The Fawlty Tours Walking Experience

Relive the hilarity of Fawlty Towers in Torquay. Join our walking tour for laughs, memories, and iconic photo ops. No riff-raff allowed!

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Torquay - Learn how a visit to a Torquay hotel inspired John Cleese and Connie Booth to create Fawlty Towers.

Discover the origins of the characters and their journeys after the show concluded.

We’ll discuss the hotel’s quirky signposts!

Guests will have the chance to reenact some of the most hilarious scenes from Fawlty Towers.

What's Included
  • All Fees and Taxes
What's Not Included
  • Tea and coffee
Additional Information

Many consider the greatest British sitcom ever to be inspired by a stay at a hotel in Torquay!
Fawlty Towers is celebrated as one of Britain’s finest situation comedies. Half a century ago, audiences were introduced to Basil, Sybil, Manuel, and Polly at one of Torquay’s most chaotic hotels.
This tour offers a delightful journey down memory lane to relive…

Location
Vaughan Parade
We meet outside the Visitor Information Centre, Vaughan Parade, Torquay TQ2 5JG
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
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Mariejj5902vi
Nov 27, 2025
A fun informative Fawlty walk in beautiful Torquay! - Oh wow thank you 👍 what a wonderful Torquay stroll with all the fun of John Cleese and Connie Booth’s scripts unfolding as we walked. We had such a fun time recreating short sketches from Fawlty Towers in beautiful Torquay and learning so much more. Recommend this tour to anyone that remembers Basil and Sybil 💝, our brilliant lead gave us so much more information. It also would be a great introduction to Fawlty Towers to realise what you have been missing. So inspired by our tour we have been binge watching the series again and loving it. Thanks again Graham for our iconic afternoon with you and we will be back soon to find out all about Agatha Christie!! Happy Walking 👍
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Shapwicktwo
Nov 24, 2025
Brilliant - Absolutely fantastic .Surpassed our expectations. The weather was dire,rained throughout,but it didn,t detract on the fun and laughter.Just me and Bob plus Doodle Dog(not a fan of the rain) Graham gave us the option of cancelling but what the heck we were on holiday; as we were the captive audience we did the skits ourselves like being back at school ,fooling around .Bob got into the spirit straight away with "I,m A Lumber-jack" duet with Graham. Where did the two hours go? Found out all about the sit-com and the characters We are of an age to remember the series very well ,but found out really quirky details un beknown to us .Agatha Christie had a look in as well.....Please don,t hesitate to share your memories with Graham and like minded fans, Top-Notch.... Just don,t mention the War!!!!!!
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Jacqueline_t
Nov 20, 2025
A Memorable, Well-Guided Tour Filled With Laughter - A fantastic and thoroughly enjoyable tour. It was highly interactive, filled with plenty of laughter, and included a wonderful selection of Fawlty Towers trivia that added real charm to the experience. Our guide, Graham, was exceptional — knowledgeable, engaging, and genuinely committed to ensuring everyone had a memorable time. I would highly recommend this tour to anyone looking for a well-organised, entertaining, and truly unique experience.
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Ao_p
Oct 29, 2025
Superb 2 hours - Graham, the distant cousin of Basil, gives a unique interactive tour of Torquay seafront with jokes so bad they’re funny and lots of facts about Torquay’s most famous fictional hotelier. Come prepared to act out some of the most famous scenes from the 12 original episodes .
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Dean
Oct 8, 2025
Must do tour for Fawlty Towers fans - Went to Torquay especially to do Fawlty Towers experience. Graham our guide didn't disappoint. He was engaging, informative, funny and really made it a fun experience to remember. He involved us in some re-enactments that were hilarious. Thoroughly recommend this tour if you get chance to do, especially if you’re a Fawlty Towers fan, which we were.
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Rich4382
Sep 13, 2025
Fawlty Towers fun tour. - A fun experience, a great group on the tour. Enjoyed hearing the facts about party towers and toky from Graham. Me and my mum Thora would highly recommend doing tour.
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Bev
Sep 3, 2025
A fun 2 hours - Graham Fawlty was excellent, his knowledge was very comprehensive, It was a fun 2 hours reminiscing about Fawlty Towers
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W3537ygkarinar
Aug 25, 2025
Thumbs up for this tour - Graham was exceptional and very knowledgeable as our guide. He was engaging, funny and made all of us comfortable to be an extrovert or introvert. Hopefully Graham will succeed in bringing Fawltly Towers the recognitition it rightly deserves as a tourist attraction to Torquay
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Louisete9832qv
Aug 15, 2025
Fabulously entertaining Walking Tour - Excellent well researched , visual aids participation, friendly, seating opportunities, entertaining, well worth the money, would recommend 100%!
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Helen_o
Sep 9, 2025
Sold as a 90 minute... - Sold as a 90 minute experience, but the email you get the day before says 2 hours. Graham made it interesting but you walk around various parts of Torquay for no reason, nothing whatsoever to do with Fawlty Towers. It was OK but I wouldn't recommend it, or do it again
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).