Harry Potter PUBLIC Tour + Self Guided Christ church Daily 12.45

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Duration:3 hours (approx.)
Location: Oxford, South East England

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This tour includes from two hours guided tour followed by one hour guaranteed tickets 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 £23 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....

WHAT'S INCLUDED

✓ Please check 'Exclusions' or 'Additional Info' for dates of any closures.
✓ Your ticket includes up to £23 in entry fees per person as part of your ticket from 2020 onwards

✗ Divinity school is presumed closed on these dates in 2024 below....
✗ July 13+23+26+27, Aug 3, Sep 27+28, Nov 8+9+16 of 2024
✗ Christ church HALL is viewing from hall door only on June 21, September 28, October 4 of 2024
✗ Christ church is closed on June 25 to June 27, September 20 and on December 25 of 2024
✗ Christ church is closed from 12.30 onwards on September 19 of 2024
✗ Christ church HALL ONLY closed on October 6 + 11 2024
✗ Christ church HALL ONLY closed on January 17 of 2025

WHAT TO EXPECT

1. Christ Church
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.
2. Bodleian Library
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.
3. Radcliffe Camera
We pass by & mention such famous sights
4. Bridge of Sighs
We pass by & mention such famous sights
5. New College
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.
6. The Turf
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.
7. Hertford College
We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route.
8. All Souls College
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!
9. Brasenose College
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.
10. Exeter College
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.
11. Jesus College
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!
12. Lincoln College
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.
13. Oxford Covered Market
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.
14. Balliol College
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.
15. St. Michael at the North Gate
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!
16. University Church of St. Mary the Virgin
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.
17. Merton College
We introduce various colleges and sights briefly, like this one, as we walk past it on our route. This is where Tolkien taught.

ADDITIONAL INFO

• Wheelchair accessible
• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• NOTICE:
• These tours MUST START ON TIME as we prebook fixed entry times!
• Please arrive 5 minutes early for your tour at our meeting point.
• IMPORTANT NOTICE IN CASE OF UNFORESEEN PARTIAL OF FULL CLOSURES:
• 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.

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Posted By : Coelle_M
Tour was good. Not as much Harry Potter information. Would have liked more trivia but overall beautiful city and Christ church university was stunning
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Posted On : 2024-07-05 18:20:02

Posted By : Claudia_M
Sebastian did a fantastic job showing us around Oxford. Not only was he knowledgeable on Harry Potter trivia but he told us a great deal about his own experience in Oxford as a student.
He also spoke Spanish which some of our group members appreciated a lot!

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Posted On : 2024-06-24 13:32:09

Posted By : Michelle_E
We loved all the information regarding Oxford in general, not just the information about Harry Potter films. Billy was engaging and really brought it all to life!
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Posted On : 2024-06-18 04:09:21

Posted By : tricial0
We had a wonderful time! Harry, our guide was excellent and kept us entertained. A highlight of our trip to Oxford! We highly recommend!
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Posted On : 2024-06-14 15:47:37

Posted By : Joseph_K
Jim was a great guide. Very knowledgeable. Showed us many parts of Oxford. Deep knowledge of Harry Potter.
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Posted On : 2024-04-03 02:33:52

Posted By : Robert_H
Harry did a great job! This was a fun tour. Although we didn’t want a Harry Potter tour, our daughter enjoyed it and the Oxford Uni info. We did do the Christchurch add-on. That was very worth a walk through.
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Posted On : 2024-03-31 13:37:11

Posted By : Katharina_K
Harry was a wonderful guide who passionately not only told us about Harry Potter but the whole story of Oxford! Would recommend doing this tour any time when visiting!
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Posted On : 2024-03-31 06:30:49

Posted By : Bettina_P
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.
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Posted On : 2024-03-25 04:43:03

Posted By : Murali_K
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.
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Posted On : 2023-11-26 13:34:38

Posted By : stuartcF353
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!!
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Posted On : 2023-11-01 17:31:08