London Belgium and Paris

Duration: 08 Days

COUNTRIES VISITED: UK, Belgium & France

PLACES VISITED: London, Brussels, Bruges, Paris & Versailles

Arrive at London airport, after Immigration and custom formalities, Meet your tour director and transfer to hotel. Check-in begins 1500 hrs. Dinner at hotel. Overnight at hotel.

 

Breakfast at hotel. Later proceed to visit Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey, Trafalgar Square, Piccadilly Circus, St. Paul’s Cathedral and Buckingham Palace. Dinner at hotel. Overnight at hotel.

Breakfast at hotel. Galleries, gardens, and ghosts. Though originally built by the greedy and scheming Cardinal Wolsey, Hampton Court was appropriated by Henry VIII, who became the palace’s most famous resident. The walls are dripping with Italian, German, and Flemish Renaissance art, and the amazing gardens contain not only one of the most elaborate labyrinths in England but also the world’s oldest living vine, which, at 250 years old, is still producing 500 pounds of black grapes each year. If getting lost in the labyrinth doesn’t give you enough of a fright, wander into the Haunted Gallery. In 1542 Henry had his fifth wife, Catherine Howard, imprisoned in her apartments here before her beheading at the Tower of London. She escaped her rooms one day and ran down to the chapel, where Henry was at Mass, and her ghost is said to recreate this desperate run, often screaming, even today. Take a seat in London. Stand up in Brussels. Cross the English Channel in the Eurostar, a super-high-speed train. Faster than you can say . . . anything in Flemish, you’ll arrive at the Belgian capital. Transfer to Hotel and Check-in. Dinner at hotel, overnight at hotel.

After breakfast at hotel get ready for Brussels guided sightseeing tour- Grand Place, Manneken Pis, European Union Headquarters Dinner at hotel. Overnight at hotel.

After breakfast at hotel, Travel to Paris via Bruges and Meet your tour director and enjoy Sightseeing of Bruges. After exploring Bruges move to Paris Upon arrival proceed to hotel for Check in. Dinner at Restaurant. Overnight at Hotel.

After breakfast at hotel, Proceed to Arc de Triomphe, Champs-Élysées, Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, Notre Dame Cathedral visit. Louvre visit: The world’s largest art museum, the Louvre is housed in a medieval fortress-turned-castle so grand it’s worth a tour itself. You walk through the 71-foot glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and added in 1989, and step into another world–one with carved ceilings, deep-set windows, and so many architectural details you could spend a week just admiring the rooms. The Mona Lisa is here, as well as the Venus de Milo and Winged Victory (the headless statue, circa 200 BC, discovered at Samothrace). The Louvre has seven different departments of paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and antiquities. Don’t miss the Egyptian collection, complete with creepy sarcophagi, or the collection of Greek ceramics, one of the largest in the world. (Please note the Louvre is closed on Tuesdays.) Dinner at Restaurant. Overnight at Hotel.

After breakfast at hotel Travel to Versailles and enjoy Versailles Guided Excursion- State Apartments, Hall of Mirrors and Gardens of Versailles.

Leap Activity | Seize the Château! This costume workshop is a lively role-play activity that puts you in the shoes of the monarchy, clergy, nobility, bourgeoisie, or peasantry to explore the issues underlying the French Revolution. Dinner at Restaurant. Overnight at Hotel.

After breakfast, check out and proceed to the airport for your flight back home.

Highlights:

  • Accommodation,  Breakfast & Dinner
  • Westminster Abbey
  • Manneken Pis
  • Notre Dame Cathedral
  • Louvre
  • Versailles