Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd

Somme Battlefield Tours Ltd Sunday Times, Telegraph & Vanity Fair recommended Self-Drive Tours to the Somme and Ypres Battlefiel You just take your vehicle and we’ll do the rest!

Quite simply, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields without the rigid timetable of a coach/minibus group dictating when and where you can travel. How frustrating must it must be to see the battlefields passing before your very eyes without being able to stop wherever you want to stop, for however long you want to spend, exploring what you want to explore. The freedom to explor

e the battlefields at your own pace is what I always wanted since I first visited the battlefields over 40 years ago, so after having personally guided over 300 conducted tours since 1997 as a professional guide I set about the long and detailed task of producing our self-drive guides to allow anyone to jump in their car to explore the battlefields for themselves, free of all the constraints imposed by coach tours. Our self-drive guides will equip you with everything you need to convert what will in most cases be French or Belgium countryside back to the time of the Great War (if one drives through the battlefields today without a detailed guide there is little or nothing to help you comprehend what happened where. This is one of the biggest frustrations experienced by casual visitors who arrives unprepared). So. . .in a nutshell our nationally acclaimed self-drive Somme and Ypres battlefield bespoke tours allow you to travel when you want for as long as you want. We arrange your hotel accommodation, Channel crossing (for UK travellers) and provide all the maps, directions etc you’ll need, and of course, our all-important Self-Drive Somme and/or Ypres Battlefield Guides - your ‘window to the past’. No other guide has so much detail and is so easy to follow! Please also note that our Self-Drive guides are only available when combined with hotel accommodation (and optional Channel crossing) and as such cannot be provided separately. We also regret that we are at present unable to assist with car hire.

07/11/2022

A Self-Drive tour, where you explore the battlefields in the safety of your vehicle, and where you don't have to mix with fellow coach travellers, is probably the safest, and perhaps the only way to truly explore the battlefields at your own pace.

With travel by Eurotunnel now running smoothly without the need for the restrictions we saw during the pandemic, we saw many more people taking Self-Drive tours this year (2022) and with ‘back to normal’ advance bookings for 2023.

Please see the ‘Testimonials’ page of our main website www.battlefield-tours.com for latest feedback from clients soon after they returned home from one of our Self-Drive tours. We are now also with Trust Pilot (search Somme & Ypres Battlefield Tours).

To book at tour or to just get a quotation, just email [email protected] (email preferred if possible please).

thank you

James

James Power
Somme & Ypres Battlefield Tours

We specialise in providing Self-Drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields of the First World War for the independent traveller.

07/11/2022

November 2022

A Self-Drive tour, where you explore the battlefields in the safety of your vehicle, and where you don't have to mix with fellow coach travellers, is probably the safest, and perhaps the only way to truly explore the battlefields at your own pace.

With travel by Eurotunnel now running smoothly without the need for the restrictions we saw during the pandemic, we saw many more people taking Self-Drive tours this year (2022) and with ‘back to normal’ advance bookings for 2023.

Please see the ‘Testimonials’ page of our main website www.battlefield-tours.com for latest feedback from clients soon after they returned home from one of our Self-Drive tours. We are now also with Trust Pilot (search Somme & Ypres Battlefield Tours).

To book at tour or to just get a quotation, just email [email protected] (email preferred if possible please).

thank you

James

James Power
Somme & Ypres Battlefield Tours

We specialise in providing Self-Drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields of the First World War for the independent traveller.

27/06/2022

Update June 27 2022 - with the relaxation of Covid restrictions we are very much back in the driving seat arranging self-drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields. Have a look at our most recent website testimonials from clients who have just returned from a tour www.battlefield-tours.com - or TrustPilot.

Travel to France by Eurotunnel (included in our self-drive tours) is proving really easy….with none of the airport disappointments that have plagued travel this year!

If you have in mind a visit to the battlefields of the Great War 1914-1918, then there’s no better time to travel, so just email us at [email protected] for a quotation.

We just need to know:

How many nights you have in mind (3-5 best)?
How many people?
How many rooms (i.e. double/twin/singles)?
Include Channel crossing?

Many thanks

James & Annette
Somme & Ypres Battlefield Tours Ltd

We specialise in providing Self-Drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields of the First World War for the independent traveller.

Welcome to our page!We are one of the longest-standing companies specialising in small-group tours to the Somme...
03/06/2021

Welcome to our page!

We are one of the longest-standing companies specialising in small-group tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields. Having taken over 300 groups on tours to the battlefields of WW1 we have now transferred that expertise to a Self-Drive format so that you can explore these battlefields on your own or with family or friends, without being tied to a coach tour. Unsure? Maybe see what travellers said when they returned!

In a nut-shell you chose when you wish to travel and for how long. You take your car and we arrange your hotel accommodation, Channel crossing and, most importantly of all, we provide you with our acclaimed self-drive Somme and/or Ypres battlefield guides - your ‘window to the past’, including all the directions, maps etc you’ll need. No other self-drive guides have so much detail and are so easy to follow!

See what our clients have said about how they got on exploring the battlefields with our Self-Drive guide package:

We specialise in providing Self-Drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields of the First World War 1914-1918

03/06/2021
18/02/2021

With vaccinations pressing ahead, we are looking forward to booking self-drive tours for May onwards. Please also remember that we will refund all monies paid (including deposit) if we have to cancel your tour because a service provider, such as your Channel crossing provider and/or hotel is not operating due to Covid-19 restrictions when you are due to travel.

Firstly a big 'thank you' to everyone who has visited and liked our page these past months. We do very much app...
08/07/2020

Firstly a big 'thank you' to everyone who has visited and liked our page these past months. We do very much appreciate your support.

And now some good news at last! You can now travel to France (Somme) and Belgium (Ypres) without any need to self-isolate - but you will still need to adhere to the social distancing guidelines to which we have become accustomed (masks etc).

From a Covid perspective, a Self-Drive tour where you tour the battlefields in the safety of your vehicle using our acclaimed Self-Drive guides, and where you do not have to mix with fellow coach travellers, is probably the safest way to explore the battlefields!

You may be interested to know that unlike some of the bigger tour companies who are struggling to make Covid refunds, all tour payments for our Self-Drive tours are protected in a separate Trust Account (by law) which cannot be released to us until your tour has been completed, thus making refunds very straightforward - one of the very real benefits of choosing a small specialist company!

Please visit our website at www.battlefield-tours.com which has a lot more detail about our Self-Drive Somme and Ypres tours, and how to email us for a bespoke quotation based on when you wish to travel and for as long or short as time permits.

We specialise in providing Self-Drive tours to the Somme and Ypres battlefields of the First World War for the independent traveller.

We now have our own Trust Pilot review listing which are all '5-star' reviews
10/08/2019

We now have our own Trust Pilot review listing which are all '5-star' reviews

Do you agree with Somme and Ypres Battlefield Tours's TrustScore? Voice your opinion today and hear what 10 customers have already said.

10/08/2019

We now have our own Trust Pilot

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