Windsor Tourist Guides Ltd

17/04/2024

Thrilled to announce we have won the CIE Tours gold award of excellence for best overall walking tour in Britain!
We welcome the lovely CIE Tours visitors between April and October and take them on our Royal Windsor town walk.
It’s an important award for us as they are voted for by the visitors themselves.

21/04/2023

And we were a gold award winner for Best Overall Walking Tour! Thrilled because these awards are voted for by CIE Tours visitors themselves.

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12/03/2023

A CORONATION: WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG!

To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III join us on a gentle stroll around Windsor highlighting stories of coronations over the last 1,000 years.

We’ll focus on the ones that didn’t quite go to plan!

The monarch who came down with appendicitis before the ceremony; one who refused to sit on the coronation chair; one who had to be carried up the aisle and other disasters such as falling bishops, coronation rings being put on wrong fingers and the Queen Consort who was refused entry to her own coronation.

Walk starts at Windsor Guildhall on
Saturday 15th April at 2pm
Sunday 16th April at 2pm
Saturday 29th April at 11am
Sunday 30th April at 2pm

Tickets available from the Tourist Information Centre at Windsor Guildhall or online at www.Windsor.gov.uk and put coronation into search box.

Tickets £13.50 per adult, £10 advantage card holders, under 17s £5

23/11/2022

Christmas comes to Windsor Castle from tomorrow, Thursday 24th November with beautiful decorations throughout the castle and a 20 foot high Christmas tree in St George’s Hall.

25/09/2022

Following the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Windsor Castle will reopen on Thursday 29th September.
The Platinum Jubilee exhibition will not re-open. The Dolls House is currently closed.

06/07/2022

The Platinum Jubilee exhibition opens tomorrow, 7th July at Windsor Castle until 26th September 2022.
On display will be the Queen’s coronation dress designed by Norman Hartnell and the robe of estate she wore on coronation day, 2nd June 1953.
Also on display will some of the Queen’s jewellery.
Admission to the exhibition is included in the Windsor Castle ticket price.

01/05/2022

Our first public Platinum Jubilee walk around Windsor. Come along and find out the story behind this obelisk which celebrates King George III’s Diamond Jubilee in 1810.
Walks every Saturday and Sunday throughout May.
Tickets available at the Tourist Information Centre at Windsor Guildhall or online at www.windsor.gov.uk and put Platinum Jubilee walk into search box.

26/04/2022

Our lovely group on their Windsor Platinum Jubilee walk today.
Still spaces left on our May weekends public Platinum Jubilee walks.
To book go to www.windsor.gov.uk and put Platinum Jubilee walk into the search box.

25/01/2022

Of course it was the winner!! 🏆

We are here for anyone wishing to visit Windsor Castle with a private Blue Badge tourist guide. Blue Badge tourist guides are the only guides permitted to guide at the castle.

Drumroll please... 🥁

Windsor Castle is officially the Tiqets global winner of the Best Onsite Experience 2021! 🏆🎉

The Tiqets Remarkable Venue Awards were established in 2017 to recognise and celebrate the best attractions and museums in the most-visited cities. 🗺️

See what the hype is all about and take a royal day out to see inside the castle.

Book your tickets by visiting our website 👉 www.windsor.gov.uk

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25/11/2021

From today until 31 January 2022 there is an exhibition of the Queen and her sister Princess Margaret’s pantomime outfits they wore as teenagers while evacuated to the castle during World War II. The exhibition is in the Waterloo Chamber.

10/09/2021

Delighted to be working once again with the wonderful Windsor Fringe and do come along on our popular Plague, Pestilence and Potions tour on Monday 27th September at 2pm starting from Windsor Guildhall. To book go to www.windsorfringe.co.uk and click on Events 2021 then click on tickets under our event.

22/07/2021

Fantastic to se the Changing the Guard ceremony back after sixteen long months! The musical ceremony will take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays with the new guard marching into Windsor Castle at 10.45am and the old guard marching out of the castle at around 11.20/11.30am.

11/07/2021

Prince Philip: A Celebration
We visited the exhibition in the Lantern Lobby and St George’s Hall of the state apartments. It is excellent and we especially liked the beautiful diamond bracelet Prince Philip gave the Queen on their wedding day, the bracelet made with diamonds from his mother’s tiara.
Look out too for his desk from Buckingham Palace complete with antiquated phone system he used until the late 1990s!
But to cap everything else is the wonderful painting by Ralph Heimans to mark the Duke’s retirement from public life in 2017.
Entry to exhibition is included with a Windsor Castle ticket. On until 20th September 2021.

12/06/2021

It was the Queen’s official birthday today with a military parade Trooping the Colour inside the grounds of Windsor Castle and a spectacular fly past by the RAF Red Arrows.

13/05/2021

Just a few spaces left on our final Plague, Pestilence and Potions walking tour on Sunday 16th May at 11am.
For further information and to book, type into your browser: tickets.windsor.gov.uk/sales/plague

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16/04/2021

Join us on our new 90 minute walking tour of Windsor with a professional Blue Badge tourist guide.

PLAGUE, PESTILENCE AND POTIONS

Find out about Windsor’s history of infectious disease outbreaks from the 1300s to the present day.

See the site of Elizabeth I’s new gallows constructed during a plague outbreak in 1563. When she said lockdown, she really meant lockdown!

The house where Windsor’s first dispensary/hospital for the sick poor of the town and the vaccination hub during a smallpox outbreak in 1827.

Why Eton schoolboys were made to smoke during a plague outbreak and how certain “businesses” in the town took advantage of the myth that you couldn’t catch two diseases at the same time. Fake news is nothing new.

Windsor Castle has always been a refuge for monarchs during disease outbreaks and hear how some tragically didn’t escape illness.

Walks start at 11am from the Guildhall on May 1st/2nd/3rd/8th/15th/16th.
£12.50 per person.
Maximum group size of 6.
Everyone will be given a receiver and single use disposable ear bud to listen to the tour guide and to ensure social distancing.

For more information and to book, click the link:

https://www.windsor.gov.uk/whats-on/plague-pestilence-and-potions-tour-p1860561

Windsor Tourist Guides Ltd holds the VisitEngland Good to Go certification as a COVID-19 aware company.

27/03/2021

Plague, pestilence and potions

Our new 90 minute guided walk around medical Windsor is coming soon......

Did you know:
In the mid 1800s only 400 out of 3,000 Windsor households had piped water.
Queen Anne had her own spring water brought to the castle each day by donkey. The spring was in Chalvey.
The last well was installed in 1852 opposite Windsor and Eton Riverside station.
A cholera outbreak in the town in the 1840s caused 1,000 cases and 25 deaths.

All you ever needed to know about Windsor’s disease past including the Black Death, smallpox, influenza and typhoid.

The 90 minute walk is £12.50 per person and will be bookable via www.Windsor.gov.uk what’s on. The meeting point will be at the Guildhall at 11am on selected dates just as soon as we can get going.

Windsor Tourist Guides Ltd will operate a COVID secure guiding audio system where the guide will wear a microphone and clients listen through a disposable single ear bud receiver system to ensure social distancing.