Day 1:

• Transfer to the airport for your overnight flight to London

Day 2:

• Arrive early in London and go to Leadenhall Market, to see some filming shots of ‘Diagon Alley’, including the entrance to the ‘Leaky Cauldron’

• Head up to Claremont Square to see the row houses that were used as the exterior of ‘Grimmauld Place’

• Go to King’s Cross Station to see the starting point for the ‘Hogwarts Express’ – ‘Platform 9 3/4’ and visit the Harry Potter shop at Platform 9 3/4

• See the High Commission of Australia, which was used to create ‘Gringott’s Bank’

• Go to Cecil Court, just off of Charing Cross road to visit another filming location of ‘Diagon Alley’

• Walk along Scotland Place, where you will find the visitors entrance to the ‘Ministry of Magic’

• Visit Westminster Station to travel on the escalator used by Harry and Ron in the movies

Day 3:

• In the morning, go to Warner Brothers Studios to experience “The Making of Harry Potter” tour

• Drive by 9 Heathgate to see the home of the character Hermione Granger, which appears in ‘The Deathly Hallows Part 1’

• Go to the London Zoo and visit the reptile house, where Harry discovers he can talk to snakes and releases a Burmese Python on his cousin

Day 4:

• Visit the medieval village of Lacock in Wiltshire where you can see the old abbey used as ‘Defense Against the Dark Arts’ and ‘Potions’ classrooms in the movies

• See the character Horace Slughorn’s home in the village

• Travel to Gloucester and see the Cathedral, where several scenes from the movies were filmed

• Travel to Oxford and visit Christ’s Church, the inspiration for the Hogwarts Dining Hall

Day 5:

• Head north to visit Durham Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage Site used for filming several scenes from the movies ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ and ‘The Chamber of Secrets’.

• Afterwards, head north to Alnwick Castle in Northumberland, featured in ‘Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone’ where Harry had his first flying lesson

• See the Lion Arch, used as an entrance to Hogwarts, and the courtyards and baileys used in other scenes from the films

Day 6:

• Continue on to Edinburgh

• Walk down Victoria Street and visit Diagon House

• Have lunch in Elephant House Café, where J.K. Rowling created Harry Potter

• Stroll up Candlemaker Row to spot the Diagon Alley plaque and mural

• See J.K. Rowling’s handprints cast in bronze in the City Chambers courtyard on the Royal Mile

Day 7:

• Travel to Fort William and take a ride on the “Hogwarts Express”, or the Jacobite Steam Railway starting at the foot of Ben Nevis mountain

• Journey 84 miles to Mallaig, seeing the Glenfinnan Viaduct along the way, which was featured in the movies

Day 8:

• Transfer to the airport for your flight home