Gin Cocktail Afternoon Tea Vintage Bus Tour for Two
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Overview
Discover the sights of Scotland from your seats in vintage 1966 Routemaster Bus, and dine on a selection of delicious sweet and savoury treats with this Gin Cocktail Afternoon Tea Vintage Bus Tour for Two.
Depending on your location, you and a lucky friend can cruise past the famous landmarks of either Glasgow or Edinburgh in vintage style. Your city sightseeing will be accompanied by a delicious Gin Tea experience served to you on board; you can tuck in to a selection of traditional afternoon tea delights such as finger sandwiches and sweet and savoury fancies, accompanied by a glass of prosecco and unlimted tea and coffee. Top it all off with a Gin ‘Pot Tail’ of your choice – an exquisite gin cocktail infused with fresh herbs, edible flowers and mixers.
- SKU
- PHLVBG SP1
- Locations
- 2 in the UK
- People
- For 2
- Validity
- 12 Months
- Rating
- 4.5 (56)
What's Included
- 90 minute Gin Cocktail Afternoon Tea Vintage Bus Tour
- Choose from a tour through Glasgow or Edinburgh
- Discover the key sights of the city from a vintage 1966 Routemaster Bus
- Traditional afternoon tea with finger sandwiches and sweet and savoury treats
- Glass of prosecco
- Unlimited tea and coffee
- Gin cocktail infused with fresh herbs and edible flowers
- Experience gift pack including personalised voucher and message card
What happens on the day?
On arrival at your chosen bus stop in either Edinburgh or Glasgow, you’ll step aboard a vintage 1966 Routemaster Bus and take your pre-booked seats.
From there, it’ll be a journey through the city to discover the key sights and landmarks. Accompanying the views will be a traditional afternoon tea including a glass of prosecco and unlimited tea and coffee, served up with a carefully prepared Gin ‘Pot Tail’ each.
Participant guidelines
- Minimum age: 6 (Under 18s must be accompanied by a paying adult)
- Due to the design of the Routemaster Bus it is unable to accommodate wheelchair users, although seating downstairs can be reserved for those who are unable to manage the stairs
- The experience content, equipment used and restrictions may vary
Availability
Edinburgh - Wednesday to Sunday: 12.00 or 15.00
Glasgow - Wednesday to Sunday: 12.00 or 15.00
Date Exclusions include the Christmas and New Year period.
Patrons are requested to arrive 5 to 10 minutes before departure. Unfortunately they cannot wait for late comers.
We recommend you book at least four weeks in advance to ensure that dates are available. All bookings are subject to availability.
Please allow 90 minutes for the Gin Cocktail Afternoon Tea Vintage Bus Tour for Two.
What about insurance?
The centres contracted with us hold public liability insurance. We also hold contingency liability cover. You will not be liable for accidental damage to equipment, except where damage has been caused as a result of recklessness or wilful negligence.
Please ensure you are familiar with the terms and conditions of the experience.
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Marie Marquis
17/12/2021
Great afternoon
I was gifted this for my birthday and it was fantastic fun afternoon. Would highly recommend it
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Sue
18/11/2021
Brilliant Trip
Great quality food and drink on a nice trip around Edinburgh.
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Helen
18/11/2021
Fantastic!
A fun and fantastic and afternoon. My family just loved it. Top chef, waiting staff and entertaining driver! Will book the tour in Glasgow now. Highly recommended!
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Alison
25/09/2021
Fantastic
What a fantastic day,great fun would definitely do it again
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Pauline smith
13/09/2021
Tea vintage bus tour
Excellent value for money. Staff excellent. Only issue was trying to book tour through virgin experience. Very stressful as every date you tried to book was available and then next day you would get email to say dates had gone. Would advise to book direct with red bus company direct.
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Shirley Tawse
02/09/2021
Great way to experience an afternoon tea.
Had a great day, lovely food and set out nicely. Enjoyed the gin and glass of prosecco. The staff were jolly and attentive especially when one woman spilled her glass of prosecco and it was all quickly wiped up. However I would suggest booking the tour direct not through virgin experience as I was not at all taken with how virgin experience ripped me off when changing my experience from a spa day for 2 with lunch and a treatment to the bus tour. I'm sure the spa day cost much more.
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Annie
30/08/2021
A must
We had a wonderful time aboard the vintage tea bus, loved the music, loved the food, loved the cocktails. Staff were very welcoming and full of banter. Such a shame our trip was cut short due to accident on one of the roads, out with their control.
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Catherine
29/08/2021
Absolutely brilliant.
Fantastic staff and great fun.
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Suzi
29/08/2021
Lovely afternoon
Sandwiches and cakes lovely, staff fantastic, recommend the raspberry gin comes in little tea pots with loads of garnish.
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John
29/08/2021
Excellent value all round
Really good day on the bus staff are great cant do enough for you, don't think i drank the tea, gin and beer was great and plent of it. Its an experience for sure not been on an old bus for years but its well kitted out just the job.
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Sue
28/08/2021
Definitely recommend this experience
This was such a lovely way to see a beautiful city. The food was excellent and the staff were so lovely. Definitely recommend this for a relaxing 2 hour tour.
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June
28/08/2021
21st birthday treat for my granddaughter
Cannot praise this experience enough. Staff were brilliant and very a attentive to my granddaughter when we told them it was her 21st birthday, brought her a card and had everyone sing “ happy birthday “the afternoon teas was delicious as were the gin cocktails served in lovely glass teapots. Enjoyed a tour of Glasgow, the weather was beautiful and myself, my daughter and two granddaughters had a brilliant day.
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Theresa
27/08/2021
Terry
Had a lovely time with my daughter and the staff were very obliging and helpful. We both loved it and have bought a second trip.
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Pauline
11/10/2020
Excellent!!
Prosecco, afternoon tea and a gin cocktail onboard a vintage bus..........a great experience! A great selection of savouries and cakes and a choice of cocktails. Girls onboard were very welcoming and friendly. Highly recommended.
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Gillian ketchen
04/10/2020
Great trip
I was given this experience as a birthday gift. Due to Covid had to postpone but wow was worth the wait. Staff were lovely and helpful, food was lovely and fresh. Good choice of gin to try. Highly recommend this.
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PB
01/10/2020
Best bus in glasgow
Super afternoon tea - food and drinks. Gin cocktails were especially good. Being on the bus just added to making it a different Experience.
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Edith
29/09/2020
Gin and Afternoon Tea Tour
Lovely way to spend 90 minutes glass of Proseco with afternoon tea finished of with a gin of our choice. Staff very pleasant and attentive. Would certainly recommend it for a treat
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Joanne
28/09/2020
It’s was so much more that we expected
This was an excellent day out the experience was fantastic and the food and service was first class. I would throughly recommend this trip..
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Margaret & David
28/09/2020
Afternoon out
We had a great time food was lovely and enjoyed our Gins would definitely recommend.
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Helen Young
12/09/2020
Brilliant day out!
Really enjoyed this experience. The food was delicious, the cocktails and prosecco were great and the tour was really enjoyable. Would highly recommend!
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Sam
04/09/2020
Great day out
This was a great way to see Edinburgh and enjoy a lovely lunch at the same time. The food, the drinks and the staff were amazing. The bus was quite noisy, but that's expected as it is a authentic vintage bus, which added to the whole experience but some may not enjoy that. The booking however was terrible, tickets never came when they said they were and had to chase them up to get them. Which was stressful due to covid and phone lines being busy. Will be booking directly next time
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Sheena
15/08/2020
Great day out
We really enjoyed the day from start to finish. Looking forward to doing it again soon.
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Kay
29/02/2020
Birthday Treat
Great way to treat my best friend on her birthday
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Nicola
15/02/2020
Fab afternoon
Brill afternoon celebrating our honeymoon xx
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Joanne connolly
06/02/2020
Excellent
Had a wonderful day and would recommend to anyone staff were very helpful and friendly will be back
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Karen
13/12/2019
Vintage Bus Tour
My husband and I received this as a Silver Wedding gift from our children and what a fantastic gift. We boarded the bus after a pleasant,warm welcome from our driver to be seated at a delicious afternoon tea of savouries, sandwiches, scones and cakes and a refreshing glass of prosecco. Touring round Edinburgh enjoying the sights, listening to interesting facts and cheery Christmas music added to the feel good factor of this trip. We also enjoyed a gin of our choice to top of a worthwhile tour.
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David
04/12/2019
Birthday gift
Welcomed with a glass of champagne on an old London Routemaster, we were led to our table with its multitered presentation of savouries, sandwiches and cakes. Then off we went on our tour of Glasgow slowly making our way through our food, accompanied by tea or coffee. After a brief stop at the Transport Museum on the riverside we were served gin, from a choice of several flavours. After about one and a half hours we came to the end of the tour.Staff really pleasant,great experience.
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David
03/11/2019
Great Afternoon
This was a great way to enjoy a trip around Glasgow while tucking into a delicious high tea with preoseco and a Gin Cocktail. The staff were so friendly and welcoming and went out their way to make sure we had the best 90 minutes on board. Emma and the team worked their socks off making sure everyone was catered for. Worth every penny and would highly recommend it.
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Kate Dalgliesh
20/10/2019
Gin cocktail bus tour
Had a brilliant time I booked it for my sisters birthday
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Sarah Ann McGee
15/09/2019
Great day
The Gin experience was amazing. The staff were so helpful and friendly. From the moment we stepped into the bus until we stepped off it was a great experience. Prosecco, tea,coffee and the sandwiches cakes and scones were delicious. There was a great selection of gin and mixers to choose from. The 90 minutes flew bye. Highly recommend this experience and will definitely do it again.
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Joyce
15/09/2019
Gin Bus Experience Glasgow
Was a very enjoyable experience. Staff very nice and attentive to all our needs and were very friendly. Would definitely recommend it to others xx thanks
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Sandra
14/09/2019
Brilliant day out
Enjoyed the whole 2 hour trip tremendously, food was delicious, and staff very friendly. Will definitely do it again.
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Sarah
10/08/2019
Fab Birthday Treat
Booked the Gin afernoon tea for my birthday with a friend and her daughter who were visiting. The staff were lovely, the food was great and the Gin was fab we had a wonderful time. I might book again as a treat when my mum next visits. Just one thing, it could have been a diaster as our names were not down on the list that the staff had despite me having my confirmation. There was a spare table as a group had not turned up so we were able to get on but otherwise we would have been turned away.
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Margaret & Moira
20/07/2019
A lovely experience
Great time but had to ask for the gin cocktail as it wasn’t offered voluntarily!!
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Jo Clifton
14/06/2019
What a Joy
This was a treat for Mother's Day and I invited a friend to share the experience. Despite the dreich weather, it was a joy from start to finish. The table was beautifully presented with finger sandwiches and a most amazingly delicious tiny quiche to accompany the Prosecco. Then came the serious cakes, which included one of the best meringues I've ever had. But the crowning glory was the gin cocktails. I expected a small glass each, but received a small 'teapot' full of our choices. Magic!
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Kathy
31/05/2019
A fun afternoon
This experience was a gift from workmates on my retirement & I took my daughter with me. The guys on the bus were helpful & friendly, the food was tasty & fresh & soon everyone was chatting away & enjoying their bubbly, gin/vodka served in a teapot with ice & fresh herbs & a cup of tea/coffee too! We were treated to some sightseeing tips but we were too busy chatting to notice. Then it was over & we wobbled down Princes St. for some retail therapy, thank you for a fun afternoon out 😄
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Jan
11/05/2019
Great day!!
We had a lovely day on the Glasgow bus tour with afternoon tea and gin cocktail. The staff were very pleasant and helpful.
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Issy
24/03/2019
Great tour
Bought this experience for husbands Xmas and it was great he loved it something totally different. We had a 3 hour drive to do the Gin bus but it was worth it . Thank you .
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Billy
19/11/2018
Gin Trip
Great experience to travel around Edinburgh on an old London Red Bus. Staff on the trip were great & I would recommend this trip to anyone.
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Andie
18/12/2021
Such a lovely afternoon!
Staff were so friendly & attentive, bus was nicely decorated with Christmas decor! Was welcomed with food & processco on the table. Gin tea pots were adorable and tasty.
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Lynne
27/09/2021
Making memories!!
My mum and I had an absolute blast, was so much fun, something different!! We had a great time, food was great, gin was tasty and the staff were lovely! The only thing I'd change is if there was a bit more food! But we had such a lovely time!
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Lesley
26/09/2021
Fun day out
My friend and I had a fun day out on the red bus. The staff were very friendly and helpful. The afternoon tea was nice but we could have done with a few more sandwiches. The gin tea pot was a lovely touch and the gin cocktail was very nice. The only down side was that the table was very sticky. We will be going on another red bus tour in the future.
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Irene
14/03/2020
Enjoyable experience
Food was very nice. Service was great. Only thing was couldn’t really hear tour due to music being on simultaneously.
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Donna B
17/02/2020
Tea for two!
We went on the Vintage Red Bus gin afternoon tea around Edinburgh on a wet and windy afternoon. It was a brilliant experience from start to finish. Food was delicious....we were welcomed with a glass of Prosecco and our gin cocktail was superb. It was a bit bumpy but this was as we expected and added to the experience. Music on the bus could have been quieter or not really necessary but the commentary was just enough. Waitresses were very polite and friendly. All in all a great day.
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Margaret
30/06/2019
Great day
Disappointing that the only “Gin” offered had to be purchased separately. We did get a glass of prosecco with our afternoon tea but as I don’t drink wine that didn’t reallly count as a Gin afternoon tea as advertised. Staff were really nice 👍
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William
28/04/2019
A good day out
A quirky way to see some sights. Staff were very efficient. Good idea for group outings
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Mary
30/03/2019
Fizzy Fun Day
We started our tour with a glass of Prosecco. Boded well for the day!! A delightful Afternoon Tea was set out ready for us--including tasty scone and cakes for my friend who is lactose-intolerant. Very much appreciated. We toured around Edinburgh in our lovely vintage bus while enjoying our Tea. Angela looked after us very well indeed, all the while providing a commentary on passing places of interest. All in all the day was great fun and good value. I might try Glasgow next time!
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Stewart
13/10/2018
Interesting route
More landmarks could have been mentioned
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Scotland
- Edinburgh, Scotland
- Glasgow, Scotland