Update on Release Dates Stonehenge Inner Circle Summer 2026
8th November 2025
Good morning from Backpacker Tours, from a lovely sunny and colourful Autumnal morning. In conjunction with our Sister/Partner Site Best Value Tours on our Day Tour Collections, we are delighted to re-post this morning, great information they have posted regarding the exclusive and very limited, Stonehenge Inner Circle Tours:
Stonehenge Inner Circle Summer Options Live to Book next few days, watch this space…..
Stonehenge Inner Circle Tours Summer 2026 Dates
Exclusive, Spectacular Sunrise visit inside the stone circle
As update to our previous post regarding summer release. There was a delay at Stonehenge releasing, last week they were busy at the vibrant World Trade Market, but we are promised we will have this coming week. We have the first provisional dates as follows and please keep an eye out, we will publish more as the week goes on. These include secure links for each option with full details, live dates will appear and if you choose you can use to book:
Stonehenge Inner Circle, Lacock and Bath Tour
Morning Tour – live dates will be posted later this week
Evening Tour – live dates will be posted later this week
For full details and link when live to book, please click our secure link Full Details/To Book
Stonehenge Inner Circle and Windsor Open Top Bus Tour
Evening Tour
April – 4th, 7th, 11th, 14th,18th, 21st, 25th and 28th
May – 2nd, 5th, 9th, 12th, 16th, 19th, 23rd, 26th and 30th
June – 2nd, 6th, 9th and 13th
July – 4th, 7th, 11th, 14th, 18th, 21st, 25th and 28th
August – 1st, 4th, 8th, 11th, 15th, 18th, 22nd, 25th and 29th
September – 1st, 5th, 8th, 12th, 15th,19th, 26th and 29th
For full details and link when live to book, please click our secure link Full Details/To Book
Stonehenge Inner Circle and Avebury Tour
Evening Tour – live dates will be posted later this week
For full details and link when live to book, please click our secure link Full Details/To Book
Stonehenge Inner Circle and Windsor Castle
Morning Tour – live dates will be posted later this week
Evening Tour – live dates will be posted later this week
For full details and link when live to book, please click our secure link Full Details/To Book
Here at Best Value Tours we are proud to have had a close association with Stonehenge for 20+ years (please see bottom of post for more information on this, including our owners history including working at Stonehenge) and are honoured now to be recommended as experts, from the outstanding free advise we give to help guests with their planning to find their perfect Stonehenge option(s). Particularly pretermit now as the much awaited summer 2026 dates are due to go live to book later this week or early next.
We offer all Stonehenge Inner Circle tours available, with all operators that offer them, at the Best Value price available and exceptional customer service. Please feel most welcome to contact us this week, if you know them with your available dates, we will send options as they become live this and next week. Full contact details below towards bottom of post.
This is a fully free service and we will be delighted to help. We will send you all options and links to book if you choose, plus be available for questions as needed.
You will also find below more details of the various inner circle tours we offer. We have partnered for many years with all the firms that offer these tours, so can help as representative of them all. happy to answer any questions or for your wider travel requirements.
For a truly unforgettable experience, the Stonehenge Inner Circle Tour is an absolute must to unlock the magic of this mystical and ancient monument, with 1000’s of years of fascinating and much varied history, from the Druids to the Romans, to modern day and everything in between. An exclusive inner circle or also know as private access visit, offers rare access inside the world’s most famous prehistoric monument, which only a few privilege visitors get to enjoy each year.
On our inner circle tours you will be accompanied by an expert Stonehenge Guide who will bring the stones to life for you. Show you and explain the phenomenal ancient mathematical accuracy of the calculations made. How astonishing our ancient ancestors were able to align the vast Sarsen stones and not so small Blue Stones, to all but perfection alignment for; various alignment throughout the astronomical calendar with the sun and moon, setting and rising.
A quite remarkable achievement with the resources 2000 years when the current version of a monument on that site stands. A small part of the 5000 year history at this site of monuments and celebrations. All consumed into the magic the stones hold and that can truly feel as part of the memorable inner circle experience, come see for yourself, it is real.
Stonehenge Inner Circle Calendar
The Stonehenge Inner Circle Summer is considered March to September and most inner circle tours run during that period. Due to ground conservation reasons, currently Stonehenge do not allow access tours in October or November each year. Although there is general talk with more modern conservation techniques this may change in the future and we will announce if that happens.
The inner circle tours are morning or evening (evening when available). There are only limited dates throughout the year when it is possible to be inside the stone circle for the actual sunrise or sunset. If that is an ambition for you, please contact us (contact details below) and we will help free of charge. The time slots most tours enjoy, just after sunrise or just before sunset are spectacular and the way the sun and the moon align with the sun and moon will all make sense, all brought to life by your entertaining and knowledgeable, Stonehenge Expert Guide.
Due to lack of daylight hours, the evening/sunset tours only run March until September, however there are a good amount of morning tours still available December to February. Christmas, there is no access Christmas Eve, Day or Boxing Day, New years Eve or Day.
A wonderous time of year and each year; 20th June Sunset and 21st Sunrise, the site becomes as it has been since ancient times, a place of celebration, worship, music, drum, pipes and much merriment. We offer two outstanding Solstice tours that include options for sunrise, sunset and much more, further details below and we cannot recommend more highly this joyous and invigorating experience.
In Preparation for and clear up after, the Summer Solstice Events, Stonehenge are unable to offer access 16th to 19th and 22nd to 30th June each year. Thus as you will imagine as is by then peak summer, the weeks or so before or after 16th to 30th June are the most in demand of the year and the most popular dates sell out rapidly after launch (expected later this week). If you would like any guidance or assistance with this please contact us (contact details below). We are happy to deal with any questions you have and this is a completely free service.
This still leaves many 100’s of inner circle tours that are available each year and we will be delighted to help you find (free of charge) you best and best Value option and again our contact details are below. We have been commended for outstanding customer service so feel free to contact our knowledgeable and friendly agents whom will be delighted to help with your Stonehenge questions.
Best Value Tours also offer tours around the UK and Ireland, Europe, the Rest of the World including outstanding multi-day tour across the world. We are also currently laughing a new ski and board section, so in addition to Stonehenge we can help with most travel requests, with same friendly and knowledgeable customer service. For our younger traveller or older but young at heart. you will find at further range of tours at our sister site www.backpackertours.co.uk.
Beyond closure dates that occur each year as set out above. English Heritage/Stonehenge occasionally allow filming or other events at Stonehenge, when again inner circle access is not possible. as example there were block dates for filming this year 22nd to 30th September. We have advance notice of such events or filming, so can help you in your holiday date planning. if the Stonehenge inner circle is a must do for you, it is wise to plan that element, before if possible you finalise your holiday dates.
Charming, Vibrant, Colourful and Musical. Various Morris Dancers groups most welcoming attend the Solstice adding much Joy.
Finally a note on prices, which so sorry are frustratingly not cheap, however they are nevertheless still exceptional value. If you extract out any individual entrance costs, the actual tour cost is quite small. Plus great value as luxury transport with free wi-fi and your expert guide are also included. So amazing value for which we promise, will be a memorable and maybe spiritual experience that many experience inside the mystic and mythical ancient stone circle. Come and feel it to believe it.
More randomly, there are occasions when Stonehenge allow filming and so forth, as example 22nd/30th September this year, so no access were available then. if you would like some help planning your inner circle experience please do contact us, details below and it is a free service.
Whilst so sorry the inner circle tours are not cheap, they are nevertheless still exceptional value, as include all entrance fees. If you extract the attractions entrance fees which are all expensive, you will find the actual tour cost is amazing value. Not least as includes an expert Stonehenge Guide, who will bring the stones alive for you and explain the astonishing accuracy of the alignment of the sun and moon, sunrise and sunset with the stones. Genuinely magical and enchanting.
The regular inner circle tours only depart and return from London, there are no regional departures. So sorry we can only help with tours, if you want Stonehenge Inner Circle tickets only English Heritage will be able to help with that and sorry it is not possible to meet any of our tours en-route or at Stonehenge.
Our Collection of Stonehenge Inner Circle Tours
Stonehenge Inner Circle, Lacock and Bath | Best Value Tours
Morning Stonehenge Inner Circle Tour and Windsor | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Evening Inner Circle Tour with Avebury | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Inner Circle Sunset and Windsor Open Top Bus Tour | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Morning Inner Circle Tour with Salisbury | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Sunrise Inner Circle Tour with Lacock and Bath | Best Value Tours
Afternoon Stonehenge Inner Circle Tour with Windsor | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Summer Solstice
Stonehenge Summer Solstice, Lacock in the Cotswolds and Avebury Stone Circle | Best Value Tours
Stonehenge Summer Solstice Sunrise Express Tour | Best Value Tours
More Stonehenge Stonehenge Tours | Best Value Tours
Alternative regular Stonehenge Tours Stonehenge Tours | Best Value Tours
Small Group Stonehenge Tours Small Group Tours of England | Best Value Tours
Cruise Shore Transfers including Stonehenge Shore Excursions & Cruise Transfers | Best Value Tours
More Day Tours Day Tours | Best Value Tours
Scotland Day Tours Scotland Tours | Best Value Tours
Contact Us
Our friendly and knowledgeable agents will be delighted to help you find your perfect tour and best discount.
For up to an extra up to 30% discount on multi-day tours…
Call +44 (0)20 7170 5878 or WhatsApp +44 (0)74 1497 1573
Email us at enquiries@bestvaluetours.co.uk
Go to our website www.bestvaluetours.co.uk where you can live text or message us (message service available 24 hours a day, live text during normal working hours).
For fabulous alternatives for our younger audience 18-35 or 18+ for the young at heart, please visit our Sister Brand Site Backpackertours – www.backpackertours.co.uk
Stonehenge
Here at the Tour Surfer Group and our collection of Sites – Best Value Tours, Backpacker Tours and Bressenden Travel. Owner and Principal British Olympian Paul Harmsworth has had a life-long association with Stonehenge, very fondly remembers his time working there developing his great personal passion of Stonehenge. From as a young child in the 1960’s spending time playing at the stones and picnicking, visiting with his family as his grandparents lived close by in Amesbury. A passion much indulged with a 2 year spell working at Stonehenge, a time he remembers most fondly around 20 years ago and 18 years since, helping 1000’s of guests get the best Stonehenge experience possible.
A rare insight, here are a few pics taken by Paul of Stonehenge life:
First x3 pics taken at Sunrise 20th June 2008, the day before the actual Solstice Sunrise, but the alignment of the Solstice Sun is clear as sun light beams into Stonehenge before landing on the Alter Stone.
Starting
Nearly there
Hooray Sunrise
Sunset at Stonehenge
sunset taken from the Stone Circle
Next a few of behind the scenes filming at Stonehenge
A snowy Stonehenge
Aricholigical surveying at Stonehenge
Druids celebrate at Solstice
The grass still needs cutting even at Stonehenge
There are more to follow when traced…..
Contact Us
Our friendly and knowledgeable agents will be delighted to help you find your perfect tour and best discount.
For up to an extra up to 30% discount on multi-day tours…
Call +44 (0)20 7170 5878 or WhatsApp +44 (0)74 1497 1573
Email us at enquiries@bestvaluetours.co.uk
Go to our website www.bestvaluetours.co.uk where you can live text or message us (message service available 24 hours a day, live text during normal working hours).