When we were in Italy we took a fabulous bus tour of Tuscany (hit San Gemignano, Sienna, and Pisa in one day.). We are going to England this summer, and I'd like to find something similar. Any ideas?

We are going in May 2013 and we are looking for the same thing. It seems like Italy was more reasonably priced.

There are similar bus tours out of London - but as with the ones in Italy - you see a lot of highway/sittin gon the bus versus time in the cities. The problem is that you have to pick places that are close to London - like Windsor and Hampton Court. Most o fhte places people want to go are either too far - or have to much to see - to put 3 twond in one day. (I've been to all those towns in Italy - and a bunch more - while staying in Florence - but not so many in a day (1 or at most 2) and by car.

In the UK you can combine Oxford with Blenheim - and a bunch of other 2 stop tours. Three is difficult to see anything - and in that tour you would have very little time in Oxford. (Perhaps you would see part of one college and the outside of the Bodleian - but not the Ashmolean or a full tour of a couple of colleges (many of which are very different).

Most people on this forum dislike multi-city tours, especially of England (London area traffic is far, far denser than in Tuscany, so such tours here inevitably have a horrible sitting in buses:actually seeing anything ratio. And the distances being greater than in Tuscany, the costs are higher). Almost by definition, the UK contributors to this forum know nothing about them anyway.

If such tours really are what you want, you'd easily be left with the conclusion they didn't exist if you relied on the information you'll get here. This would be inaccurate: there are lots of Oxford/Cotswolds/Stratford or Windsor/Stonehenge/Salisbury tours offered in London, and they certainly meet some people's needs

The Trip Advisor forum (or possibly the bits of this site written by Fodors staff) are much richer sources of this information, if someone into these tours doesn't spot this post.

If you want to visit 3 towns (or 3 sights) in a day there are several large tour companies that do so - just google. Even Harrods runs them. And they are fairly similar in both itinerary and cost.

Just realize that your percentage of time seeing/doing versus sitting on a bus will be fairly small. (Part of the prolem is just the amount of time it takes to get out of and later back into London - since it is much larger and more spread out than florence.)