Garden Travel and Tours Advice

Garden tours require advance planning and this is a pleasurable a winter activity. One solution is to book a garden tour. The other is to go as an independent traveller. The steps in planning your own garden tour are as follows: (1) decide what gardens to visit - see our Garden Finder (2) find out what is the best time of year for a visit and when the gardens are open (3) make the necessary travel arrangements - for flights, trains, ferries, buses, car hire, cycle hire etc (4) find hotels or bed and breakfasts, preferably with good gardens. The temptation to put off such arrangements until arrival in the country should be resisted. Intensive pre-planning of garden travel arrangements brings rich rewards so we recommend that you invest some time in planning before you set off. This will avoid wasted time and disappointments during your trip - and online bookings make things much simpler.

Links to Garden Travel

Airline Flights

Train Tickets

Ferry Tickets

Bus Tickets

Car Hire

Web booking recommendations for travel to gardens in America and Europe

For flights within America, see Travelocity: Airline Tickets, Hotels, Cars, Vacations, and Cruises. or Expedia Travel -- discount airfare, flights, hotels. Or, if you have time to hunt for a bargain, try ITA Software and QIXO

For cheap flights from Britain, see Cheap Flights.

For Eurorail passes, see TravelNow.com And see European Rail Distributors.

For rail travel within Britain see TheTrainLine: train times ticket booking and www.nationalrail.co.uk (though its much easier to telephone the passenger information line 44(0)8457 484950 [08457 484950 within the UK]

For public transport within London Transport for London

For bus travel & timetables within Britain see UK Bus Transport Web Directory

For finding hotels and guest houses in Britain and Europe see Smoothhound

For Bed and Breakfast for Garden Lovers see the BBGL website

For Channel Ferries see Ferry Booker

For Eurotunnel and Eurostar and for Europe Ferry Crossings for bookings.

For hotels worldwide see Worldstay.com

For worry-free garden tours in Europe, America and other parts of the World see our Garden Tours page

See note on history of landscape architecture.