Tourist office Windsor, UK
VisitWindsor, the official tourism service of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, runs its Windsor visitor information from 1 information point rather than a tourist office of its own. The point is a staffed desk inside the Indelibly Windsor shop on the High Street, a few steps from the Castle, where visitors collect the free Windsor and Eton town map and free brochures, leave bags at the manned storage desk and book tickets. A second staffed information centre, run separately, sits across the river in Eton, a town in the same Royal Borough, and it is listed below as well.
Tourist information points in Windsor
Windsor Information Point
Location: Indelibly Windsor, 29-30 High Street, Windsor SL4 1PQ, close to the entrance to Windsor Castle
Opening hours: Wednesday to Saturday 09:00 to 18:30; closed on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday
The staffed VisitWindsor point hands out the free Windsor and Eton town map and free brochures, with a manned storage facility and a ticket desk.
Eton Information Centre
Location: 67 High Street, Eton SL4 6AA, across the Windsor and Eton Bridge from the town centre
Opening hours: Monday and Tuesday 11:00 to 15:30, Thursday to Sunday 11:00 to 15:30; closed on Wednesday
Partner point run by Eton Community CIC in Eton, a separate town in the same Royal Borough, a short walk over the bridge.
Visit Windsor in detail
Visit Windsor in detail
The Windsor guide on Tourist Office gathers what to see in Windsor in one place: a one day itinerary that runs from the Long Walk and Windsor Castle to St George's Chapel, then over the bridge to Eton High Street and Eton College, with Oakley Court and the riverside along the way.
It also covers what costs nothing, among them Windsor Parish Church and the Brocas meadows, alongside the quiet corners that rarely make a first visit, from the Ankerwycke Yew to the JFK Memorial at Runnymede, and the events coming up in the town.
Bank holidays and local festivities in Windsor
Public holidays shift the rhythm of a visit more than most travellers expect. Banks and offices close, many attractions move to a holiday timetable and trains into the town run a reduced service, so a day built around a single sight can fall flat. England and Wales share one bank holiday calendar, and it sets 8 dates for 2026. Two of them stand apart at the end of December, when public transport thins out and most shops and attractions close on both Christmas Day and Boxing Day.
National holidays in England and Wales 2026
- 1 January New Year's Day
- 3 April Good Friday
- 6 April Easter Monday
- 4 May Early May bank holiday
- 25 May Spring bank holiday
- 31 August Summer bank holiday
- 25 December Christmas Day
- 28 December Boxing Day (substitute day, as 26 December falls on a Saturday)
Local holidays in Windsor 2026
Windsor adds no local holidays to that calendar: the England and Wales list above is the only one that applies in the town. The extra dates kept elsewhere in the United Kingdom, among them 2 January and Saint Andrew's Day in Scotland and Saint Patrick's Day and the Battle of the Boyne in Northern Ireland, are not holidays in Windsor.
The Windsor Information Point publishes its opening hours on the official VisitWindsor page linked above, and it is worth checking them before a bank holiday weekend. VisitWindsor also notes that Windsor Castle is officially closed on 25 and 26 December, on Good Friday, on Easter Sunday morning and for the Garter Ceremony, usually the Monday of Royal Ascot, so a bank holiday does not always leave the Castle open.