Stratford-Upon-Avon: Explore Shakespeare's Life with a Self-Guided Audio Tour
4.9
16 Ratings
Warwickshire
Immerse yourself in Shakespeare's world with a self-guided audio tour of Stratford-Upon-Avon. Explore the places that shaped his life and hear fascinating stories along the way. Book now!
Duration: 45 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • The Jester - The tour starts next to The Jester statue. You’ll hear about the relevance of the Jester in Shakespeare’s plays. You’ll also hear about how VoiceMap works.
What's Included
  • Offline access to audio, maps, and geodata
  • VoiceMap App for Android and iOS
  • Lifetime access to this self-guided tour in English
What's Not Included
  • Tickets or entrance fees to any museums or other attractions en route
  • Smarphone and headphones
  • Food and drinks
  • Transportation
Additional Information

Explore the locations where Shakespeare resided, socialized, and drew immense inspiration, through an economical self-led walking tour in Stratford-Upon-Avon.

• Visit the significant locations connected to Shakespeare’s life, such as the church where he received baptism and where he is currently interred, while also hearing about the curse he planted on his tomb
• The tour is narrated by the producer Oz Harris, who has over a decade long experience in conducting private tours in England
• The entire tour can be completed in 30 minutes, but feel free to linger at certain stops – the control of when to begin and end is entirely in your hands
• Enjoy limitless usage before and after your booked tour date
• Make use of the virtual tour option from the comfort of your home

Upon booking, you will receive a ticket with instructions and a unique code mentioned under the ‘Before You Go’ section. Proceed by installing the VoiceMap app and input your unique code.

The app guides you to the starting point and once you reach the correct location, just plug in your headphones and hit start. VoiceMap provides automatic GPS playback with accurate directional instructions, it’s also operable offline.

Location
The Jester
Windsor Street
Before arrival, please install the VoiceMap mobile app and use the code provided on your confirmation ticket. This is a self-guided audio tour that you can start, pause, or restart at any time and complete at your own pace. Detailed starting point instructions are available after downloading.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Travelforfun58
Jun 11, 2024
Fun way to learn about Shakespeare and see the heart of Stratford - Easy to use, entertaining and informative. I preferred this method of touring to a group tour. Could go at my own pace and pause the tour and make side trips when I wanted.
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Irene_j
May 14, 2024
Clear commentary with excellent directions. - I love the flexibility of being able to go on this tour at your own convenience. The narrative was clear and I like their feature of telling you to refer to the map when you are not going in the correct direction. Otherwise, it works like Googlemaps with a bubble showing you the direction. I also appreciated being able to download it at home to make sure that it will work.
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Rachels6364
May 12, 2024
Super helpful guide - It was a great way of ensuring I didn’t miss the best parts - I would never have found many of these points by myself - or realised their significance. Will do again at other locations !!!!
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Kaylene_d
Apr 7, 2024
Self guided tour - A great way to see Stratford-Upon-Avon using the self guided audio app. It was very easy to use and would recommend it to anyone wanting to see the local tourist destinations
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John_m
Sep 6, 2023
Grand day out, weather, company and tour guide 👍 - Good tour, leans heavily towards the Bard, bit more general history would have been appreciated. Weather was brilliant so grateful for that. Not too busy mid morning, watch out for traffic!
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Admirallordnelson
Jul 5, 2023
Beats the crowded tours done by guides where you tag along. - Without this app guide we would have missed a significant highlight of our visit to Stratford. The guide takes you past all the main sites for which you can purchase entry tickets and they are very worthwhile. The beautiful walk however took us to the edge of the town down to Trinity Church where Shakespeare is actually buried. Not to be missed, this is a gem location not central to the main sites and only using this tour did we discover it. The spoken tour and map is fabulous, the narrator is excellent and we loved his pace and commentary. We used both online and offline maps/guide and did not notice any difference so ease of use is assured. Well worth the small price.
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Daydream53663249321
Jun 15, 2023
Easy App - User-friendly app that enabled a quick (or not so quick) self-guided tour of major points of intetest in Shakespeare's home town!
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Amanda_f
Jun 5, 2023
Just the right guide for another Tx Mom and myself! - Perfect for doing your own thing along the route! Great instructions after purchase, so follow them and download the audio before your trip. The navigation tools for the audio were great. Just a note if yr first timers to England; most shopping touristy souvenir business close by 5 or half past ;/
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Stella
May 15, 2023
Fun family day out - Aaaw i wrote a detailed review and the app restarted and now I can’t do as much justice as previously! However, yes this was money well spent. We wanted to learn as much as possible about the great Shakespeare and managed to without breaking the bank. The quality of the guide was so clear and I enjoyed how modern and how conversationally it flowed - compared to the boring dated guides where they talk at you in mono- tone. This I enjoyed tremendously. What I did like the most was how you could go at your own pace, pause it f you needed to pop into a quaint little shop for the old gift or if you wanted to delve into a book shop. Furthermore, you could restart or rewind if you so wished to. The Integrated map had a blue dot which showed you in real time your location the number of the next site was for easy navigation. You could also hop from site to site in any order you desired without necessarily following the order on the program leaving you to roam “Shakespearically” in the idyllic little town. Most of the sites of course, had separate entry feed’s so please be prepared for that if you want to enter ans explore further.. though my best bed is that once you hit to pub, the stop will be a great deal longer! I did enjoy this guide, well made and definitely money well spent.
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S7714gwmelanies
Jul 30, 2023
Really enjoyed it. - Really good process of seeing the town of Shakespeare’s birth, and everything was of ease to use. The information provided was also Informative.
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