Brit Movie Tours

My mom and I did both Harry Potter tours; the London and the Oxford/​Lacock tour. Yes, the London locations could be done on your own but frankly, taking the Tube all over town every single day for a week was already exhausting and the allure of a big motor coach was very strong. We weren’t disappointed at all.
Our tour guide, Rosie, was our guide for both tours. She was phenomenal. Very informative, very helpful, very very funny. The first tour of Oxford and Lacock took us to Godric’s Hollow, Slughorn’s house, and a number of various filming locations and inspirations for Hogwarts. If you want to see the school, take this tour. It’s the best tour there for your money as most of the other private tours are more than double the price at least. Plus, it helps to have a guide who can check when everything opens and closes so you don’t waste your time getting there only to find you can’t get in. Lacock was an adorable village that looks like it’s straight out of a novel. Oxford was gorgeous and it was really interesting to take in the history there (Harry Potter aside). This tour was pretty much an all day tour and it was definitely worth it. It would probably be quite difficult navigating Oxford on your own as well so having Rosie there to show us around was perfect.
The London tour was a bit busier with a lot more children. Once again, Rosie made it a great time for everyone. She even had «scripts» so the little kids could act out their favourite scenes at the «Leaky Cauldron». While the addresses for some locations are readily available, honestly, some of the places are so obscure that you would walk right past them without a helpful guide to point them out. Most of the locations were digitally altered a lot so you probably wouldn’t know what they were.
It was a bit crazy the day of our tour since it was also Remembrance Day and the streets of London were a bit crazier than usual. Even so, it was a fabulous weekend and exactly what we hoped it would be. Thank you so much to Rosie for giving me and my mother such a memorable weekend.

This review is only regarding the Harry Potter tour this company offers.
It isn’t that great.
They walk you around places in London where the movies filmed random scenes and will show you still photos from the movie as proof. Honestly, none of it was that impressive. The majority of the scenes were forgettable moments from the movie and the background was even less memorable.
The most interesting thing they show you is where the train platform is, but you could look that up and find it on your own. It isn’t even that impressive in person. They just put up some brick wall paper and half a shopping cart onto the wall.
The problem is that most of the big scenes for the movie weren’t shot in London which makes sense when you think about it. How difficult would it be to shoot a major motion picture in London? I can barely walk around this town, it’s so crowded. How much worse would it be to get a gigantic movie crew in here?