Fees Information
London

Driver-Guiding
1 April 2006 to 31 March 2007
As recommended by the Driver-Guides Association

Rates are per car with a Blue Badge Driver-Guide
(To download a copy of these fees as an Acrobat file click here)

Half Day Tours Hours
(up to)		 Car
Up to 4
passengers		 Car
Up to 7
passengers
London 4 £225 £255
Windsor Castle or Hampton Court 4 £245 £275
Full Day Tours
London 8 £340 £365
Windsor Eton & Hampton Court 8 £345 £370
Chartwell & Hever 8 £355 £385
Leeds Castle & Chartwell or Hever 8 £390 3420
Oxford & Blenheim 9 £410 £455
Cambridge & Ely 9 £410 £455
Canterbury & Leeds or Chartwell or Dover 9 £410 £455
Brighton & Arundel Castle 9 £410 £455
Kent / Sussex Gardens, e.g Sissinghurst + one other 9 £410 £455
Cambridge & Constable Country 9 £490 £530
Cotswolds 9 £490 £530
Winchester, Salisbury & Stonehenge 9 £490 £530
Oxford & Stratford or Cotswolds 9 £490 £530
Cotswolds Stratford & Warwick
10
£495
 £550
Stonehenge & Bath and/or Salisbury 10 £495 £550
Extended Touring
Up to 150 miles per day 8 £415 £450
Transfers
To and from airports, seaports, stations, theatres, restaurants etc. are available.
Extra Time and Mileage
 Per hour £45.00 £45.00
 Per mile £1.50 £1.80
Additional Charges
Guide's overnight subsistence -  at client's expense or per night  £80
 Entrance fees, etc.  Cost
 Foreign language supplement: Half day - £15
Full day -  £30
Cancellation Charges   
Notice Given
  % of fee
 Over 14 days
 by negotiation
14 to 8 days 50%
7 days to 48 hrs 75%
After 48 hours 100%

Please Note:
  • No extra charge for car parking or road tolls.
  • This list of tours is by no means comprehensive. Tours can be tailor-made to suit individual requirements.
  • These are recommended prices for freelance Driver-Guiding engagements.
  • Prices charged by individual members are likely to vary according to the specification, capital outlay, maintenance and running costs, of their vehicles.
  • Prices are calculated as starting and finishing in central London.
 * For Information
Legal Notice
This recommended fee scale applies only to those guides who conform to the description of "Worker" as viewed by the Office of Fair Trading in respect of the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976.

In terms of the members of the DGA:
~ A "worker" is any Guide who works under a contract personally to execute any work or labour, i.e. who is a sole trader and the subject matter of whose contract, subject to only very minor exceptions, will be executed by that Guide personally.
~ A "non-worker" is any Guide who accepts work in order to refer it to another Guide (and so will not carry out the work himself). The Guide may be acting as an individual, an officer of a company, a partner in a partnership or be acting through another business vehicle and as such will not be a "worker".
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