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Enter Charles Dickens' World On Full-Day Tour Of Chatham & Rochester

  • Tour Category

    Private Tour

  • Tour Types

    Architecture, History, Sightseeing

  • Duration

    1 Day

  • Activity Level

    Easy

  • Language

    English

Description

If you have read Dickens and are visiting the UK, you can't miss this tour! We will visit a range of places associated with his work. Further, if time permits (or indeed entirely alternatively), we can explore several ships from different eras and even go through a modern Royal Navy submarine!

Highlights
  • Rochester High Street
  • Norman Cathedral and Castle 
  • Charles Dickens Museum and his house 
  • Optional: Chatham city
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    • Pick-up by a guide from your local hotel or nearest train station

    • Visit Rochester High Street: a quaint Victorian-era street straight out of a Dickens story; many shops having kept their original store-fronts, and Dickens' memorabilia at every turn.

    • Tour the beautiful, old Norman Cathedral and Castle.

    • Visit the Charles Dickens museum, his house, and see quite a few places you may have read of in his stories.

    • Alternatively, visit the nearby Chatham: home to an excellent Naval museum and a number of Royal Navy Ships, a submarine, and the rope museum, the longest brick-built building in the world.  A visit to the Royal Engineers Museum is also highly recommended.

What's Included

  • Entry to all museums, castles, cathedrals and military sights. 

  • Hot and cold drinks with either a packed lunch or snack at a restaurant in Rochester High Street.

  • Services of a London guide. 

What's Excluded
  • Museum program or shop-bought purchases.
Know before you go

  • Rochester is an old and beautiful, small city just outside London in the county of Kent. If you have read about Dickens, then you can't miss this tour as we will visit a number of places associated with his work.

  • Nearby is the Royal Engineers museum which covers centuries of history right up to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. So, whether you love your English literature or you like your tours to be all-things-military-history, this one is for you.

Meeting Point

Rochester, UK

Cancellation Policy

For cancellations upto 2 days before the tour -

Refund of 80% of the tour price.
Price Details
Per person
1 To 4 GBP 90 Per Person

This is a private tour
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USD 117 / person