the guide was extremely good and definately made the tour more enjoyable.

Great Tour! - English Lakes Tours was a great way to get an introduction to the Lakes District. Our guide Tim was very professional, friendly and gave us great information. Tim took us to some unexpected but very beautiful spots to get great photos from and a stop at one of the best ice cream shops around! I would definitely take another tour with them.

A lovely day out in the English Lakes - We were staying just outside the Lake District and decided that rather than drive ourselves, we would book some tours and get picked up from our hotel. We took 3 tours with this company and enjoyed them all. Everything was nice and relaxed and although there was so much to see on this tour, we didn't feel rushed and Steve was so accommodating when we wanted to stay a bit longer or stop for a quick photo. Very pretty scenery in an area we will be visiting again. Thanks for a lovely day out.

AWESOME DAY WITH A GREAT GUIDE - We took this tour round the Lakes to see the scenery and what the place was like. It was so beautiful, especially with all of the Autumn colours. We were really lucky with the weather as it was windy but sunny and everything seemed highlighted with colour and movement. Tim was fantastic and it felt like we were being shown around by a friend. He met us at our hotel and from then on it was like we had known each other for ages. We took some surprisingly good photos (thanks Tim for the help) and saw some awesome places. From beginning to end this was the best of days and we are planning a return trip to the area to do some more tours with English Lakes Tours. Really nice people!

10/10 a must if you are in the Lake District - It was all amazing got to see so many amazing places and views that you wouldn't see any other way. Tim the tour guide was very good, lots of knowledge

Amazing views, but average value for money - We went on a private full day scenic tour of the Lake District with Tim, who was an incredibly friendly, knowledgeable tour guide - his depth of knowledge was truly impressive. We saw some wonderful views of Derwentwater, Ullswater and other parts of the district. The weather was not pleasant at times, which was unfortunate but of course out completely out of Tim's hands and we still saw some magnificent views where we did stop. Disappointly however, Tim did miss a number of stops along the way (Grasmere, Whinlatter, Kirkstone, Friars Crag) that were on the itinerary without offering us an alternative way to spend our time, and instead we were left early at the Ullswater ferry terminal waiting for 1.5 hours for our ferry to depart and also arrived back at our hotel earlier than the advised time. We exchanged emails with Phil, the tour company manager about our experience, who was kind enough to provide a detailed response and acknowledge poor communication being at fault, but also kindly able to share his perspectives. Unfortunately had Tim been a bit more transparent upfront about the parts of the itinerary that he was planning to skip or the amount of excess time we would have requested to stop off at some of other parts of the itinerary they normally just drive through but unfortunately we weren't made aware of this opportunity. Reading all the other fantastic reviews on TripAdvisor it's likely this was just a "one off" average experience and oversight on Tim's part. Overall it was certainly an enjoyable road trip and we saw some great sights in the Lake District - but from our personal experience, only average value for a full day private tour.