Christmas Day in Windsor, Oxford & Avebury with Traditional Lunch

This Christmas Day tour to Windsor, Oxford and Avebury's stone circle is a 10-hour-30-minute day trip on 25 December 2026, leaving Golden Tours Bus Stop 1, Bulleid Way, Victoria, SW1W 9SR at 8:00am and returning about 6:30pm. It includes a walking tour of Windsor, a visit to the Avebury stones, a walking tour of Oxford and a three-course Christmas lunch in a traditional Oxford pub. ⚠ Windsor Castle is closed on Christmas Day and entry is not included. Guiding is in English only. From £199 per adult, free cancellation up to and including 18 December.

Read this before you book: the castle is shut

Windsor Castle does not open on 25 December. No tour can take you inside it, including this one, and entry is not included in the price for that reason. What you get in Windsor is a guided walk through the town — the streets, the Long Walk, the castle from outside — on a morning when almost nobody else is there.

We put this first because it is the fact that decides whether the day is right for you. Buried at the bottom of a page it becomes a complaint; read now, it is simply the shape of the trip.

The stones at Avebury

Avebury is a Neolithic monument of three stone circles and a UNESCO World Heritage Site — one of the best-known prehistoric sites in Britain. Its purpose has never been established. You walk among the stones rather than viewing them from behind a rope, which is the part people remember.

Avebury is not, however, the oldest stone circle in the world.

Lunch in Oxford, then the walk

Christmas lunch is three courses, served in a traditional pub in Oxford, with a vegetarian main course available. A guided walk through the city follows — entry to the colleges is not included, and on 25 December they are closed in any case. Parts of the itinerary may change on the day.

Windsor again, the day after, with Stonehenge

If it is Windsor and the west country you want, the Boxing Day tour to Windsor, Bath, Stonehenge and Salisbury runs on 26 December for £120 and includes entry to Stonehenge. It has no Christmas lunch, and Windsor Castle is closed to visitors that day as well.