We booked the 1 hour tour. Jess was an enthusiastic and well-informed tour guide. We booked online the morning of the tour. Only feedback, was that the start point wasn’t clear and we had to ask at the reception of the Weston Library who then guided us to where we needed to go and then Jess found us. Luckily we had allowed enough time for this little run-around (just) Thank you for the tour.

Wonderful tour, worth every penny! Our guide Sian was knowledgeable and able to explain a lot of fascinating historical detail about this unique institution in a very digestible way. Loved the special scent of the Bodleian books and sitting at a table in place since 1642. Also some good location vibes here for Harry Potter fans. Long may the Bodleian thrive 🙏

We had a really fun time! Our guide Joanna was very friendly, explained so many interesting things about the different buildings we saw, told us some anecdotes and answered all of our questions in detail. On the tour, we got to see many historic buildings of Oxford from the outside and even went inside Corpus Christi College. It was a great way to get an overview of Oxfords city centre. Highly recommend it!

Without doubt the highlight of our visit to Oxford. We were unable to book a tour inside the Library so chose a 2 hour walking tour with Dave. We are a family of 4 with 11 and 15 year old daughters and were worried they would get bored, how wrong we were! Dave was such an engaging tour guide and even highlighted some of the Harry Potter locations to interest my girls. We were able to see inside the Divinity school which enthralled my girls. Dave was good enough to highlight some of the Colleges to go and see and even the oldest pub in Oxford (which we found at the end of the day and had a lovely meal). The tour made our day in Oxford and was just the right length of time. I would wholeheartedly recommend booking one, especially if you are lucky enough to get David as your tour guide.

I was really interested in doing the tour of this tour and had to go to the ticket office when it opened the next day as they were sold out. We got tickets without problem, I was so happy. Robbie, our tour guide was brilliant, knowledgeable and entertaining. The history of this place is fascinating, some information was very moving and brought a tear to my eye. This library holds all our most precious treasures for future generations and is so hugely important to our culture. I hope it survives the next battle that is coming.

Our guide, Dave, was amazing. He has a wealth of information about the Bodleian Library and Oxford in general. He was kind, spoke in a pleasant tone that we all could hear well without shouting, and he was very respectful of the spaces we were in. We really enjoyed his tour. I highly recommend booking a tour with Dave.

We had the most amazing tour today with Christine . We were very lucky to have a small group so she was able to taylor some aspects but even without that it was fabulous . Christine was so knowledgeable, able to explain complex history into easy to understand bites and had a such interesting pieces of information that we loved . The buildings were amazing and awe inspiring. Highly recommend

Our enthusiastic guide Dan made the tour even better than we could have hoped (questions about maths aside). We enjoyed the wit, visual humour (we will remember John Wycliffe forever) and historical facts, including those about Harry Potter. An absolute must-see experience in Oxford!

The tour was absolutely fantastic👏Not only was it very helpful in understanding the history of Bodleian Library but our guide, Dan was really humorous so it wasn't a bit boring! He seemed very passionate about this tour. The stories he told us were funny and it kept us laughing the whole time hehe Thank you Dan😊 We were so lucky to have you as a guide! I feel unfortunate giving this tour only 5 stars. I'd give it 10 if I could. I definitely recommend it for you!! It was definitely worth it even though it took us 15 hours to get here (We came from South Korea).

I took the 30 minute guided tour with Jess. I would've liked to have taken the 60 minute tour to see more of the libraries, but they were all booked up several weeks in advance. Nevertheless, the 30 minute tour did not disappoint. Jess was a very passionate, engaging, and knowledgeable representative of the libraries.