As you may already have found, there are many companies offering escorted battlefield tours. Our tours are different in that they allow you to explore and reveal the hidden history of the battlefields at your own pace, and at a time (any time) of your choosing. We are also one of the very few fully registered UK battlefield tour companies who have been established for nearly 30 years and who specialise in the Great War (Western Front) and nothing else. We are also the only self-drive tour company to have received so many national press awards and recommendations, including Vanity Fair's much coveted ‘Best Guided Tour' award a few years back, and as later recommended by the prestigious 'Country Life' magazine - see our ‘Testimonials’ (main menu above). Our Self-Drive tour 'package' is just that. It includes your hotel accommodation and optional Channel crossing (for UK travellers) and, most importantly of all, our unique Self-Drive battlefield guides, maps, plans, directions etc., all dovetailed together by us so all you have to do is just pack and go - we make it as simple as that! Please note that our two Somme 1916 and Ypres Self-Drive guides are only available as part of a 'package' comprising hotel accommodation (and optional Channel crossing). You may be unsure as to whether a self-drive tour is for you. Our best advice is to have a closer look at our many testimonials   to see what people like you have said after they returned from a self-drive tour. Unlike some companies, we don’t just cherry-pick the letters we want you to read. The testimonials you see on our website are exactly as we received them. People who wish to visit the battlefields of the Great War quite often think first of a conducted tour. However, for those truly seeking to reveal the legacy of the Great War, nothing can beat the freedom of exploring the battlefields without the rigid timetable of a coach/minibus group dictating the pace. How frustrating must it be to see the battlefields passing before your eyes without being able to stop wherever you want to stop, for however long you want to spend, exploring what you want to explore. The freedom to explore the battlefields at your own pace is what I always wanted to share with others and what I have spent years putting together. It’s what sets our tours apart. If you intend visiting the battlefield you need to be well briefed. Many visitors just turn up thinking that all will be clear, which will certainly not be the case. For example you may just see cattle munching away at grass, but our guide may well reveal that the field they occupy was once the Front Line, and that beneath their hooves lies the tragic legacy of the Great War. This is where our Self-Drive guide expertise comes in to play, expertise based on having personally conducted over 300 small-group battlefield tours over the past 30 years. Our written guides are not just any old collection of briefing notes, copied books or cobbled together maps as offered by some companies. Our self-drive battlefield guides are professionally produced comprising two parts, so separating navigation from the main guide. The navigation section even includes a photo of every junction you'll encounter with clear overlaid pointers. It's written as if we are in the car with you. Have a look to the left here to see what our guides look like (click pages to enlarge). Our self-drive guides are regularly updated, fully bound A4 colour guides which have been carefully designed to take you on a journey of exploration, so you know exactly where to drive, where to stop, where to walk and, most importantly of all, what to look for. Our guides are only available to those booking a tour with us and so not available from shops or sold individually. It is this essential combination of comparative 'then and now' maps, photos and narratives that have made our Self-Drive guides so appealing, especially to the independent traveller seeking to explore the past in greater detail. And lastly. . .if you are thinking of booking a Self-Drive tour then please book as far in advance as possible as hotel rooms soon get booked and we only offer those hotels we know personally (so important…) as show on our ‘ Hotel Options ’ page. Where next? Have a look at our Somme 1916 and Ypres Self-Drive itineraries then simply go to our ‘ Get a Quotation ’ page and email us (or phone) with the tour you have in mind (there’s some helpful advice on our quotation page) and we’ll send you a bespoke quotation based on how many people/nights/rooms etc. And remember, our bespke self-drive tours allow YOU to choose when you wish to travel (we’ll happily advise), and for how many nights away - and we do the rest. You just pack and go! Click the poppy…

A quick reminder of what’s included with our Self-Drive tours: • Channel tunnel ‘LeShuttle’ vehicle crossing Folkstone-Calais with LeShuttle (just 35 minutes!) • En-suite selected hotel accommodation including breakfasts • Our acclaimed guide material/directions/maps etc - without doubt the most important component! • Us being here pretty much all the time to help you in any way possible (we don’t close like other travel agents…)