EARLY 2021 HOLIDAYS Available January to May Summer See pages 18 - 33 UK & Continental Coaching Holidays 2021
Fully bonded TOUR OPERATOR
Covid-19 INSURANCE POLICY available
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GOLD Coach HOLIDAYS FREE Home FROM ONLY £195 Pick Up ALL excursions & entrance fees ON HOLIDAYS OF INCLUDED! 4 DAYS OR MORE see page 2 for details see page 6 for details COACH TOURISM’S WHAT THE JUDGES WERE LOOKING FOR... The judges were not only looking for a coach tour operator with HIGHEST ACCOLADE! more than 15 tour coaches but one that could demonstrate a commitment to quality, innovation and training, with an excellent Everyone at Bakers Dolphin are proud to announce industry reputation, together with examples of how it developed/ that we won two prestigious awards at the March enhanced its offering over the last year. 2018 British Coach Tourism Awards at their annual ceremony. WHAT THE JUDGES SAID... Our winner in this category is one of the oldest coach operators Coach Operator of the Year (Large Fleet) 2018 in the country, but its presentation demonstrated how modern and up-and-coming it is – including a clear investment in both Driver of the Year - Michael Blowers new vehicles and new technology. The judges were particularly impressed by its dedication to safety, its personal service, and its It is a huge accolade from our industry and under- professional marketing. The judges also appreciated that it’s a lines our commitment to value and service that we have held dear for over 130 years. holiday business that goes above and beyond the coach industry standard, which helps to raise the profile of the industry as a whole.
All excursions and entrance fees as listed, are included in the price of your holiday OVER 25 MEANING NEW TOURS NO HIDDEN CHARGES! Look at some of the wonderful destinations you can visit on our holidays with no hidden extra cost to pay.
Samlesbury Hall Buckingham Palace Spitfire & Hurricane Museum Belfast Titanic & East Lancashire Railway See page 44 See page 61 See page 112 See page 35
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Arley Hall Lakeside & Haverthwaite Railway BBC Media City Tour Glenturret Distillery See page 66 See page 69 See page 81 See page 106
2 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM OVER WELCOME 25 Contents WELCOME TO OUR NEW TOURS Awards, excursions & entrance fee SUMMER 2021 information 2 BROCHURE! Welcome 3 Making memories Dear Traveller, & Why Travel with us? 4 By choosing to travel with Bakers Dolphin you can be sure that your comfort, safety and wellbeing is always at the forefront of everything we do. FAQS & Loyalty Scheme 5 In July we were awarded the ‘Good to Go’ VisitEngland industry charter mark. This Home Link and Tour Link 6-7 verifies that Bakers Dolphin has followed all the government and industry health and safety guidelines, has Covid-19 risk assessments in place, processes to maintain Gold Coach Tour Service 8 cleanliness, and support social distancing to ensure safe travel. 2021 Departure Dates 9-17 Since the 2nd August we have welcomed customers back on board our coaches and have successfully operated over 60 holidays – we are delighted to be back on the Early Tours for 2021 18-19 road and the feedback we have received has been amazing. We do thank you all for Spring Tours 20-33 your continued support through these tough times. I want to reassure you that the recent announcement about social gatherings Gold Hotel Collection 34-44 limited to 6 people does NOT put an end to us operating. There is a distinction England 45-88 between what is allowed privately and informally planned, compared to what a business can now safely and legally offer. Group events are permitted when Wales 89-95 professionally organised by businesses who have made risk assessments and put in Railway Breaks 96-98 place good practices for COVID safety. Channel Islands 99 When booking our holidays, you are seated in your own bubbles, and then socially distanced from other passengers. For example, a single traveller will occupy a Scotland 100-109 double seat and be asked to sit near the window. A couple or those in their family bubbles can sit together, but again will be socially distanced from other passengers. Ireland 110-113 We have robust COVID secure policies in place, and risk assessments are constantly Continental 114-121 monitored with any changes made with government guidelines. Trading Charter In addition, we recognise that booking a holiday represents a financial commitment & Booking Conditions 122-123 and we take this responsibility to you, our customer, very seriously. As a fully bonded tour operator we can assure you that your money is protected in the Travel Insurance 123 extremely unlikely event we cannot meet our financial liabilities. Book your 2021 holiday We hope you enjoy our NEW 2021 brochure and to book a holiday please give our friendly reservations team a call on 01934 415000 who will be delighted to help with our travel experts 124 you and make your holiday booking, or book online at www.bakersdolphin.com. We look forward to hearing from you in the near future. My very best wishes,
AMANDA HARRINGTON F.inst.T.T. Sales & Marketing Director
Tourism Director of the Year Coach Monthly Special Award Winner Coach Tour Operator of the Year 2018 Protection for your holiday Bonded Coach Holidays - Financial Security J.N.Baker Ltd trading as Bakers Dolphin Coach Travel are a member of the Bonded Coach Holiday Group of the Confederation of Passenger Transport UK Ltd.
The combination of travel services offered to you is a package within the meaning scheme. This ensures that in relation to the coach package holidays described in of the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. this brochure (or website) that the clients’ monies are protected by a Bond which Therefore, you will benefit from all EU rights applying to packages; (insert may be called upon in the unlikely event of the members Insolvency. Clients are Operator name) will be fully responsible for the proper performance of the recommended to inspect the current membership certificate at our registered package as a whole. office or alternatively go to www.bch-uk.org or telephone 0207 240 3131 to confirm current membership. Additionally, as required by law, (insert Operator name) have protection in place to refund your payments and, where transport is included in the package, to ensure Your attention is also drawn to the Bonded Coach Holiday Group Trading Charter your repatriation in the event that they become insolvent. (Insert Operator that will apply to these coach package holidays. name) are members of the Bonded Coach Holiday Group of the Confederation of Details of the Package Travel and Linked Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018 Passenger Transport UK Ltd. This is a government approved consumer protection can be found at www.legistration.gov.uk/ukdsi/2018/9780111168479/contents Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 3 WHY TRAVEL WITH US? Making 1
memoriesin the FABULOUS FOOD & DRINK Most of our holidays include SUMMER dinner, bed and breakfast at Your Hotel and many of them also have in-house OF 2021 entertainment such as bingo, quizzes, afternoon tea dances and much more! Discover why you should book with us...
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HAND PICKED GREAT HOTELS EXCURSIONS All our hotels are During your holiday brilliant hand-picked by us for their excursions to cultural cities, comfort and hospitality. trips to historic homes and Rest assured, you will enjoy gardens, shopping havens en suite accommodation and and picturesque scenery will many more unique comforts make your holiday a truly on your Bakers Dolphin memorable experience. holiday.
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FUN WITH Speak to one of our travel experts on FRIENDS 01934 41 5000 Our holidays are a great Book your holiday online way to meet new and www.bakersdolphin.com like-minded people, as well as spending quality time Pop in to one of our shops: with old friends and loved ones and creating lasting memories to cherish for Sovereign Centre The Arcade years to come. Weston-super-Mare Broadmead, Bristol BS23 1HL BS1 3JD
4 Frequently Asked FAQS & LOYALTY SCHEME Questions
How much is the deposit and when is my final afternoon/early evening. Your driver will be balance due? able to provide more specific information. Please see the Terms and Conditions in the How much luggage can I bring? back of the brochure for deposits payable companion with you if you need assistance. and when the final balances would be due. One medium sized suitcase weighing no more Coach space and weight restrictions limit the If you wish not to pay the full balance in one than 20 kgs (44 lbs), plus one item of hand number of walking aids that we can accept on go; the remaining sum is due 6 weeks before luggage. Porterage is included at most hotels. each tour. departure. The Company’s drivers will load and unload customer’s luggage. Mobile aids Will I get a more detailed itinerary to take You must advise us at time of booking if I have limited mobility; will these tours be with me? you are bringing a lightweight foldable suitable for me? Yes, your full itinerary will be posted wheelchair/pusher/wheeler. In the case approximately 7-10 days prior to departure The tours offer a varied level of activity and of a scooter or wheelchair powered with a along with your final confirmation documents you can participate as much or as little as you dry cell battery you must be able to break (luggage label’s, pick up timings, etc.) wish. Any specific restrictions are indicated it down into separate parts each weighing in the brochure. Most properties offer a good no more than 20 kgs (44 lbs), and able to What time will I get picked up and returned level of access but others due to their historic be reassembled by yourself. If not you must home? nature, may have some upstairs sections travel with a companion to help you. UK Holidays. Most Pick Ups are between without lift access or gardens with limited All passengers must be fit and able to travel 7.30am and 10am (postcode dependant), walkways. independently, and get on and off the coach although this will vary depending on the Most hotels featured in our brochures offer at all times when requested by the driver. distance to be covered. The routes are lift access. If you are unable to manage stairs finalised four weeks prior to departure, and please check with our reservations staff at The company’s staff will be polite and our journeys are planned carefully to ensure the time of booking on suitability. respectful, but are not permitted to assist that you get to the hotel in good time for your passengers with their eating or personal care evening meal (where applicable). Any physical condition which may necessitate services. special requirements (for example, the need Continental Holidays. Pick Ups will be earlier. of a walk in shower or ground floor rooms) Please note. Some itineraries may be subject On the way home we depart after breakfast must be requested at the time of your to change. and usually return to your drop off point late reservation, and we advise that you bring a
Join Our LOYALTY SCHEME
£10 £15 More holidays, more memories OFF OFF ... all for less per person per person on your 2nd holiday on your 3rd holiday Our holiday loyalty scheme operates on a rolling 12 months basis and many of our customers take more than 1 holiday in that period, perhaps as many as 4 or 5. The discounts shown on the left can be claimed according to the repeat holiday bookings made for 2020/21. The discount is not applicable with any other offer but applies to holidays of 4 days or more and is capped at £25 per person. £20 £25 How to claim your discount OFF OFF When you book your chosen holidays simply call us and advise us of your per person per person previous holidays booked and your discount will be deducted from the on your 4th holiday on your 5th holiday balance invoice due on each holiday booked. Please note, if you have booked a holiday with us and it was cancelled due to Covid-19, it will still count towards our loyalty scheme in 2020/21.
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 5 HOME LINK AND TOUR LINK A most wonderful JOURNEY It’s where your holiday begins
We want to make your holiday as effortless as possible, so it’s now even easier to get your holiday started with our FREE Home Pick-Up Included* and Tour Link services. With the flexibility to choose where you want your holiday to begin, you’ll be able to sit back, relax and... Enjoy the Ride!
FREE Home Pick-Up available on holidays of 4 days & more*
Get your holiday off to a flying start with our FREE Home Pick-Up Included service. We’ll collect you and your luggage from your front door and your driver will drop you back home safely on your return. If you live within 10 miles of any of the towns listed on the map on page 7 you can take full advantage of Free Home Pick-Up Included. If you live more than 10 miles from the places listed we may be able to collect you from your home but there will be a surcharge. Please enquire at the time of booking.
*Note: a) There is no Devon Home Pick-Up for tours to Cornwall, Devon, Dorset and Hampshire. b) Any 2 day and tours with a Thursday departure will not include Cornwall pick-up.
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FREE Tour Link Service
Enjoy the convenience of meeting us at a local joining point en-route, and we’ll take you direct to the coach, hassle FREE. Join your nearest Tour Link route at one of its designated pick-up points shown on the map above. Alternatively, head straight to Gordano Services in Bristol to board your coach ready for departure.
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Enjoy these extras when travelling on a GOLD coach
50% MORE FREE WI-FI LEGROOM & REFRESHMENTS Enjoy FREE tea and coffee Just 36 fully reclining, soft on-board the Gold Bistro and enjoy leather seats with over the separate lounge area. Many 50% more legroom than an of our Gold Coach holidays also executive coach, so you can include hostess service. really stretch out and relax.
ON-BOARD ENTERTAINMENT
Unsurpassed comfort including on-board DVD entertainment, sound system, magazines and washroom facilities.
Why not join us this year on our superb Gold Coaches where you will find unsurpassed comfort and exciting facilities to make your journey extra special. You will experience the high standard of service that our customers have come to expect. When travelling on a Gold Coach holiday a supplement of £15 per person per day will apply but on some departures this supplement is included as shown on the individual Our Gold holiday page. Coach Tours
This is a are highlighted For more information or to book a Gold Coach Tour GOLD Coach throughout this call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit www.bakersdolphin.com Tour brochure!
8 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM 2021 DEPARTURE DATES SPRING & SUMMER 2021 DEPARTURE DATES
DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE MARCH 01-Mar 5 Days Sidmouth 20 01-Mar 5 days Looe & Cornish Coach Gold Taster Gold 20 01-Mar 5 days Belfast Titanic Gold 20 01-Mar 5 Days Chester Drinks Package 20 01-Mar 5 Days Eastbourne 20 05-Mar 3 days Gold Taster Mystery Gold 20 08-Mar 5 Days Lakes, Sailing & Steaming Gold 21 08-Mar 5 days Lakes All Inclusive Grange over Sands Gold 21 08-Mar 5 Days Bude, Bideford & Barnstaple Gold 21 08-Mar 5 days Harrogate Gold 21 11-Mar 5 Days RAF Hendon, Windsor & Covent Gdn 21 13-Mar 7 days Black Forest Gold 22 13-Mar 5 days Florimania at Hampton Court 22 15-Mar 5 days Britains Heritage & County Towns 22 15-Mar 5 days Ilfracombe Gold Taster Gold 22 15-Mar 5 Days Shrewsbury Gold Taster Gold 22 15-Mar 5 Days Lakes & Lancashire 22 15-Mar 5 days Criccieth Gold Taster Gold 23 15-Mar 5 Days Yorkshire Dales Gold Taster Gold 23 15-Mar 5 Days Corner of Wales Gold Taster Gold 23 15-Mar 5 days Charming Suffolk Gold Taster Gold 23 15-Mar 5 Days Looe & Cornish Coach Gold Taster Gold 23 15-Mar 5 days Snowdonia Gold 23 18-Mar 5 days Steaming thru Yorkshire 24 19-Mar 4 days Emmerdale Studios Village Tour 24 20-Mar 8 days Lake Como Gold Gold 24 21-Mar 7 days Killarney Gold 24 22-Mar 5 days IOM Heritage Railways 24 22-Mar 5 Days Great Yarmouth & Norwich 24 22-Mar 5 days Blairgowrie Winter Warmer 25 22-Mar 5 days Waterford Inclusive 25 22-Mar 5 days Chester & Llandudno Gold Taster Gold 25 22-Mar 5 days West Cornwall Gold Taster Gold 25 22-Mar 5 days Superior Heart of Wales Gold 25 22-Mar 5 days Scarborough 25 22-Mar 5 days Cambridge Gold Taster Gold 26 22-Mar 5 days Superior Yorkshire Dales Gold Gold 26 22-Mar 5 days Cumbria 26 22-Mar 5 days Liverpool 26 22-Mar 5 Days Yorkshire Splendours 26 27-Mar 7 days Inverness All Inclusive Gold 26 28-Mar 7 Days Lake Lucerne & Glacier Express Gold 27 29-Mar 5 Days Cheshire Gold Taster Gold 27 29-Mar 5 Days Discovering Lincoln Gold Taster Gold 27 29-Mar 5 days Shrewsbury Ludlow & Ironbridge Gold 27 29-Mar 5 days Dundee Winter Warmer Gold Gold 27 29-Mar 5 days Norfolk Gold Taster Gold 27 APRIL 01-Apr 5 Days RAF Hendon, Windsor & Covent Gdn 21 01-Apr 5 days Easter in Sidmouth 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in South Wales 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Hampshire & New Forest 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Harrogate & York 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Cumbria 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Shakespeare Country 28 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Newcastle & Northumberland 29 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Norfolk 29 02-Apr 4 days Easter Postcards from Yorkshire 29
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 02-Apr 4 days Easter Rivers, Canals & Railways 29 02-Apr 4 days Easter in St Albans 29 02-Apr 4 days Easter Delights of the North East 29 02-Apr 4 days Easter in Penzance 30 03-Apr 8 days Lake Como Easter Gold 30 04-Apr 7 days Easter Black Forest Gold 30 05-Apr 5 Days Lakes, Sailing & Steaming Gold 21 05-Apr 5 days Criccieth 23 05-Apr 5 days Great Yarmouth & Norwich 24 05-Apr 5 days St Ives & Scenic Cornwall NEW 52 05-Apr 5 days Durham, Richmond & the Dales-Scotch Corner Hotel 84 10-Apr 8 days All Inc Callela Gold 30 11-Apr 5 days Temple Newsam House & Peaks 30 12-Apr 5 days Britains Heritage & County Towns 22 12-Apr 5 days Waterford Inclusive 25 12-Apr 5 days A Taste of Spring in Suffolk 30 12-Apr 5 Days Northumbria Gold Taster Gold 31 12-Apr 5 days Charming Suffolk Gold Taster Gold 31 12-Apr 5 days Dutch Bulbs Gold Gold 31 12-Apr 5 days Legends of the Loch Gold 31 12-Apr 5 days Dunoon Gold 31 12-Apr 5 days St Mawes & Poldark Country NEW 49 12-Apr 5 days Isle of Man- The Empress Hotel NEW 59 12-Apr 5 days Ludlow & County of Shropshire 75 12-Apr 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors NEW 79 12-Apr 5 days Newquay 50 15-Apr 5 days Steaming through Yorkshire 31 18-Apr 8 days Lake Garda Gold 32 19-Apr 5 days Scarborough 25 19-Apr 5 days IOM Heritage Railways 32 19-Apr 5 days Snowdonia 90 19-Apr 5 days Spring in Penzance Gold 32 19-Apr 5 days A Taste of Summer Yorkshire Dales Gold 32 19-Apr 5 days Pitlochry Gold 32 19-Apr 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 19-Apr 5 days Scottish Borders, Peebles & Edinburgh NEW 106 19-Apr 7 days Hebridean Odyssey 107 19-Apr 5 days Falmouth with Style 53 22-Apr 5 days Harrogate Flower Show 33 24-Apr 7 days Springtime Highlights of Austria Gold 33 25-Apr 7 days Killarney Gold 24 26-Apr 5 Days Bude, Bideford & Barnstaple Gold 21 26-Apr 5 Days Dutch Bulbs Gold Gold 31 26-Apr 5 days Lincolnshire Spring Special 33 26-Apr 5 days Superior Yorkshire Dales Gold Gold 33 26-Apr 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon NEW 45 MAY 01-May 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 01-May 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 01-May 8 days Lake Levico Gold NEW 115 02-May 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria Gold 83 02-May 8 days The North West Passage 107 02-May 7 days Inverness, Ullapool & Scottish Highlands Gold 108 02-May 8 days Black Forest Gold 120 03-May 5 Days Alvaston Hall Gold Taster Gold 33 03-May 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 03-May 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Ocean Beach Hotel 58 03-May 5 days Maritime Essex & Kent Coast Gold 61 03-May 5 days The Magic of Five Counties Gold 64
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 03-May 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes 69 03-May 5 days Ludlow & County of Shropshire 75 03-May 5 days Highlights of Lancashire NEW 86 03-May 5 days Quintessential Bournemouth NEW 88 03-May 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90 03-May 5 days Antrim Coast & the Great Train Journey Gold 113 03-May 8 days The South of France 114 09-May 7 days Eastbourne-Oban Hotel 55 09-May 8 days North & South Wales - Twin Centre Gold NEW 89 09-May 7 days Llandudno & North Wales 92 09-May 5 days A Touch of Class in Yorkshire Gold 77 10-May 5 days Hidden Corners of Yorkshire-Blackwell Grange Hotel Gold Hotel Collection NEW 36 10-May 5 days Glorious Devon 47 10-May 5 days Durham, Richmond & the Dales-Scotch Corner Hotel Gold 84 10-May 5 days Tenby-Clarence House Hotel 94 10-May 5 days Heart of Wales, Cardigan Bay Gold 95 10-May 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 10-May 5 days Angus Secret Coastline Gold 109 10-May 12 days Grand Tour of Ireland Gold 110 10-May 5 days Catherine Cookson’s Beautiful Northumbria NEW 84 13-May 5 days Romantic Landscapes & Trains of Yorkshire 97 14-May 3 days Rhododendrons in Norfolk 33 15-May 2 days Mystery Weekends Gold 43 15-May 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 15-May 7 days Orkney Island & Castle of Mey Gold 101 15-May 7 days Fort William & Isle of Mull 102 15-May 7 days Killarney & Ring of Kerry Gold 111 15-May 9 days Tuscany Gold 116 16-May 7 days Great Yarmouth 46 16-May 5 days Penzance NEW 51 16-May 7 days Isle of Wight - Shanklin Hotel 54 16-May 7 days Eastbourne-Queens Hotel 55 16-May 7 days Scotland Houses & Gardens 108 17-May 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 17-May 5 days St Mawes & Poldark Country NEW 49 17-May 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 17-May 5 days Folkestone & Kent Gold 63 17-May 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes Gold 69 17-May 5 days Picture Perfect Lake District NEW 71 17-May 5 days Lancashire Delights 85 17-May 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 17-May 5 days Great Little Trains of Wales 96 17-May 5 days Dunoon - Esplande Hotel 103 17-May 5 days Newquay 50 20-May 3 days Chelsea Flower Show 33 22-May 8 days Romantic Journeys of Scotland 100 22-May 9 days Lake Como Gold 116 23-May 5 days Gold Hotel Colletion - Bude, Ilfracombe & Barnstaple Gold Hotel Collection NEW 39 23-May 5 days Falmouth with Style 53 24-May 5 days Gold Hotel Collection - Hallmark Preston Leyland Gold Hotel Collection 35 24-May 5 days Northumbria Extravagance-Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 37 24-May 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon NEW 45 24-May 5 days Gardens & Houses of Cheshire Gold 66 24-May 5 days Cumbrian Cavalcade 70 24-May 5 days Gems of the Shires 73 24-May 5 days Yorkshire Delights 77 24-May 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors Gold NEW 79 24-May 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 24-May 5 days Little Boats & Trains of Norfolk Gold NEW 98 29-May 2 days Mystery Weekends Hotel Collection Gold 43 30-May 6 days Scarborough-Park Manor Hotel NEW 57 30-May 7 days Oban, Mull & Sacred Iona Gold 102 31-May 5 days Peak District-Shrigley Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 38 31-May 5 days Captivating Kent Gold NEW 68 31-May 5 days Peak District, Historic Houses & Gardens of Derbyshire Gold NEW 72 31-May 5 days BBC Media Great Houses & Cosmopolitan Cities 81 31-May 5 days Romantic Journeys of North Wales 96 31-May 5 days Scottish Borders, Peebles & Edinburgh Gold NEW 106 31-May 5 days Cambridge, Ely & Rural Essex 60 31-May 5 days Catherine Cookson’s Beautiful Northumbria NEW 84 JUNE 03-Jun 5 days Tastes & Flavours of Kent 62 05-Jun 9 days Lake Garda-Hotel Adria Resort Gold 117 06-Jun 7 days Great Yarmouth 46 06-Jun 7 days Eastbourne-Oban Hotel 55 06-Jun 7 days Llandudno 92 06-Jun 8 days Italian Dolomites Gold 117 07-Jun 5 days Northumbria Extravagance-Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 37 07-Jun 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 07-Jun 5 days Maritime Essex & Kent Coast 61 07-Jun 5 days Suffolk Gardens, Castles & Wildlife 65 07-Jun 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes 69 07-Jun 5 days Picture Perfect Lake District Gold NEW 71 07-Jun 5 days Norfolk Seals, Coast and City 74 07-Jun 5 days Historic Houses & Cities of North Yorkshire Gold 80 07-Jun 5 days Durham, Richmond & the Dales-Scotch Corner Hotel 84 07-Jun 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90 07-Jun 5 days Belfast Titanic Gold 112 11-Jun 8 days Rocamadour 115 12-Jun 2 days Mystery Weekends Gold 43 13-Jun 7 days Eastbourne-Queens Hotel 55 13-Jun 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 13-Jun 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 14-Jun 5 days Gold Hotel Collection - Hallmark Preston Leyland Gold Hotel Collection 35 14-Jun 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 14-Jun 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon NEW 45 14-Jun 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Ocean Beach Hotel 58 14-Jun 5 days Isle of Man-The Empress Hotel 59 14-Jun 5 days The Magic of Lincolnshire Gold 64 14-Jun 5 days Ludlow & County of Shropshire Gold 75 14-Jun 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 14-Jun 5 days Tenby-Belgrave Hotel 94 14-Jun 5 days Great Little Trains of Wales 96 14-Jun 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 14-Jun 5 days Angus Secret Coastline Gold 109 19-Jun 8 days Romantic Journeys of Scotland Gold 100 19-Jun 7 days Killarney & Ring of Kerry Gold 111 19-Jun 8 days Austria Trains & Boats Gold 118 20-Jun 7 days Gold Hotel Collection - Maritime Hotel Bantry Bay Gold Hotel Collection 41 20-Jun 7 days Isle of Wight - Shanklin Hotel 54 20-Jun 6 days Scarborough-Park Manor Hotel 57 20-Jun 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria Gold 83 20-Jun 7 days Bonnie Scotland 106 20-Jun 7 days Inverness, Ullapool & Scottish Highlands 108 20-Jun 6 days Isle of Arran, Loch Lomond & Ayrshire Coast 109 20-Jun 8 days Italian Riviera of Flowers Gold 118 21-Jun 5 days Folkestone & Kent 63
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 21-Jun 5 days Captivating Kent NEW 68 21-Jun 5 days Cumbrian Cavalcade 70 21-Jun 5 days Yorkshire Delights Gold 77 21-Jun 5 days Harrogate & the Treasures of Yorkshire Gold 78 21-Jun 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors NEW 79 21-Jun 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90 26-Jun 9 days Austrian Tyrol & Four Countries Gold 119 26-Jun 9 days Austria, Vienna & Czech Republic Gold 119 27-Jun 7 days Irish Adventure Gold 112 28-Jun 5 days Glorious Devon 47 28-Jun 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 28-Jun 5 days Humberside, Lincolnshire Wolds & the RAF NEW 76 28-Jun 5 days Highlights of Lancashire Gold NEW 86 28-Jun 5 days Heart of Wales, Cardigan Bay 95 28-Jun 5 days Romantic Journeys of North Wales 96 28-Jun 6 days Rail & Sail in the Western Highlands Gold NEW 103 28-Jun 5 days Gems of the English Shires 73 JULY 01-Jul 5 Days Falmouth NEW 53 03-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 03-Jul 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 04-Jul 7 days Eastbourne-Oban Hotel 55 04-Jul 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria Gold 83 05-Jul 5 days Hidden Corners of Yorkshire-Blackwell Grange Hotel Gold Hotel Collection NEW 36 05-Jul 5 days Gardens & Houses of Cheshire 66 05-Jul 5 days Gardens of Delights in Essex Gold NEW 67 05-Jul 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes Gold 69 05-Jul 5 days Historic Houses & Cities of North Yorkshire 80 05-Jul 5 days BBC Media Great Houses & Cosmopolitan Cities Gold 81 05-Jul 5 days Lancashire Delights 85 05-Jul 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 05-Jul 5 days Dunoon - Esplande Hotel Gold 103 05-Jul 5 days Scottish Borders, Peebles & Edinburgh NEW 106 10-Jul 8 days Highland Lines & Northern Landscapes 105 10-Jul 7 days Killarney & Ring of Kerry Gold 111 10-Jul 9 days Lake Como Gold 116 10-Jul 8 days Splendours of Andorra Gold 120 11-Jul 7 days Great Yarmouth 46 11-Jul 7 days Eastbourne-Queens Hotel 55 11-Jul 7 days Llandudno & North Wales 92 11-Jul 7 days Bonnie Scotland Gold 106 12-Jul 5 days Northumbria Extravagance-Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 37 12-Jul 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 12-Jul 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 12-Jul 5 days St Mawes & Poldark Country NEW 49 12-Jul 5 days St Ives & Scenic Cornwall NEW 52 12-Jul 5 days Brighton & Eastbourne 56 12-Jul 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Ocean Beach Hotel 58 12-Jul 5 days Maritime Essex & Kent Coast 61 12-Jul 5 days Captivating Kent NEW 68 12-Jul 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors NEW 79 12-Jul 5 days Highlights of Lancashire NEW 86 12-Jul 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 17-Jul 2 days Mystery Weekends Hotel Collection Gold 43 17-Jul 8 days Romantic Journeys of Scotland 100 18-Jul 8 days Twin Centre North & South Wales NEW 89 18-Jul 6 days Isle of Arran, Loch Lomond & Ayrshire Coast Gold 109 19-Jul 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon Gold NEW 45
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 19-Jul 5 days Glorious Devon 47 19-Jul 5 days Catherine Cookson’s Beautiful Northumbria Gold NEW 84 19-Jul 5 days Scarborough - The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 19-Jul 5 days Isle of Man-The Empress Hotel 59 19-Jul 5 days Cambridge, Ely & Rural Essex Gold 60 19-Jul 5 days Tenby-Belgrave Hotel 94 19-Jul 5 days Great Little Trains of Wales 96 19-Jul 5 days Romantic Journeys of North Wales Gold 96 19-Jul 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the English Riviera NEW 98 22-Jul 5 days Romantic Landscapes & Trains of Yorkshire 97 25-Jul 7 days Isle of Wight - Shanklin Hotel 54 26-Jul 5 days Gold Hotel Collection - Hallmark Preston Leyland Gold Hotel Collection 35 26-Jul 5 days Peak District-Shrigley Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 38 26-Jul 5 days Heythrop Park Gold 60 26-Jul 5 days Suffolk Gardens, Castles & Wildlife 65 26-Jul 5 days Peak District, Historic Houses & Gardens of Derbyshire Gold NEW 72 26-Jul 5 days Humberside, Lincolnshire Wolds & the RAF NEW 76 26-Jul 5 days Yorkshire Delights 77 26-Jul 5 days Manchester Ship Canal Gold 82 26-Jul 5 days Romantic Journeys of North Wales Gold 96 31-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 31-Jul 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 31-Jul 8 days Italian Riviera of Flowers Gold 118 AUGUST 01-Aug 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria Gold 83 01-Aug 6 days Isle of Arran, Loch Lomond & Ayrshire Coast Gold 109 02-Aug 5 days Surprising London Gold 44 02-Aug 5 days Brighton & Eastbourne 56 02-Aug 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes Gold 69 02-Aug 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors Gold NEW 79 02-Aug 5 days Lancashire Delights 85 02-Aug 5 days Highlights of Lancashire NEW 86 02-Aug 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90 02-Aug 5 Days Scenic Gems of North Wales & Snowdonia NEW 91 02-Aug 5 days Great Little Trains of Wales 96 02-Aug 12 days Grand Tour of Ireland Gold 110 09-Aug 5 days Northumbria Extravagance-Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 37 09-Aug 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 09-Aug 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 09-Aug 5 days Heythrop Park Gold 60 09-Aug 5 days Gardens & Houses of Cheshire 66 09-Aug 5 days Humberside, Lincolnshire Wolds & the RAF Gold NEW 76 09-Aug 5 days Royal Sandringham & the English Shires Gold NEW 87 09-Aug 5 days Quintessential Bournemouth NEW 88 09-Aug 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 09-Aug 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 09-Aug 5 days Dunoon - Selbourne Hotel 103 09-Aug 5 days Edinburgh Tattoo Gold 104 12-Aug 5 days Tastes & Flavours of Kent 62 14-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 14-Aug 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 14-Aug 8 days Romantic Journeys of Scotland Gold 100 15-Aug 7 days Llandudno & North Wales 92
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 15-Aug 7 days Bonnie Scotland 106 16-Aug 5 days Peak District-Shrigley Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 38 16-Aug 5 days Surprising London Gold 44 16-Aug 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon NEW 45 16-Aug 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Suncliff hotel 16/8 58 16-Aug 5 days Suffolk Gardens, Castles & Wildlife Gold 65 16-Aug 5 days Captivating Kent NEW 68 16-Aug 5 days Harrogate & the Treasures of Yorkshire 78 16-Aug 5 days Catherine Cookson’s Beautiful Northumbria Gold NEW 84 16-Aug 5 days Tenby-Belgrave Hotel 94 16-Aug 5 days Tenby-Clarence House Hotel 94 16-Aug 5 days Heart of Wales, Cardigan Bay 95 16-Aug 5 days Edinburgh Tattoo Gold 104 19-Aug 5 days Romantic Landscapes & Trains of Yorkshire 97 21-Aug 2 days Mystery Weekends Gold 43 21-Aug 8 days Lake Annecy Free Bar Gold 114 21-Aug 9 days Austria, Vienna & Czech Republic Gold 119 22-Aug 5 days Gold Hotel Colletion - Bude, Ilfracombe & Barnstaple Gold Hotel Collection NEW 39 22-Aug 7 days Eastbourne-Queens Hotel 55 22-Aug 8 days Black Forest Gold 120 23-Aug 5 days Gold Hotel Collection - Hallmark Preston Leyland Gold Hotel Collection 35 23-Aug 5 days Hidden Corners of Yorkshire-Blackwell Grange Hotel Gold Hotel Collection NEW 36 23-Aug 5 days Surprising London Gold 44 23-Aug 5 days Glorious Devon 47 23-Aug 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 23-Aug 5 days St Ives & Scenic Cornwall NEW 52 23-Aug 5 days Cambridge, Ely & Rural Essex 60 23-Aug 5 days The Magic of Five Counties 64 23-Aug 5 days Norfolk Seals, Coast and City 74 23-Aug 5 days BBC Media Great Houses & Cosmopolitan Cities 81 23-Aug 5 days Manchester Ship Canal 82 23-Aug 5 days Durham, Richmond & the Dales-Scotch Corner Hotel 84 23-Aug 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90 23-Aug 5 days Edinburgh Tattoo Gold 104 23-Aug 5 days Scottish Borders, Peebles & Edinburgh NEW 106 28-Aug 2 days Mystery Weekends Hotel Collection Gold 43 28-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 28-Aug 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 28-Aug 8 days Highland Lines & Northern Landscapes Gold 105 28-Aug 8 days Austria Trains & Boats Gold 118 28-Aug 9 days Austrian Tyrol & 4 Countries Gold 119 29-Aug 7 days Isle of Wight - Shanklin Hotel 54 29-Aug 7 days Irish Adventure Gold 112 30-Aug 5 days Cumbrian Cavalcade Gold 70 30-Aug 5 days Peak District, Historic Houses & Gardens of Derbyshire NEW 72 30-Aug 5 days Gems of the Shires Gold 73 30-Aug 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 31-Aug 10 days Spain & Portugal 121 SEPTEMBER 05-Sep 7 days Gold Hotel Collection - Maritime Hotel Bantry Bay Gold Hotel Collection 41 05-Sep 7 days Great Yarmouth 46 05-Sep 7 days Eastbourne-Oban Hotel 55 05-Sep 7 days Llandudno & North Wales 92 05-Sep 7 days Bonnie Scotland 106 05-Sep 7 days Inverness, Ullapool & Scottish Highlands 108 06-Sep 5 days Newquay 50 06-Sep 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Ocean Beach Hotel 58 06-Sep 5 days Gardens & Houses of Cheshire Gold 66 06-Sep 5 days Captivating Kent NEW 68
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 06-Sep 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes Gold 69 06-Sep 5 days Ludlow & County of Shropshire Gold 75 06-Sep 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors NEW 79 06-Sep 5 days BBC Media Great Houses & Cosmopolitan Cities 81 06-Sep 5 days Romantic Journeys of North Wales 96 06-Sep 5 days Belfast Titanic Gold 112 06-Sep 5 days Wicklow Mountains & Gardens Gold 113 06-Sep 5 days Newquay 50 09-Sep 5 days Tastes & Flavours of Kent 62 11-Sep 7 days Guernsey by Air - Pandora Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Guernsey by Air - Le Trelade Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Pandora Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Guernsey by Sea - Le Trelade Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Jersey by Air-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Jersey by Air-Mayfair Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Jersey by Sea-Norfolk Lodge Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Jersey by Sea-Mayfair Hotel 99 11-Sep 7 days Orkney Island & Castle of Mey 101 11-Sep 7 days Killarney & Ring of Kerry Gold 111 11-Sep 9 days Lake Como Gold 116 11-Sep 8 days Italian Dolomites Gold 117 12-Sep 7 days Isle of Wight - Bayshore Hotel 54 12-Sep 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria 83 12-Sep 7 days Scotland Houses & Gardens 108 13-Sep 5 days Northumbria Extravagance-Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 37 13-Sep 5 days Glorious Devon 47 13-Sep 5 days St Mawes & Poldark Country NEW 49 13-Sep 5 days Cambridge, Ely & Rural Essex 60 13-Sep 5 days Folkestone & Kent 63 13-Sep 5 days Lancashire Delights Gold 85 13-Sep 5 days Royal Sandringham & the English Shires NEW 87 13-Sep 5 days Little Boats & Trains of Norfolk Gold NEW 98 13-Sep 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the English Riviera NEW 98 13-Sep 5 days Angus Secret Coastline Gold 109 16-Sep 5 days Penzance NEW 51 18-Sep 2 days Mystery Weekends Gold 43 18-Sep 8 days Romantic Journeys of Scotland 100 18-Sep 9 days Tuscany 116 18-Sep 8 days Italian Riviera of Flowers Gold 118 18-Sep 8 days Splendours of Andorra Gold 120 19-Sep 7 days Eastbourne-Queens Hotel 55 20-Sep 5 days Gold Hotel Collection - Hallmark Preston Leyland Gold Hotel Collection 35 20-Sep 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 20-Sep 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 20-Sep 5 days Brighton & Eastbourne 56 20-Sep 5 days Maritime Essex & Kent Coast 61 20-Sep 5 days Norfolk Seals, Coast and City Gold 74 20-Sep 5 days Durham, Richmond & the Dales-Scotch Corner Hotel 84 20-Sep 5 days Highlights of Lancashire NEW 86 20-Sep 5 Days Scenic Gems of North Wales & Snowdonia NEW 91 20-Sep 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 20-Sep 5 days Dunoon - Esplande Hotel 103 23-Sep 5 days Romantic Landscapes & Trains of Yorkshire 97 25-Sep 8 days Rail Switzerland-Silvretta Parkhotel Klosters Gold Hotel Collection 42 25-Sep 8 days Rocamadour 115 25-Sep 8 days Lake Levico Gold NEW 115 25-Sep 9 days Lake Como Gold 116 25-Sep 9 days Lake Garda-Hotel Adria Resort Gold 117 25-Sep 8 days Roses & the Little Yellow Train Gold 121 27-Sep 5 days Peak District-Shrigley Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 38 27-Sep 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 27-Sep 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes 69 27-Sep 5 days Harrogate & the Treasures of Yorkshire 78 27-Sep 5 days Picture Perfect Lake District Gold NEW 71 27-Sep 5 days Yorkshire Delights 77
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DATE DAYS TOUR GOLD NEW PAGE 27-Sep 5 days Heart of Wales, Cardigan Bay Gold 95 27-Sep 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 27-Sep 7 days Fort William & Isle of Mull 102 27-Sep 5 days Falmouth with Style 53 OCTOBER 03-Oct 5 days Gold Hotel Colletion - Bude, Ilfracombe & Barnstaple Gold Hotel Collection NEW 39 03-Oct 7 days Great Yarmouth 46 03-Oct 7 days Eastbourne-Oban Hotel 55 03-Oct 6 days Kingdom of Northumbria Gold 83 03-Oct 6 days Isle of Arran, Loch Lomond & Ayrshire Coast Gold 109 03-Oct 5 days A Touch of Class in Yorkshire Gold 77 04-Oct 5 days St Ives & Scenic Cornwall NEW 52 04-Oct 5 days Bournemouth, Portsmouth & IOW-Ocean Beach Hotel 58 04-Oct 5 days Maritime Essex & Kent Coast 61 04-Oct 5 days The Magic of Five Counties Gold 64 04-Oct 5 days Picture Perfect Lake District NEW 71 04-Oct 5 days Ludlow & County of Shropshire 75 04-Oct 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 04-Oct 5 days Great Little Trains of Wales 96 04-Oct 5 days Belfast Titanic Gold 112 04-Oct 5 days Newquay 50 04-Oct 5 days Catherine Cookson’s Beautiful Northumbria NEW 84 07-Oct 5 days Tastes & Flavours of Kent 62 09-Oct 8 days Roses & the Little Yellow Train Gold 121 10-Oct 7 days Isle of Wight - Bayshore Hotel 54 10-Oct 5 days Tastes & Flavours of Kent 62 10-Oct 7 days Llandudno & North Wales 92 11-Oct 5 days Gold Hotel Collection Liverpool & Port Sunlight Gold Hotel Collection NEW 40 11-Oct 5 days Delightful Dorset 48 11-Oct 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 11-Oct 5 days Isle of Man- The Empress Hotel NEW 59 11-Oct 5 days Historic Houses & Cities of North Yorkshire 80 11-Oct 5 days Highlights of Lancashire NEW 86 11-Oct 5 days Royal Sandringham & the English Shires NEW 87 11-Oct 5 Days Scenic Gems of North Wales & Snowdonia Gold NEW 91 11-Oct 5 days Heart of Wales, Cardigan Bay Gold 95 11-Oct 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the English Riviera Gold NEW 98 11-Oct 6 days Rail & Sail in the Western Highlands Gold NEW 103 11-Oct 5 days Dunoon - Selbourne Hotel 103 11-Oct 5 days Falmouth with Style Gold 53 16-Oct 2 days Mystery Weekends Gold 43 17-Oct 6 days Scarborough-Park Manor Hotel NEW 57 17-Oct 7 days Bonnie Scotland Gold 106 17-Oct 7 days Scotland Houses & Gardens Gold 108 18-Oct 5 days Exmouth, Exeter & East Devon NEW 45 18-Oct 5 days Glorious Devon 47 18-Oct 5 days St Mawes & Poldark Country NEW 49 18-Oct 5 days Penzance Gold NEW 51 18-Oct 5 days Scarborough-The New Southlands Hotel NEW 57 18-Oct 5 days Gardens of Delights in Essex Gold NEW 67 18-Oct 5 days Sailing & Steaming in the Lakes Gold 69 18-Oct 5 days Yorkshire Delights Gold 77 18-Oct 5 days Whitby & North Yorkshire Moors NEW 79 18-Oct 5 days Pembrokeshire Pearls 93 18-Oct 5 days Tenby-Clarence House Hotel 94 18-Oct 5 days Romantic Journeys on the Isle of Man 97 18-Oct 5 days Little Boats & Trains of Norfolk NEW 98 18-Oct 5 days Cumbrian Cavalcade Gold 70 18-Oct 5 days Scottish Borders, Peebles & Edinburgh Gold NEW 106 24-Oct 7 days Irish Adventure Gold 112 24-Oct 8 days The South of France Gold NEW 114 25-Oct 5 days Hidden Corners of Yorkshire-Blackwell Grange Hotel Gold Hotel Collection NEW 36 25-Oct 5 days Newquay 50 25-Oct 5 days Peak District-Shrigley Hall Hotel Gold Hotel Collection 38 25-Oct 5 days Snowdonia-Royal Victoria Hotel 90
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 17 SPRING HOLIDAYS IN ENGLAND Tenby Gold Superior Gold Shrewsbury Taster in the South Downs Gold Taster Your Hotel: The Belgrave Your Hotel: The Langstone Your Hotel: The Buckatree These are Hotel Hotel Hall Hotel GOLD Coach Tours • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Visit to Saundersfoot • Spinnaker Tower & Cream Tea • Wenlock Edge & Ludlow • Carmarthen & Cardigan Bay • Chichester & Bognor Regis • Bewdley & Ironbridge Gorge 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS These are Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Executive Coach 11th Jan £259 17th Jan £329 25th Jan £299 Holidays Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Gold Taster Bonnie Cheshire Mystery Tour Scotland Gold Taster Hotel: A good quality hotel Your Hotel: The Crianlarich Your Hotel: Bredbury Hall will be used Hotel Hotel • 3 nights with dinner, bed & • 6 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Scenic sightseeing & free • Scotrail journey from • Visit to Roman city of Chester Crianlarich to Oban and return time in the Mystery locations • Glenturret distillery tour • Buxton & Bakewell 4 DAYS & tasting 7 DAYS 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 29th Jan £219 29th Jan £519 1st Feb £269 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Britains Heritage Discovering Snowdrop Experience & County Towns Lincoln Gold Taster in Drymen Your Hotel: Rockingham Your Hotel: Olde Barn Your Hotel: The Winnock Forest Hotel Hotel Hotel, Drymen • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Visit to Shuttleworth • Visit to cathedral city of • Duntreath Castle Collection Lincoln • The Silverstone • Free time in Inveraray Experience 5 DAYS • Boston & Skegness 5 DAYS 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 8th Feb £369 8th Feb £299 8th Feb £369 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Warner’s Bembridge Gold Taster Northumbria Coast Isle of Wight Thoresby Hall Gold Taster Your Hotel: The Winnock Your Hotel: Thorsby Hall Your Hotel: Copthorne Hotel Hotel, Drymen Hotel Newcastle • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Duntreath Castle • Visit to Lincoln & Nottingham • Alnwick & Northumbria Coast • Free time in Inveraray • Sherwood Forest • Cathedral city of Durham 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 8th Feb £369 15th Feb £399 15th Feb £349 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
18 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM SPRING HOLIDAYS IN ENGLAND West Cornwall Looe & Cornish Tenby Gold Taster Coast Gold Taster Gold Taster Your Hotel: Queens Hotel, Your Hotel: Hannafore Your Hotel: The Belgrave Penzance Point Hotel Hotel • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Marizion, Helston & Falmouth • Fowey, St Austell & Mevagissey • Saundersfoot & Carmarthen • St Ives, Truro & Mevagissey • Padstow & Camel Estuary • Pembrokeshire National Park 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 15th Feb £369 15th Feb £339 22nd Feb £259 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Shrewsbury Snowdonia Gold Superior Gold Taster Gold Taster Kielder Water Your Hotel: The Buckatree Your Hotel: Royal Victoria Your Hotel: Gilsland Hall Hall Hotel Hotel Hotel • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Wenlock Edge & Ludlow • Caernarfon & Beaumaris • Carlisle, Penrith & Eden Valley • Bewdley & Ironbridge Gorge • Portmeirion Italiante Village • Hexham & Hadrians Wall 5 DAYS 5 DAYS Country 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 22nd Feb £349 22nd Feb £329 22nd Feb £329 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Bournemouth Eastbourne Celtic Royal Criccieth Inclusive Gold Taster Caernarfon
Your Hotel: Suncliff Hotel Your Hotel: Oban Hotel Your Hotel: George IV Your Hotel: Celtic Royal Hotel Caernarfon • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast breakfast • Inclusive bar 6pm-9pm • Brighton & Lewes • Porthmadog • Beaumaris each evening • Isle of Purbeck, • Caernarfon • Anglesey Swanage & Poole 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 8th Feb £319 22nd Feb £279 22nd Feb £249 22nd Feb £279 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
Spring at Kew Snowdrops Fort William & Chiswick in Yorkshire All Inclusive Gold
Your Hotel: Holiday Inn Your Hotel: Copthorne Your Hotel: Fort William London Heathrow Hotel Sheffield • 2 nights with dinner, bed & • 3 nights with dinner, bed & • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Orchid Festival at Kew • Entry to Brodsworth Hall • Stunning rail journey to Mallaig • Camelias at Chiswick home of 500,000 Snowdrops • Fort Augustus & Loch Ness 3 DAYS 4 DAYS 7 DAYS Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 26th Feb £219 26th Feb £269 28th Feb £489 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £359 £349 £369 Looe & Cornish Gold Belfast Titanic Sidmouth Coach Taster Experience • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Bedford Hotel Your Hotel: Hannafore Point Your Hotel: Ballymascanlon Hotel House • Visit Seaton with free time • Visit to Dorchester and Weymouth • Visits to Fowey, St Austell and • Belfast City Tour • Visit to Titanic Belfast Experience • Day at leisure in Sidmouth Mevagissey • Visits to Padstow and Camel Estuary • Scenic Antrim Coast • Visit to the extraordinary Giants Causeway Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 1st March £359 1st March £349 1st March £369 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
NEW TOUR 2 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM 5 DAYS £339 £129 £309 Chester Drinks Mystery Weekend Eastbourne Package • 1 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: It’s a lovely surprise Your Hotel: Oban Hotel
Your Hotel: Beaufort Park Mold • Enjoy free time in your mystery • Complimentary drink of wine or fruit destination juice on arrival • Live entertainment on 3 nights • We start our Mystery journey • Discounted bar 6 – 9 pm each night • 3 nights drinks package travelling by a scenic route and make our first stop around lunchtime. • Visits to Brighton and Lewes • A day at leisure There is time for sightseeing before • A day at leisure • Llandudno & Chester continuing our drive to our Mystery destination arriving late afternoon. • Excursion to Battle Abbey • Liverpool & Albert Dock Prices & Dates
Prices & Dates 1st March £129 Prices & Dates 1st March £339 17th Apr £139 1st March £309 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM 5 DAYS FROM £369 £369 £309 Lakes, Sailing Bude, Bideford & Steaming Lakes, All Inclusive & Barnstaple • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights stay on All Inclusive • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Basis breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Shapwells Hotel Your Hotel: Grange over Sands Your Hotel: Durrant House Hotel
• Lake Ullswater Cruise • Visits to Hawkshead and Coniston • Excursions to Tintagel, Bude an • Bowness & Lake Windermere Cruise Water Boscastle • Ambleside & Hawkeshead • Keswick market Day and Grasmere • Visits to Ilfracombe and Woolacombe • Kikstone Pass & Patterdale • Lakeland Motor Museum • Visits to Barnstaple and Bideford
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates 8th March £369 (See pg 8 for service details) 8th March £309 5th Apr £409 8th March £369 26th April £329 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM £379 £319 £329 Holme Lacey Harrogate RAF Hendon, Windsor & Covent Garden • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights stay – All inclusive • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Package breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Holme Lacey House Your Hotel: Cairn Hotel Your Hotel: Mercure Hatfield Oak Hotel • A visit to the historic town of • Visits to Ripley Castle Tewskesbury • Cathedral City of Ripon • Visits to Royal Windsor • Visit to the cathedral city of Hereford • The historic city of York with its • Covent Garden – London • A visit to Abergavenny and the Brecon stunning Minster • St Albans – Market Day Beacons Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 11th March £329 8th March £379 8th March £319 1st April £349 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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NEW NEW TOUR TOUR 5 DAYS 7 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM £599 £259 £379 Florimania at Britains Heritage The Black Forest Hampton Court & County Towns • 6 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Hotel Baren, Your Hotel: Holiday Inn, London Your Hotel: Rockingham Forest Oberharmersbach Heathrow Hotel, Rockingham • Overnight stays in Leige with dinner bed and breakfast • Entrance to Floralmania with its floral • Entrance to Shuttleworth Collection, House with Guide • Welcome Schnapps served on first demonstrations and arrangements. night • Excursion to The Silverstone • Visit to Hampton Court Palace Experience • Visit to Zell am Harmersbach on the little Train • Free day at leisure Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 15th March £379 13th March £599 13th March £259 12th Apr £389 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £319 £359 £409 Ilfracombe Shrewsbury Lakes & Lancashire Gold Taster Gold Taster • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Hallmark Preston Your Hotel: Osborne Hotel Your Hotel: Buckatree Hall Hotel Leyland • Trip to Lynton and Lynmouth • Excursion Wenlock Edge and Ludlow • Trip to Bowness & Lake Windermere • Visits to Exmoor Nation Park • Excursion to Oswestry and • Excursion to Fleetwood & Blackpool • Visits to Dunter and Exford Shrewsbury • Flye Villages & Lancaster • Visits to Minehead • Excursion to Bewdley and Iron Bridge • Afternoon tea at The Midland Hotel Gorge Morecambe Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 15th March £319 15th March £359 15th March £409 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £279 £339 £339 Yorkshire Dales Delightful Corner of Criccieth Gold Taster Gold Taster Wales Gold Taster • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: George IV Hotel Your Hotel: Mercure Leeds Your Hotel: Ivy Bush Royal Hotel Parkway – Carmarthen • Visit to Snowdonia National Park • Excursion to Emmerdale Country and • Excursions to Tenby and Saundersfoot • Porthmadog Skipton • St Davids and St Brides Bay • Caernarfon • Grassington, Howes and Wensleydale • Mumbles and The Gower Peninsula • Ripon, Leyburn and Richmond • Carmarthen
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 15th March £279 15th March £339 15th March £339 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £359 £349 £369 Charming Suffolk Looe & Cornish Snowdonia Gold Taster Coach Gold Taster • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Royal Victoria Hotel Your Hotel: Ipswich Hotel Your Hotel: Hannafore Point – Snowdonia – Copdock Hotel – Looe • Portmeirion Italianate Village • Excursions to Woodbridge and Ipswich • Visits to Fowey, St Austell and • Historic Caernarfon • Lavenham and Bury St Edmunds Mevagissey • Beaumaris and Anglesey • Aldeburgh and Southwold • Visits to Padstow and Camel Estuary • Snowdonia National Park
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 15th March £359 15th March £349 15th March £369 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 4 DAYS 8 DAYS £419 £359 £729 Steaming Through Emmerdale Studios Lake Como Yorkshire Village Tour • 2 Overnight stays in Metz with bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • 5 nights stay with dinner, bed breakfast and breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Mercure Bradford Your Hotel: Best Western Plus Your Hotel: Hotel Bazzoni Bankfield - Bingley Milford Hotel Leeds Tremezzo • An excursion on the Settle and • Emmerdale Studio Tour • Ride on Bernina Line Railway Carlisle Railway • Enjoy a canal cruise at Skipton • Emmerdale Village Tour • Lake Cruise with Private Boat • Steam ride on Embassy and Bolton • Day at leisure • Guided Tour of Milano Abbey Steam Railway • Free time to explore Lake Como • Excursion to Bolton Abbey, Wharfdale & Haworth Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 18th March £419 19th March £359 20th March £729 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply
7 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM 5 DAYS FROM £499 £439 £379 Killarney Isle of Man Heritage Great Yarmouth & • 2 overnight stays with dinner, Railways Norwich bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights stay with dinner, bed breakfast breakfast and breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Palm Court Hotel Your Hotel: Eviston House Your Hotel: Part of the Sleepwell - Great Yarmouth - Killarney Group Hotels • Visit to the Famous Blarney Castle • Steam train ride to Port Erin • Visit to Cathedral City of Norwich • Coastal tour of the Ring of Kerry • Trip to Castletown and Peel • Visit to Norfolk Broads • Journey on Manx Electric Railway to • Visit to Jameson Irish Whisky Distillery • Lowestoft Laxey Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates • Trip to Ramsey (See pg 8 for service details) Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 21st March £499 22nd March £369 26th Apr £539 22nd March £439 5th Apr £379 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM 5 DAYS £339 £489 £329 Blairgowrie Winter Waterford Inclusive Chester & Llandudno Warmer • 4 nights with dinner, bed & Gold Taster • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Tour Link Included breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Angus Hotel Your Hotel: Treacy’s Hotel Your Hotel: Beaufort Park Hotel - Blairgowrie - Waterford - Mold • Tea with cream scone on 2 afternoons • 4 nights stay on full board basis • Tea and Bara Brith on arrival • Glass of wine with dinner each night • Live musical entertainment • 2 nights of hotel entertainment • Visit to Tate Perthshire with whiskey • Free bar 6.30 pm – 9 pm • Excursion to Llandudno and Chester liqueur tasting & V&A Museum, • Excursion to Liverpool and Albert Dundee Dock Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates 22nd March £489 (See pg 8 for service details) 22nd March £339 12th Apr £499 22nd March £329 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM £389 £419 £419 West Cornwall Gold Superior Heart of Scarborough & Taster Wales - Gold Whitby & York • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included
Your Hotel: Queens Hotel Your Hotel: Metropole Hotel Your Hotel: The Park Manor Penzance - llandrindod Wells Hotel - Scarborough
• Visit to Marazion, Helston and • Aberystwyth – Elan Valley • Whitby and North Yorkshire Moors Falmouth • Cathedral city of Hereford • Free Day to explore Scarborough • Visit to St Just West Cornwall and St • Historic Ludlow & Llandrindod Wells • Excursion to York Ives • Truro and Mevagissey Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 22nd March £419 22nd March £389 22nd March £419 19th Apr £429 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £379 £419 £299 Cambridge Gold Superior Yorkshire Cumbria Taster Dales -Gold • 4 nights stay with dinner, bed • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed and and breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Holiday Inn Your Hotel: The Rendezvous Your Hotel: Summergrove Halls - Cambridge Hotel - Skipton Hotel – Whitehaven • The University city of Cambridge • Harrogate – Former Spa Town • Visit to beautiful Keswick with time • Bury St Edmunds • Grassington and Wharfedale to explore • Cathedral City of Ely • Hawes and Wensleydale • Visit to Cockermouth and Maryport • Roman St Albans • Ilkley and Skipton • Free time on Whitehaven • RAF Hendon Museum • Cathedral city of Ripon Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 22nd March £379 22nd March £419 22nd March £299 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 7 DAYS £359 £349 £659 Liverpool Yorkshire Splendours Inverness All • 4 nights stay with dinner, bed • 4 nights with dinner, bed & Inclusive – Gold and breakfast breakfast • 6 nights with dinner, bed & • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included breakfast • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: The Cedar Court Your Hotel: Aloft, Liverpool Hotel - Leeds Your Hotel: The Best Western Bradford Palace hotel & Spa • Free time to explore the fascinating • Visit the spa town of Harrogate • Cruise on Loch Ness city of Liverpool • Trip to Skipton • Day to explore Inverness • Opportunity to visit the fabulous • Journey on the Keighley & Worth Beatles Story • Full day tour to Loch Maree and Valley Railway Inverewe Gardens • Accommodation at the superb • Free day to explore York Aloft Hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 22nd March £359 22nd March £349 27th March £659 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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8 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £729 £289 £349 Lake Lucerne & Cheshire Gold Taster Discovering Lincoln Glacier Express - Gold • 4 nights with dinner, bed & Gold Taster • 2 overnight stays on bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast basis • Tour Link Included breakfast • 4 nights stay with dinner, bed • Tour Link Included and breakfast Your Hotel: Bredbury Hall Hotel - Cheshire Your Hotel: Olde Barn Grantham • Tour Link Included - Lincoln Your Hotel: Hotel Bellevue • Roman city of Cheshire • Excursion to Cathedral City of Lincoln Seelisberg • Ruthin & Horsehoe Pass • Excursion to Boston and Skegness • Journey on the Glacier Express from • Llangollen & Dee Valley • Excursion to Stamford & Springfield’s Andermatt to Churr • Buxton & Bakewell at Spalding • Free time to explore Seelisberg
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 28th March £729 29th March £289 29th March £349 Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £359 £369 £359 Shrewsbury, Ludlow Dundee Winter Norfolk Gold Taster & Ironbridge Warmer – Gold • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Buckatree Hall Hotel Your Hotel: Doubletree Hotel Your Hotel: The Mercure Hotel - Shropshire - Dundee - Norwich • Wenlock Edger and Ludlow • An evening planned around Dundee’s • Great Yarmouth • Oswestry and Shrewsbury Gins, Jams & Journalism • Norfolk Broads • Ironbridge Gorge and Blists Hill • Wine tasting and presentation • Wells Next the Sea evening at the hotel • Lowestoft and Oulton Broad • Sheringham and Cromer
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 29th March £359 29th March £369 29th March £359 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 4 DAYS 4 DAYS £439 £329 £369 Easter in Sidmouth Easter in South Wales Easter in Hampshire • 4 nights with dinner, bed & • 3 nights with dinner, bed & & New Forest breakfast breakfast • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Royal York & Your Hotel: Ivy Bush Hotel, Your Hotel: The Norton Park Faulkner Hotel Carmarthen Hotel • Trip to Seaton to enjoy some free • Visit to Saundersfoot & Tenby • Visit to Winchester time before returning via the Donkey • Visit to the Gower Heritage Centre • Visit to Romsey Sanctuary • Pendine Sands and Laugharne • Excursion to Lyndhurst, Lymington • Visit to Dorchester and New Forest • Visit to the Lost Gardens of • Day at leisure to enjoy Sidmouth • Visit to Exbury Gardens and its Aberglasney spectacular woodland garden
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1st April £439 2nd April £329 2nd April £369 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
NEW TOUR 4 DAYS 4 DAYS 4 DAYS £369 £349 £329 Easter in Easter in Cumbria Easter in Harrogate & York • 3 nights with dinner, bed & Shakespeare Country • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Tour Link Included breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Gilsland Hall Hotel Your Hotel: Stratford Manor Your Hotel: Cedar Court Hotel • Visit to Gretna and a visit to the Hotel world-famous Blacksmiths Shop • Visit to RHS Gardens – Harlow Carr • Alston where we journey the South • Scenic drive into the Cotswolds • Visit to the spa town of Harrogate stopping at Stow on the Wold and Tynesdale Railway, Britain highest Bourton on the Water • Visit to Historic York narrow gauge line • Excursion to Stratford upon Avon • Penrith and delightful Hutton-in the- • Boat trip on the River Avon Forest • Visit to Cheltenham
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2nd April £369 2nd April £349 2nd April £329 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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NEW NEW TOUR TOUR 4 DAYS 5 DAYS 4 DAYS £329 £399 £339 Easter in Newcastle Easter in Norfolk Easter Postcards & Northumberland • 4 nights with dinner, bed & from Yorkshire • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Brook Hotel Your Hotel: Holiday Inn, Your Hotel: Mercure Leeds Gosforth Park Parkway • Visit to Cromer • Free time spent in the historic market • Visit to the spa town of Harrogate town of Morpeth • Steam ride on Poppy Line • Visit Harewood House • Visit to Alnwick on Market Day • Free time in Wells next the Sea & trip • Free time to explore York • Visit to Newcastle’s Quayside Market to little Walsingham • Enjoy a 2 hour cruise on the River Tyne with commentary
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2nd April £329 2nd April £399 2nd April £339 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
NEW NEW NEW TOUR TOUR TOUR 4 DAYS 4 DAYS 4 DAYS £369 £289 £279 Easter Rivers Canals Easter in St Albans Easter in Delights & Railways of the North East • 3 nights with dinner, bed & • 3 nights with dinner, bed & • 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Holiday Inn Hotel Your Hotel: Beaufort Park Mold Your Hotel: Aubrey Park Hotel Hull Marina
• Boat trip on the River Mersey • One night house entertainment • Visit to Bridlington, Beverley & Filey • Guided tour Port Sunlight Village • Visit to Royal Windsor • Excursion to York which offers the visitor much to see ranging from • Trip to the Horseshoe pass and • Visit to Henley on Thames the magnificent York Minster to the journey on the Rheilfford Llangollen narrow surrounding little streets Railway often with quaint shops.
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2nd April £369 2nd April £289 2nd April £279 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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NEW TOUR 4 DAYS 8NEW DAYS 7 DAYS £349 £759TOUR £649 Easter in Lake Como Easter in the Easter in Penzance • 2 overnight in Metz with bed Black Forest • 3 nights with dinner, bed & and breakfast • 2 overnight in Liege with dinner, breakfast • 5 nights with dinner, bed and bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • Tour Link Included breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Queens Hotel Your Hotel: Hotel Britannia Your Hotel: Hotel Baren Excelsior • Easter Sunday Lunch • Welcome drink at the Hotel Baeren • Hot and cold drinks from 10:00 until • Easter Egg for each guest • Drinks promotion on one evening at 23:45 daily, plus soft drinks, local Hotel Baeren – 50 % off drinks from • Visit to Lands’ End and Bodmin Moor beers, wines, spirts and sparkling wine. 18:00 to 19:00 • Free time in Penzance • Ride on Bernina Line Railway and Lake • Visit to Zell am Harmersbach on Little Cruise with Private Boat Train, plus Titisee & Triberg Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 2nd April £349 3rd April £759 4th April £649 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply
NEW TOUR 8 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £629 £429 £349 Spain All Inclusive Temple Newsam A Taste of Spring in Callela House & Peaks in Suffolk • 2 overnight in Dijon with bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast breakfast breakfast • 5 nights stay All Inclusive basis • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Tankersley Manor Your Hotel: Best Western Your Hotel: H Top Amaika Hotel Hotel Adult only Ipswich Hotel • Entertainment at the hotel two evenings • Entertainment at the hotel two • Excursion to Tossa de Mar • Complimentary drink of wine with dinner • Visit to the fabulous cosmopolitan first and last evening evenings city of Barcelona • Cream tea at hotel on one afternoon • Cream tea at hotel on one afternoon • Trip to Aldeburgh, Southwold and • Trip to Aldeburgh, Southwold and • Free time in Calella Woodbridge Woodbridge • Visit to Besalu & Girona • Free time in Lavenham and Stowmarket Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 10th April £629 11th April £429 12th April £349
Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS FROM £369 £359 £539 Northumbria Charming Suffolk Dutch Bulbfields Gold Taster Gold Taster • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotels: Fletcher hotel, Your Hotel: The Millennium Your Hotel: Best Western Loosdrecht Copthorne Hotel Ipswich Hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) • A free day to explore Newcastle Upon • Visits to Aldeburgh, Woodbridge and 12th April £579 Tyne Southwold 26th April £579 • Visit to Alnwick and Northumbria Coast • Explore the villages set in Constable • Explore the city of Durham and the Country Single room supplement may apply cathedral • Visit Clacton on Sea,Walton on the Your Hotels: The Villa Vennendal • Visit to South Shields Naze & Lavenham Hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 12th April £369 12th April £359 26th April £539 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £329 £329 £429 Legends of the Lochs Dunoon Steaming through Yorkshire • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Winnock Hotel, Your Hotel: Esplanade Hotel Your Hotel: Mercure Bradford Drymen Bankfield
• Visit to Falls of Dochart at Killin • Visit to Inverary • An excursion on the Settle and • Visit to the Falkirk Wheel • Visit Loch Lomond Carlisle Railway • Excursion to Edinburgh • A free to explore • Visit the spa town of Ilkley, Bolton Abbey & Wharfedale • Visit to Glengoyne Whiskey Distillery • Entertainment provided most evenings • Steam ride on Embassy and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) Prices & Dates 12th April £329 12th April £329 15th April £429 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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8 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £719 £459 £359 Lake Garda Isle of Man Heritage Snowdonia • 2 overnights with bed and Railways • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • Tour Link Included breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Part of the Sleepwell Your Hotel: Royal Victoria Hotel Group Hotels Your Hotel: Hotel Villa Rosa • Portmeirion Italianate Village • Steam train ride to Port Erin • A fabulous day out to Venice • Historic Caernarfon • Trip to Castletown and Peel • Tour around the shores of Lake Garda • Beaumaris and Anglesey • Journey on Manx Electric Railway to • An excursion to the beautiful city of • Snowdonia National Park Verona Laxey • A guided tour of Verona • Trip to Ramsey Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 18th April £719 19th April £459 19th April £359 Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
5 DAYS 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £439 £419 £369 Spring in Penzance A Taste of summer in Pitlochry Yorkshire Dales • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Queens Hotel Your Hotel: Crown Hotel Your Hotel: Fishers Hotel
• Visit to Lands’ End and Bodmin Moor • Complimentary glass of wine with • Free time on Pitlochry • Free time in Penzance dinner first and last evening • Scenic tour of Royal Deeside and • Cream tea one afternoon at hotel Cairngorms National Park P • Visit to Bolton Abbey and Hawes famous for its Wensleydale Cheese • Excursion along bank of Loch Tay via • Free time in Skipton Kenmore, Aberfeldy and Loch Earn • Free time to explore Harrogate • Visit to Crieff Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) 19th April £439 19th April £419 19th April £369 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply
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5 DAYS 7 DAYS 5 DAYS £399 £649 £419 Harrogate Flower Springtime Highlights Lincolnshire Spring Show of Austria Special • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 2 overnight stay in Metz • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • Tour Link Included breakfast • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included Your Hotel: Cedar Court Hotel Your Hotel: Olde Barn Grantham Your Hotel: Gasthof Spullersee • Free time to explore historic York and Hotel • Entertainment all four nights Harrogate • Visit to Chur Switzerland oldest town • Guided tour of Cathedral City of • Full day to enjoy Harrogate Flower • Free time to explore your beautiful Lincoln surroundings Show • Visit to Stamford • Visit to Bregenz with a return ride on • Visit to RHS Harlow Carr and tour of the Pfanderbahn (cable car) plus a • Visit to Newark on Trent and Sleaford the gardens boat tour on lake Constance (included) Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details) 22nd April £399 24th April £649 26th April £419 Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement & hotel bedroom tax may apply Single room supplement may apply
3 DAYS £259 Rhododendrons In Norfolk • 2 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast 5 DAYS 5 DAYS £429 £449 Your Hotel: Best Western Brook Hotel • Visit to Wells next the Sea • Lunch stop at Superior Yorkshire Alvaston Hall Sheringham • Visit to Sheringham Park Dales Gold Taster Prices & Dates • 4 nights with dinner, bed and • 4 nights with dinner, bed and 14th May £259 Single room supplement breakfast breakfast may apply • Tour Link Included • Tour Link Included
Your Hotel: The Rendezvous Your Hotel: Warners Leisure 3 DAYS Hotel Alvaston Hall £369 • Harrogate – Former Spa Town • A free day to enjoy the facilities of the Chelsea Flower Show • Grassington and Wharfedale hotel • 2 nights with dinner, bed and • Hawes and Wensleydale • A visit to the historic City of Chester with the opportunity to explore the breakfast • Ilkley and Skipton famous ‘Rows’ and City Walls. • Cathedral city of Ripon Your Hotel: Hilton Hotel, Bracknell • The Peak District Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates • Full day at Chelsea Flower Show (See pg 8 for service details) (See pg 8 for service details) Prices & Dates 26th April £429 3rd May £449 20th May £369 Single room supplement Single room supplement may apply Single room supplement may apply may apply
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2021 GOLD HOTEL COLLECTION
We are delighted to be offering 3 NEW Gold Hotel Collection breaks for summer 2021. For those of you who prefer something different in life we have carefully selected hotels that reflect additional features along with the usual benefits from travelling on our Gold Coach service.
What’s Included?
Hotels of 4 Great food Fabulous Home Pick-Up star standard service locations & Included excursions
ON BOARD THE GOLD COACH
• Fully reclining seats with more legroom so you can really stretch out and relax • On-board FREE Wi-Fi, DVD entertainment, sound system, magazines and washroom facilities • Enjoy FREE tea and coffee on-board the Gold Bistro and enjoy the separate lounge area
34 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM HALLMARK PRESTON LEYLAND GOLD HOTEL
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
5 DAYS FROM Leeds Liverpool Canal £624 On this exciting holiday in the wonderful countryside of Lancashire we experience one of its waterways, a railway and visits to two of its Holiday Highlights renowned ‘Halls’. • Samlesbury Hall Your itinerary • 3 hour canal cruise with Monday We depart and make our way to Later we step back in time for a nostalgic trip 2 course lunch Leyland to our hotel for the next 4 nights on a steam train along the East Lancashire with dinner, bed and breakfast. We enjoy a Railway where our journey takes us through • East Lancashire Railway glass of wine with dinner this evening. the beautiful Lancashire countryside from • Gawthorpe Hall Bury to Rawtenstall. We return to our hotel Tuesday We begin our day with a guided tour • Cream Tea at the hotel of Samlesbury Hall, a fabulous half-timbered for a Cream Tea. black and white medieval house built in 1325 Thursday This morning, we enjoy a scenic as a family home, before making our way drive through the picturesque Ribble Valley to Riley Green Marina to embark upon a stopping en route at the Oswaldtwistle Mills What’s Included? narrow boat cruise along the Leeds Liverpool shopping village and garden centre. This Canal. Our 3 hour round trip passes through award winning former weaving mill has over delightful countryside including Withnell 100 retailers under one roof, 5 restaurants, Fold Nature Reserve, past the old Paper Mill an ice cream parlour, garden centre, mill and on to the lovely hamlet of Wheelton and grounds, craft and sewing centre. It also Hotels Great food Fabulous Home Johnsons Hillock Locks before descending houses Textile and Heritage Museum and its of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up and ascending two locks and returning to own wildfowl reserve. We enjoy a spot of standard excursions Included Riley Green. During our cruise, we enjoy a two browsing and lunch before continuing on our course lunch on our spacious, accessible boat, way to Gawthorpe Hall, affectionately known with each table offering panoramic views of as the “Downton of the North”. Your Hotel the canal. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Wednesday Today, we travel to Bury where The Hallmark Preston Leyland Hotel has we can browse the world famous Market. many unique touches such as artwork by local artists and leisure facilities including Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates a swimming pool, sauna and jacuzzi. All (See pg 8 for service details). Single room bedrooms are en suite with TV and tea/ supplement £66 coffee making facilities. There is no lift but 24th May £634 ground floor rooms are available on request 14th Jun £634 at time of booking and subject to availability. 26th Jul £634 23rd Aug £624 20th Sept £664 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Hallmark Preston Leyland Hotel Hallmark Preston Leyland Hotel supplement at £15 pp per day
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• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Skyline of Richmond Castle £644 This NEW tour covers a splendid variety of magnificent scenery and contrasting countryside, with quaint Yorkshire towns and villages. We also feature a ride on Holiday Highlights the Wensleydale Railway, reopened after 50 years, re-living rural railway travel as it used to be all those years ago, as well as a boat trip on the Tees to Yarm. • Historic Maritime Whitby • North Yorkshire Moors Your itinerary Railway • Wensleydale Railway Monday We depart and make our way north, cruise on the River Tees through beautiful arriving at the Blackwell Grange Hotel for the countryside to the cobbled town of Yarm. In • Swaledale – Historic next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. the afternoon, we drive through Bilsdale - Richmond Tuesday We begin with a drive to historic “Little Switzerland”, past the Sun Inn, which • Teesside Princess River Richmond, high above the River Swale where has had the same landlord for 200 years! Cruise We then pass Rievaulx Abbey, and drop into you will find a castle, The Green Howards • ‘Little Switzerland’ Beautiful Museum and the Richmondshire Museum, Helmsley with its 12th century castle. On which houses the ‘set’ from ‘All Creatures our way back to the hotel we drive over the Bilsdale Great and Small’. Leaving Richmond, we head spectacular Sutton Bank, giving you fantastic for the ‘Wensleydale Railway’ for a nostalgic views of the moors and the Vale of York. ride through rural scenery from Leyburn Thursday We travel over the moors, across What’s Included? to Leeming Bar where we rejoin the coach. Blakey Ridge, through picturesque Hutton- Afterwards, we head to Thirsk, home of le-Hole to Pickering, where we join the North James Herriot, and the opportunuty to take in Yorkshire Moors Railway for a steam train the acclaimed World of James Herriot Centre journey through rugged moorland to Whitby, and explore before we return to the hotel. passing through Goathland – ‘Aidensfield’ in Hotels Great food Fabulous Home Wednesday Our first visit today is to Preston TV’s ‘Heartbeat’. Whitby is a maritime town, of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up Park and Hall Museum where the attractive bursting with character and unique. Wander standard excursions Included parkland surrounds the museum. Here you the alleyways and narrow streets and climb will find a delightful collection of memorabilia the steps up to Whitby Abbey. Your Hotel from times gone by. At Preston Hall, we join Friday After breakfast we depart for home. the ‘Teesside Princess’ and take a gentle The Blackwell Grange Hotel is a stunning 17th Century mansion which enjoys an Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates enviable setting in the beautiful County of (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement Durham countryside. The hotel is nestled 10th May £644 in wooded parkland in Darlington, located between the North Yorkshire Moors and the 5th Jul £654 Pennines. Hotel facilities include leisure club 23rd Aug £654 with heated indoor swimming pool, spa and 25th Oct £644 sauna and all bedrooms are en suite with TV, This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour radio, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee supplement at £15 pp per day Whitby making facilities. The hotel has a lift.
36 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM THE MACDONALD LINDEN HALL HOTEL GOLD HOTEL
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
5 DAYS FROM Panorama at Twilight over Rothbury Heather £704 This tour covers a variety of splendid scenery, contrasting countryside, historic towns, rugged coastlines, rolling hills and quaint northern villages in the stunning Holiday Highlights landscapes of Northumberland. • Stunning Luxury Hotel Your itinerary • Holy Island of Lindisfarne Monday We depart and make our way to and obtain lunch. Afterwards we travel via • Newcastle-Upon-Tyne Northumberland, arriving in the afternoon the pretty towns of Amble and Warkworth where we enjoy 4 nights with dinner, bed and to Alnwick where we will spend some of the • Historic Alnwick breakfast with tea/coffee and biscuits served afternoon to enjoy this beautiful market town • Seahouses Seaside Resort on arrival. and perhaps visit the Castle and Gardens, or • Morpeth – Market Day Tuesday Today’s excursion takes us across the maybe it’s Museum and Church. causeway to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne Thursday Our visit today is to Newcastle- where you can visit the castle with its Upon -Tyne a complete contrast to stunning views, explore the quaint shops and Wednesday as we travel to the beating What’s Included? attractions of the island and obtain lunch. heart of the City Centre. The city centre has Afterwards, we return to the mainland where markets, shopping, museums and parks and we travel to the village of Seahouses. Here you can obtain lunch and enjoy the beautiful we can saunter along the bustling harbour northern surroundings. of this colourful fishing village and browse Alternatively you could visit the Great North Hotels Great food Fabulous Home an Aladdin’s Cave of shops in this popular Museum or Newcastle Quayside, before we of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up seaside holiday resort. travel back for our final night at our luxurious standard excursions Included PLEASE NOTE: The crossing of the causeway hotel. to Holy Island is governed by tide times. It Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel may be necessary to amend this excursion. Wednesday This morning we travel to The Macdonald Linden Hall Hotel is a Morpeth where you can visit its weekly beautiful 18th century manor house set in market, and explore the historic market town magnificent grounds. Classically furnished, Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates each room has a blend of traditional (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement comforts. The hotel leisure facilities include 24th May £704 an indoor pool and lounge/bar area. All bedrooms are en suite. The hotel has a lift. 7th Jun £704 12th Jul £704 9th Aug £734 13th Sept £714 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Holy Island of Lindisfarne Linden Hall Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 37 GOLD HOTEL SHRIGLEY HALL HOTEL & COUNTRY CLUB
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
5 DAYS
Sunset on the Peak District £689 This lovely holiday covers the beautiful areas in and around the Peak District National Park, with a variety of magnificent scenery throughout. Step back in Holiday Highlights time and experience the heritage of the Peak District and its surrounding area and enjoy the sights of the countryside and cityscape. • Beautiful Peak District National Park Your itinerary • Bakewell – Home of the Monday We depart and make our way to museum and factory to see craftsmen at work Tart in Britain’s greatest luxury ceramics company. the Peak District and our hotel for the next • World of Wedgwood – 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast and Thursday Today we travel through the heart tea/coffee served on arrival. of the Peak District, passing by the quaint Afternoon Tea Tuesday We start the day with a scenic villages of Sparrowpit, Tideswell and Baslow, • Lyme Park – House and journey through the north of the Peak to the market town of Bakewell, home to the District, passing through Glossop before famous ‘Bakewell Tart’ or ‘Pudding’ and here Gardens heading along snake-pass, arguably one of you can enjoy a slice of the original! Later, we • Buxton and Castleton the most scenic routes in England. This takes travel to Buxton, a spa town with delightful us to the Ladybower Reservoir before we gardens and magnificent historic buildings. head towards Castleton where we have time Friday After breakfast we depart for home. to explore and relax. Later we visit Lyme Park and its House & Gardens which was the What’s Included? backdrop for some of the filming of ‘Pride and Prejudice’. Wednesday Our first stop this morning is the Astbury Meadow Garden Centre where you Hotels Great food Fabulous Home have free time to explore before continuing of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up to the World of Wedgwood Visitor Centre standard excursions Included where you will have a delightful Afternoon Tea, before being guided through the Your Hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates The River Wye through Bakewell (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement Shrigley Hall Hotel & Country Club is an 31st May £689 elegant Victorian country house, set in 262 26th July £689 acres of grounds on the edge of the Peak District National Park. The hotel’s leisure 16th Aug £689 facilities include an indoor pool, gym, spa 27th Sep £689 pool, sauna and steam room and all bedrooms 25th Oct £689 are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/ This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. Shrigley Hall Hotel supplement at £15 pp per day
38 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM BUDE, BIDEFORD & BARNSTAPLE GOLD HOTEL
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
Bude COLLECTION
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NEW TOUR
5 DAYS
Bude £634 The North Devon Coast is an Area of Designated Natural Beauty, with picturesque harbours, Victorian villas, rugged coastlines, historic towns, Holiday Highlights scenic moorlands and much more, on our NEW holiday. • Historic Barnstaple Your itinerary • Bude and Atlantic Coast Sunday We depart and make our way to Bideford and past Clovelly onto the ‘Atlantic • Ilfracombe and Devon arriving late afternoon at the Royal Highway’ which runs way down into South & Fortescue Hotel for the next 4 nights with Cornwall. Bude has a history of smugglers and Woolacombe dinner, bed and breakfast with tea/coffee and in the 19th century the town was notorious • Port of Bideford biscuits are served on arrival. for the ‘Wreckers’ who plundered the ships Monday Our first stop this morning is the that came to grief off the coast. picturesque resort of Woolacombe with its Thursday After breakfast we depart superb beaches. After a break here we head for home. for the coastal town of Ilfracombe, with its whitewashed houses and grand Victorian What’s Included? villas where the town maintains the aura of a traditional seaside resort. Tuesday Today is Market Day in Barnstaple and we have the day free to explore the Hotels Great food Fabulous Home town with its elegant Georgian buildings. of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up Barnstaple, on a crook of land between the standard excursions Included rivers Taw and Yeo, retains the charms of its ancient origins and at its heart is the splendid town hall building. The High Street is partly Your Hotel pedestrianised and the Pannier Market with its great canopied roof is a focal point. Wednesday This morning we are off on a full The Royal & Fortescue is situated in day out to North Cornwall and the popular Barnstaple town centre. Formerly a coaching resort of Bude. We make our way through Woolacombe inn this historic and traditional market town hotel earned its present title after patronage Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates by King Edward VII. The hotel offers all (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £44 modern facilities while retaining its charm 23rd May £634 and character and all bedrooms are en suite 22nd Aug £634 with TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. 3rd Oct £634 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Royal & Fortescue
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 39 GOLD HOTEL LIVERPOOL & PORT SUNLIGHT
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Chester £584 Join us on a NEW Gold Hotel Collection holiday to the fantastic Aloft Hotel in Liverpool with visits to Chester and Southport plus a guided tour of Port Holiday Highlights Sunlight Village, named after the famous Sunlight Soap. There are also lovely cliff walks with stunning views of the bay. • Luxurious Hotel • Elegant Southport Your itinerary • Port Sunlight Village Monday We depart and make our way to Village, built by William Hesketh Lever for his • Historic Chester with it’s Liverpool arriving at the Aloft Hotel for the factory workers and named after his famous next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Sunlight soap. This is a superb example of quirky shops Tuesday Today we make the short journey how life used to be. After our visit we return • Free time in Liverpool into the historic city of Chester. The day is to Liverpool for free time to explore. then free for you to explore – the unique 2 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. storey ‘Rows’ of shops, or maybe a gentle stroll to the River Dee, perhaps take a boat What’s Included? trip, or take a walk around the ancient Roman Walls. Wednesday Today we journey to Southport, an attractive Victorian seaside resort with pleasant gardens and the elegant Lord Street Hotels Great food Fabulous Home shops. of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up Thursday This morning our excursion takes us standard excursions Included through the Mersey Tunnel to the Wirral. We then make the short journey to Port Sunlight, where we enjoy a guided tour of Port Sunlight Your Hotel Port Sunlight Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room Celebrate in style at the Aloft Liverpool, a supplement £88 hip hotel housed in the iconic Grade II-listed 17th May £584 Royal Insurance Building where you’ll be 14th Jun £594 surrounded by history and modernity. Aloft rooms are en suite and feature the ultra- 12th Jul £594 comfortable signature platform-bed, walk-in 9th Aug £594 shower, custom amenities by Bliss Spa and 20th Sep £594 much more. The hotel has a lift. 11th Oct £584 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Aloft Hotel in Liverpool supplement at £15 pp per day
40 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM MARITIME HOTEL, BANTRY BAY GOLD HOTEL
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast, 2 overnights 7 DAYS Coach Tour with bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
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7 DAYS FROM Bantry House & Gardens £969 Expect breathtaking scenery, wild seascapes and colourful villages on this scenic tour of County Cork and County Kerry. Attractions include Bantry Holiday Highlights House, a Lough Leane cruise, the famous Killarney jaunting cars and the Ring of Beara. • Live musical entertainment in the bar on at least 2 nights Your itinerary • Entrance to Bantry House & Garden Sunday We depart and make our way to Wales and our ferry crossing to Rosslare. • 1 hour guided jaunting car We then continue on to Waterford and our tour of Killarney National overnight with dinner, bed & breakfast. Park Monday We continue our journey to arrive • 1 hour cruise of Lough Leane in Bantry and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Return boat trip Glengarriff - Garnish Island Tues - Thurs We will enjoy the following Garnish Island excursions: • Visit to Bantry House & Gardens • Jaunting car ride through the beautiful What’s Included? National Park and Ross Castle area • Lough Leane Lake Cruise • Free time in Bantry • Return boat trip from Glengarrif to Garnish Hotels Great food Fabulous Home Island of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up Friday We make our way back to Wexford and standard excursions Included our overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. Saturday After breakfast we depart and head Rosslare Castle Your Hotel for Rosslare and the ferry to Wales, and then continue on to the West Country. This modern and contemporary Maritime Hotel, where all bedrooms are en suite Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates with TV and tea/coffee making facilities, (See pg 8 for service details). Single room occupies a prime position on the quayside supplement £152 in the waterfront town of Bantry. Leisure 20th Jun £969 facilities include an indoor swimming pool, 5th Sep £969 sauna, spa bath, steam room and gym. The This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour hotel has a lift. supplement at £15 pp per day Maritime Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 41 GOLD HOTEL SILVRETTA PARK HOTEL, KLOSTERS RAILWAYS IN SWITZERLAND • 5 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast, 2 overnights 8 DAYS Coach Tour with bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included COLLECTION
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
8 DAYS
St Moritz in the Autumn Sun £1169 Klosters is well known for being the winter playground of the British Royals, one of the cable cars is even named after Prince Charles and both Prince Holiday Highlights William and Prince Harry learnt to ski at this stylish yet tranquil resort. Highlights of our holiday include visits to the chic resorts of St Moritz, Davos • Davos/Klosters – Inclusive and a trip on the Bernina Express! Card • Entrance to the Albula Your itinerary Railway Museum Saturday An early start for Dover and the Bernina Express and embark on a one-way ferry to Calais then on to France and our trip through the mountains to Tirano, Italy. • One-way journey on the overnight with bed and breakfast. We will transverse dramatic viaducts, glide Rhaetian Bahn past rushing mountain streams, picture Sunday We continue our journey into • One-way journey on Switzerland to arrive in our resort for the next postcard villages and even a mountain five nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. garden. The train climbs up to the 2,253 Bernina Express metre high Bernina Pass, the magnificence of Monday Today we will travel to Davos, where which is so hard to translate into words! Our our Davos/ Klosters Inclusive Card allows us coach will meet us in Tirano for our return to board the Schatzalp funicular railway to trip to our hotel. the botanical gardens which feature around 3,500 different flower species from all over Friday We depart and make our way back to What’s Included? the world. our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. Tuesday Enjoy a day at leisure in Klosters, Saturday We head to Calais for our return giving you time to explore the local area using crossing to Dover and onward to the West your Davos/Klosters inclusive card. Country. Hotels Great food Fabulous Home Wednesday We drive through the ruggedly of 4 star service locations & Pick-Up romantic countryside to Bergün where we standard excursions Included visit the Albula Railway Museum before embarking on the railway from Bergün to St Moritz. This journey takes us through a series of magnificent ‘helical’ tunnels as the Your Hotel train ascends along either side of the famous gorge. We have free time to explore this The Bernina Express stylish resort that sits 1,775m above sea level. Located in the heart of Klosters, the Silvretta Thursday After breakfast we walk from our Park has a traditional wooden exterior and hotel to Klosters Platz station to board the a spacious reception area. There is a piano Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room bar, lounge and leisure facilities including an supplement £154 indoor swimming pool, sauna and wellness 25th Sep £1169 suite. All bedrooms are en suite with TV and This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour hairdryer. The hotel has a lift. supplement at £15 pp per day Silvretta Park
42 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM MYSTERY WEEKENDS GOLD HOTEL
ON THE GOLD COACH This is a GOLD Coach • 1 night with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour COLLECTION • Home Pick-Up Included If you like a pleasant surprise and a bit of a mystery why not join us on one of our popular Mystery Breaks? During your two days you will enjoy beautiful scenic views and visits to popular tourist attractions. A word of warning however – never take a bet with your driver about your destination – remember, he always wins!
Your itinerary Your Hotel 2 DAYS Saturday We start our Mystery Your accommodation will be in journey travelling by a scenic a good quality hotel inclusive of Luxury travel £195 route and make our first stop bed, breakfast and evening meal, around lunchtime. There is time for and all bedrooms are en suite. sightseeing before continuing our drive to our Mystery destination Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates arriving late afternoon. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £25 Sunday After breakfast we have some free time in our Mystery 15th May £195 destination before continuing our 12th Jun £195 tour, stopping several times before 21st Aug £195 arriving home early evening. 18th Sep £195 16th Oct £195 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day MYSTERY WEEKENDS WITH THE GOLD HOTEL COLLECTION
• 1 night with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included For those who prefer the finer things in life, we are now offering some ‘Gold Hotel Collection’ Mystery Weekends that include the additional comfort of our Gold Service coach coupled with a top class hotel. This is a GOLD Coach Your itinerary Your Hotel Tour Saturday We start our Mystery journey travelling by a scenic Your accommodation will be in route and make our first stop a top class hotel, inclusive of around lunchtime. There is time for dinner, bed and breakfast. All sightseeing before continuing our bedrooms are en suite with TV drive to our Mystery destination and tea/coffee making facilities. arriving late afternoon. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Sunday After breakfast we have (See pg 8 for service details). some free time in our Mystery Single room supplement £35 destination before continuing our 29th May £220 tour, stopping several times before 17th Jul £220 2 DAYS arriving home early evening. 28th Aug £220 This holiday includes the Gold Luxury travel Coach Tour supplement at £220 £15 pp per day
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 43 ENGLAND SURPRISING LONDON
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
5 DAYS
Iconic London buses outside the House of Parliament £644 An exciting and unique holiday featuring various attractions in and around our Capital City, ranging from the delights of a world famous garden, Holiday Highlights historic buildings that bring to life our heritage and our future and a not to be forgotten cruise on the River Thames. • Buckingham Palace • St Paul’s Cathedral Your itinerary • Houses of Parliament Monday We depart and make our way to St. Paul’s Cathedral l - A fascinating guided Shepperton and our hotel for the next 4 tour of historic St. Paul’s Cathedral, standing • Kew Gardens nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. at the heart of the City of London - and of the • River Thames Boat Trip Tuesday to Thursday – Included during your British Nation. Created in the 17th Century holiday: Buckingham Palace – Buckingham by Sir Christopher Wren, the cathedral Palace is the official London residence of is a landmark the world over, a place of the Queen and serves both as a home and celebration as well as remembrance. an office. On this guided tour you visit the Friday After breakfast we depart for home. magnificent State Rooms which are lavishly Your Hotel furnished with some of the greatest treasures from the Royal Collection. The Holiday Inn Hotel , Shepperton Hotel Houses of Parliament – A guided tour of the Palace of Westminster, the Chamber of the is set in 11 acres of beautiful grounds near House of Lords, the House of Commons and Shepperton in a pleasant rural area where Westminster Hall. facilities include Leisure Centre with indoor River Thames Cruise and Kew Gardens – swimming pool. All bedrooms are en suite From Westminster Pier for a delightful 90 minutes cruise heading west along the River with TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee Thames to Kew with the afternoon free to making facilities. The hotel has a lift. visit the Royal Botanic Gardens. Buckingham Palace Free time in London - We travel into London for a morning at leisure to explore the city sights. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £110 2nd Aug £644 16th Aug £644 23rd Aug £644 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour London Skyline supplement at £15 pp per day
44 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM EXMOUTH, EXETER & EAST DEVON ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
GOLD Coach Tour Available
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Exmouth harbour £419 Exmouth is one of the most select seaside resort in Britain and offers a rich Holiday Highlights mixture of immaculate sands, lovely gardens and a busy marina and boasts an excellent 2-mile-long seafront where you can relax on the beach or enjoy its many activities on this wonderful NEW holiday. There are also lovely cliff • Seaton walks with stunning views of the bay. • Lyme Regis • Sidmouth Your itinerary • Teignmouth Monday We depart and make our way to Wednesday A free day relax at the hotel or to Exmouth, arriving late afternoon at the discover the delights of Exmouth. • City of Exeter Imperial Hotel for the next 4 nights with Thursday Today we travel to the other side dinner, bed & breakfast. of the River Exe to the East Devon Coast Tuesday Today we begin with a visit to of Teignmouth with its quaint shops. Our Seaton which sits at the heart of the Jurassic journey then continues on to the ancient city Coast World Heritage Site and offers beautiful of Exeter, the county town of Devon which Your Hotel scenery and the natural environment both dates back to Roman times and is also famous of which are a joy to explore. Our journey for its 12th century cathedral. The city is now continues on to Lyme Regis which boasts a a mixture of old and new and you can enjoy The impressive Imperial Hotel is located bustling harbour, gastronomic delights and some free time to explore the city before 1 km from the centre of Exmouth and the an array of shops. The final destination today returning to Exmouth. sandy beach is located just a 5 minute walk takes us to elegant and charming Sidmouth, Friday After breakfast we depart for home. with its long flat promenade overlooked by away. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, Regency buildings, along with colourful WiFi and tea/coffee making facilities. The floral delights. hotel has a lift. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £154 19th Jul £544 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £154
26th Apr £419 24th May £439 14th Jun £459 18th Oct £419 Lyme Regis Imperial Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 45 ENGLAND GREAT YARMOUTH & THE NORFOLK BROADS
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
7 DAYS FROM Cromer £609
A holiday of many contrasts – from the hustle and bustle of a busy seaside Holiday Highlights resort to the tranquillity of the Broads, this holiday also features historic Norwich and the quieter resorts and towns of this popular region. • Historic cathedral city of Your itinerary Norwich Sunday We depart and make our way to of steam engines and vehicles in its collection • Norfolk Broads cruise Great Yarmouth arriving at our hotel for the and is also the home of the national Dad’s • North Norfolk coast – next 6 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Army exhibition. Cromer Monday After breakfast we make our way to Friday We begin the day with a visit to the the traditional seaside town of Sheringham tranquil Norfolk Broads where we enjoy a • Bressingham Gardens and with its award winning beach. Later we travel cruise on board the unique Mississippi Paddle Steam Museum into North Norfolk and the popular resort of Boat, a luxury double-deck riverboat. We then Cromer, where we take a break and have a continue to Wroxham where we can explore chance to sample the well-known Cromer the town and obtain lunch before returning Your Hotel crabs. The church tower is the tallest in to the hotel. Norfolk at 160ft. and is well worth a look. Saturday After breakfast we depart for home. Tuesday After breakfast we head west into The family owned and run Palm Court Hotel the city of Norwich where a visit to the stands in a quiet location on Great Yarmouth cathedral is a must along with cobbled Elm seafront overlooking the sea. Hotel facilities Hill and the Castle Mall shopping complex. include heated indoor swimming pool, a Wednesday A free day to explore and good range of seating areas and two bars. All discover the delights of Great Yarmouth. Thursday Today’s excursion takes us to bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone, Bressingham Gardens and Steam Museum. hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. The gardens are renowned the world over The hotel has a lift. for their excellence and the site has several narrow gauge rail lines and a number of types
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement
16th May £629 6th Jun £669 11th Jul £669 5th Sep £669 3rd Oct £609 Norfolk Broads Palm Court Hotel
46 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM GLORIOUS DEVON ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Torquay £379 Torquay is an excellent location from which to enjoy this holiday of variety Holiday Highlights in the beautiful West Country.
Your itinerary • Steam Train ride to Kingswear Monday We depart for Torquay and our hotel for sightseeing. You can visit the striking for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and Plymouth Hoe where Sir Francis Drake played • River cruise along the breakfast. After settling in to the hotel the bowls before defeating the Spanish Armada beautiful Dart Valley rest of the day is free to enjoy the local area. or wander around the Elizabethan Barbican • Free time in Torquay Tuesday We drive to Paignton and board the from where the Pilgrim Fathers set sail for steam train bound for Kingswear. Here we America. Alternatively, the modern shopping • Free time in maritime city centre is well worth a visit. cross the Dart Estuary to the attractive port of Plymouth of Dartmouth. Many period dramas and films Friday Our brief visit to Devon is over too have been shot around the town’s old quays soon as we make our way along the coast to • Visit to the historic city of and narrow streets. After some free time here Dawlish and then to the historic city of Exeter Exeter we board a river cruise for the journey along for a visit. Departing in the afternoon we the beautiful Dart Valley as far as the market head for home. town of Totnes. We then return to Torquay by Your Hotel coach. Wednesday Enjoy a day at leisure. The Derwent hotel is located a few minutes Thursday Today we head for the wild walk from Torquay’s seafront. Hotel facilities expanses of Dartmoor passing the market town of Moretonhampstead and Princetown, include luxury spa, leisure complex, gym home to the infamous Dartmoor Prison. and indoor and outdoor swimming pools. All Finally we arrive at the maritime city of bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone, Plymouth where the rest of the day is free The River Dart Wi-Fi and tea/coffee making facilities. Most bedrooms are accessible by a lift. Prices & Dates. No single room supplement
10th May £389 28th Jun £419 19th Jul £429 23rd Aug £419 13th Sep £429 18th Oct £379 Paignton The Derwent Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 47 ENGLAND DELIGHTFUL DORSET
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Durdle Door, Dorset £409 Countryside, seaside and a beautiful market town combine to make this a Holiday Highlights memorable holiday in Devon and Dorset.
• Beautiful Devon and Dorset Your itinerary countryside Monday We leave home to make our way to the market. In the afternoon we visit • Bournemouth’s gardens Weymouth for the next 4 nights with dinner Bournemouth which is blessed with two Upper, Central and Lower bed and breakfast. We arrive in time to thousand acres of parks and gardens, clean explore this wonderful seaside town. golden beaches, two piers and the famous Gardens have all been Green Flag winners since 1999 and Tuesday A full day scenic excursion along the wooded chines which lead down to the sea. Dorset coast to Devon. Stopping along the Thursday Enjoy a free day today in run from Bournemouth pier to way at attractive Lyme Regis where Meryl Weymouth. the boundary with Poole. Streep stood on the harbour pier in the film Friday Sadly we leave for home calling in at • Lyme Regis boasts ‘The French Lieutenant’s Woman’. Lyme Regis Swanage for some time before continuing breathtaking scenery and its is home to thousands of dinosaur fossils many home. easily spotted in its limestone cliffs. Onward historic Cobb and harbour are to the lovely Devon countryside visiting the iconic features, set against elegant resort of Sidmouth in the afternoon moody blue cliffs yielding where the beach is set between spectacular fossilised evidence of life on cliffs. earth millions of years ago. Wednesday A full day out, first heading to Dorchester – Thomas Hardy’s ‘Casterbridge’ • Dorchester The beautiful where you can wander among the numerous market town is the county historical buildings including the courtroom town of Dorset. It is steeped in where the famous Tolpuddle Martyrs were history and culture and boasts tried, or perhaps take a browse around great places to visit, shop Paignton and eat. Prices & Dates. No single room supplement Your Hotel 3rd May £449
7th Jun £469 The Crown Hotel is in the centre of 12th Jul £479 Weymouth, and is just a five minute walk to 23rd Aug £479 the beach and shops. All bedrooms are en suite with tea/coffee making facilities. The 20th Sep £469 hotel has a lift to all floors. 11th Oct £409 The Crown Hotel
48 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ST MAWES & POLDARK COUNTRY ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM St Mawes £419 St. Mawes is perfectly located to explore Cornwall and Poldark Country Holiday Highlights enjoying the beautiful scenery, towns & villages. On our NEW holiday you will experience historic harbours, rugged coastline and beautiful villages. • Mevagissey & Padstow Your itinerary • City of Truro Monday We depart and make our way to St city. We continue on to explore the delights • Falmouth Mawes arriving late afternoon at the Ship & of Falmouth. Strolling the bustling cobbled • Poldark Country & Castle Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, streets visit Falmouth’s charming mix of bed & breakfast. shops, from specialist outlets to well know Charlestown Tuesday Our first visit is to the Grade II listed high street names and art galleries. Try not to port of Charlestown, featured prominently in miss the chance to visit the National Maritime ‘Poldark’. The harbour was built in the 18th Museum in Falmouth. century to support the china, clay and copper Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel mining industries. Later, we travel to the village of Mevagissey, a picturesque fishing village with colourful old buildings and its Formerly a Coast & Country hotel, The Ship photogenic 18th century harbour. & Castle occupies an enviable position right Wednesday We enjoy a half day excursion on the harbour of the sleepy Cornish coastal to Padstow, a delightful fishing port with a village of St. Mawes with views of Carrick quaint fishing harbour made famous by Rick Stein’s popular TV series. We return to St. Roads and the Percuil River. All bedrooms Mawes to explore at leisure or relax at the are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/ hotel. coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. Thursday Today we visit the bustling city of Truro with its flowing rivers picturesque Mevagissey streets 18th and 19th century town houses and magnificent cathedral that dominates the
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £154
12th Apr £419 17th May £449 12th Jul £499 13th Sep £499 18th Oct £419 Falmouth The Ship & Castle
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 49 ENGLAND NEWQUAY
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Padstow £469 A holiday where the old and new come together from the history and wild Holiday Highlights nature of Bodmin Moor to the beauty of Land’s End and Padstow.
Your itinerary • Visit to Land’s End and the picturesque fishing village Monday We travel through glorious Devon of St Ives and across Bodmin Moor to reach Newquay during the afternoon for our 4 nights with • Excursions to Padstow dinner, bed and breakfast. and Truro Tuesday You have a full day to relax and explore Newquay, with its beautiful sandy beaches and zoological gardens. Wednesday Our full day excursion starts with a visit as far as we can go in Cornwall, to Land’s End. There is free time before heading Your Hotel to the picturesque fishing village of St Ives St Ives where there is a myriad of little shops and The Hotel Victoria is one of Newquay’s finest galleries along its cobblestones and harbour hotels over looking the town’s main beaches. side. Sitting on the cliffs above the golden sands Thursday Our first destination today is Padstow which has become a familiar sight on of Great Western Beach with stunning sea TV in recent years as the home of the popular views, but with the town centre’s shops, chef, Rick Stein. Later we travel to Truro, bars, restaurants and attractions all on your county town of Cornwall, dominated by its splendid cathedral. door step. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, Friday After breakfast we depart for the hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. return journey arriving early evening. Newquay Headland There is also an indoor pool, spa bath, sauna, steam room and small gym. The hotel has a lift.
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110
12th Apr £499 17th May £519 6th Sep £549 4th Oct £469 25th Oct £469 Eden Project The Victoria Hotel
50 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM PENZANCE & WEST CORNWALL ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
GOLD Coach Tour Available
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Penzance £549 The County of Cornwall ‘The Royal Duchy’ is the most popular region of the Holiday Highlights country for holidays, with bustling towns, hectic seaside resorts, coastal coves and inlets hidden along a spectacular coastline all to be discovered and enjoyed. We base our NEW tour in historic Penzance. • Maritime Falmouth Your itinerary • St Just, West Cornwall & St Ives Day One We depart and make our way south pedestrianised city centre is dominated to Penzance, arriving at the Queens Hotel by the magnificent cathedral. Explore the • Marazion, Mounts Bay where tea/coffee and biscuits are served on city, particularly Lemon Quay – a cobbled & Penzance arrival. continental style square with cafes, and • Truro & Mevagissey Day Two Our day begins with a drive to maybe obtain lunch before we make a visit to Marazion where we see majestic St Michael’s the picturesque fishing village of Mevagissey Mount, topped by a 14th century castle for the afternoon. and then on to Helston and the delights of Day Five After breakfast we depart for home. Falmouth. There is a large selection of shops, cafes, restaurants, cobbled alleyways, ancient Your Hotel inns and the busy harbourside. Day Three Enjoy a ride to St Just and West The Queens Hotel is a family run hotel which Cornwall and then on to beautiful St Ives, which is a haunt for artists and one of has been welcoming visitors since 1862. Cornwall’s best loved resorts. Late afternoon Situated on the promenade in Penzance, it is we return to Penzance for some free time to perfectly positioned to enjoy a lovely stroll. explore the area. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, hairdryer Day Four The Cornish ‘Capital’ – Truro, is our first visit today where the cobbled and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel St Ives has a lift. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £154 18th Oct £594 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement
16th May £549 16th Sep £559 Truro Queens Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 51 ENGLAND ST IVES & SCENIC CORNWALL
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM St Ives £429 St Ives, the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ of Cornwall’s magnificent beach resorts Holiday Highlights and Mecca to artists all over the world who come for the soft colours and incredible sunsets. Our NEW holiday will also include visits to the bustling harbour town of Falmouth and Penzance as well as nearby St Michaels Mount. • St Ives • St Michaels Mount Your itinerary • Penzance Monday We depart and make our way to St Thursday Full day tour via Marazion for • Cathedral city of Truro Ives, arriving late afternoon at the St Ives Bay some fine views of St Michaels Mount before Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & arriving in Penzance with its long sweeping • Falmouth breakfast. promenade. Tuesday Enjoy a free day to explore St Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Ives, one of the most famous resort towns in Cornwall, combining the great Cornish Your Hotel tradition of a fishing harbour enclosed by a circle of magnificent award winning beaches. Set on a cliff above St. Ives’ winding alleys, Wednesday Today we visit the bustling city quaint cottages and boutique shops the St. of Truro with its flowing rivers picturesque Ives Bay Hotel is a great place to enjoy this streets, 18th and 19th century town houses and magnificent cathedral that dominates wonderful North Cornwall town. The hotel the city. We continue on to explore the offers plenty of space to sit back and enjoy delights of Falmouth where you can stroll the a refreshing drink in the courtyard terrace bustling cobbled streets and the charming mix of shops and galleries. Try not to miss the after a busy day of exploring everything opportunity to visit the National Maritime that Cornwall has to offer. All bedrooms are Museum. Falmouth en suite with TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift.
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £66
5th Apr £429 12th Jul £499 23rd Aug £499 4th Oct £429 Marazion, St Michaels Mount St Ives Bay Hotel
52 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM FALMOUTH WITH STYLE ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Falmouth £659 Falmouth and Cornwall’s leading south coast resort and home to Cornwall’s Holiday Highlights Maritime Heritage. A flourishing port for over 400 yrs today Falmouth is a bustling town with many attractions including the National Maritime Museum and Pendennis Castle. With a year-round mild climate that allows • Penzance sub-tropical gardens to flourish and boasting one of the highest average • St Michaels Mount sunshine records in Britain.There are also lovely cliff walks with stunning views of the bay, that we can enjoy at leisure on this NEW holiday. • St Ives • Cathedral city of Truro Your itinerary • Trebah Gardens Day One We depart and make our way to long sweeping promenade. Later we visit Falmouth, arriving late afternoon at our pretty St Ives one of the quaintest and hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & attractive towns in Cornwall with its golden breakfast. sandy beach, narrow cobbled streets and Your Hotel Day Two Enjoy a day at leisure to explore the colourful granite cottages that earn it the delights of Falmouth or relax at the hotel. reputation of being an artist’s paradise. Maybe take the opportunity to try a spa Day Four Our visit today is to the bustling city Our base is the Falmouth Hotel which is in a treatment or wander the bustling cobbled of Truro with its flowing rivers picturesque class of its own. Falmouth’s first ever hotel streets and the charming mix of shops, from streets, 18th and 19th century town houses built in 1865 boasts outstanding Victorian specialist outlets to well-known high street and magnificent cathedral that dominates names and art galleries. the city. We later visit Trebah Gardens, a architecture, perfectly situated overlooking Day Three Today we have a full day tour via sub-tropical paradise with a stunning coastal Castle Beach and set in 5 acres of landscaped Marazion for some fine views of St Michaels backdrop offering visitors a year-round gardens. The hotel has superb leisure experience. Mount before arriving in Penzance with its facilities and spa and all bedrooms are en Day Five After breakfast we depart for home. suite with flat screen TV and tea/coffee Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110 making facilities. The hotel has a lift. 19th Apr £659 23rd May £729 28th Sept £749
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £110 11th Oct £734 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Falmouth supplement at £15 pp per day Falmouth Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 53 ENGLAND ISLE OF WIGHT
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
7 DAYS FROM Isle of Wight £519 Always a favourite with our holiday makers, an island adventure which lives Holiday Highlights in the memory long after we return home. • Osborne House - The island residence of Queen Victoria and Your itinerary Prince Albert Sunday We travel to the South Coast for the Friday Enjoy a full day island tour. The • Visit Cowes - Perhaps best ferry to the Isle of Wight and on to the hotel scenery is constantly changing as we visit known as the world’s premier for the next 6 nights with dinner, bed and Yarmouth, Alum Bay with its coloured sands, yachting centre breakfast. the Needles and Freshwater Bay. • Full day island tour Monday Today we take you to Cowes, the Saturday Our return journey takes us back principle port of the Island, perhaps best over the Solent to arrive home in the early known as the world’s premier yatching evening. Your Hotel centre. Ample time is allowed in Cowes for The Shanklin Hotel commands a premier lunch and a wander along the famous Parade position overlooking Sandown Bay and the with its panoramic views of the Solent. surrounding downlands. The bars, lounges We continue to Osborne House, the island Your Hotel and Starlight Restaurant all enjoying residence of Queen Victoria and Prince panoramic views, making it the ideal place Albert. The house has many of the original The Bayshore Hotel is situated in a to relax. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, treasures, giving a vivid glimpse of the Royal magnificent position on the seafront in telephone, and tea/coffee making facilities. Family’s life. We also see Whippingham Sandown, directly overlooking the beach Most bedrooms are served by a lift. Church, the place where the Royals and pier and near the shopping centre. All worshipped. bedrooms are en suite with TV, radio and tea/ Tuesday This morning we travel through coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. ‘Victorian Ventnor’ and on to Godshill, with it’s 14th century church, a delightful model village and famous thatched cottages. Take lunch and a leisurely stroll before returning to our hotel. Wednesday Time to relax and explore Shanklin. You must see its golden beach and Shanklin Hotel seafront, the old village with its thatched cottages and olde worlde craft shops. Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £70 Thursday This morning we drive to Ryde, The Bayshore hotel another of the island’s pretty seaside towns, 16th May £589 with six miles of beautiful sandy beach, a pier Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £70 20th Jun £639 and some fascinating streets full of individual little shops. We later enjoy a scenic tour of 12th Sep £549 25th Jul £659 West Wight before returning to Shanklin for 29th Aug £639 some last minute shopping or sightseeing 10th Oct £519
54 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM EASTBOURNE & THE BLUEBELL RAILWAY ENGLAND
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
7 DAYS FROM Hever Castle £569 History, antiques and a journey on a steam train together with leisure time in Holiday Highlights Eastbourne makes for a wonderful holiday of contrasts. • Train ride on the Bluebell Express Your itinerary • Entrance to Sheffield Park Gardens Sunday A leisurely drive across southern Friday We travel inland to board the Bluebell originally laid out in the 18th England to arrive in Eastbourne for the next 6 Railway for the steam journey as far as century by Capability Brown nights with dinner bed and breakfast. Sheffield Park and the magnificent Capability • Entrance to romantic Hever Castle Monday Today we travel along the coast Brown landscaped gardens. • Explore the 125 acres of to Brighton, famous for its Regency Palace Saturday Homeward bound our route takes spectacular gardens at the castle and the labyrinth of antiques shops in us along the South Coast via Chichester and • A day at leisure in Eastbourne the Lanes. There will be plenty of time to over Salisbury Plain for an early evening • Royal Tunbridge Wells with free discover Brighton before we travel on in the arrival. time to walk around the stylish afternoon to historic Lewes. Dominated by its spa town Norman Castle, the history of Lewes can be discovered in its medieval streets. The return journey to Eastbourne will take us across the Your Hotel Your Hotel magnificent South Downs. Tuesday Enjoy a day at leisure to sample the The Queens Hotel is located in Eastbourne’s The Oban Hotel is situated on the seafront in delights of Eastbourne. most central and lively location directly the fashionable West End area of Eastbourne overlooking the pier. All bedrooms are en and enjoys superb sea views. All bedrooms Wednesday Enjoy a scenic drive through the suite with TV, radio and tea/ coffee making are en suite with TV, radio and tea/ coffee Sussex countryside to the stylish spa town of facilities. The hotel has a lift. making facilities. The hotel has a lift. Royal Tunbridge Wells. There will be time to wander through the elegant Georgian streets and have lunch before we set off in the afternoon for Hever Castle, a romantic 13th century moated castle. Thursday We are on the history trail today following in the footsteps of William the Queens Hotel Oban Hotel Conqueror. First stop is Battle Abbey on the site of the famous encounter with Harold in Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £70 Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 1666. This afternoon’s visit is Rye, the lovely town was one of the original Cinque Ports but 16th May £629 9th May £579 due to silting over the centuries, now finds 13th Jun £649 6th Jun £619 itself inland from the sea. 11th Jul £669 4th Jul £619 22nd Aug £669 5th Sep £639 19th Sep £599 3rd Oct £569
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 55 ENGLAND BRIGHTON, EASTBOURNE & WAKEHURST GARDENS
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Brighton Pier £499 This lovely holiday to the south coast of England lets us enjoy beautiful Holiday Highlights Brighton and Eastbourne, as well as some of the quaint settlements in the East Sussex countryside. We also include a trip to Wakehurst Botanical Garden. • Wakehurst Botanical Your itinerary Garden • Seaside Resort of Monday We depart and make our way to Botanic Garden, part of the Kew Gardens Brighton and our hotel for the next 4 nights family where you can explore the wild Eastbourne with dinner, bed and breakfast with tea/ botanic garden, home to the Millennium • Regency Brighton coffee served on arrival. Seed Bank and over 500 acres of the world’s Tuesday We start the day with an excursion plants in the heart of Sussex. Later we head • Alfriston and Lewes to Eastbourne, one of England’s best loved to Lewes, the county town of East Sussex for seaside resorts and which has a leisurely a short stop and time to explore before we atmosphere with its elegant seafront return to Brighton. terraces, level promenades and immaculate Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel gardens. In the afternoon, we visit the pretty village of Alfriston for a short stop before The Old Ship, one of the most historic hotels returning to Brighton after a relaxing day out. in Brighton is located in the heart of the city Wednesday Today is free for you to discover Brighton. The city has many attractions centre and overlooking Brighton’s glorious including the Lanes, a maze of little streets seafront. The hotel prides itself on excellent with lots of specialist shops, the famous customer service in comfortable and relaxed Brighton Pavilion and a Royal beach house built in Indian style and full of amazing surroundings. All bedrooms are en suite treasures. Enjoy a stroll along the pier and with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making wide promenade or just sit and watch the Alfriston facilities. The hotel has a lift. world go by. Thursday Our day takes us to Wakehurst
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110
12th Jul £499 2nd Aug £499 20th Sep £509 Eastbourne The Old Ship
56 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM SCARBOROUGH, BRIDLINGTON ON THE COAST ENGLAND & CASTLE HOWARD 5 DAYS Coach Tour • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Scarborough enjoys an unrivalled position as one of Britain’s premier coastal resorts yet also lies tantalisingly close to North Yorkshire’s NEW TOUR rugged National Park. On this NEW holiday you can enjoy the golden 5 DAYS beaches, superb parks and gardens and wide range of leisure FROM amenities which have given Scarborough its justifiable reputation, as well as the natural beauty and historical heritage of Yorkshire. Scarborough £449 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Monday We depart and make our way to Yorkshire and the New Southlands • Yorkshire’s Premier Situated on Scarborough’s South hotel where we enjoy the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Resort Cliff, the New Southlands Hotel Tuesday A free day to discover the varied attractions of Scarborough. Enjoy • 2 nights Hotel offers spacious public rooms the delightful promenade in the Belvedere Gardens, take a short walk to Entertainment in which you can relax. All the town centre and shops or amble down to the beaches of South Bay. • Pickering & bedrooms are en suite with TV, Wednesday Our first visit today is to the pretty village of Pickering with Bridlington hairdryer and tea/coffee making time to explore and obtain lunch before we head to Castle Howard, one of • Castle Howard facilities. The hotel has a lift. Britain’s finest historic houses. Prices & Dates Thursday This morning we visit Bridlington, one of the most popular resorts Single room supplement £66 on the Yorkshire coast. There is much to see with the interesting harbour, a 19th Apr £449 9th Aug £529 delightful walk along the promenade with views out to Flamborough Head. 17th May £469 27th Sep £529 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 28th Jun £499 11th Oct £449 19th Jul £529 New Southlands hotel SCARBOROUGH & HISTORIC YORK 6 DAYS Coach Tour • 5 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Scarborough enjoys an unrivalled position as one of Britain’s premier coastal resorts yet also lies tantalisingly close to North Yorkshire’s NEW TOUR rugged National Park. On this holiday you can enjoy the golden 6 DAYS beaches, superb parks and gardens and wide range of leisure FROM amenities which have given Scarborough its justifiable reputation, as well as the natural beauty and historical heritage of Yorkshire. York £729 York Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your New Hotel Sunday We depart and travel north to Yorkshire to arrive at our hotel for 5 night’s with-dinner, bed and breakfast. • Historic Whitby Overlooking Scarborough’s scenic Monday This morning we head north to Whitby where we have time to & Captain Cook Peasholm Park, the Park Manor wander the narrow streets and busy harbourside before leaving for a Country Hotel is close to the North Bay’s scenic ride across the moors to Pickering. • North Yorkshire beach. Leisure facilities include Tuesday A free day to discover the varied attractions of Scarborough. Moors indoor pool, hot tub and steam rooms and all bedrooms are en Wednesday This morning we leave for a day in the ancient and historic • Ancient city of York city of York. In York there are lots of things to see and do – The National suite with flat-screen TV, hairdryer Railway Museum, The Jorvik Centre, The Castle Museum or stroll around • Ryedale Folk and tea/ coffee making facilities. the City Walls. Museum Thursday Today we visit the pretty village of Hutton-le-Hole where Prices & Dates we visit the Ryedale Folk Museum before we visit Guisborough. This No single room supplement afternoon we make our way along Bilsdale, known as ‘Little Switzerland’, 30th May £729 to the Sun Inn where we stop for tea and biscuits. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 20th Jun £739 17th Oct £729 Park Manor hotel Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 57 ENGLAND BOURNEMOUTH, PORTSMOUTH & ISLE OF WIGHT
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Portsmouth £439 A day on the Isle of Wight and a visit to maritime Portsmouth reminds us of our sea-faring roots. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Portsmouth – Spinnaker Monday We depart and make our way to Thursday This is a free day to relax and enjoy Tower Bournemouth to our chosen hotel for the the delights of Bournemouth. • Visit to the Isle of Wight next 4 nights with dinner bed and breakfast Friday After breakfast we depart for home. and tour of the island with tea/coffee served on arrival. Tuesday We begin with a drive to Portsmouth • Free time in Bournemouth where the Old Town offers much of interest including the beautiful Portsmouth cathedral, and Spice Island which was the haunt of smugglers and press gangs of many years ago. A recent addition to the Portsmouth skyline and well worth a visit is the Spinnaker Tower from where you will marvel at the Your Hotel views over the South Coast, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth and on a clear day you can see for 23 miles. Afterwards we have free time in the Sandown The Suncliff Hotel stands on Bournemouth’s Gunwharf Quays a designer shopping outlet East Cliff with panoramic views out to sea. with seafront bars and restaurants. Hotel facilities include indoor swimming Wednesday Our day begins with a ride to the pool, and all bedrooms are en suite with TV, ferry terminal in Lymington where we catch the Wightlink sailing across to Yarmouth. We telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee making have a tour around the island, taking in Ryde, facilities. The hotel has a lift. Sandown, Shanklin, Ventnor and the South Coast including Freshwater and the Needles before returning to Yarmouth for the return sailing across to the mainland, and returning Isle of Wight to the hotel. Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88 3rd May £439 14th Jun £459 12th Jul £479 21st Sep £529 Yarmouth The Suncliff Hotel 4th Oct £439
58 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ISLE OF MAN ENGLAND
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Castletown £489 Once again, it gives us pleasure to offer our hugely popular Isle of Man holiday. The Isle of Man is an ancient Viking Kingdom which has never been part of the Holiday Highlights U.K and who’s well known three legged emblem originates from a symbol used on 10th century coins. The Island’s coastline ranges from quiet secluded coves • Castletown and Cregneash to busy harbours and clean sandy beaches. Our chosen resort is Douglas with a • Port Erin and Peel Victorian seafront and long promenades where horse drawn trams still operate. • Laxey Your itinerary • St John, home of the Manx Parliament Monday We depart and make our way to with stunning views of the Calf of Man. Port Heysham for the afternoon sailing to the Isle Erin, its beautiful bay guarded by the bulk of of Man. On arrival we continue to Douglas and Bradda Head, is our next stop and we end the our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, day with a visit to Peel before returning via bed and breakfast. Union Mills, another famous TT landmark. Your New Hotel Tuesday Our excursion today takes us first Friday After breakfast we return to the to Laxey, home of the famous ‘Lady Isabella’ harbour for the crossing to Heysham, then The Empress Hotel is ideally located water wheel, and the Laxey Woollen Mill. onwards to the West Country. We return to Douglas for a free afternoon to overlooking Douglas Bay, there is a large explore this delightful town. conservatory which offers fantastic Wednesday We enjoy a full day tour around panoramic views. Hotel facilities include a the island firstly visiting Ramsey then Bride, gym, sauna and steam room for guests to final resting place of the great comedian use. All bedrooms are en-suite with TV and and Manx resident Norman Wisdom before spending time in Peel with its small harbour tea/coffee making facilities with some of and ancient castle, then St Johns, home of the the rooms offering sea views. There is a lift ancient Manx parliament. Our return includes to all floors. the lofty South Barrule road. Thursday We visit the south of the island Douglas today – first stop is Castletown, the island’s former capital, and then on to Cregneash,
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £64 12th April £529 14th Jun £569 19th Jul £569 11th Oct £489 Laxey Wheel The Empress Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 59 ENGLAND HEYTHROP PARK 5 DAYS Coach Tour This is a • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast GOLD Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included On this holiday we explore some of England’s most treasured landscapes, where mellow stone-built towns and villages are tucked away amidst rolling limestone hills. The Cotswolds became prosperous 5 DAYS with the medieval wool trade, when many fine churches and manor houses were built and left unspoilt to this day. Broadway, Cotswold £534 Your itinerary Monday We depart and make our way to Chipping Norton arriving late Holiday Highlights Your Hotel afternoon at our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Cotswold villages Heythrop Park Resort, Tuesday This morning we head into the Cotswolds and visit Moreton in and scenery the Marsh where there is an opportunity to explore the huge Tuesday Chipping Norton is an endearing market. This afternoon we make our way to the pretty Cotswold village • Bourton-on-the- and unique resort set in 440 of Broadway, a delightful place often referred to as the ‘Jewel of the Water acres of glorious Oxfordshire Cotswolds’. • Moreton-in-Marsh Parkland. This quintessential Wednesday Today we explore Oxford, known as the ‘City of the Dreaming & Broadway Spires’ – a term first coined by poet Matthew Arnold in reference to the English Country hotel has a gentle spires and harmonious architecture of the city’s university buildings. • Visit to Oxford Spa with indoor pool and all Popular attractions include beautiful riverside settings, stunning film and Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates bedrooms are en suite with TV, TV locations and shops with local character, restaurants, pubs and theatres. (See pg 8 for service details). free WiFi and tea/coffee making Thursday Today we head into the southern Cotswolds where this No single room supplement facilities. The hotel does not wonderful scenic tour takes in some of the most perfect picture-postcard 26th Jul £534 villages of middle England. We arrive at Stow-on the-Wold then on to have a lift but has ground floor 9th Aug £534 Bourton-on-the-Water, a renowned Cotswold village. rooms on request. This holiday includes the Gold Friday After breakfast we depart and head for home. Coach Tour supplement at Please note this tour involves lots of walking. £15 pp per day CAMBRIDGE, ELY & RURAL ESSEX 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included From our base near Cambridge on this lovely holiday we feature Bury St Edmund’s and Ely, a tour of Cambridge including the American Cemetery and the delightful Essex villages and 5 DAYS countryside. FROM Cambridge £499 Your itinerary Monday We depart and make our way to Cambridge and our hotel for the Holiday Highlights Your Hotel next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast with tea/coffee and biscuits served on arrival. • Guided tour of Cambridge The Holiday Inn is just a short Tuesday This morning we are off to the famous University City of including the American drive from the Cambridge city Cambridge for a guided tour of its many fascinating attractions, Cemetery centre and is an ideal base for this tour. Hotel facilities include including a visit to the American Cemetery and afterwards we have the • Visits to Ely and Bury St indoor swimming pool, gym opportunity to explore the city at leisure. Edmunds and bar and all bedrooms are Wednesday Our first stop today is the city of Ely where you have the • Tour of rural Essex and a en-suite with TV, telephone opportunity to visit the magnificent cathedral or take a stroll around the visit to Finchingfield and tea/coffee making facilities. town. Later we head to Bury St Edmunds which is home to the Nutshell, The hotel has a lift. reputedly the smallest pub in the country. Prices & Dates Thursday After a leisurely breakfast we head south for a delightful day No single room supplement Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates touring rural Essex. Our route takes us past Saffron Walden to the historic (See pg 8 for service details). 31st May £499 town of Thaxted with its famous Guildhall and restored windmill and then No single room supplement later we visit idyllic Finchingfield. 23rd Aug £499 19th Jul £584 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. This holiday includes the Gold 13th Sep £509 Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 60 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM MARITIME ESSEX & KENT COAST ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Greenwich College with Canary Wharf in the background £479 A lovely tour featuring the counties on either shore of the Thames Estuary – Kent and Essex with lots of varied attractions. As a contrast we have a visit to Holiday Highlights Greenwich with the opportunity to visit the restored Cutty Sark. • Based in Historic Rochester • Kent Coast Tour – Whitstable Your itinerary and Sandwich Monday We depart and make our way to the Pier which at nearly one and a half miles • Spitfire and Hurricane Kent and our hotel for the next 4 nights with long, the pier is the longest in the world and Museum dinner, bed and breakfast. the little trains run continuously. The seafront Tuesday Today we commence with a journey is 7 miles long and you have the opportunity • Southend-on-Sea east along the North Kent coastline towards for lunch and some retail therapy. From here • Leigh-On-Sea and Old Leigh Whitstable, famous the world over for its we go to picturesque Leigh-on-Sea, with niche shops, restaurants and parks. Finally • Picturesque Cockle Sheds, Oysters. After a brief stop for coffee, we Cottages and Inns then head to R.A.F. Manston, (one of only a we visit Old Leigh, an ancient fishing village few “Battle of Britain” airfields still in use with fishing boats, craft shops, inns, cottages, • Historic Greenwich – Cutty today) home of the Spitfire & Hurricane wharfs and cockle sheds along the shoreline. Sark Memorial Museum. Opened by the late Dame Friday After breakfast we leave for home. Vera Lynn in 1988, the museum houses two fine examples of the Spitfire and Hurricane Your Hotel as well as many artefacts from the Second World War. We then travel to Sandwich, one The Holiday Inn Rochester-Chatham is of the original Cinque Ports and home of the pleasantly situated on the edge of the town Sandwich Secret Gardens. and is an ideal location for this tour. Hotel Wednesday From Rochester we head west facilities include Health Club with indoor towards Greenwich which has a lot to offer the visitor – The National Maritime Museum, swimming pool. All bedrooms are en suite Greenwich Park with the Meridian Line, Olde and have TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea world pubs including the riverside Trafalgar coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. Tavern the restored Cutty Sark and more. Thursday Crossing the Thames Estuary into Essex Essex our first stop is in Southend-on-Sea. A highlight is to take a train ride to the end of Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £64 Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates 7th Jun £479 (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £118 12th Jul £479 3rd May £534 20th Sep £489 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour The Holiday Inn Rochester-Chatham supplement at £15 pp per day 4th Oct £459
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 61 ENGLAND TASTE & FLAVOURS OF KENT
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Rural Kent £519 A favourite holiday embracing wine, cheese and beer in the wonderful Kent countryside together with hearing of the smugglers who inhabited the Holiday Highlights marshes many years ago. • Hush Heath Estate and Your itinerary Vineyards Thursday We depart and make our way to we pass the tower of St Mildred’s Church at • Winterdale Cheese Farm Kent and our hotel where we enjoy the next 4 Tenterden. Horatio, Lord Nelson’s daughter by nights with dinner bed and breakfast with tea/ his mistress Emma Hamilton, was at one time • Shepherd Neame Brewery coffee and biscuits served on arrival. the vicar’s wife. Known as the ‘Jewel in the • Mysterious Marshes - New Weald’ the town makes an ideal place to finish Friday For our first visit today we head for Romney and Lydd Staplehurst and Hush Heath Estate and the day. vineyards where we enjoy a guided tour and Sunday We begin with a ride to historic learn all aspects of grape growing before Faversham which nestles between the gently visiting the winery where the production sloping Downs and the austere North Kent Your New Hotel process of still and sparkling wine is explained. marshes and is one of southern England’s most We finish with a tutored tasting of six Hush charming towns. It now has over 475 listed Heath Estate wines and ciders. Leaving the buildings and a good selection of independent The Bridgewood Manor Hotel is located vineyard we enjoy a ploughmans lunch at shops. We have time for lunch here before we in Chatham, is renowned for its fine food the Goudhurst Inn before visiting Winterdale leave for our afternoon visit to the Shepherd Cheese Farm for a guided tour of the dairy and Neame Brewery for a guided ‘behind the and service. Hotel facilities include Squires cave followed by cheese tasting and cream. scenes’ tour. Afterwards we round off the visit restaurant, open plan lounge and relaxing Saturday This morning we head for the land of with Hop Pickers Afternoon Tea. bar. Spa facilities include gym, swimming pool mysterious marshes and smugglers where we Monday After breakfast we depart for home. and sauna. Bedrooms are all en-suite, and first visit New Romney where the Great Storm of 1287 changed the course of the River Rother have TV, hairdryer, telephone and tea/coffee and made New Romney an inland town. Next making facilities. The hotel has a lift. we arrive at Lydd, notorious for the activities of ‘owlers’ (Local smugglers hooting to each other at dead of night). As we head inland
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110 3rd Jun £539 12th Aug £549 9th Sep £559 7th Oct £519 St Mildred’s Church, Kent Bridgewood Manor Hotel
62 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM FOLKESTONE & KENT ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Folkestone, Kent £529 A holiday for summer featuring the county of Kent with its beautiful countryside coastal towns and of course historic Canterbury with a ride on Holiday Highlights the famous Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway across Romney Marsh. • Hotel on Folkestone’s Your itinerary Famous Leas • Romney, Hythe and Monday We depart and make our way to Kent Thursday A short ride takes us to the small and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, resort of Hythe where we join the worlds Dymchurch Railway bed and breakfast. famous Romney Hythe and Dymchurch railway • Broadstairs, Deal and – Kent’s mainline in miniature. The train takes Tuesday Today’s excursion takes us north Canterbury along the coast to Broadstairs and Deal then us alongside Romney Marsh to New Romney to the historic cathedral city of Canterbury where we take a short break and rejoin the • Romney Marshes and Rye where we have the afternoon to explore at coach to continue to ancient Rye, one of the your own pace. The city is dominated by the Cinque Ports, now some distance from the sea! magnificent cathedral, now a World Heritage Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel Site and the city centre, being very compact, is best explored on foot. There is a maze of intriguing side streets with a rich variety of The Best Western Clifton Hotel occupies specialist shops and welcoming cafes and pubs a prime location on the famous Leas, in which to relax. overlooking the English Channel and facilities Wednesday Enjoy a day at leisure to discover include a traditionally furnished lounge, Folkestone where there is evidence of Roman settlement from the 1st Century A.D. and elegantly styled restaurant and popular bar. the recently restored harbour Arm with its All bedrooms are en suite with TV and tea/ magnificent views and a restaurant and bars coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. adjacent to the Fishing Museum. Definitely worth a visit! Canterbury Cathedral Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £110 17th May £604 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110 21st Jun £529 13th Sep £539 Hythe, Kent Best Western Clifton Hotel
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5 DAYS FROM Burghley House £469 This wonderful holiday based in Grantham embraces the counties of Norfolk, Cambridge, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire and English smallest county, at only Holiday Highlights 36 square miles, Rutland. It is an opportunity to share in their grandeur and to see at first hand the part they have played in our history. • Lincoln city guided tour by coach Your itinerary • Burghley House Monday We depart and make our way to afternoon we continue to Rutland and its • Historic Stamford Lincolnshire and our hotel for the next 4 traditional market town of Oakham, with its nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. many book and antique shops together with • Oakham – Rutland County Tuesday Today we visit the historic city of the towns heritage attractions including the Town Lincoln with its magnificent cathedral and Butter Cross, 14th century church, Rutland • Melton Mowbray Norman Castle. First, we meet our guide for a County Museum and Norman Castle. familiarisation tour of the city on the coach, Thursday This morning we travel to Stamford, then you have time to explore the town with best known for its 17th and 18th century Your Hotel a labyrinth of little alleyways and interesting stone buildings and timber framed houses. shops. This afternoon we visit the historic It has become a popular location for many market town of Newark-on-Trent with its 12th period dramas such as Pride and Prejudice and The Olde Barn Hotel Grantham is a century castle, market place and Georgian Middlemarch. After lunch we visit Burghley delightful tranquil retreat set in the beautiful Town Hall. House, designed by William Cecil, Lord High Lincolnshire countryside near the village of Wednesday After breakfast we visit the old Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. Home to Marston and facilities include a health club English town of Melton Mowbray where we generations of the Cecil family, the house with have the morning to explore and maybe enjoy over 100 rooms is set in 18th century parkland with pool, sauna and Spa. All bedrooms are one of the famous pork pies from ‘Ye Olde and gardens. en suite with TV, telephone, hairdryer and Pork Pie Shoppe’ as well as local cheese. This Friday After breakfast we depart for home. tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel has a
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates lift to most rooms. (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement 3rd May £524 14th Jun £544 4th Oct £534 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 23rd Aug £469 Stamford The Olde Barn Hotel
64 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM SUFFOLK CASTLES, GARDENS & WILDLIFE ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Helmingham Hall Gardens £469 Rural villages, lush green meadows, rich farmlands and sandy heathlands depicted by the famous painters Constable and Gainsborough together with Holiday Highlights some ancient buildings and the RSPB reserve at Saxmundham all combine to give this holiday particular charm and varied interest for you to enjoy. • RSPB Minsmere – Saxmundham Your itinerary • Framlingham Castle Monday We depart and make our way to against the throne and the lives of those who • Historic Lavenham Copdock and our hotel for the next 4 nights lived around here from the ambitious Howard • Helmingham Hall Gardens with dinner, bed and breakfast. family to Bloody Mary Tudor and the paupers – Stowmarket Tuesday We begin with a short drive into in the 17th century workhouse. Ipswich where we visit Christchurch Park and Thursday For our final day out we head first • Christchurch Park Ipswich Mansion, which houses artworks by Constable for the historic town of Lavenham with pretty and Gainsborough and the afternoon is then coloured houses and its unique Guildhall and free for you to explore and discover Ipswich. we also have time to explore or enjoy a coffee Your Hotel Wednesday Today we head north to before we travel on to Stowmarket. This small Saxmundham where we enjoy a visit to the market town is ideal for our lunch stop and The Best Western Ipswich Hotel nestles in this afternoon we have a visit to delightful excellent RSPB Nature reserve at Minsmere the quaint village of Copdock just outside to discover some of the UK’s rarest wildlife. Helmingham Hall Gardens famous for its Grade Choose an idyllic walk or head to the coastal I listed gardens, with a 400 acre deer park historic Ipswich. An ideal place to unwind lagoons to see an impressive variety of birds surrounding the moated Tudor Hall. The walled after your day out is the comfortable bar kitchen garden, the rose & knot and herb and and if you are lucky you may see an otter overlooking the walled garden. All bedrooms around the reedbeds. The café offers you the wild gardens are fascinating and the Coach opportunity to obtain refreshments and later House tea-rooms and Stable Shops are ideal are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/ we have a short drive to Framlingham Castle places to end the visit. coffee making facilities. The hotel does where we explore over 800 years in the life Friday After breakfast we depart and head not have a lift but some of the bedrooms of the castle, with tales of baronial disputes for home. available maybe on the ground floor. Ask at Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates the time of booking. (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement 16th Aug £534 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 7th Jun £469 26th Jul £469 Best Western Ipswich
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5 DAYS FROM Arley Hall £519 A lovely holiday taking in some of the most beautiful gardens in England, including Arley Hall & Gardens, Cholmondeley Castle Gardens and the stunning historic estate Holiday Highlights of Tatton Park. • Chester with its unique Your itinerary quirky shops Monday We depart and make our way to • Dunham Massey Cheshire and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Cholmondeley Castle Tuesday Today we begin with a visit to Gardens Dunham Massey which houses a fine collection • Magnificent Tatton Park of furniture, paintings and silver and the gardens are simply stunning. This afternoon we make our way to Arley Hall & Gardens which are amongst the finest in the country Cholmondeley Castle Gardens Your Hotel and created over 250 years by successive generations of gardeners. Wednesday We visit the historic city of The Best Western Forest Hills Hotel is Chester and the day is then free for you to located in the town of Frodsham in Cheshire explore. The unique 2 storey ‘Rows’ of shops with panoramic views of the surrounding are fascinating, or you may fancy a gentle countryside. Hotel facilities include Leisure stroll to the River Dee, perhaps take a boat trip Club with swimming pool and all bedrooms or just relax in the city and watch the world are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/ go by. coffee making facilities. The hotel does Thursday Cholmondeley Castle Gardens is our first stop where the vast gardens occupy a Helmingham Hall not have a lift but ground floor bedrooms romantic setting, with stunning views. Later are available on request but subject to we visit magnificent Tatton Park, a stunning Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates availability. historic estate set in over 1000 acres of (See pg 8 for service details). Single room Cheshire Parkland. supplement £66 Friday After breakfast we depart 24th May £594 for home. 6th Sep £614 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £66 5th Jul £529 9th Aug £519 Best Western Forest Hills
66 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM GARDENS OF DELIGHT IN ESSEX ENGLAND
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The county of Essex has much to offer lovers of beautiful Gardens. From our Holiday Highlights base near Colchester we are ideally placed on our NEW holiday for our three visits, not forgetting time to explore historic Colchester. • RHS Garden, Hyde Hall Your itinerary • Roman Colchester Monday We depart and make our way to street is beautiful Castle Park, complete with • Beth Chatto Gardens East Anglia, arriving late afternoon at the the largest Norman Keep ever constructed. • Green Island Gardens Marks Tey Hotel for the next 4 nights with This afternoon we head for the Beth Chatto dinner, bed and breakfast with tea/coffee and Gardens. biscuits served on arrival. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Tuesday After a leisurely morning we journey to the north of Colchester and visit Green Island Gardens a superbly designed garden in Your Hotel a 20-acre site, featuring unusual plants and flowers. The tea room is an ideal place to end The Best Western Marks Tey Hotel stands 4 your visit. miles from Colchester and offers excellent Wednesday Today we drive to the village of Rettendon, near Chelmsford where we visit standards of accommodation. Hotel facilities the Royal Horticultural Society garden at include Lifestyle Health and Leisure Club Hyde Hall. This 360 acre estate blends into with heated indoor swimming pool, sauna, the surrounding farmlands and is a garden to steam room and gym and all bedrooms are be enjoyed by all. en suite with TV, telephone, radio, hairdryer Thursday For our final outing we make our way to historic Colchester for some free and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel time and the opportunity to obtain lunch. has a lift. The oldest town in England boasts a wide Hyde Hall Flower Garden “boulevard” as a main street, with many interesting pedestrian shopping malls and lanes with specialist shops. At one end of the
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £106 5th Jul £594 18th Oct £594 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Chelmsford Viaduct Best Western Marks Tey Hotel
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Canterbury River £479 Kent is a county of many contrasts from historic Canterbury with its famous cathedral to the historic naval dockyard to the marshlands of the south. Join Holiday Highlights us on a NEW holiday to explore this beautiful part of the country. • Historic Naval Dockyard Chatham Your itinerary • City of Rochester Monday We depart and make our way east New Romney, a Cinque Port since 1155, the • Mysterious Marshes arriving at the Bridgewood Manor Hotel late Great Storm of 1287 changed the course of afternoon for 4 nights with dinner, bed and the River Rother and made New Romney – New Romney & Lydd breakfast an inland town. Next we arrive at Lydd. In • Cathedral city of Canterbury the 18th and 19th centuries the town was Tuesday Our day begins with a ride to • Historic Faversham delightful Faversham, nestling between the notorious for the activities of ‘owlers’ (Local rural gently sloping Downs and the austere smugglers hooting to each other at dead of North Kent marshes. From here we continue night). to historic Canterbury where the city is Thursday Today’s excursion takes us first Your Hotel dominated by the magnificent cathedral, to Chatham and the famous Historic Naval now a World Heritage Site. There is a maze Dockyard. This vast maritime heritage of intriguing side streets with a rich variety site offers the visitor much to see, with The Bridgewood Manor Hotel & Spa, of specialist shops and welcoming cafes and an abundance of historic buildings dating Chatham, is renowned for its fine food pubs in which to relax. from 1704, three warships, dry docks, Royal and service. Hotel facilities include Squires Wednesday This morning we head for Dockyard Museum and much more. This southern Kent and the land of mysterious afternoon we visit the city of Rochester with restaurant and all bedrooms are en suite marshes and smugglers. First we come to its magnificent cathedral and historic castle. with TV, hairdryer, telephone and tea/coffee Take a stroll along High Street and explore the Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates old town and cobbled streets making facilities. The hotel has a lift. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room Friday After breakfast we depart for home. supplement £110 31 May £554 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110
21st June £479 12th Jul £479 16th Aug £479 6th Sept £489 Canterbury Cathedral Bridgewood Manor Hotel & Spa
68 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM LAKE DISTRICT SAILING, DREAMING & STEAMING ENGLAND
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Lake District £559 The sheer beauty of the Lake District has inspired poets and artists for centuries, and on this holiday we will paint a picture that will last in your Holiday Highlights memory for years to come. From our base we can explore the dramatic landscapes of the Lakes on this unique holiday. • Northern Lakes and Fells by Mountain Goat Your itinerary • Keswick Monday We depart for Cumbria and our hotel Wednesday Today we ride via St John’s Vale • Thirlmere and Grasmere and Lake Thirlmere to the lovely lakes village for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and • Ambleside and Lake breakfast. of Grasmere, where we take a break. Sample some gingerbread from the local shop before Windermere Cruise Tuesday We drive across the Shap Fells to we head for Ambleside where we join the • Lakeside and Haverthwaite Kendal for a morning break before continuing lake ‘steamer’ for a delightful cruise along on to Windermere Village with its little shops Railway Lake Windermere to Lakeside. Here we join for the lunch period. Heading over the rugged • Ullswater Cruise the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway for a Kirksone Pass, with the lonely inn at the nostalgic steam train ride to round off the day. • Kirkstone Pass and Windermere summit, we come to Glenridding. Here you Village have a sail on the lake ‘steamer’ along the lake Thursday We head west to Keswick where to Pooley Bridge. you have time to explore and have lunch before this afternoon’s adventure with Your Hotel Mountain Goat! The Mountain Goat mini buses take us where larger coaches cannot Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates The Shap Wells Hotel is set in tranquil go and we start with a scenic journey along (See pg 8 for service details). No single surroundings amongst the Lakeland fells and room supplement the shore of Derwentwater to Ashness Bridge and Borrowdale, continuing over Honister is an ideal base from which to explore this 17th May £634 Pass to Buttermere village. After a break we beautiful corner of England. Set in 30 acres 5th Jul £644 pass Crummock Water and Loweswater on of grounds, the hotel offers well stocked our way to the Whinlatter Pass Visitor Centre 2nd Aug £644 for a break before heading back to Keswick, bar, lounges and spacious restaurant. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, radio, 6th Sep £654 rejoining the tour coach for the hotel. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. hairdryer and tea/ coffee making facilities. 18th Oct £634 The hotel has a lift. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
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3rd May £559 7th Jun £569 27th Sep £579 Shap Fells Shap Wells Hotel
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5 DAYS FROM Cumbria £539 Combining coach and train travel is not to be missed and creates the perfect opportunity of bringing together wonderful scenery, interesting locations and Holiday Highlights excellent accommodation. • Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway Your itinerary –La’al Ratty Monday We depart and make our way to Ravenglass. Here we join the Ravenglass and • The Cumbrian Coastal Line Cumbria and our hotel for the next 4 nights Eskdale Railway, L’al Ratty steam train, from • Settle to Carlisle Railway with dinner, bed and breakfast with tea/ the coast to the foothills of England’s highest coffee and biscuits served on arrival. mountains which is seven miles of steam in • Spectacular Yorkshire Dales Tuesday Today we head for Longtown and the Lake District National Park. Scenery drive along Liddesdale as we make our way Thursday We travel into the Yorkshire Dales • Kielder Water & Forest to picturesque Kielder Water and Forest to Kirkby Lonsdale, where we find the weekly Park. We take a break at the visitor centre market in full swing. Then we travel on past National Park before continuing to Bellingham and Hexham, the immense Ribblehead Viaduct, through • Hexham & Hadrian’s Wall dominated by the Abbey overlooking the charming Horton-in-Ribblesdale to Settle. market square. This afternoon we return Later we take in the most spectacular train along the path of Hadrian’s Wall, which journey on a main line railway in the whole Your Hotel stretched some 76 miles from the Tyne to the of England – the famous Settle to Carlisle line Solway. where we travel along the whole line through The Crown & Mitre Hotel stands in the Wednesday This morning we commence majestic scenery to Carlisle. our first train journey of the day in Carlisle Friday After breakfast we depart for home. centre of Carlisle and offers Edwardian where the line follows the Cumbrian grandeur with beautiful original features coastline through Maryport and Whitehaven including an elegant sweeping staircase. and the stunning sea views stay with us to Hotel facilities include swimming pool Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates and Jacuzzi and all bedrooms are en suite (See pg 8 for service details). Single room with TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee making supplement £53 facilities. The hotel has a lift. 30th Aug £624 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £53
24th May £539 21st Jun £549 18th Oct £539 Kielder Park The Crown & Mitre Hotel
70 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM PICTURE PERFECT IN THE LAKE DISTRICT ENGLAND
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Lake District £549 Join us on a NEW holiday to the beautiful Lake District staying at the lovely Damson Dene Hotel which has a superb leisure centre. We will include visits Holiday Highlights to the Beatrice Potter Attraction, Ullswater and Granger over Sands. • Lake Windermere Cruise Your itinerary • The World of Beatrice Potter Attraction Monday We depart and make our way to county town of Westmoreland, Appleby. Cumbria arriving late afternoon at the This afternoon we ride along the shore of • Sedbergh & Appleby Damson Dene Hotel for 4 nights with dinner, Ullswater, said to be the most beautiful lake • Ullswater, Glenridding & bed and breakfast. of them all. We halt awhile in Glenridding Kirkstone Pass Tuesday Today we drive to Bowness, before climbing over rugged Kirkstone Pass, delightfully located on the shores of Lake with the lonely pub at the top and descend to • Grange-Over-Sands & Windermere where we have time to look Windermere to return to the hotel. Morecambe Bay around before we catch the ‘steamer’ from Thursday Today we begin with a drive along • Keswick Bowness Pier for the relaxing sail to the the roads of the Grizedale Forest Park, southern tip of the lake at Lakeside. From passing Graythwaite Hall and Esthwaite • Ravensdale & Sedbergh here we visit genteel Grange-over-Sands Water to Ambleside. We take a break here with spectacular views across Morecambe and have time to look around. From here Bay. Enjoy a gentle sea front stroll and a look we head north past Dunmail Raise and Lake Your Hotel round before we return to the hotel. Thirlmere to Keswick, the thriving main town Wednesday We begin with a drive to of the northern lakes, situated within walking Tucked away in the tranquil Lyth Valley close Sedbergh, England’s book town, where we distance of Derwentwater. Our return journey to Bowness, the Damson Dene Hotel is a take a short break before moving onwards takes us back along Thirlmere to the World of delightful hotel superbly located as a base Beatrice Potter Museum in Windermere. to cross Ravenstonedale Common to Kirkby for this NEW tour. The leisure centre offers Stephen and Brough on the way to the former Friday After breakfast we depart for home. indoor swimming pool, spa pool, sauna, Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates steam room and gym and all bedrooms are (See pg 8 for service details). Single room en suite with TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee supplement £88 making facilities. The hotel has a lift. 7th Jun £644 27th Sep £654 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88
17th May £549 4th Oct £549 Boats on Lake Windermere Damson Dene Hotel
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Image courtesy of Chatsworth House Trust £559 Join us on a lovely NEW holiday to the beautiful Peak District and our base is the wonderful Hallmark Mickleover Hotel which is perfectly situated for Holiday Highlights exploring this amazing part of England. We will visit Bakewell ‘home of the Tart ‘and also the fabulous Chatsworth House & Gardens. • Chatsworth House & Gardens Your itinerary • Kedleston Hall Monday We depart and make our way to where we join the Ecclesbourne Valley • Ecclesbourne Valley Railway Derbyshire arriving late afternoon at the Railway for a ride through picturesque • Bakewell – Home of the Tart Hallmark Mickleover Hotel for the next 4 countryside to Wirksworth. Re-joining night’s with dinner, bed and breakfast with the coach we make our way to Matlock, a • Matlock & Derwent Valley tea/coffee and biscuits served on arrival. delightful Peak District town where we have • Calke Abbey Tuesday Our first visit today is to Calke Abbey, time to obtain lunch. Our afternoon visit is to in Derbyshire which is in the care of the Kedleston Hall, a 1760’s mansion designed as • Melbourne Hall Garden National Trust after being left in a state of a show palace with lavish décor, paintings, disrepair and negligence with little restoration furniture and sculptures. Set in 820 acres of and tells the story of the dramatic decline of beautiful parkland, ideal for a relaxing stroll a grand country-house estate with peeling before ending the visit at the café and shop. Your Hotel paintwork, overgrown courtyards and many Thursday Our outing takes us first to the abandoned areas vividly portraying a period picturesque market town of Bakewell where The Hallmark Mickleover Court Hotel is just of the 20th century when numerous country we take a break and you can visit the original a short drive from Derby, close to the Peak estates did not survive. From here we finish ‘Bakewell Tart’ or ‘Pudding’ shop to enjoy a District and offers stylish and contemporary the day with a look at nearby Melbourne Hall sample and explore this interesting town. Garden – The City of Melbourne in Australia We then continue to spend the afternoon at accommodation. Facilities include a bar, takes its name from here. Chatsworth House, home of the Duke and restaurant, indoor swimming pool, gym, Wednesday This morning we make our way Duchess of Devonshire where you can visit the sauna, steam room, spa bath and whirlpool north to the Derwent Valley and Duffield house, gardens and after looking in the shop, and all the bedrooms are en suite and have you can enjoy a well-earned cuppa. TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Friday After breakfast we depart for home. making facilities. The hotel has a lift. (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement 31st May £634 26th Jul £634 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement
30th Aug £559 Calke Abbey Mickleover Court Hotel
72 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM GEMS OF THE ENGLISH SHIRES ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Boughton House £479 Houses, garden and rivers contribute to ensure this is a holiday to remember for many years to come, on this fabulous holiday Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Burghley House Monday We depart and make our way to hosted the cast and crew of Oscar winning • Oakham and Barnsdale Rockingham and our hotel for the next 4 film ‘Les Miserables’ and was featured in Gardens nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. several scenes. • Historic Stamford Tuesday Today we head for historic Thursday We drive to Burghley House where Stamford where you can explore the town we have a guided tour of this treasure of • Foxton Locks and later we visit Barnsdale Gardens, a house dating back to the time of Queen familiar to many TV viewers as home of the Elizabeth I and the tour offers a great insight • Boughton House late Geoff Hamilton, and Gardeners World. into life in a stately home over the centuries. • Hotel entertainment one Wednesday We leave for Foxton where we Friday After breakfast we depart for home. evening board ‘Vagabond’, an elegant vintage motor launch, for a trip on the Grand Union Canal in the peaceful countryside. This afternoon Your Hotel we visit Boughton House, which in 2012 The Rockingham Forest Hotel is pleasantly situated just outside the pretty Northamptonshire village of Rockingham. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel does not have a lift as all bedrooms Burghley House are ground and first floor only.
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates The Rainbow Bridge at Foxton Locks (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £53 30th Aug £564 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £53
24th May £479 28th Jun £489 Stamford The Rockingham Forest Hotel
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5 DAYS FROM Norfolk £539 This tour has beautiful scenery throughout and the carefully chosen itinerary will ensure you can relax throughout your holiday, visiting sunny seaside Holiday Highlights resorts, seals, cruising on the Broads and a visit to Norwich, Norfolk’s Capital. • Blakeney & the Seal Your itinerary Colonies Boat Trip Monday We depart and make our way to PLEASE NOTE: Sailings from the harbour at • Norfolk Broads Paddle Norfolk, arriving late afternoon at our hotel Blakeney/Morston are governed by tide times for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and & weather conditions. It may be necessary to Steamer Cruise breakfast with tea/coffee and biscuits served amend this day. • Great Yarmouth on arrival. Wednesday Today we take you into the city • City of Norwich Tuesday We begin with a drive through rural of Norwich for the morning to sightsee, enjoy Norfolk countryside to the delightful town the shops or just relax over lunch, and watch • Holt & Wells-Next-The-Sea of Holt where we have a short break and the world go by. This afternoon we go to perhaps enjoy a coffee in one of the cosy tea Horning where we join the Mississippi Paddle • Little Walsingham rooms. We then go to Blakeney, famous for Steamer ‘Southern Comfort’ for a delightful its seal colonies and here we join the boat at sail around the Norfolk Broads. Morston Quay for a 1 hour trip to Blakeney Thursday Our final outing takes us to the Your Hotel Point and the seal colonies, with commentary seaside at Great Yarmouth, Norfolk’s best provided by the experienced crew. Later loved holiday resort. We spend the day here Our base for this exciting tour is the Brook we continue to Wells-next-the-Sea for our so relax, perhaps enjoy a walk along the lunch break and in the afternoon we call at seafront, explore the town. Late afternoon Hotel Norwich which is situated to the Little Walsingham. The main High Street is an we return to Norwich. west of the city. All bedrooms are en suite architectural treasure, completely medieval, Friday After breakfast we depart and head with red brick and timber framed houses, and have TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea / for home. whitewashed fronts and red pantiled roofs, as coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. well as a number of quaint tea rooms.
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement
7th Jun £539 23rd Aug £539
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). No single room supplement 20th Sep £624 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Norfolk Seals Brook Hotel Norwich supplement at £15 pp per day
74 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM LUDLOW & THE COUNTY OF SHROPSHIRE ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Ludlow £499 We take a tour through the towns of beautiful and historic Shropshire, discover Ludlow and medieval Shrewsbury. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Acton Scott and Historic Working Farm Monday We depart and make our way to Thursday This morning we head south to Shropshire and our hotel for the next 4 nights Bridgnorth where we join the famous Severn • Visit to Ludlow and with dinner, bed and breakfast. Valley Railway for a delightful ride, passing Shrewsbury Tuesday Our day begins in the village of through lovingly restored stations on the way • Shrewsbury and a cruise on to Kidderminster. From here we have a short Acton Scott where we visit the Historic the River Severn Working Farm which has featured on TV’s ride to the lovely town of Bewdley, where ‘Victorian Farm’. Leaving here we head for we take our lunch break and have time to • Ironbridge Gorge, a World the medieval town of Ludlow where we have look round the town before we head for the Heritage Site Hallmark Stourport Manor Hotel to enjoy a the opportunity for lunch and to explore our • A delightful ride on the surroundings before we leave. delicious afternoon cream tea. Afterwards we make our way back along the Severn Valley famous Severn Valley Railway Wednesday This morning we head to Shrewsbury where we enjoy a cruise on Friday After breakfast we depart for home. • A delicious afternoon cream the River Severn and have the chance to tea at the Hallmark Stourport explore the town and obtain lunch before our Manor Hotel afternoon visit to the impressive Ironbridge Gorge, a World Heritage Site and visit the Museum of the Gorge. Your New Hotel
The Buckatree Hall Hotel is a renowned Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates comfortable country house with its own (See pg 8 for service details). No single mature gardens and private lake. Many of room supplement the rooms enjoy scenic views of the hotel 14th Jun £604 Shrewsbury grounds. All bedrooms are en suite and have 6th Sep £604 TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour hotel has a lift. supplement at £15 pp per day
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12th Apr £499 3rd May £529 4th Oct £499 Ironbridge Gorge Buckatree Hall Hotel
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Lincoln Cathedral £549 A lovely NEW holiday to beautiful Lincolnshire based at the superb Doubltree by Hilton Forest Pines Spa Hotel and Golf Resort nestled in 190 Holiday Highlights acres of woodland and includes a visit to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre. • Hotel with indoor Swimming Pool & Spa Your itinerary • Historic Beverley Monday We depart and make our way to castle was designed to display wealth and Lincolnshire arriving late afternoon at our power, with huge Gothic fireplaces. • Cathedral city of Lincoln hotel with tea/coffee served on arrival. Thursday Today we visit the historic city with Guide Tuesday Leaving the hotel after breakfast, of Lincoln where we meet our guide for a we head over the Humber Bridge to Beverley familiarisation tour of the city by coach. • Tattershall Castle a historic market town with its own unique You then have free time to explore. The old • Battle of Britain Memorial character. We then journey through the town is a labyrynth of little alleyways and Flight Visitor Centre with beautiful countryside via Market Weighton interesting shops - there are plenty of tea Northbald back to the Humber Bridge and on rooms to keep you going. We return to the Guide to our hotel. hotel with time to relax before dinner. Wednesday We begin today with a drive Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel through the Lincolnshire Wolds to the village of Coningsby where we visit the Battle Nestled in 190 acres of beautiful Lincolnshire of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Centre. Located within the boundaries of RAF woodland, the DoubleTree by Hilton Forest Coningsby the site offers a nostalgic look at Pines Spa & Golf Resort offers stylish those dark days of long ago. Whilst here we accommodation with great leisure facilities enjoy a guided tour of the hangar before we and a 27-hole championship golf course. All are on our way to Tattershall Castle, rising proudly from the flat Lincolnshire Fens, the bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel Humberside Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £96 has a lift.
28th Jun £549 26th Jul £549 Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £96 9th Aug £614 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Lincoln Hilton Forest Pines
76 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM YORKSHIRE DELIGHTS ENGLAND 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included There is so much to see and do in Yorkshire it is difficult to know where to start. Centuries of history can be witnessed in the formidable abbeys and ancient towns while the 5 DAYS scenery is as striking as it is varied. FROM Your itinerary York £429 Monday We depart and make our way to Yorkshire and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday The ancient city of York is our destination today where the day is free to wander the old streets of ‘The Shambles’ and no visit to York is • The ancient and The Mercure Wetherby hotel is complete without a treat at ‘Betty’s’ famous tearooms. historic city of York to be found in a peaceful setting Wednesday We visit the attractive Spa town of Harrogate with its • The elegant Spa Town midway between York and immaculate gardens and a wonderful range of quality shops and tearooms. of Harrogate Harrogate just minutes from the Thursday Our scenic tour of the Dales begins at Ripon before continuing market town of Wetherby. All • Cathedral city of Ripon to Pateley Bridge, on the banks of the River Nidd. We continue on to the bedrooms are en suite with TV, sleepy little village of Esholt, where we enjoy a drink at ‘The Woolpack’, • Pateley Bridge and telephone, hairdryer and tea/ the pub used for exterior scenes for Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Nidderdale’ coffee facilities. The hotel has a lift. many years. (See pg 8 for service details). Friday After breakfast we depart Single room supplement £102 Prices & Dates for home. 21st Jun £524 Single room supplement £102 18th Oct £504 24th May £429 This holiday includes the Gold 26th Jul £449 Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 27th Sep £449 Mercure Wetherby hotel A TOUCH OF CLASS IN YORKSHIRE
6 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 5 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included This NEW tour covers a splendid variety of magnificent scenery and contrasting countryside, with quaint Yorkshire towns and villages, rugged moorlands and 6 DAYS stunning coastlines. Whitby £889 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We depart and make our way north to arrive at our hotel for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Historic Maritime The stunning Gisborough Hall Monday to Thursday – You will enjoy the following: Whitby & Coast Hotel dates back to the 19th • Visit to Bilsdale - “Little Switzerland” • North Yorkshire Moors Century and was a former baronial • Delightful Helmsley, with its huge market square and little tea rooms. Railway home. All bedrooms are en suite • Visit to the Mousey Thompson Visitor Centre. with TV, telephone and tea/coffee • Saltburn-By-The-Sea • Danby Moors Centre with tea/coffee and scones. making facilities. The hotel has • Ryedale Folk Museum to learn all about the history of the village. • Ryedale Folk Museum a lift. • Journey on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for an 18 mile steam Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates train journey. (See pg 8 for service details). • Saltburn-by-the-Sea, a traditional Single room supplement £102 small seaside resort. 9th May £889 • Visit to Whitby. 3rd Oct £889 • Preston Park and Hall Museum and gentle cruise on the ‘Teesside This holiday includes the Gold Princess’ Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp Gisborough Hall hotel Friday After breakfast we depart for home. per day
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• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
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5 DAYS FROM Harrogate £539 This special Yorkshire tour takes in the varied foods and crafts of the county, as well as the varied scenery and lifestyles of the Dales. You will be enchanted Holiday Highlights by the picturesque countryside and amazed at the rugged landscapes which hone the character of Yorkshire towns and villages. • The Elegant Spa town of Harrogate Your itinerary • Embsay & Bolton Abbey Monday We depart and make our way to church, behind which you see the impressive Railway Yorkshire, arriving late afternoon at the 900 year old castle and Skipton Woods. We • Wensleydale Creamery in Crown Hotel Harrogate for 4 nights with also take a trip on the Skipton Canal with a dinner, bed and breakfast. rib-tickling commentary by Dave Spikey with Hawes Tuesday We start with a visit to the Royal tea and biscuits included. Our final visit is to • Skipton Canal Cruise Pump Rooms Museum to find out why Charles Pateley Bridge where we visit the Nidderdale Dickens said that ‘Harrogate is the queerest Museum. • Nidderdale Musuem place with the strangest people in it, leading Thursday We can explore Harrogate today • Royal Pump Room Museum the oddest lives’. Then it’s on to Embsay with its huge open spaces and broad tree- where we take a return steam train through lined boulevards, antique shops, shopping picturesque Yorkshire Dales scenery. Later malls, elegant buildings, abundant greenery, Your Hotel we visit the town of Hawes, home to world flowers and plants, it is little wonder that the famous Wensleydale cheese and we visit the town is a frequent winner of Britain in Bloom The impressive 300 year old Crown Hotel factory and watch some of the cheeses being awards. made. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. stands in Harrogate’s Montpellier Quarter Wednesday Our day begins with a drive to just a few minutes’ walk from the major Skipton – ‘Gateway to the Dales’ with the attractions. All bedrooms are en suite with attractive High Street leading up to the TV, radio, telephone, 24 hour room service, hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates The hotel has a lift. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £88 21st Jun £614 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88
16th Aug £539 27th Sep £549 York Minster Crown Hotel
78 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM WHITBY & NORTH YORKSHIRE MOORS ENGLAND
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Whitby Harbourside £399 Whitby is undoubtedly one of the finest seaside resorts in the UK and draws visitors from all over the world to its fantastic sights. With its pretty harbour Holiday Highlights and quaint riverside buildings. On this NEW holiday you could spend your every day wandering around and enjoying the fantastic town landscape as • Historic Whitby you explore its quirky cobbled streets and history. • Scarborough and its Belvedere Gardens Your itinerary • TV’s Heartbeat Country Monday We depart and make our way north shops or take the cliff lift down to the golden to Yorkshire and the Royal Whitby Hotel with beaches of the South Bay and busy little • Historic city of York with its time to settle in and relax before dinner this harbour. so many varied attractions evening. Wednesday A free day to discover the varied including York Minster. Tuesday This morning we head for the moors attractions of Whitby where you can wander and the village of Goathland, also featured as the little alleyways and narrow streets or ‘Aidensfield’ in TV’s Heartbeat where we take perhaps climb the famous steps up to the break before making our way to the coast and ruins of Whitby Abbey. the charming resort of Scarborough. Enjoy Thursday Today we visit the ancient and the delightful promenade in the attractive historic city of York with so many things Your Hotel Belvedere Gardens, take a short walk across to see and do including The National the Spa footbridge to the town centre and Railway Museum, The Jorvik Centre, The High on the West Cliff, the Royal Whitby Castle Museum or maybe stroll around the Hotel occupies a commanding position Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates City Walls, explore the many quaint little (See pg 8 for service details). Single room alleyways and of course, no visit to York is with wonderful views across the beaches, supplement £88 complete without seeing the magnificent harbour and lovely old town. All bedrooms York Minster. 24th May £524 are en suite with TV and tea/coffee making Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 2nd Aug £554 facilities. The hotel has a lift. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88
12th Apr £419 21st Jun £459 12th Jul £459 6th Sep £479 18th Oct £399 Scarborough Royal Whitby Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 79 ENGLAND HISTORIC HOUSES & CITIES OF NORTH YORKSHIRE
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5 DAYS FROM York City walls £489 On this holiday we enjoy the magnificent countryside of North Yorkshire and the beautiful historic houses of Nunnington and Beningbrough Hall as well as Holiday Highlights pretty market towns and the cathedral city of York – capital of North Yorkshire. • Historic city of York Your itinerary • Nunnington Hall Monday We depart and make our way to mansion, its occupation in WW2 and its • Beningbrough Hall and North Yorkshire and our hotel for the next 4 re-invention as an art gallery with some 100 Gardens nights with dinner, bed and breakfast with portraits. tea/coffee and biscuits served on arrival. Thursday After breakfast we head the short • Pickering and Helmsley Tuesday Today we head to the market distance to the historic city of York where Market Towns town of Pickering with its many quaint the day is free to explore the fascinating city shops and places to enjoy before we head with many attractions to hold your attention, • Cathedral city of Ripon to Nunnington Hall; a picturesque Yorkshire such as the National Railway Museum, Jorvik manor house with an organic garden and Centre, the City Walls, the little streets and exciting exhibitions. Explore the period alleyways in the centre, not forgetting York Your Hotel rooms at your leisure whilst hearing the Hall’s Minster and you may even fancy tea and history and many tales. Later we head to the cakes at the famous Betty’s Tea Rooms. edge of the North York Moors National Park Friday After breakfast we depart for home. The Best Western Burn Hall Hotel is and the market town of Helmsley. located about 10 miles north of York and Wednesday Our day takes us to the city of Ripon with its magnificent cathedral which is a Victorian mansion house set amidst is a must to visit. This afternoon we visit the eight acres of stunning parkland within the beautiful Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and beautiful North Yorkshire countryside. All Gardens with an intriguing history, beginning with the wealthy teenager who built the bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates York Shambles has a lift. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £88 7th Jun £554 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88
5th Jul £499 11th Oct £489 Ripon Cathedral Best Western Burn Hall Hotel
80 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM BBC MEDIA CITY GREAT HOUSES ENGLAND & COSMOPOLITAN CITIES • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
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5 DAYS FROM Speke Hall, Liverpool £479 On this holiday we enjoy a combination of great historic houses and the cosmopolitan cities of Liverpool and Manchester, as well as a unique insight Your Hotel in to the BBC on a guided tour around the Salford quays Media City.
The Mercure Wigan Oak Hotel is a modern Your itinerary and stylish property situated in the centre of Monday We depart and make our way to get them from script to screen. This afternoon Wigan. It is an ideal base for our short break. Wigan and our hotel for the next 4 nights we head into the city of Manchester for All bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone free time. with dinner, bed & breakfast. and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel Thursday Today we enjoy the morning in Tuesday This morning we make our way to has a lift. the seaside town of Southport where you Liverpool with free time to explore this will have plenty of time to explore the town historic city. Later in the afternoon we head before heading to Rufford Old Hall; a fine to Speke Hall; a Tudor half-timbered house Tudor building and the home for stories of with rich interiors and fine gardens. romance, wealth and 500 years of Hesketh Friday After breakfast we depart for home. family history. Wednesday This morning we head south to Salford Quays where we enjoy a tour of the BBC studios at Media City and walk in the footsteps of your favourite celebrities. We can take a glimpse behind the scenes of some of your most popular programmes which are produced here and tour producers give a lively insight into the level or work needed to
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88 Southport at sunset Mercure Wigan Hotel 31st May £489 23rd Aug £479 6th Sep £499 Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £88 5th Jul £564 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day BBC Media City
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5 DAYS FROM Salford Quays £549 We are pleased to offer this holiday based at Salford Quays, part of Manchester’s regeneration, with shopping malls, museums and more. The Your Hotel highlight of the weekend is the cruise along the ship canal to Liverpool. The Copthorne Hotel overlooks the Your itinerary waterfront offering stunning views out onto Monday We depart and make our way to • Popular Southport, with beautiful gardens, Salford Quays and facilities include 2 bars Salford Quays and our hotel for the next 4 sandy beaches, famous Lord Street and the and restaurant. All bedrooms are en suite nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. shopping arcades of the elegant Victorian town centre, and the seafront is home to with TV and tea/coffee making facilities. The Tuesday to Thursday - Included during one of the country’s largest marine lakes. hotel has a lift. your holiday: Friday After breakfast we depart for home. • A fascinating 6 hours leisurely cruise the whole length of the Manchester Ship Canal. The cruise takes in spectacular scenery leaving passengers with an awe-inspiring sense of how its construction shaped forever the City of Manchester and the North West of England. The 35-mile cruise includes live commentary and provides a revealing insight into the history of one of Britain’s most important waterways. Refreshments and snacks are available on board. • The historic city of Chester with so much to see and do – explore the unique ‘Rows’ of two tiered shops, enjoy a stroll around the City Walls, meander down to the River Dee and maybe take a boat trip. Chester Copthorne Hotel
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £132 26th Jul £634 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £132
23rd Aug £549 South port, Lord Street Best Western Burn Hall Hotel
82 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM KINGDOM OF NORTHUMBRIA & SCOTTISH BORDERS ENGLAND
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6 DAYS FROM Coquetdale with a view to the Cheviot Hills £619 This holiday covers a variety of splendid scenery, contrasting countryside, historic towns, rugged coastlines, rolling hills and quaint northern villages. Holiday Highlights The ancient Kingdom of Northumbria offers some of the most striking unspoilt beauty in England. • Holy Island and Lindisfarne Your itinerary • Beautiful Bamburgh Sunday We depart and make our way to Thursday We journey through beautiful • Berwick-Upon-Tweed Northumberland and our hotel for the next countryside to the capital of Coquetdale, 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast with Rothbury, which was once a popular health • Ford and Etal Villages tea/ coffee and biscuits served on arrival. resort where people came to take the air in • Rothbury and Cragside Monday Today we make our way to Alnwick its riverside setting of wide open spaces and and a visit to the delightful Alnwick Castle and delightful scenery. From here we head for House Garden, described by the Victorians as the magnificent Cragside House, now in the care • Historic Alnwick Castle and of the National Trust. Cragside was the first ‘Windsor of the North’. The Castle has recently Gardens featured in the Harry Potter films and Alnwick house to be lit by electricity – a wonder of the Garden was the inspiration of the Duchess of Victorian age. Northumberland and offers much to discover Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Your Hotel including water sculptures, the Grand Cascade and the infamous Poison Garden. Tuesday Leaving after breakfast our day The Holiday Inn Gosforth Park is an ideal begins with a visit to the villages of Ford and base for this holiday and facilities include Etal, a vast rural estate with Visitor Centre indoor swimming pool, gym, steam room, and the Black Bull, Northumberland’s only sauna and spa bath. All bedrooms are en thatched roof pub. Whilst here we include Lindisfarne Castle a visit to Lady Waterford Hall, a ride on the suite with TV, telephone and tea/coffee Heatherslaw steam light railway and a visit to Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates making facilities. The hotel has a lift. the Heatherslaw corn mill. From here we head (See pg 8 for service details). Single room for the Scottish Borders region and the most supplement £110 Northern town in England, Berwick-upon- Tweed, with its ruined Castles and Tower. 2nd May £689 Wednesday Our excursion takes us across the 20th Jun £709 causeway to Holy Island and the mysterious 4th Jul £719 Lindisfarne Castle – visible in the distance 1st Aug £709 from Bamburgh. We return to Bamburgh for 3rd Oct £689 free time, maybe to visit the majestic castle on the beach or the Grace Darling Museum. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day PLEASE NOTE: The crossing of the causeway to Holy Island is governed by tide times. It may be Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £110 necessary to amend this excursion. 12th Sep £619 Holiday Inn Gosforth Park
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 83 ENGLAND DURHAM, RICHMOND & THE DELIGHTFUL DALES 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included This lovely holiday takes us to the delightful county of Durham, featuring Barnard Castle and Bowes Museum as well as Durham itself. Our two-Dales excursion takes us 5 DAYS along lovely Swaledale and attractive Wensleydale. FROM Bowes Museum £479 Your itinerary Monday We depart and make our way to North Yorkshire and our hotel for Holiday Highlights Your Hotel the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Tuesday to Thursday you will enjoy the following: • Cathedral city of Durham The Holiday Inn Darlington/ • Visit to the historic city of Durham, well known for its huge cathedral sat • Historic Richmond Scotch Corner is an ideal base for overlooking the rest of the city and its beautiful cityscape. this tour. Hotel facilities include • Barnard Castle & Bowes • We begin today with a ride to nearby Richmond, a pretty town where we indoor swimming pool and gym, Museum stop this morning with time to explore and wander at leisure. You could bar and lounge. All bedrooms are enjoy a walk around Richmond Castle or perhaps visit the Green Howards • Swaledale & Wensleydale en suite and have TV, telephone, Regimental Museum during our stop. and tea & coffee making facilities. • Visit to Barnard Castle, a lovely little town in which you can see where The hotel has a lift. Dickens immortalised ‘Dothboys Hall’. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Prices & Dates • Visit to Bowes Museum, just outside (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £110 the town, a majestic French-style Single room supplement £110 chateau, opened in 1892. 5th Apr £479 10th May £564 Friday After breakfast, we depart 7th Jun £489 This holiday includes the Gold for home. Holiday Inn, Darlington/ Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp 23rd Aug £489 per day 20th Sep £489 Scotch Corner CATHERINE COOKSON’S BEAUTIFUL NORTHUMBRIA 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included On this lovely NEW tour, we take in the beauty of the Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, Catherine NEW TOUR Cookson country and South Shields. 5 DAYS Your itinerary FROM Monday We depart and make our way to Darlington and our hotel for the Durham Castle and Cathedral £499 next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Tuesday to Thursday – you will enjoy the following: Holiday Highlights Your Hotel • Guided tour of South Shields, home of the late Catherine Cookson • Visit to the thriving market town of Northallerton. • South Shields & The Redworth Hall Hotel, • Visit to Saltburn, home to the first pier to be built on the north east coast Catherine Cookson Durham, is a stunning and the last one remaining. Country Jacobean House surrounded • Redcar, home of the newest pier to be built – this one is vertical! • Pennines Area of by landscaped gardens and • Visit to the small market town of Stanhope, right on the edge of the woodland and its leisure Pennines. Outstanding Natural facilities including an indoor • The rugged terrain of the North Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Beauty swimming pool, gym, spa pool, Pennines Area of Outstanding Natural (See pg 8 for service details). Beauty and the town of Alston. Single room supplement £110 steam room and solarium. All Prices & Dates bedrooms are en-suite with TV, • We head over the scenic hills and 19th Jul £594 Single room supplement £110 descend to Barnard Castle market 16th Aug £594 hairdryer and tea/coffee making town where we have time to explore 10th May £499 This holiday includes the Gold facilities. The hotel has a lift. its many shops. 31st May £509 Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp Friday After breakfast we depart per day 4th Oct £499 for home. 84 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM LANCASHIRE DELIGHTS ENGLAND
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5 DAYS FROM Pendle Hill £499 For this lovely holiday, we stay at a delightful hotel and offer a superb selection of visits and attractions, to include a train ride, boat trip, Holiday Highlights chocolate making, the Co-op museum and the opportunity to discover Bury’s famous market. • ‘Pendle Witches Country’ • Marton Emperor Canal Cruise Your itinerary • Forest of Bowland Monday We depart and make our way to and vast complex with a variety of shops, • Oswaldtwistle Mills Lancashire and our hotel for the next 4 nights restaurants and much more. This afternoon with dinner, bed and breakfast with tea we visit the historic Samlesbury Hall a • Rochdale Pioneers Co-op coffee and biscuits served on arrival. fabulous half-timbered black and white Museum Tuesday This morning we travel to Pendle medieval house built in 1325 as a family • Bury Market house. A guided tour brings history to life and Hill, haunt of the notorious Pendle Witches • East Lancashire Railway of long ago, and then head for the village tells tales of intrigue and witchcraft through of Foulridge, near Colne where we join the the centuries. Marton Emperor for a relaxing canal cruise Thursday Today we make our way to through delightful countryside. Afterwards Rochdale where in 1844 the Rochdale we make our way through the Forest of Pioneers started the Co-op movement, still Your Hotel Bowland to Slaidburn and Clitheroe where we of course going strong today. We visit the take a break and today being market day, you museum in Toad Lane and discover how have the opportunity to browse around the the movement grew over the years. Later The Foxfields Country Hotel is situated stalls and find a bargain. we then visit Bury where we have time to near the village of Billington in the beautiful visit the Famous Bury Market, the largest Wednesday Our first visit today is to famous Ribble Valley and leisure facilities include ‘Ossie Mills’ at Oswaldtwistle – a unique in the North of England, before we join the afternoon train on the East Lancashire heated indoor swimming pool, sauna and Railway for a ride along the Irwell Valley to gym. All bedrooms are en suite with TV and Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88 Rawtenstall. tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel does Friday After breakfast we depart for home. not have a lift. 17th May £499 5th Jul £519 2nd Aug £509
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £88 13th Sep £594 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour East Lancashire Railway Foxfields Country Hotel supplement at £15 pp per day
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Samlesbury Hall £649 Enjoy the gorgeous Lancashire countryside on our NEW holiday with its waterways and railway lines, as well as visits to great houses and halls and Holiday Highlights plenty of time for relaxation and enjoyment. We also include some added extras including lunch on our canal cruise and wine with dinner. • Samlesbury Hall Guided Tour Your itinerary • 3 Hour Canal Cruise with 2 Monday We depart and make our way to Wednesday Today, we travel to Bury with course lunch Lancashire, arriving late afternoon at our its world famous Bury Market and so many • East Lancashire Railway hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & stalls to browse. Later on, we step back in breakfast. Enjoy a glass of wine or fruit juice time for a nostalgic trip on a steam train along • Gawthorpe Hall with dinner each night. the East Lancashire Railway through the • Wine each evening Tuesday We begin our day with a guided tour beautiful Lancashire countryside from Bury of the magnificent Samlesbury Hall, a half- to Rawtenstall. Afterwards, we return to our timbered medieval house built in 1325 in the hotel where we enjoy a sumptuous Cream Tea traditional black and white. Later, we make our consisting of two scones, clotted cream, jam, Your Hotel way to Riley Green Marina to board our narrow butter, tea and coffee and time to relax before boat for a cruise along the Leeds Liverpool dinner this evening. Canal which passes through lovely countryside, Thursday We enjoy a scenic journey through The Preston Leyland Signature Collection by where you can enjoy Lancashire’s nature, the breath-taking Ribble Valley and our first Best Western (Formerly Hallmark Preston) wildlife and have a relaxing afternoon. During port of call is at the famous Oswaldtwistle Mills offers an ideal base for our Lancashire tour. our cruise, we enjoy a taste of ‘Lancashire shopping village. The iconic former weaving mill Fare’ with our two-course lunch on our light, has over 100 retailers under one roof, as well as The hotel has many unique touches, such as airy & spacious boat where each table has a restaurants, ice cream parlour, craft centre, and art work by local artists and the modern Four panoramic view of the canal. even a Textile and Heritage Museum. We then Seasons restaurant has a great atmosphere. continue on our way to Gawthorpe Hall which Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates houses the North West’s largest collection of Hotel facilities include leisure club with (See pg 8 for service details). Single room portraits as well as The Gawthorpe Textiles indoor swimming pool and all bedrooms are supplement £88 Collection, a wonderful collection of intricate en suite with TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee 28th Jun £734 lace, embroidery and needlework. making facilities. The hotel has a lift. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Friday After breakfast we depart for home. supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88 3rd May £649 12th Jul £659 2nd Aug £659 20th Sep £669 11th Oct £649 Leeds Liverpool Canal Preston Leyland
86 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ROYAL SANDRINGHAM & THE ENGLISH SHIRES ENGLAND
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Stamford £499 Join us on a NEW holiday taking in the beautiful Sandringham House - a majestic neo-Jacobean property, which provides a unique opportunity for Holiday Highlights visitors to view an official residence of the Royal Family. Sandringham is an interesting place for all ages, and doesn’t want to see the Queen’s dining • Sandringham House & room, or visit her front room and garden? Gardens Your itinerary • Oakham & Barnsdale Gardens • Historic Stamford Monday We depart and make our way to locks, and gently passing through peaceful Rockingham, arriving late afternoon at our countryside. We have a treat in store this • Foxton Locks hotel where tea/coffee and biscuits are afternoon as we visit Boughton House with • Boughton House served on arrival. Hotel entertainment is a staggering collection of art, rare furniture, – ‘Les Miserables’ provided on one evening during your stay. porcelain and weaponry. In 2012 the house Tuesday We begin today with a visit to hosted the cast and crew of Oscar winning Rutland Water as we head for historic film ‘Les Miserables’ and was featured in Your Hotel Stamford where you can take a walk around several scenes. the historic town – there is much to admire, Thursday Our destination today is a visit to from the beautiful architecture to the the Norfolk retreat of Her Majesty the Queen The Rockingham Forest Hotel is delightful shops. Later we visit the famous - Sandringham House and Grounds, where we pleasantly situated just outside the pretty Barnsdale Gardens, familiar to many TV have free time to explore before returning to Northamptonshire village of Rockingham viewers as home of the late Geoff Hamilton, the hotel late afternoon. and just a short distance from the ancient and Gardeners World. The gardens comprise Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 37 individual gardens all blended together by Rockingham Castle. All bedrooms are en the borders into one eight acre feature. suite with TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/ Wednesday This morning we make for the coffee making facilities. The hotel does not little village of Foxton where we board have a lift as all bedrooms are ground and ‘Vagabond’, for a cruise on the Grand Union Canal, seeing the Foxton flight of 10 first floor only.
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room Sandringham House supplement £22 9th Aug £594 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £22 13th Sep £519 11th Oct £499 Rutland Rockingham Forest Hotel
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• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Bournemouth £569 A NEW holiday to Bournemouth based at the lovely Bournemouth Carlton Hotel with visits to Weymouth and Salisbury and an Afternoon Cream Tea. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • The South Coast’s Premier Monday We depart and make our way to Holiday Resort Bournemouth arriving at our hotel for the • Hotel overlooking the sea next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Enjoy a glass of wine or fruit juice with dinner • Dorchester each night. • Weymouth Tuesday Today is free for you to explore and • Salisbury discover Bournemouth. This afternoon at the hotel you will enjoy a lovely Cream Tea – • Shaftesbury consisting of tea/coffee, two scones, cream butter and jam. £369 Your Hotel Wednesday After breakfast we visit Dorchester, the county town of Dorset and the fictional town ‘Casterbridge’ of Hardy’s The Bournemouth Carlton, Signature novels. Later we head to Weymouth along the Shaftesbury Collection by Best Western is situated on coast road through Abbotsbury, home of the the quiet East Cliff of Bournemouth offering famous Swannery. Weymouth is a resort with spectacular sea views and a bright, modern lots of character, maybe take a stroll along the Esplanade or explore the interesting interior. The hotel is just a few minutes’ walk harbour area. from the seven miles of golden beaches. Thursday Salisbury’s history dates back to Guests have use of the Waves Health and the Iron Age, but it is best known for having Leisure Club with indoor swimming pool, the tallest cathedral spire in England along sauna and gym and all bedrooms are en suite with a well-preserved medieval town with with flat screen TV, Wi-Fi and tea/coffee many wooden buildings. We continue past the Dorchester making facilities. The hotel has a lift. ancient and mystical Stonehenge on our way to Shaftesbury, a picturesque village. Friday After breakfast we depart for home.
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 3rd May £579 9th Aug £569 Salisbury Bournemouth Carlton
88 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM NORTH & SOUTH WALES - TWIN CENTRE WALES
• 7 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 8 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
NEW TOUR 8 DAYS FROM St Brides Bay £799 A lovely NEW holiday visiting the best of what Wales has to offer. From our bases in Carmarthen and Mold you will visit the popular seaside resort of Holiday Highlights Tenby, magical St. David’s and stunning Anglesey Island with its seal colonies. • Llangollen Railway Your itinerary • Tenby Sunday We depart and make our way to Snowdon. After a short break we head for Carmarthen arriving late afternoon at the Ivy Beaumaris, a delightful village on the shore of • Picton Castle & Woodland Bush Royal Hotel for the next 4 nights with the Isle of Anglesey where you have time to Garden dinner, bed & breakfast. obtain lunch before our afternoon boat trip to • St David’s & St Bride’s Bay Puffin Island with its many wildlife and Monday This morning we travel west to the • Mumbles & the Gower Peninsula popular holiday resort of Tenby, with its old seal colonies. town walls, interesting little side streets, Saturday Today’s excursion takes us through • Isle of Anglesey - Beaumaris alleyways to explore and superb beaches. We some lovely Welsh scenery, including the • Puffin Island Boat Trip have time to obtain lunch here before we make spectacular Horseshoe Pass to the Dee Valley • Pontcysyllte Aqueduct Canal Trip our way to Picton Castle and Woodland Garden. where we join the Rheilfford Llangollen Railway • 2 nights of entertainment at the Tuesday Today we have a leisurely breakfast for a journey on a nostalgic steam train from and free time to explore Carmarthen. Carrogg to Llangollen and also take a ride on Ivy Bush Royal Hotel the ‘Stream in the Sky’- the Llangollen Canal - Wednesday Our excursion takes us to St Bride’s gliding gently along over the country’s biggest Bay and Newgale Sands to the magical place navigable viaduct. Your Hotel of St. David’s, birthplace of the patron saint of Wales. St. David’s has a beautiful cathedral, the Sunday After breakfast we depart for home. smallest in Great Britain which is well worth a The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel is within walking visit. distance of Carmarthen town centre and Thursday After breakfast we depart and begin Your Hotel was once a favourite retreat for Lord our journey to North Wales and the Beaufort Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Sympathetically Park Hotel in Mold for the next 3 nights with The Beaufort Park Hotel is situated near modernised, the hotel retains its old world dinner, bed & breakfast. the market town of Mold and is an ideal charm blended with modern day facilities. Friday An early start as we head for some base for our tour. All bedrooms are en suite All bedrooms are en suite with TV, hairdryer free time in Llanberis, in the shadow of Mount with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel facilities. The hotel has a lift. has a lift. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £22 9th May £919 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 18th Jul £799 Beaufort Park Hotel Ivy Bush Royal Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 89 WALES SNOWDONIA
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Snowdonia £449 A regular favourite embracing mountains , beautiful countryside, a railway and a step back in time to an old TV programme. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • A magical day out to Monday Settle back for the scenic journey National Trust managed site, Portmeirion still Caernarfon and Anglesey through the Welsh Borders and Llangollen to enjoys worldwide renown as the location for • A ride on the Ffestiniog the foot of mighty Mount Snowdon before the TV series ‘The Prisoner’. Mountain Railway arriving in Llanberis and our hotel for the next Friday Sadly we must bid farewell to 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Snowdonia and make our way back to the • A visit to the unique site Tuesday We begin our tour in the historic city West Country. of Portmeirion of Caernarfon, dominated by its castle and overlooking the Menai Straits. We then cross over to the Isle of Anglesey and spend some time in the lovely town of Beaumaris. Your Hotel Wednesday This morning we visit Betws-y Coed before we set off for a ride on the The Royal Victoria Hotel is a comfortable Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway which used to hotel in a delightful setting in its own carry slate from the foothills of Snowdon to grounds at the foot of the Llanberis Pass. the coast at Porthmadog. Caernarfon Castle The bedrooms are all en suite with TV, Thursday A real treat lies in store today as tea/coffee making facilities. There is a lift we visit Portmeirion. The unique Italianate to all floors. style houses and pavilions were the dream of architect William Ellis who designed his model village early in the 20th century. Now a
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 19th Apr £449 3rd May £459 View of Mount Snowdon 24th May £469 7th Jun £499 21st Jun £499 2nd Aug £499 23rd Aug £499 25th Oct £449 Beaufort Park Hotel Royal Victoria Hotel
90 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM SCENIC GEMS OF NORTH WALES & SNOWDONIA WALES
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
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NEW TOUR 5 DAYS FROM Swallow Falls water fall in North Wales £619 The lush ocean views, beautiful sandy beaches, spectacular cliffs and glorious estuaries provide the perfect holiday destination and on our NEW holiday you Holiday Highlights can enjoy the views over the Snowdonia National Park from the journey on the Mountain Railway and the fairy-tale villages of Portmeirion and Porthmadog. There • Visit to Ironbridge Gorge and is also the opportunity to take a steam train on the Llangollen Railway and a unique Blists Hill horse drawn barge trip over a mighty aqueduct, known as the Stream in the Sky. • Journey on the spectacular Snowdon Mountain Railway Your itinerary • Visits to Betwys y Coed, Monday We depart and make our way to Wednesday Our first visit today is to Porthmadog & Portmeirion Ironbridge Gorge with time to learn about the Portmeirion where a young Welsh architect industrial revolution and immerse yourself made his childhood dream come true and • Llangollen Railway and in the sights and smells of Old England at designed his architectural vision around a spectacular “Stream in the Sky” the open air village of Blists Hill, a perfectly Mediterranean piazza, rebuilding loggias, • Journey on the Ffestiniog Railway recreated Victorian town with authentic shops grand porticoes and tiny terracotta roofed and craft workshops. We then continue to our houses painted in bright colours. Later we hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & visit the idyllic coast resort of Porthmadog to Your Hotel breakfast. catch the train to the slate quarrying town of Tuesday Today we have a journey on the Blaenau Ffestioniog. The historic train climbs The Kinmel Manor is set amongst rolling Snowdon Mountain Railway which begins at over 700 feet from sea level clinging on to Llanberis and continues past waterfalls and the side of mountains and winding through parkland with spectacular view of the an ancient oak forest before climbing the tranquil pastures and magnificent forests, past coast and the magnificent North Wales spectacular ridge to the summit. Stop off at lakes and waterfalls and horseshoe bends. countryside. Recently the subject of an the Victorian resort of Betws y Coed, set in a Thursday After breakfast we travel to Carrog extensive upgrade, the hotel now boasts beautiful valley in the Snowdonia Forest Park. to begin the day’s adventure by boarding a splendid accommodation and a brand new See the Swallow Falls, considered to be one of steam train on the Llangollen Railway through lavish spa complex including swimming the loveliest spots of North Wales where the the picturesque Dee valley to Llangollen. From pool, sauna and aromatherapy steam river rushes down from the mountains. here we take a gentle ride on a horse drawn room. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, boat trip on the Llangollen Canal over the telephone and tea/coffee making facilities. Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £88 mighty Pontcysylte Aquaduct, an 18 arched stone and cast iron construction known as the The hotel has a lift. 2nd Aug £619 “Stream in the Sky”, the highest in the world. 20th Sep £629 Friday After breakfast we depart for home.
Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £88 11th Oct £654 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Llanberis Train on Mount Snowdon Kinmel Manor
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 91 WALES LLANDUDNO & NORTH WALES
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
7 DAYS FROM Conwy Castle £559 Llandudno is a classic seaside resort with a unique combination of Victorian style and Edwardian elegance. The long crescent shaped promenade, pleasant Holiday Highlights shopping streets and wealth of attractions make it an ideal holiday destination. • Snowdonia National Park Your itinerary • North Wales Premier Resort Sunday We depart and make our way to Llandudno takes us via Beddgelert and the • Isle of Anglesey and Caernarfon Llandudno where we enjoy the next 6 nights Pass of Llanberis Mount Snowdon. • Betws-Y-Coed and Vale of Conwy with dinner, bed and breakfast. Thursday This morning we head along • Porthmadog, Beddgelert and Monday Today’s excursion takes us first to the coast to cross the bridge over the Conwy, with its mighty castle, town walls and Menai Straits to visit Beaumaris, the Isle Llanberis Pass three bridges over the river making it one of of Anglesey’s most popular resort. Before • Historic Chester the finest townscapes in the country. This leaving Anglesey we visit the James Pringle afternoon we ride down the Vale of Conwy to complex at Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerych- • Llechwedd Slate Caverns Betws-y-Coed and the famous Swallow Falls, wyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Take your returning later to Llandudno. camera for a photo by the name. We continue Your New Hotel Tuesday A free day for you to explore and our day with a visit to Caernarfon, where you enjoy the delights of Llandudno – don’t miss have chance to visit the magnificent castle. the chance to take a tram ride up to the top Friday Our final excursion takes us along the The Baytree Hotel is ideally situated of the Great Orme, the views are tremendous! North Wales coast to the ancient Roman City on the Grand Promenade across from You may fancy a wander around the shops, the of Chester. You have the chance to explore the pier and minutes walk from the main street runs parallel with the promenade, the famous ‘Rows’ of two tiered shops, take central shopping area. The hotel offers or maybe just relax on the promenade and a stroll around the City Walls, maybe wander breath taking panoramic views of the watch the world go by. down to the River Dee and enjoy lunch in a whole of Llandudno Bay. Hotel facilities Wednesday After breakfast we leave for a full riverside pub, or just sit and watch the world day tour of Snowdonia. We continue our way go by. include newly refurbished bars, ballroom through spectacular scenery to Porthmadog, Saturday After breakfast we leave Llandudno dining room, coffee shop and lounge. where we take a break. Our return to and begin our homeward journey. All bedrooms are en-suite and have TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee making faciIities. The hotel has a lift. Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 9th May £559 6th Jun £579 11th Jul £629 15th Aug £629 5th Sep £629 10th Oct £559 Snowdonia The Baytree Hotel
92 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM PEMBROKESHIRE PEARLS WALES
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM The Gower Peninsula £449 The Gower Peninsula is the perfect location to experience the contrast of beautiful Welsh beaches and inland the magnificent scenery and ruggedness Holiday Highlights of this part of Wales. • Tenby and Saundersfoot Your itinerary • St David’s and St Bride’s Bay Monday We depart from your home area in postcard resort of Mumbles, delightfully • Mumbles and the Gower the morning and travel to Carmarthen and located on Swansea Bay. Peninsula arrive late afternoon at the Ivy Bush Royal Thursday Today we head to St Bride’s Bay • Carmarthen Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and Newgale Sands to the magical St David’s, and breakfast with tea/coffee and Welsh cake the birthplace of the patron saint of Wales. St • Preseli Mountains served on arrival. David’s cathedral is the smallest in Britain but Tuesday This morning takes us to the popular no less beautiful for that and worthy of a visit. seaside resort of Saundersfoot where we From St David’s we head back to Carmarthen enjoy time exploring the little harbour before skirting the Preseli Mountains. leaving for the short ride to Tenby. With its Friday After breakfast we begin our journey Your Hotel old town walls, side streets and alleyways to home. explore and superb beaches, Tenby is South The Ivy Bush Royal Hotel is within walking Wales’ most popular holiday resort and is distance of Carmarthen town centre and a pleasure to visit. Our return trip takes in Pendine Sands and Laugharne – the former was once a favoured retreat for Lord home of Dylan Thomas. Nelson and Lady Hamilton. Sympathetically Wednesday The wild and unspoilt scenery modernised, the hotel retains its old world of the Gower Peninsula is our outing today, charm blended with modern facilities. rightly designated an Area of Outstanding All bedrooms are en suite and all have Natural Beauty. We also visit the picture TV, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee Prices & Dates. No single room supplement making facilities. The hotel has a lift. 17th May £459 Saundersfoot Harbour 14th Jun £479 12th Jul £479 9th Aug £479 30th Aug £479 20th Sep £479 4th Oct £449 18th Oct £449 Pembrokeshire The Ivybush Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 93 WALES TENBY
• 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 5 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
5 DAYS FROM Tenby £429 Tenby is a uniquely attractive resort with its pastel coloured buildings, narrow streets, fortified walls and the quality of the light from its shimmering bays Holiday Highlights give it an atmosphere which is reminiscent of the Mediterranean. Tenby is a town immersed in ancient history and surrounded by an imposing medieval • Visit Saundersfoot stone wall. With breath taking scenery and fascinating historic features, we are not surprised why this is such a popular holiday destination. • Enjoy a day at leisure in Tenby Your itinerary • Pembrokeshire National Monday We depart and make our way to Llandudno takes us via Beddgelert and the Park Tenby and our hotel for the next 4 nights with Pass of Llanberis, passing Mount Snowdon. • Cardigan Bay dinner, bed and breakfast. Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Tuesday Today we visit the seaside resort • Llechwedd Slate Caverns of Saundersfoot, which is full of character and charm. Wander around the harbour; explore the shops and cafes where you can Your Hotel Your Hotel watch the world pass by. We then continue to Carmarthen, situated on the banks of the The Clarence Hotel is situated in the The Belgrave Hotel is situated in an River Towy where you can visit the beautiful beautiful seaside holiday resort of Tenby excellent position and within walking beaches, historic castle and stunning scenery. with amazing views from its seafront distance of all amenities. All bedrooms are Wednesday We travel past the stunning Bluestone National Park, to Haverfordwest, rooms. All bedrooms are en suite with TV, en suite with TV and tea/coffee making with wonderful scenery, buildings that tell a hairdryer and tea/coffee making facilities. facilities. The hotel has a lift. story and a grand old castle dominating the The hotel has a lift. landscape – Haverfordwest is a slice of Welsh history. Visit the ancient hillside ruins of Haverfordwest Castle or walk the riverbanks and marvel at the old buildings. We then continue to St Davids, Britain’s smallest city with fantastic attractions such as the beautiful cathedral and the Chapel of St Non, said to mark the spot where St David himself was born. The Clarence Hotel The Belgrave Hotel Thursday After breakfast we leave for a full day tour of Snowdonia, our first visit being to Prices & Dates. No single room supplement Prices & Dates. No single room supplement the famous Llechwedd Slate Caverns, near 10th May £479 14th Jun £449 Blaenau Ffestiniog. We continue on our way through spectacular scenery to Porthmadog, 16th Aug £509 19th Jul £459 where we take a break. Our return to 18th Oct £429 16th Aug £459
94 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM HEART OF WALES CARDIGAN BAY WALES
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5 DAYS FROM Cardigan Bay £479 On this lovely tour we offer a delightful hotel and a superb selection of visits and attractions with a delightful train ride. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Wye Valley and Cathedral City of Hereford Monday We depart and make our way to we have a short break with the chance to Llandrindod Wells and our hotel for the next 4 explore the town. Later we are on our way to • Powys Castle & Gardens nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Welshpool for our lunch halt. This afternoon • Visit to Aberystwyth Tuesday A full day excursion to Aberystwyth we visit the awesome Powys Castle and nestled between three hills and two beaches, Gardens. Formerly a medieval fortress, now a • Newtown & Welshpool and hosts some castle ruins, a pier and a family home furnished with sumptuous fabrics harbour. The seafront hosts Victorian / and exquisite works of art from around the Edwardian buildings and its wide promenade world. The renowned gardens are a mix of which offers space to sit, soak up the sun and Italianate terraces and formal garden. From view the surrounding hills and mountains. On here we return to the hotel for our final night. a clear day you may even be able to spot the Friday After breakfast we depart for home. tallest mountain in Wales, Snowdon! Your Hotel Wednesday This morning we head to Monmouth and the City of Hereford, with its magnificent cathedral. We have our lunch stop The Commodore Hotel stands in the and have time to explore before returning to centre of the Victorian Spa Town of our hotel. Llandrindod Wells, in the heart of Wales. Thursday For our final outing we head north through lovely scenery to Newtown. Here Set in its own grounds the hotel is privately owned and offers traditional hospitality. All Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone (See pg 8 for service details). No single and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel room supplement has a lift. 10th May £554 Ceredigion Devils Bridge 27th Sep £554 11th Oct £544 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Prices & Dates. No single room supplement 28th Jun £479 16th Aug £479 Bridge over the river Hereford The Commodore Hotel
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 95 RAILWAY BREAKS GREAT LITTLE TRAINS OF SNOWDONIA 5 DAYS Coach Tour • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included The Great Little Trains of Snowdonia are a very special way of seeing some of the best scenery in the British Isles. Some of the narrow gauge steam railways are over 100 years old 5 DAYS and most originally served to carry Welsh slate from the FROM quarries to the sea. Llanberis Train £489 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Monday We departing and make our way to North and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Ffestiniog Railway The Baytree Hotel Llandudno is ideally situated on the Grand Tuesday We call at Betws-y-Coed for a short break before we head to Bala • Bala Lake Railway Promenade, across from the and our ride on the Bala Lake Railway. Later we leave for Portmeirion, on the Pier and a minutes’ walk from shores of Cardigan Bay where we visit this unique attraction. • Welsh Highland Railway the central shopping area. All Wednesday The Llanberis Lake Railway is our train journey today with a bedrooms are en suite with TV, lovely ride along the lake shore before we head to Caernarfon for free time. • Llanberis Lake hairdryer and tea/coffee making Thursday A wonderful train ride along the Railway facilities. The hotel has a lift. Prices & Dates No single Vale of Conwy to Blaenau Ffestiniog, we • Vale of Conwy Train then catch the Ffestiniog Railway for an room supplement exhilarating ride across the mountains, 17th May £489 journey descending to the sea at Porthmadog before 14th Jun £539 • Portmeirion Italianate catching the West Highland Railway Train 19th Jul £569 Village which takes us through Beddgelert and all the way back to Caernarfon. 2nd Aug £569 • Llandudno – North Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 4th Oct £499 Wales’ favourite resort The Baytree Hotel ROMANTIC JOURNEYS OF NORTH WALES 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included Following the tremendous popularity of our ‘Romantic Journeys’ tour series we are pleased to offer again the Welsh version! With three train rides and a boat trip this tour offers a delightful 5 DAYS way to see some of the best spectacular Welsh scenery. FROM Your itinerary Llangollen Railway £519 Monday We depart and make our way to North Wales and our hotel where tea and Bara Brith are served on arrival. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday Today we join the famous Ffestiniog Railway for a spectacular ride over the mountains to Porthmadog where you can explore the town before • Ffestiniog railway The Beaufort Park Hotel is we make our way through the Snowdonia National Park to Lake Bala for a • Llangollen railway situated near the market town ride along the lake shore on the delightful Bala Lake Railway. of Mold and is an ideal base Wednesday Our excursion today takes us to the ancient and historic city of • Pontcysyllte aqueduct for our tour. All bedrooms are Chester where you have time to explore the city or shop till you drop in the canal trip en suite with TV, telephone, famous ‘Rows’ of two tiered shops in the pedestrianised centre. • Bala lake railway hairdryer, trouser press and tea/ Thursday We see some lovely Welsh scenery coffee making facilities. The Gold Coach Tour Prices & • Historic Chester hotel has a lift. today, including the spectacular Horseshoe Dates. (See pg 8 for service Pass, to the Dee Valley where we join the details). No single room Rheilfford Llangollen Railway for a journey supplement Prices & Dates No single room on a nostalgic steam train and also take a 19th Jul £614 ride on the ‘Stream in the Sky’- the supplement Llangollen Canal - gliding gently along over 26th Jul £614 31st May £519 This holiday includes the the country’s biggest navigable viaduct. 28th Jun £529 Gold Coach Tour supplement Friday After breakfast we depart at £15 pp per day 6th Sep £549 The Beaufort ParkHotel for home. 96 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ROMANTIC LANDSCAPES & TRAINS OF YORKSHIRE RAILWAY BREAKS 5 DAYS Coach Tour • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included For those who yearn for an era of leisurely pace of times gone by, dramatic, romantic landscapes broken by the familiar sound of a steam train making its way through a backdrop of rolling 5 DAYS countryside, this is a tour not to be missed. FROM Your itinerary Carlisle Railway £509 Thursday We depart and make our way to West Yorkshire and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Friday This morning we begin with a drive to the pleasant North Yorkshire market town of Settle, where we take a break before we enjoy a ride • Brontes Haworth The Cedar Court Hotel Leeds/ on the Settle and Carlisle Railway, considered being one of England’s Bradford has a health club with most scenic rail journeys. Our final outing is to the city of Ripon, with its • Embsay & Bolton magnificent cathedral. Abbey Steam indoor swimming pool, sauna, Saturday Today we head off along the Aire Valley to Skipton – ‘Gateway Railway steam room and fitness suite to the Dales’ where the main street houses the well-known market. Later as well and all bedrooms are en we visit Haworth, home of the famous Bronte sisters and their notorious • Spectacular Settle & suite with TV and tea/coffee brother. We end the day with a steam train ride along the delightful Worth Carlisle Railway Valley, following the locations used in the facilities. The hotel has a lift. film ‘The Railway Children’. Prices & Dates Single room • Historic Ripon Sunday Our journey today begins with a supplement £80 • Skipton Canal visit to Bolton Abbey before we make the 13th May £509 short journey to Bolton Abbey station and a Cruise ride on the steam train to Embsay. We later 22nd Jul £529 visit the quaint village of Grassington. 19th Aug £519 Monday After breakfast we depart 23rd Sep £529 Cedar Court Hotel for home. ROMANTIC JOURNEYS ON THE ISLE OF MAN 5 DAYS Coach Tour • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Speed and tranquility come together on this wonderful holiday on the Isle of Man, famed for its scenery, pace of life and home to the famous TT races. 5 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Bradda Head, Port Erin Monday We depart and make our way to Heysham and the afternoon £549 sailing to the Isle of Man. On arrival we continue to our hotel for 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday Our excursion today takes us on the Manx Electric Railway to Laxey, home of the famous ‘Lady Isabella’ water wheel, and the Laxey • Sea Front Hotel in Accommodation is at a hotel of Woollen Mill. At Laxey we join the Snaefell Mountain Railway for a glorious Douglas the Sleepwell Group. Located scenic ride to the summit. Later we continue to Ramsey. on Douglas promenade the Wednesday A free day in Douglas to relax and explore the town. • Steam Train to Port hotels blend a stylish quality Thursday This morning we make our way to the Isle of Man Steam Railway Erin with a rare unique intimacy, for a ride through the lovely countryside Prices & Dates Single room of the south of the island to Port Erin, with • Castletown and Peel all of which provides a perfect supplement £66 its beautiful bay, overlooked by majestic • Manx Electric holiday base. All bedrooms are Bradda Head. We end the day with a 10th May £629 Railway to Laxey en suite with TV, telephone, visit to Peel, on the west coast, before 14th Jun £629 returning past Tynwald, home of the Manx hairdryer and tea/coffee making 5th Jul £645 • Snaefell Mountain Parliament. Railway facilities. Friday After breakfast we return to the 9th Aug £645 harbour for the crossing to Heysham, then 27th Sep £645 • Ramsey on to the West Country. 18th Oct £549
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 97 RAILWAY BREAKS LITTLE BOATS & TRAINS OF NORFOLK 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach Tour Available • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included The journeys on our NEW holiday feature miniature railway, NEW TOUR preserved main line railway, boat trip and the highlight has to be Sandringham House. 5 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Norfolk Poppy Line Railway £549 Monday We depart and head to Norwich arriving at the Best Western Brook hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday This morning our destination today a visit to Sandringham House and Grounds, the Norfolk retreat of Her Majesty the Queen, here • Wroxham Broads Our base for this fantastic we have free time to explore and obtain lunch, late afternoon returning Cruise weekend is the Brook Hotel to the hotel. Norwich, situated to the west • Bure Valley Railway of the city and all bedrooms are Wednesday Today we travel to the resort of Cromer, on the north coast en suite with TV, telephone, of Norfolk for a break before continuing to Sheringham, where we enjoy • North Norfolk hairdryer and tea/coffee making a steam train ride on the Poppy Line from Sheringham to Holt, a pretty Railway facilities. The hotel has a lift. Georgian market town with lots of little Gold Coach Tour Prices & alleyways to explore. • Sandringham Dates. (See pg 8 for service Thursday We begin at Aylsham where we details). No single room • Cromer & join the Bure Valley Railway for the 9 miles supplement Sheringham ride to Wroxham before we join the boat 24th May £624 for a cruise around the Broads, travelling 13th Sep £634 through some of the delightful Broads Prices & Dates Single room This holiday includes the villages, such as Woodbastwick, with its supplement £66 diminutive green and thatched cottages. Gold Coach Tour supplement Brook Hotel at £15 pp per day 18th Oct £549 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. SAILING & STEAMING IN THE ENGLISH RIVIERA 5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included We are delighted to introduce this exciting NEW tour and from our base in Torquay we visit Plymouth with a cruise on NEW TOUR the River Tamar, enjoy a steam train ride to Dartmouth and visit the fascinating House of Marbles. 5 DAYS FROM Your itinerary River Dart, Kingswear £619 Monday We depart and make our way to Torquay and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday Our day begins with a drive to Plymouth where we sail from the historic Barbican and enjoy a cruise on the River Tamar, viewing the • Paignton/Dartmouth The Best Western Livermead warships and dockyards. Later we head north to Okehampton and make Railway Cliff Hotel is situated on our way across Dartmoor to Bovey Tracey and back to Torquay. Torquay’s water’s edge • Ferry to Dartmouth Wednesday Today begins with a drive to Bovey Tracey and the House offering stunning sea views. of Marbles. This is a working glass and games factory making an unusual • River Dart & Estuary All bedrooms are en with TV, range of traditional games, puzzles, toys, marbles and glassware. From Cruise hairdryer, telephone and tea/ here we make our way to the coast visiting Teignmouth and delightful • Maritime Plymouth coffee making facilities. The hotel has a lift. Dawlish. with Tamar Cruise Thursday We join the Paignton and Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for • House of Marbles, Dartmouth Railway for a steam train ride Bovey Tracey to Kingswear, with spectacular views out service details). Single room supplement £44 to sea and over the River Dart. Here we Prices & Dates Single room join the ferry to Dartmouth before taking a 11th Oct £674 supplement £44 This holiday includes the circular hour-long cruise along the river and 19th Jul £619 estuary. Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 13th Sep £619 Livermead Cliff Hotel Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 98 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM CHANNEL ISLANDS GUERNSEY OR JERSEY BY AIR OR SEA Flight price correct at time of brochure publication. Supplement may be payable • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast and will be confirmed at time 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included of booking.
This Guernsey or Jersey tour will be We will collect you from your home and take you to either your By Air includes: booked with Destinations Ltd (trading local airport for your flight to Jersey or if you prefer to travel by sea, • 15kg luggage as Destination Specialists) who is fully experience the Wavepiercer catamaran journey from Poole to St Helier. bonded with the CAA ATOL 9503. When • Return flights from Bristol or we have accepted the booking, we shall On arrival you will be met and taken to your chosen hotel to enjoy 6 Exeter Airport issue an ATOL receipt, which confirms nights on the island. A Bakers Dolphin representative will greet you and • Return transport from your home that money for the air/cruise holiday another will be available during your stay to assist with arranging coach is held by us on behalf of Destinations to airport Ltd. A contract will exist between you excursions or car hire. By Sea includes: and Destinations Ltd once they issue • Hotel transfers in Guernsey and Jersey an ATOL confirmation invoice, which • Return transport from your home to will be forwarded to you as soon as it is • Full day Coach Tour Poole and back issued. Porterage is not included with • Services of a Local representative • Condor Wavepiercer return crossings these tours. GUERNSEY JERSEY
Where the culture of Britain and France come together An island holiday to remember where Britain and France on this fantastic island holiday. Famed for its pace of life, come together through their culture and we have the beautiful beaches and scenery and a visit to the smaller opportunity to see and hear the role the island played in island of Herm. the 2nd World War.
7 DAYS 7 DAYS FROM FROM Guernsey £699 Jersey £689 Your Hotel Your Hotel Your Hotel Your Hotel
The Pandora Hotel is The La Trelade Hotel, The Norfolk Lodge is a fine Close to shops, bars, conveniently situated in an Guernsey is located ideally hotel on the outskirts of town. restaurants and the beach of elevated position within for country lanes, cliff walks The main feature of this hotel St Helier, the Mayfair Hotel a ten minute stroll to the and visiting the idyllic south is the superb indoor swimming has the perfect location harbour but can be difficult coast bays of Guernsey. The complex and the excellent for your holiday. There is a on return as it is quite a steep hotel has an indoor pool, evening entertainment. It is wide range of facilities and hill so not suitable for people sauna and steam room. All on a steep hill so not suitable entertainment, inducing with walking difficulties. All bedrooms are en suite with for people with walking health club and games room. bedrooms are en suite with TV, telephone, hairdryer and difficulties. All rooms are All bedrooms are en suite colour TV, hairdryer, direct tea/coffee making facilities. en suite with TV, tea/coffee with TV and tea/coffee dial telephone and tea/coffee The hotel has a lift. making facilities. making facilities. The hotel making facilities. The hotel A lift to most floors. has a lift. does not have a lift. Single room supplement Single room supplement Single room supplement available on request. available on request. available on request.
Prices & Dates Single rooms Prices & Dates Single rooms Prices & Dates Single rooms Prices & Dates Single rooms avaiable on request avaiable on request avaiable on request avaiable on request AIR SEA AIR SEA AIR SEA AIR SEA 1st May £849 £699 1st May £879 £749 1st May £809 £689 1st May £839 £699 15th May £849 £699 15th May £879 £749 15th May £849 £719 15th May £849 £729 13th Jun £849 £699 13th Jun £879 £749 13th Jun £859 £739 13th Jun £879 £749 3rd Jul £869 £729 3rd Jul £899 £759 3rd Jul £859 £739 3rd Jul £879 £749 31st Jul £869 £729 31st Jul £899 £759 31st Jul £899 £789 31st Jul £899 £769 14th Aug £869 £729 14th Aug £899 £759 14th Aug £899 £789 14th Aug £899 £769 28th Aug £869 £699 28th Aug £879 £749 28th Aug £859 £739 28th Aug £819 £749 11th Sep £849 £699 11th Sep £879 £749 11th Sep £859 £739 11th Sep £839 £719 Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 99 SCOTLAND ROMANTIC JOURNEYS OF SCOTLAND
• 7 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 8 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
GOLD Coach Tour Available
8 DAYS FROM Lochalsh £875 This tour offers the opportunity of seeing Scotland at its best and also includes the railway which is described as “one of the Great Railway Journeys of the World”. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Aviemore Saturday We depart from your home area in Fort William, Glenfinnan and Mallaig – This • Cairngorms & Strathspey the morning and travel to our overnight with excursion takes us south west along the shore dinner, bed and breakfast. of Loch Laggan and through Glen Spean to Fort Railway Sunday We continue north through the William. Here we have another train journey, • Loch Ness cruise this time on the celebrated West Highland Lowland Hills past Glasgow to Stirling, Perth • Fort William and Pitlochry, arriving late afternoon at Line to Mallaig. This spectacular line passes Highlander Hotel, Newtonmore for the next 5 hidden lochs and inlets, silver sands, and nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. crosses the magnificent Glenfinnan viaduct on its way west. Mallaig is a major fishing Monday to Thursday port and we have time to wander around the Your Hotels During your stay in Newtonmore the harbour and explore before we catch the train following excursions are included: for the return journey to Fort William and rejoin Aviemore, Cairngorms & Strathspey Railway the coach for the ride back to Newtonmore. • Overnight accommodation on the tour outward and return journeys will be in We make for Aviemore where we take a break Loch Ness Cruise – Loch Ness is our destination before heading into the beautiful Glenmore today. We travel through unspoilt scenery Northern England. Your room will be en Forest Park on our way to Cairngorm. Here past Loch Mhor and along Stratherrick to Fort suite with TV and hospitality tray and your we have the opportunity, weather permitting, Augustus. Whilst here we have time to obtain stay will include dinner, bed to take a ride on the fantastic Cairngorm lunch and we enjoy a cruise, with commentary, and breakfast. Mountain Railway, taking us to the top in on Loch Ness on board ‘The Royal Scot’. just 8 minutes. We can have lunch in the Later we leave Fort Augustus and head north • The main stay is in the picturesque Highland Panoramic Restaurant and admire the superb overlooking the loch towards Inverness before village of Newtonmore at the Highlander views. Alternatively, lunch break would be heading back to Newtonmore. Hotel. A delightful hotel where the in Aviemore. This afternoon we ride on the Friday We leave Newtonmore and the Strathspey Railway from Aviemore to Boat of restaurant, bar and lounge are warm and Highlands to retrace our steps south towards Garten and Broomhill. welcoming. All bedrooms are en suite, and Northern England for our overnight stop with Kyle of Lochalsh – We travel north into the dinner, bed and breakfast. have TV, hairdryer and hospitality tray. The Highland capital, Inverness. Here we join the hotel does not have a lift. Saturday After breakfast we leave and Scotrail train for one of the Great Railway continue our journey home. Journeys of the World – the line to Kyle of Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates Lochalsh. The route takes us through some of (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £116 the best scenery in the country, skirting lochs Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £116 and passing remote villages. After a break in 19th Jun £1029 Kyle of Lochalsh we enjoy the return ride, this 22nd May £875 14th Aug £1029 time by road, back to the hotel. 17th Jul £909 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour 18th Sep £909 supplement at £15 pp per day
100 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ORKNEY ISLANDS & CASTLE OF MEY SCOTLAND
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
GOLD Coach Tour Available
7 DAYS FROM Coast lines, Orkney £919 An exciting tour taking in Scotland’s Far North and the fascinating and historic Orkney Islands which combines to make this a memorable holiday. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Guided tour of Orkney Saturday We depart and make our way north Wednesday Leaving Castletown we retrace • Ferry Crossing from to Scotland and our overnight hotel with our steps south past Inverness, Aviemore, the Scrabster dinner, bed and breakfast. Cairngorm Mountains and into Perthshire and Sunday Today we travel through spectacular the ‘Fair City’ of Perth for the next 2 nights at • John O’Groats scenery as we head for Scotland’s Far North the Mercure Hotel with dinner, bed • Castle of Mey and The Norseman Hotel for the next 3 nights and breakfast. with dinner, bed and breakfast. Thursday A free day for you to explore Perth • The ‘Fair City’ of Perth Monday The highlight of the holiday as we on the banks of the River Tay. take the ferry from Scrabster to Stromness, Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Orkney, where we meet our local guide for a tour visiting the World Heritage Sites of Skara Your Hotels Brae, Stones of Stenness and Ring of Brodgar, Skaill House and Scapa Flow, followed by free time at leisure in Kirkwall with the opportunity • The Norseman Hotel is located to view St Magnus cathedral. We return on the overlooking the River Wick in the small late afternoon ferry to Scrabster. picturesque Viking town of Wick, close to Tuesday Today we head to the Castle and Thurso and the ferry to the Orkney Islands. Gardens of Mey, once the much adored home of the late Queen Mother, who saved it from All bedrooms are en suite and have TV ruin in 1952. With glorious views across the and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel Pentland Firth towards Orkney, the castle is Castle Mey does not have a lift. kept as it was when the Queen Mother was in residence. We complete the day by visiting the • Situated in the city centre of Perth, the world famous landmark John O’ Groats. Mercure Hotel is an ideal location and contrast for the second part of the holiday, giving you the opportunity to explore the ‘Fair City’. All bedrooms are en suite Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making (See pg 8 for service details). Single room facilities. The hotel has a lift. supplement £132 The Mercure Hotel, Perth 15th May £994 Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £132 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 11th Sep £919
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 101 w SCOTLAND FORT WILLIAM & THE ISLE OF MULL 7 DAYS Coach Tour • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Discover the awesome beauty of the Western Highlands bursting with delightful scenery – huge expanses of moorland, fathomless lochs, and high rocky mountains towering above wild glens. 7 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Steam train passing through Fort William Day 1 We depart the West Country for our overnight at the Ramada East £859 Kilbride. Day 2 We continue on our way through southern Scotland to arrive in Fort Holiday Highlights Your Hotel William for the next 4 nights stay with dinner, bed & breakfast. Day 3 to 5 Included during your holiday: • One way journey The Imperial Hotel sits in the heart of Fort William and boasts • Free morning to explore Fort William. on the Jacobite fine views over the lochs and • We take a single journey on the Jacobite Steam Railway deep into the Steam Train from surrounding hills. All bedrooms Highlands to the picturesque fishing port of Mallaig. Fort William to are en suite with flat screen TV, • Board the Calmac ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Isle of Mull, Mallaig hairdryer and tea/coffee making renowned for it’s wildlife. • Return crossing to facilities. The hotel does not • Enjoy a visit to Duart Castle (entrance not included) once home to the have a lift. chief of the Clan MacLean. the Isle of Mull with • Spend time in the picturesque village of Tobermory. Calmac Ferries • Visit to the pretty town of Fort Augustus that lies on the Caledonian Canal. • Visit to Inverness, capital of the Highlands. Prices & Dates Single room supplement £110 Day Six Leaving the hotel, we drive south to our final overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. 15th May £859 Day Seven After breakfast we depart for home. 27th Sep £869 Imperial Hotel OBAN, MULL & SACRED IONA
7 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included A lovely holiday based in the coastal town of Oban in the West Highlands and the main ferry point to many of the Hebridean Isles. On this tour you will experience many aspects of Highland life. 7 DAYS Your itinerary Oban £844 Sunday We depart and make our way to the Scottish borders and our overnight hotel with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your New Hotel Monday Travelling into the glorious Highland countryside before reaching our waterfront hotel in Oban for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed • Oban and breakfast. Ideally located in the centre Tuesday to Thursday included during your holiday: • Magical Mull of the esplanade in Oban, The • Enjoy a morning free to explore Oban • Isle of Iona Great Western Hotel offers magnificent views of the bay, • Half day tour to Seil Island made famous by the film “Ring of • Seil Island the Brightwater.” free Wi-Fi in public areas and all location for “Ring • Visit to Mull on the ferry bedrooms are en suite with TV of Brightwater” • Visit the most westerly point of the island, Fionnphort for the short ferry and tea/coffee making facilities. journey on foot to the small island of Iona with time to enjoy the island Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. The hotel has a lift. before heading back for the ferry to Oban. (See pg 8 for service details). • Scenic coastal drive along the shoreline of the loch takes to Fort William Single room supplement £110 at the foot of Ben Nevis with free time to explore the main town. 30th May £844 Friday We depart and journey back to our overnight with dinner, bed This holiday includes the Gold and breakfast. Coach Tour supplement at £15 Saturday After breakfast we depart and head for home. pp per day
102 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM w RAIL & SAIL IN THE WESTERN HIGHLANDS SCOTLAND
6 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 5 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included Join us on a lovely NEW holiday, from our base in Drymen, at NEW TOUR the award-winning Winnock Hotel we will take to the water and enjoy cruises on Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine as well as 6 DAYS scenic train journeys and a ride on the unique Falkirk Wheel, FROM the world’s first rotating boat lift. Loch Lomond £809 Your itinerary Your Hotel Monday We depart and make our way North to arrive at the Winnock This charming old family Hotel for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. run Winnock Hotel takes Tuesday to Friday included during your holiday: centre stage on the green in • Scenic tour of the Trossachs the conservation village of • Steam ship cruise on Loch Katrine Winnock Hotel Drymen. Sensitively extended • Ride on the Falkirk Wheel and refurbished it retains its traditional bars and log fires • Journey on the Bo’ness & Kinneil Steam Railway with Afternoon Tea Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. • Scenic train journey from Glasgow to Oban (See pg 8 for service details). and offers a warm and friendly atmosphere. All bedrooms • Free time to explore Oban Single room supplement £50 are en suite with satellite TV, • Scenic Loch Lomond drive 28th Jun £849 telephone and tea/coffee • Discover the shops at Loch Lomond Shores 11th Oct £809 making facilities. Please note • Scenic cruise on tranquil Loch Lomond This holiday includes the Gold there is no lift but ground floor Saturday After breakfast we depart for home Coach Tour supplement at £15 rooms are available. pp per day DUNOON & THE COWAL PENINSULA
5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach Tour Available • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Discover three gardens on our lovely holiday with each of them a spectacle of colour and contrasts. 5 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Dunoon £389 Monday We head north and over the border into Scotland and on to the Firth Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Your Hotel of Clyde. From here it is just a short ferry ride across to Dunoon and our hotel. The family owned and run The Selborne Hotel Dunoon is • Free time to enjoy Esplanade Hotel is situated on the Tuesday Spend the morning exploring situated looking south across Dunoon West Bay promenade in Dunoon this lovely resort before joining us in the the Clyde. All bedrooms are en with excellent views out to sea afternoon for a scenic drive along the • Visit to Holy Loch suite with TV, hair dryer and tea/ and towards the surrounding hills. coffee making facilities. The lift shores of Holy Loch to Ardentinny and All bedrooms are en suite with TV and Ardentinny serves most rooms. Benmore. and tea/coffee making facilities. Wednesday Today we head for Loch • Cruise on Loch The hotel has a lift. Lomond where you will be able to see the Lomond Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See Visitor Centre and enjoy a boat trip. The pg 8 for service details). Single room return journey takes in more dramatic • Visit to Rothesay supplement £44 scenery including the famous ‘Rest and Be 5th Jul £594 Thankful’ Pass. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Selborne Hotel Dunoon Thursday We head for the isles today. Enjoy some more wonderful views Tour supplement at £15 pp per day as we drive via Tignabruaich to the Kyles of Bute. We then cross the waters Prices & Dates Single room Prices & Dates Single room to the Isle of Bute itself and spend some time in the principal town of supplement £44 supplement £44 Rothesay. 17th May £479 9th Aug £459 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 20th Sep £529 11th Oct £389 Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 103 SCOTLAND EDINBURGH MILITARY TATTOO
• 3 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast , 1 night with bed & 5 DAYS Coach Tour breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
5 DAYS Royal Military Tattoo £644 The colour, pomp and pageantry of the Military Tattoo is always the highlight of Edinburgh’s world famous Festival season. You too can enjoy the skirl of the Holiday Highlights pipes and the magnificent military displays in the grounds of Edinburgh Castle. • 4 nights with bed and Your itinerary breakfast • Evening meal on 3 PLEASE NOTE: This tour is not suitable for evenings people with walking difficulties. Monday We depart and make our way north • Seats for the Edinburgh to arrive at our hotel for the next 3 nights with Military Tattoo dinner, bed and breakfast and 1 night with bed and breakfast. • Free time to explore Tuesday Today you will have time to explore Dundee Scotland’s hottest (or at least sunniest!) city, • Visit to Perth Dundee, a dynamic and compact city that’s becoming a modern wonder with its new V&A Museum (free entry). Perth Your Hotel Wednesday Late morning we travel to Edinburgh and will enjoy a tour of this beautiful city to see its historical sights. Some free time Set in its own wooded grounds, with for exploring the Royal Mile or shopping on public rooms overlooking the River Tay, Princes Street. This evening we attend the the Best Western Invercarse Hotel spectacular Royal Military Tattoo – a musical extravaganza featuring massed pipes and Dundee, is an ideal location for our drums, Highland dancers and the Lone Piper. A holiday. All bedrooms are en suite with TV very late return to the hotel. and tea/coffee making facilities. The hotel Thursday A leisurely morning is followed by Dundee has a lift. a visit to Scotland’s ancient capital for five centuries, the ‘Fair City’ of Perth. Bustling, Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates compact and beautifully situated on the banks (See pg 8 for service details). Single room of the River Tay in the east of Scotland, this supplement £110 city is a sparkling cosmopolitan gem that will remain in the memory for ever. 9th Aug £644 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. 16th Aug £644 23rd Aug £644 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Princes Street
104 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM HIGHLAND LINES & NORTHERN LANDSCAPES SCOTLAND
• 7 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 8 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
GOLD Coach Tour Available
8 DAYS FROM Pitlochry £1029 The Highland lines – four train rides showing some of the best scenery that Scotland has to offer, two of which feature steam trains on this holiday. A visit Holiday Highlights to the Cairngorms gives us the chance to ride the fastest mountain railway in the country. What an experience. • The Kyle Line – Inverness to Kyle of Lochalsh Your itinerary • Strathspey Railway, Saturday We depart and make our way to train to Inverness. The line takes us through Aviemore Carlisle, arriving late afternoon at our overnight spectacular scenery over the Highland Capital • Scotrail – Fort William to hotel with dinner, bed and breakfast. Inverness. You will have around three hours Mallaig Sunday We continue north through the to explore the city and obtain lunch before Lowland Hills past Glasgow to Stirling, Perth catching the return train to Kingussie. • Scotrail – Kingussie to and Pitlochry, arriving late afternoon at the Friday We leave the Highlands and retrace our Inverness Duke of Gordon Hotel, Kingussie for the next 5 steps south towards Perth, before heading • Cairngorm Mountains nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. across the Forth Bridge, with superb views Monday to Thursday - Included during your of the iconic Forth Rail Bridge, and skirting holiday: Edinburgh on our way towards Northern Your Hotels England for our overnight stop with dinner, bed Aviemore, Cairngorms & Strathspey Railway and breakfast. We make our way to Aviemore where we take • Overnight accommodation on the tour a break before heading into the beautiful Saturday After breakfast we depart for home. both outward and return journeys will be in Glenmore Forest Park on our way to Cairngorm. Here we have the opportunity, weather Northern England. Your bedroom will be en permitting, to take a ride on the fantastic suite with TV and hospitality tray and your Cairngorm Mountain Railway, taking us to the stay will include dinner, bed and breakfast. top in just 8 minutes. We can have lunch in the Panoramic Restaurant and admire the superb • Our main tour hotel is the Scottish Tourist views. Alternatively, lunch break would be Board rated Duke of Gordon, situated in in Aviemore. This afternoon we ride on the the Highland village of Kingussie, with Strathspey Railway from Aviemore to Boat of The Forth Bridge views across the picturesque Spey Valley. Garten and Broomhill. The hotel offers all modern-day facilities Prices & Dates. Single room supplement £124 Kyle of Lochalsh We head to Kyle of Lochalsh and home comforts, yet retains the for a morning break before joining the Scotrail 10th Jul £1029 train for one of the Great Railway Journeys character and heritage of an old Scottish of the World - the Kyle line. The route takes Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates coaching inn. Hotel facilities include bar, us through some of the best scenery in the (See pg 8 for service details). Single room pleasant lounge and elegant restaurant. country, skirting lochs and passing remote supplement £124 All bedrooms are en suite and have TV, villages on the way back to Inverness. Here we 28th Aug £1159 telephone and tea/coffee facilities. The rejoin the coach for the ride back to Kingussie. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour hotel has a lift. Inverness by Train A short stroll brings us supplement at £15 pp per day to Kingussie station where we catch the Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 105 SCOTLAND BONNIE SCOTLAND 7 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included Discover the awesome beauty of the Western Highlands bursting with delightful scenery – huge expanses of moorland, fathomless lochs, and high rocky mountains towering above wild glens. 7 DAYS FROM Your itinerary The beauty of Loch Lomond Sunday We depart and make our way to Northern England for an overnight £779 with dinner, bed and breakfast. Monday This morning we continue into Southern Scotland and make our Holiday Highlights Your Hotel way arriving late afternoon at Crianlarich Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. • West Highland Railway The Best Western Crianlarich Tuesday to Thursday included during your holiday: Lines Hotel stands in the village of • We join the Scotrail train at Crianlarich station for the ride to Oban. The • Fort William the same name on the fringe line takes us through the Pass of Brander and alongside Loch Etive. • Loch Leven, Glencoe of the beautiful Breadalbane • Journey along Glen Dochart to Killin, with the Falls of Dochart rushing And Rannoch Moor region of Perthshire. All through the village. bedrooms are en suite with TV • Ben Cruachan • Visit to the Glenturret Distillery, makers of the Famous Grouse, for a tour and tea/coffee making facilities. and a wee dram. – The Hollow The hotel has a lift. Mountain • Discover one of the hidden wonders of the Highlands. A power station buried deep under Ben Cruachan – the hollow mountain. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See Prices & Dates Single room pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £66 • Visit to Fort William. supplement £66 20th Jun £779 • Glencoe Visitor Centre 11th Jul £884 15th Aug £789 Friday Leaving the hotel, we drive south to our overnight with dinner, bed 17th Oct £804 5th Sep £779 and breakfast. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Saturday After breakfast we depart for home. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day THE SCOTTISH BORDER, PEEBLES & EDINBURGH
5 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach Tour Available • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included We are delighted to offer this NEW tour for 2021 taking in some NEW TOUR of the best scenery Scotland has to offer, and a visit to the 5 DAYS Scottish Capital – Edinburgh and magnificent Floors Castle. FROM Your itinerary Oban £479 Monday We depart and make our way to Perthshire arriving late afternoon at the Waverley Castle Hotel for 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Tuesday We take a sightseeing drive around the beautiful Borders Region, taking in Melrose with the opportunity to visit the Abbey. We continue • Delightful Borders Nestled amongst rolling to Floors Castle, home to the Duke of Roxburgh and Scotland’s largest Tour hills and gentle valleys, the Waverley Castle undoubtedly inhabited castle. • Floors Castle Wednesday Today we drive through the beautiful lowland Scottish gives a magnificent welcome scenery to Edinburgh where we spend the day to discover the host of • Traquair House to its guests. Located in the attractions or the shops on Princess Street. • Capital city Scottish Borders of Melrose, the Hotel is perfectly located Thursday After a leisurely breakfast we head for Peebles for a morning of Scotland – free to explore the town before heading to nearby Traquair House, dating to take advantage of the area’s back to 1107 and Scotland’s oldest Edinburgh most popular attractions. All inhabited house. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See Prices & Dates Single room bedrooms are en suite with TV pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £66 Friday After breakfast we depart supplement £66 and tea/coffee making facilities. for home. 19th Apr £479 31st May £594 The hotel has a lift. 5th Jul £549 18th Oct £554 23rd Aug £549 This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 106 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM HEBRIDEAN ODYSSEY SCOTLAND 7 DAYS Coach Tour • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included An absorbing holiday with magical sailings between the Hebridean Islands where you can sample the island lifestyle little changed for generations. 7 DAYS Your itinerary Isle of Skye Day One We depart and make our way north and our overnight hotel with £769 dinner, bed and breakfast. Day Two We depart after breakfast and continue northwards for a stop off Holiday Highlights Your Hotel in Fort William before continuing to our hotel near Skye for our overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Full day tour of On this holiday we use a Day Three A magnificent drive across Skye to catch the morning sailing to Lewis number of good standard North Uist. In the afternoon a scenic coastal tour of Uists passing numerous hotels with all bedrooms en tiny lochs and beaches, before checking into the Dark Island Hotel, • Isle of Skye suite with TV and tea/coffee Benbecula for our overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Inverness making facilities. Day Four Today we head north and our sailing to the largest of the Hebridean Islands – Harris. Later we cross to Lewis and to the capital • Standing Stones Stornoway for the next 2 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. of Callanish Day Five Enjoy a full day tour of Lewis, including the impressive 5,000 year (Scotland’s old standing stones of Callanish (Scotland’s Stonehenge). Stonehenge) Day Six We depart on the morning sailing to Ullapool and head on to Inverness for free time before arriving in the Perthshire area for our final overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. Prices & Dates Single room Day Seven After breakfast we depart for home. supplement £130 19th Apr £769 Old standing stones of Callanish THE NORTH WEST PASSAGE 8 DAYS Coach Tour • 7 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Join us on a road trip of a lifetime with a journey of discovery, skirting the very top of the UK, exploring the West Highlands, Skye and Scotland’s ‘North West Passage’. 8 DAYS Your itinerary Ullapool Sunday We depart and make our way to the Perthshire area for our overnight £909 with dinner, bed and breakfast. Monday We continue our journey north with free time in the Highland capital, Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Inverness, then on to Thurso for 2 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Tuesday We board the boat at John O’Groats for the crossing over the • Entry to Dunvegan On this tour we use a good Pentland Firth to begin a magical guided tour, visiting Scara Brae, Ring of Castle & Gardens standard of hotels with all Brodgar, Standing Stones, Italian Chapel and much more. • Orkney Cruise from bedrooms en suite with TV and Wednesday We head west along the Northern coastline entering the least tea/coffee making facilities. populated area of the UK, reaching Durness with lunch included at the Smoo John O’Groats Cave Hotel. Later we head to Ullapool for our overnight with dinner, bed • North West and breakfast. Highlands Thursday Today we then travel towards Skye before crossing the bridge and on to the romantic Isle of Skye where we stay for the next two nights with • Inverness dinner, bed and breakfast. Friday Today we head to Portree the islands capital and our tour sweeps across the island to historical Dunvegan Castle and its garden. Saturday Saying farewell to the magic of Skye we stop at Eilean Donan Castle Prices & Dates Single room supplement £154 one of Scotland’s most photographed castles before reaching Glasgow area Dunvegan Castle, Skye for our overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. 2nd May £909 Sunday We depart after breakfast and head for home. Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 107 SCOTLAND SCOTLAND HOUSES & GARDENS 7 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included We are delighted to offer this lovely Scottish holiday following the ever-popular theme of Castles and Gardens, as well as visiting an area of Scotland away from the usual tourist destinations. 7 DAYS Your itinerary FROM Sunday We depart and make our way to Scotland arriving late afternoon at Crathes Castle £769 our overnight hotel with dinner, bed & breakfast. Monday We continue northwards into Scotland to arrive at the Best Western Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Summerhill Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Tuesday to Thursday - Included during your holiday • Crathes Castle & The Best Western Summerhill • Castle Fraser where the granite walls rise up to the distinctive turrets Garden, Banchory Hotel is a short distance making an imposing sight. This was the intended impression created when • Fyvie Castle & Garden from the city of Aberdeen the castle was built between 1575 and 1636. and offers modern comforts • Haddo House Garden • Visit the stunning Crathes Castle, near Banchory and traditional service. All • Fyvie Castle – the world-famous haunted castle in the lowlands of • Aberdeen – The bedrooms are en suite with Aberdeenshire. ‘Granite City’ TV, hairdryer and tea/coffee • Haddo House Garden and visit the delightful terrace garden with flower • Duthie Park Gardens, making facilities. The hotel beds, lovely borders and fountain. Aberdeen has a lift. • A free day to explore Aberdeen – the Duthie Park Gardens are well worth a visit and admission is free. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room Prices & Dates Single room Friday After breakfast we head for the Borders region for our overnight supplement £66 supplement £66 hotel with dinner, bed & breakfast. 17th Oct £874 16th May £769 Saturday After breakfast we depart for home. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 12th Sep £779 INVERNESS, ULLAPOOL & THE SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS
7 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour Available • Home Pick-Up Included Join us on a lovely holiday taking in Scotland’s Highland Capital Inverness, plus visits to Loch Ness, Ullapool, Loch Lomond and beautiful Fort William. 7 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Lock Ness Sunday We depart and make our way north and our overnight hotel with £929 dinner, bed & breakfast. Monday Leaving the hotel, we continue north to Inverness and our hotel for Holiday Highlights Your Hotel the next 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Tuesday Today we are heading for Scotland’s northwest as our route takes us • Scotland’s Highland The Best Western Inverness to Garve, past Corrieshalloch Gorge to picturesque Loch Broom and Ullapool. Capital Palace Hotel & Spa is just a Wednesday Enjoy a day at leisure to • Loch Ness & Fort few short steps from Inverness Augustus explore Inverness. city centre and dates back to Thursday Loch Ness is our destination • Ullapool & Loch Broom the 1890’s. Facilities include a today as we follow the loch to • Loch Lomond & Invermoriston and Fort Augustus where superb Leisure Club & Spa with Rannoch Moor the Caledonian Canal links Loch Oich and indoor swimming pool and all Corrieshalloch Gorge Loch Ness. This afternoon we head back • Glencoe & Fort William bedrooms are en suite with TV to Drumnadrochit. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See and tea/coffee making facilities. Friday This morning we depart and head pg 8 for service details). Single room Prices & Dates Single room supplement £330 The hotel has a lift. into Northern England for our overnight supplement £66 2nd May £964 hotel with dinner, bed & breakfast. 20th Jun £929 Saturday After breakfast we depart This holiday includes the Gold Coach 5th Sep £939 for home. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
108 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ISLE OF ARRAN, LOCH LOMOND & AYRSHIRE COAST SCOTLAND
6 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach Tour Available • 5 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A lovely holiday taking in the beautiful Isle of Arran, Culzean Castle, the city of Glasgow and a cruise on stunning 6 DAYS Loch Lomond. FROM Loch Lomond Your itinerary £629 Sunday We depart and make our way to Scotland and our hotel for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Your Hotel Monday This morning we make the short journey to Ardrossan where The Riverside Lodge Hotel we board the morning sailing for the Isle of Arran where we have a short sightseeing tour of the island before we catch the return afternoon sailing is located on the outskirts of back to Ardrossan. Irvine, near the Ayrshire coast Tuesday A complete contrast today as we head into Glasgow and visit the and overlooks the golf course. superb newly opened Riverside Glasgow Transport Museum and afterwards Riverside Lodge Hotel All bedrooms are en suite with you have free time in Glasgow. TV, telephone, hairdryer and Wednesday Our day begins with a drive south along the Ayrshire coast Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. through Troon to Ayr, a popular holiday resort where you have time here to (See pg 8 for service details). tea/coffee making facilities. Single room supplement £110 explore the town before we visit the spectacular Culzean Castle and Country The hotel does not have a lift. Park. 18th Jul £759 Thursday Leaving the hotel we head across the Erskine Bridge and along the 1st Aug £759 north bank of the river Clyde to Helensburgh for a short break. From here 3rd Oct £719 we continue along the banks of Loch Lomond to Balloch where we have a This holiday includes the Gold Prices & Dates Single room wonderful cruise on Loch Lomond. Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp supplement £110 Friday After breakfast we depart for home. per day 20th Jun £629 ANGUS SECRET COASTLINE & GLAMIS CASTLE
5 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included A lovely holiday delving into Scotland’s past taking in some fascinating places including the 13th century Glamis Castle, the wonderful Victoria & Albert Museum and a visit to see 5 DAYS the ‘finest regiment in the world’. Glamis Castle £634 Your itinerary Your Hotel Monday We depart and make our way to Scotland and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. The Park Hotel Montrose is Tuesday Our first visit today is to nearby Brechin, with its ancient cathedral well located near the centre and 11th century tower. Later we visit the resort of Arbroath with its and within easy walk of the picturesque working harbour and home to the world famous Arbroath Smokie. Park Hotel Montrose lovely beach. All bedrooms are Wednesday Today we visit the ‘Granite’ city of Aberdeen, boasting en suite with TV, telephone and beautiful architecture and cultural gems. Free time to explore before we Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. tea/coffee making facilities. visit the Gordon Highlanders Museum telling the extraordinary 200 year old (See pg 8 for service details). No The hotel does not have a story of the ‘Finest Regiment in the World’. single room supplement lift but ground floor rooms Thursday We visit Glamis Castle the legendary setting for Shakespeare’s 10th May £634 Macbeth and enjoy the history, myths and legends dating back to 1372. 14th Jun £634 are available on request and This afternoon we journey to Dundee and the fabulous Victoria & Albert 13th Sept £634 subject to availability. Museum, the only one in the world outside London. This holiday includes the Gold Friday After breakfast we depart for home. Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 109 IRELAND GRAND TOUR OF IRELAND
• 11 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 12 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
12 DAYS FROM Donegal £1139 This extensive tour of Ireland covers much of its beautiful countryside as well as many historic sites and the welcome you will receive will remain long in Holiday Highlights your memory. • Fabulous sightseeing on Your itinerary the North,West and South Monday We depart for the north of England Dingle Peninsula, where the rugged coastline and cross over the border into Scotland for and wide sandy beaches were the natural coasts our overnight in Dumfries with dinner, bed and setting for the film Ryan’s daughter. • Visit to Belleek China breakfast. Tuesday A free day to enjoy Killarney perhaps Tuesday Continuing to the west coast of taking a stroll to the lakes. Factory. Step into the Galloway we take the short ferry crossing Wednesday No tour of Ireland would be world of Belleek Pottery from Cairnryan to Larne. Our first stop in complete without a scenic drive around the where you enter one of Ireland is the Giants Causeway. This volcanic Ring of Kerry with its majestic coastal and outcrop of perfectly formed ‘stepping stones’ mountain views. Northern Ireland’s oldest is surrounded by Gaelic legend. We continue to and most fascinating Donegal where we spend the next four nights Thursday We make our way to Blarney, just with dinner, bed and breakfast. outside Cork, with its famous castle and attractions Blarney Stone. We then travel to Wexford Wednesday A day of breathtaking scenery as for our overnight stay with dinner, bed and • Giant’s Causeway - For we travel around Donegal Bay to the fishing breakfast. port of Killybegs for a short stop. We then carry centuries the Giant’s on to Gleann Cholm Cille for a break before Friday An early start for Rosslare where Causeway has inspired continuing to Adara in the wide valley of the we catch the morning ferry and journey Owentocher River. The ancient skills of hand homeward. artists, stirred scientific embroidery and homespun tweed are still alive. debate and captured the Thursday Enjoy a free day to explore Donegal. imagination of all who Friday A free morning to relax in Donegal. see it. In the afternoon we have a short tour to the resort of Bundoran and a visit to the Beleek China Factory. Your Hotel Saturday Today we make our way south to County Sligo and Knock – Irelands Marian shrine. We journey to Lisdoonvarna for an Giant’s Causeway As this is a touring holiday, we use a overnight stay with dinner, bed and breakfast number of hotels along the route. Many of Sunday We depart after breakfast and make Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates them feature in other Irish tours and are (See pg 8 for service details). Single room our way to visit the stunning Cliffs of Moher described elsewhere in this section. All are before we cross the Shannon Estuary by ferry supplement £285 of a high standard and provide bedrooms into Kerry and on to Tralee where we spend the 10th May £1139 next four nights with dinner, bed and breakfast with en suite facilities and include dinner, at The Rose Hotel. 2nd Aug £1209 bed and breakfast. Monday Today we travel to Tralee, home of This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour the Rose Festival. We then continue on to the supplement at £15 pp per day
110 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM KILLARNEY & RING OF KERRY IRELAND
• 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast 7 DAYS Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included
This is a GOLD Coach Tour
7 DAYS FROM Blarney Castle £794 Legend, beautiful countryside and fresh air together with interesting and informative visits will ensure this is a holiday to really enjoy. Holiday Highlights
Your itinerary • Free time in Killarney Saturday We drive through South Wales to Friday An early start from Waterford as we • Excursion around the Fishguard to catch the ferry to Rosslare. From travel to Rosslare for the return sailing back to Ring of Kerry here we travel to the Waterford area and Pembroke, arriving home early evening. our hotel where we enjoy our overnight with • Visit to Dunbrody dinner, bed and breakfast. Emigrant Experience Sunday After breakfast you have the • The Blarney Stone opportunity of visiting the Waterford Glass Factory before we make our way via Lee Valley • Tralee; Home of the Rose to Blarney with the chance to visit the Castle Festival and kiss the Blarney Stone. We then continue on to Killarney where we enjoy the next four nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Your Hotel Monday Enjoy a day at leisure or join us as we Ring of Kerry travel to Tralee, home of the Rose Festival with an opportunity to visit the folk museum. We The Eviston House hotel occupies an continue on to the Dingle Peninsula, where the excellent position in the very heart of rugged coastline and wide sandy beaches were Killarney. All bedrooms are en suite, the natural setting for the film Ryan’s Daughter. and the hotel enjoys a well deserved Tuesday A day to take it easy and explore the delights of Killarney town. reputation for a high standard of cuisine. Wednesday Today our leisurely excursion takes The hotel has a lift. us around the famous Ring of Kerry, one of the most famous coastal drives in the world. The breathtaking mountain and coastal scenery Killarney changes around each bend in the road and there will be plenty of opportunity along the Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates way for photographs, sightseeing and of course to sample the local hospitality. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £210 Thursday Farewell to Killarney as we make our way back to Wexford calling en route to the 15th May £794 Dunbrody Emigrant Experience, centred on an 19th Jun £834 authentic reproduction of an 1840’s emigrant vessel, it provides a world class interpretation 10th Jul £834 of the emigrant famine experience. We then continue to our final night with dinner, bed and 11th Sept £844 breakfast. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour Eviston House Hotel supplement at £15 pp per day
Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 111 IRELAND BELFAST TITANIC 5 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included Join us for an unforgettable break to one of Europe’s most vibrant cities. Included is a guided tour of Belfast and a visit to the extraordinary Titanic Belfast Experience - a tribute to 5 DAYS the city’s glorious industrial past and a commemoration of FROM the ill-fated liner. Titanic Experience £674 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Monday We depart and make our way to North Wales and our ferry crossing to Dublin. We continue our journey to arrive at Ballymascanlon House for the next four nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. • Titanic Experience Set in acres of beautiful parkland, Ballymascanlon Tuesday to Thursday you will enjoy the following: Tour House Hotel Dundalk is an • Morning guided tour of Belfast, taking in City Hall and Titanic Quarter. • Guided Tour of impressive Victorian House • Visit to Titanic Belfast Experience, set on the site where Titanic was Belfast built over 100 years ago. Enjoy audio-visual presentations, life-size providing genuine hospitality reconstructions and interactive features - as well as a ‘Shipyard Ride’ - will • Antrim Coast in a luxurious setting. All bring to life the dramatic story of the ill-fated ship, from its conception to • Giants Causeway bedrooms are en suite with its rediscovery. TV and tea/coffee making • The scenic Antrim Coast Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See facilities. Guests can enjoy a • Visit to the extraordinary Giants pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £90 game in the golf course that Causeway. 7th Jun £694 surrounds the hotel or relax in Friday We return to the port and 6th Sep £694 the Jacuzzi or sauna or enjoy our ferry back to North Wales. We a swim in the pool. The hotel then make our way back to the West Belfast 4th Oct £674 Country for an evening arrival. This holiday includes the Gold Coach has a lift. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day IRISH ADVENTURE
This is a 7 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included The Giants Causeway, legends, spectacular views and the opportunity to see life in Ireland over the past 300 years makes this a very interesting holiday. 7 DAYS Your itinerary Giant’s Causeway £764 Saturday We make our way to Pembroke where we board the ferry and cross the Irish Sea. On arrival in Ireland we continue to overnight hotel in Waterford/ Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Wexford with dinner, bed and breakfast. Sunday We depart after breakfast and make our way for a visit to Kilkenny • Time to explore The Dorrians Imperial before arriving in Ballyshannon and our hotel for the next four nights with Ballyshannon and Hotel in Ballyshannon is dinner, bed and breakfast. Sligo probably Ireland’s oldest Monday Today enjoy a day at leisure with time to relax in this friendly little purpose built hotel. Family town. • Lovely Donegal run and totally refurbished Tuesday We depart for a spectacular tour to the Giants Causewa where you Scenery will visit the Causeway visitors centre to investigate the magical legends of • Visit to Giants to provide spacious modern Finn MacCoul. Causeway accommodation, it still retains Wednesday Today we make a tour of the stunning Donegal Bay travelling first its period style. All bedrooms to Rossnowlagh, the ‘Heavenly Cove’ before taking the coastal route to the Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See are en suite with TV and tea/ port of Killybegs, a major centre for the Irish fishing industry. Climbing into the pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £145 coffee making facilities. The Donegal Highlands we drive through the spectacular 900ft Glengash Pass to hotel has a lift. Ardara, a tweed and hand knitting centre. 27th Jun £764 Thursday We bid farewell to Ballyshannon and travel back to Waterford/ 29th Aug £764 Wexford for our overnight with dinner bed and breakfast. 24th Oct £764Ballymascanlon House Hotel Friday After an early breakfast we depart for the port where we board the This holiday includes the Gold Coach ferry back to Fishguard and our journey home. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 112 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ANTRIM COAST & THE GREAT TRAIN JOURNEY IRELAND 5 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast Tour • Home Pick-Up Included Explore the breath-taking Northern Ireland coastline on our lovely holiday based in Coleraine, where we see stunning scenery, a spectacular train journey and together with the fascinating city of Derry. 5 DAYS Glenarm Castle £664 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Monday We depart and make our way to North Wales and our ferry crossing to Dublin where we continue to Coleraine and our hotel for the next four nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. • Giant’s Causeway The family run Lodge Hotel is located on the edge of Tuesday Today we enjoy a train journey described by Michael Palin as • The most beautiful Coleraine offering a personal being ‘one of the most beautiful train journeys in the world’. The track train journey in runs alongside the sands of one of the most unspoilt beaches in Ireland. On touch and an excellent base arrival in Derry we enjoy a 2 hour walking tour before time at leisure in the the world for our holiday. All bedrooms historic city. • Old Bushmills are en suite with TV, telephone and tea/coffee making Wednesday We will experience more stunning scenery today during our Distillery drive along the Antrim Coast to the Old Bushmills Distillery where we enjoy facilities. The hotel has a lift. a guided tour and tasting before we visit the Giants Causeway and its award PLEASE NOTE: The majority winning Visitor Centre. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See of bedrooms are located Thursday This morning we visit Glenarm Castle where we can explore the pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £80 separately from the main beautiful walled garden in its incomparable setting by the sea before we building but there is covered return to the hotel driving along the spectacular Antrim Coast. 3rd May £664 access. Friday We return to the port and our ferry back to North Wales then This holiday includes the Gold Coach onwards to the West Country. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day WICKLOW MOUNTAINS AND GARDENS 5 DAYS Coach Tour This is a • 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast GOLD Coach Tour • Home Pick-Up Included Our ‘fragrant’ holiday to the ‘Garden County’ of County Wicklow includes the gardens of Powerscourt and Mount Usher, the spectacular valley of Glendalough and a visit to Irelands Capital City Dublin. 5 DAYS
Your itinerary Powerscourt House and Gardens £664 Monday We depart for North Wales and our ferry to Dublin Bay where we then continue to Enniskerry and our hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, Holiday Highlights Your Hotel bed & breakfast. Tuesday Today we set off for a scenic drive through Wicklow Mountains • Wicklow The Summerhill House National Park, one of Ireland’s most untouched regions before heading Mountains Hotel is situated in a tranquil to the spectacular valley of Glendalough where we visit the medieval country house setting in five monastic ruins before calling into the town of Avoca, the filming location for National Park acres of lovely grounds on ‘Ballykissangel’. • Avoca - Location the outskirts of charming Wednesday Enjoy the day in the vibrant capital city of Dublin with plenty of Enniskerry. All bedrooms time for shopping and sightseeing. for ‘Ballykissangel’ are en suite with TV, hair Thursday This morning, we visit one of Ireland’s most famous tourist • Mount Usher dryer and tea/coffee making attractions, Powerscourt House and Gardens, where we spend time at Gardens facilities. The hotel has a lift. leisure exploring the beautiful gardens. Later we visist Mount Usher Gardens, one Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See • Ireland’s Capital pg 8 for service details). Single room of Ireland’s finest and one of Monty Don’s supplement £115 - Dublin favourites! 6th Sep £664 Friday After breakfast we depart for the This holiday includes the Gold Coach ferry to North Wales then onwards to the Tour supplement at £15 pp per day West Country. Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 113 CONTINENTAL GLAMOUR & GLITZ IN THE SOUTH OF FRANCE 8 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour Available 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Soak up the magic of the French Riviera - with it’s sunny climate and fabulous scenery, this area is the epitome 8 DAYS of style and sophistication – glamorous resorts, enticing FROM turquoise sea and fabulous film festivals. Cannes £879 Your itinerary Day One An early start for Dover and the ferry to Calais then on to Metz for Holiday Highlights Your Hotel our overnight with bed and breakfast. Day Two We continue our journey into France to arrive in our resort for the • Full day to explore The Van der Valk Saint next five nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. Port Grimaud and Aygulf is ideally located on Days Three to Six – included during your holiday: St Tropez a beautiful sandy beach and • A day at leisure enjoying one of the loveliest corners of France enjoys fabulous panoramic • A short drive along the coast to St Tropez • Full day excursion views over the Mediterranean. • Guided tour through the deepest and most beautiful river canyon in to Cannes All bedrooms are en suite Europe, the Gorges du Verdon with air conditioning, TV, walk • Discover the glamorous seaside town of Cannes, famous for the in shower and mini bar. The international film festival. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe restaurant serves traditional Day Seven We depart and make our way payable locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros per person, French cuisine in a modern back to Metz and our overnight hotel Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room per night. and stylish setting and has with bed & breakfast. supplement £115 breath-taking views over sand Day Eight We head to Calais for our Prices & Dates Single room 24th Oct £969 and the sparkling azure sea. return crossing to Dover and onward to supplement £115 This holiday includes the Gold Coach The hotel has a lift. the West Country. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 3rd May £879 LAKE ANNECY FREE BAR
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included With a beautiful position in the high alpine resort of La Clusaz, this lovely holiday covers not only the beautiful 8 DAYS resorts of Chamonix and Annecy, but includes the chic lakeside city of Geneva. Chamonix £1069 Your itinerary Your Hotel Saturday An early start for Dover and the ferry to Calais then on to Dijon for our overnight with bed and breakfast. Nestling in the mountains Sunday We continue our journey into France to arrive in our resort for the between Chamonix and next five nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Annecy, you will find the Monday to Thursday – Included during your holiday: Hotel Alpen Roc, located Geneva • Excursion to Annecy, with a 90 minute guided walking tour included. in the centre of La Clusaz. • Circular cruise on Lake Annecy. There is a sauna, steam room, PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe • Visit to the mountain resort of Chamonix. payable locally in resort at a cost of Jacuzzi and indoor swimming • Return journey on the Train du Montenvers. between 1-5 euros per person, pool and all bedrooms are per night. en suite with TV, hairdryer • Enjoy a day at leisure. and safe. Free bar at the • The lakeside village of Yvoire on the shores of magnificent Lake Geneva Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See Hotel Alpen Roc La Clusaz where we enjoy a cruise. PLEASE NOTE: Passports will be required for pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £231 this day. between 10.00-23.00hrs 21st Aug £1069 daily (selected drinks). Friday We depart for Dijon and our overnight hotel with bed & breakfast. This holiday includes the Gold Coach Saturday We head to Calais for our return crossing to Dover and onward to Tour supplement at £15 pp per day the West Country. 114 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM ROCAMADOUR & HIGHLIGHTS OF THE DORDOGNE CONTINENTAL 8 DAYS Coach Tour • 7 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included On our lovely holiday you will have the opportunity to discover the secrets of the beautiful unspoilt Dordogne region. 8 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Rocamadour Day One An early start for Dover and the ferry to Calais then on to France £1019 for our overnight with dinner, bed and breakfast. Day Two We continue to Rocamadour and our hotel for the next 5 nights Your Hotel with dinner, bed breakfast. The Hotel du Chateau, Day Three to Day Six – incl. during your holiday: Rocamadour is located 300 • A guided walking tour of Rocamadour. metres from the town’s • Visit to the old town of Cahors, built on a peninsula by the River Lot and castle. All bedrooms are en symbolised by the Valentré Bridge. Dordogne suite with TV, telephone and • St Cirq La Popie, perched on a cliff above the River Lot, is known as one of the “most beautiful villages in France”. hairdryer. The hotel has a lift. • Scenic drive to Sarlat-la-Caneda where you can explore the enchanting alleyways, cobbled streets and picturesque squares. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe payable locally in resort at a cost of • Dordogne River Cruise on a ‘gabarre’ a reproduction of an 18th century barge, originally between 1-5 euros per person, used to transport barrels of wine from the vineyards running along the length of the river. per night. • Visit to the internationally renowned Lascaux Caves said to be like entering a mini museum in rock. Prices & Dates Single room • Guided tour of Turenne and entrance to the Chateau Vicomte. supplement £200 Day Seven We depart for Orleans and our overnight with dinner, bed & breakfast. 11th Jun £1019 Day Eight We head towards Calais for our return ferry then onwards to the West Country. 25th Sep £1025 LAKE LEVICO - A TRENTINO TREAT
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Located in the rolling hills east of Trento, our base for our NEW TOUR wonderful NEW holiday is the very scenic and peaceful Lake 8 DAYS Levico, well known with the Italians but lesser known and smaller FROM than the more famous Italian lakes, such as Como and Garda. Lake Levico £919 Your itinerary Your Hotel Day One We depart for Dover and the ferry to Calais and continue to our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. Set in a lovely lakeside Day Two We make our way to Levico Terme and our hotel for the next 5 location, the family run Parc nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. Hotel du Lac offers good Day Three to Day Six – You will enjoy the following: Riva Del Garda food and fabulous views • Visit to beautiful Riva del Garda. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe from all areas of the hotel. • Visit to the ancient town of Malcesine, perched on the lake’s edge. payable locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros per person, All bedrooms are en suite • Spend the day at leisure in the elegant spa town resort. per night. with TV and there is also • We head to Bassano del Grappa for a 45 minute guided tour with Grappa leisure facilities, featuring tastings. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room wellness centre and indoor • A day enjoying a scenic drive through the heart of the Dolomites, visiting supplement £146 and outdoor pools. The hotel Fiera di Primiero, San Martino di Castrozza and Cavalese 1st May £919 has a lift. Day Seven Depart after breakfast and head to our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. 25th Sep £959 Day Eight We make our way to the port and our ferry crossing to Dover, This holiday includes the Gold Coach then onwards to the West Country. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 115 CONTINENTAL TUSCANY & THE CINQUE TERRE 9 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour Available 6 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A fantastic holiday visiting the wonderful and colourful world of Le Cinque Terre, the ‘Five Lands’ plus a visit to Pisa and 9 DAYS Santa Margherita. FROM Your itinerary Tuscany £1079 Saturday We depart for Dover and the ferry to Calais and onto our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We make our way to Viareggio and our hotel for the next 6 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Visit to the The Palace Hotel, Viareggio is situated on the promenade Monday to Friday – You will enjoy the following: wonderful and opposite the wide sandy • A day at leisure in Viareggio colourful world of beach. All bedrooms are en • Visit to La Spezia and the colourful world of Le Cinque Terre, the ‘Five Lands’. Le Cinque Terre suite with air conditioning, TV • Explore pretty Riomaggiore. • Free time to and hairdryer. The hotel has a lift. • Local train to Monterosso explore wonderful • Visit to Pisa, and its leaning tower. Viareggio Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room • Visit to Florence and Lucca • Visit to Santa supplement £185 • The fashionable and stylish resort of Santa Margherita. Margherita and 15th May £1154 • Relaxing boat ride along the coast into Portofino. wonderful Pisa This holiday includes the Gold Coach Saturday Depart after breakfast and head to our overnight hotel with bed Tour supplement at £15 pp per day and breakfast. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe Prices & Dates Single room payable locally in resort at a cost of supplement £185 Sunday We make our way to the port and our ferry crossing to Dover, then between 1-5 euros per person, onwards to the West Country. per night. 18th Sep £1079 LAKE COMO
9 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 6 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A popular holiday with Bakers Dolphin staying on beautiful Lake Como with visits to Lugano and the Borromean Islands. 9 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Lake Como £1024 Saturday We make our way to Dover for the ferry crossing to Calais then on to Metz for an overnight with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We continue our journey to Lake Como and our hotel where we • Lake Maggiore Enjoying a central yet seafront enjoy the next 6 nights inclusive of dinner, bed and breakfast. • Switzerland Lugano location right in the heart of the Monday to Friday – You will enjoy the following: quaint village of Tremezzo on • Enjoy a leisurely day relaxing in the hotel. • Ferry across to the west coast of Lake Como. Borromean Islands The Hotel Bazzoni du Lac has • We take the ferry across to Bellagio, the pearl of Lake Como. comfortable public areas and • Enjoy the stunning views of the pretty villages surrounding the area as well • Como Town. lounges. All bedrooms are en as visiting the oldest town on the lake, Como Town. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See suite with TV, hairdryer and pg 8 for service details). Single room telephone. The hotel has a lift. • We cross the border into Switzerland and travel to Lugano, an impressive supplement £128 resort which has a unique character. NB Swiss currency advisable for Please note Lake View Rooms 22nd May £1024 today’s excursion. are available at a supplement, please enquire at time of 10th Jul £1034 • Visit to the opulent resort town of Stresa, from where a boat will take you booknig. across to the famous Borromean Islands. 11th Sep £1034 Saturday Sadly we must depart Tremezzo and Lake Como today and travel PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe back to the Metz for our overnight with bed and breakfast. 25th Sep £1034 payable locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros per person, Sunday We head back to Calais for the crossing to Dover and then onwards This holiday includes the Gold Coach Tour supplement at £15 pp per day per night. to the West Country. 116 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM LAKE GARDA CONTINENTAL
9 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 6 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A firm favourite staying on beautiful Lake Garda with visits to Venice and Verona. 9 DAYS Your itinerary Lake Garda £1004 Saturday An early start for Dover and the crossing to France. We then continue on to our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We complete the scenic journey to Lake Garda to arrive at our hotel for the next six nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • A fabulous day out to The peaceful, family run Monday – Friday Plenty of time to relax by the shores of Lake Garda, explore Venice Hotel Adria is located Torbole or simply enjoy the hotel facilities. The following excursions will also • Tour around the about 150 metres from the be organised: shores of Lake Garda lakefront and a small pebble • A day out to Venice, the world’s most romantic city, where a local guide will • An excursion to the beach. All bedrooms are en show you the sights. beautiful city suite and equipped with TV • A tour of the lake with a visit to Sirmione of Verona with a and hairdryer. Bedrooms • Opportunity of a boat trip to Limone guided tour. within the main building are • A guided tour of Verona, city of Romeo and Juliet’s tragic love. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See accessible by lift and ground • A visit to Malcesine pg 8 for service details). Single room floor rooms are available supplement £158 Saturday It’s ‘Arrivederci Garda’ as we head back for our overnight hotel in the annexe. There is an with bed and breakfast. 5th Jun £1004 outdoor swimming pool. The Sunday Returning to Calais for the PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe 25th Sep £1004 hotel has a lift. crossing to Dover we then return to the payable locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros per person, West Country. This holiday includes the Gold Coach per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day ITALIAN DOLOMITES
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A wonderful Italian holiday including visits to Riva del Garda and the city of Merano. 8 DAYS Your itinerary Italian Dolomites £879 Day One We make our way to Dover for the ferry crossing to Calais then on to Metz for an overnight with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Day Two We depart after breakfast and make our way to Italy and the Hotel Paganella for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Full day tour of the The Hotel Paganella is a small Day Three to Six you will enjoy the following: and friendly family run hotel Breta Dolomite is ideally situated for touring • Free day to explore the surrounding area and also included is a walk and mountain range in this area. All bedrooms picnic in the surrounding countryside with Fausto, the hotel owner. • Visit to city of are en suite with satellite TV • Full day tour of the fabulous Brenta Dolomite mountain range. Drive up the and hairdryer. There is also a Val di Sole and then over the pass at Madonna di Campiglio, from where Merano wellness centre with sauna, there are spectacular views of the Brenta Peaks. • Visit to Riva del Jacuzzi and Turkish bath. The • Visit to the spa city town of Merano hotel has a lift. Garda • Day out to Riva del Garda based on the north point of this stunningly Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See beautiful and largest Italian lake. • Free bar at Hotel pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £108 Day Seven We depart and make our way back to the Metz for an overnight Paganella each with bed and breakfast. 6th Jun £879 PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe evening from 6pm Day Eight After breakfast we travel back payable locally in resort at a cost of to 10:30pm 11th Sep £879 to Calais and the crossing to Dover, where between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach we head back to the West Country. per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 117 CONTINENTAL IDYLLIC ITALIAN RIVIERA OF FLOWERS
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included The ‘Riviera of Flowers’ offers many vistas, and on our holiday we include a visit to beautiful Monaco and San Remo. 8 DAYS Your itinerary Cervo £879 Day One An early start for Dover and the ferry to Calais then on to Dijon for our overnight with bed and breakfast. Your Hotel Day Two We continue our journey into Italy to arrive in our resort for the next five nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. The family run Hotel Days Three to Six – included during your holiday: Bergamo, Sam Bartolomeo • Morning visit to the village of Eze and the Fragonard perfume factory is located within a short walk where we enjoy a free guided tour. San Remo of the seafront and offers • Visit to Monaco where you can spend time exploring the old town area. traditional hospitality and • Free day to explore San Bartolomeo. leisure facilities including • Visit to the vibrant resort of Alassio. outdoor swimming pool. All • Visit to the ancient hilltop village of Cervo, classed as one of the ‘most Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See bedrooms are en suite with beautiful villages in Italy’. pg 8 for service details). Single room TV and hairdryer. The hotel supplement £123 • Ventimiglia with its famous Friday market. has a lift. • Afternoon visit to San Remo. 20th Jun £879 Day Seven We depart and make our way back to Dijon and our overnight 31st Jul £879 hotel with bed & breakfast. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe 18th Sep £879 payable locally in resort at a cost of Day Eight We head to Calais for our return crossing to Dover and onward to This holiday includes the Gold Coach between 1-5 euros per person, the West Country. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day per night. AUSTRIA TRAINS & BOATS
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Join us on a wonderful Austrian train’s tour including the beautiful Ziller Valley trains with schnapps and live music. 8 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Austria £789 Saturday We make our way to Dover for the ferry to France and our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your New Hotel Sunday Continuing on, we arrive in the Austrian Tyrol and our hotel for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. • Guided tour of The Hotel Bechlwirt is a Monday to Thursday – Included during your stay: Innsbruck relaxed, lodge-style hotel located just a 6-minute walk • Free day to explore your new surroundings. • Boat trip around from Kirchberg in Tirol. All • Trip over the Pass Thurn to Mittersil the lake at Zell am bedrooms are en suite with • Journey on Pinzgau steam train to Krimml, home of the highest waterfalls Wi-Fi, satellite TVs and in Austria. See hairdryer. The hotel has lift. • Ziller Valley Steam train to Mayrhofen & boat trip on Zell am See • Journey on the • Visit to the medieval town of Rattenburg Ziller Valley train Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See • Visit to the Tyrolean capital city of Innsbruck with guided tour. with Schnapps and pg 8 for service details). Single room supplement £98 Friday We make our way back for our overnight hotel with bed and live music breakfast. 19th Jun £789 PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe • Journey on the Saturday We make our way to Calais and payable locally in resort at a cost of 28th Aug £799 the ferry crossing to Dover then onwards between 1-5 euros per person, Pinzgau train This holiday includes the Gold Coach to the West Country. per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 118 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM AUSTRIAN TYROL & FOUR COUNTRIES CONTINENTAL 9 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 6 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A lovely holiday with a return journey on the Nordketten lifts in Innsbruck plus a visit to Meran in Italy. 9 DAYS Your itinerary Chur, Switzerland £954 Saturday We depart for Dover and the ferry to France and our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We arrive in Austria and our hotel for the next 6 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. The Hotel Silvretta is located Monday to Friday – You will enjoy the following: • Return journey on in Kappl directly at the ski • Enjoy a free day in resort, relax or use the local public transport to visit the the Nordketten lifts town of St. Anton. in Innsbruck slope of the Diasbahnen and • Travel via the spectacular Reschenpass to the town of Meran in Italy. • Free time to explore is the ideal place to enjoy • Visit to the town of Chur in Switzerland. Innsbruck the peace and beauty of the Paznaun. All bedrooms are • Join the Arosa Train for a return journey to the mountain resort of Arosa. • Return journey on en suite with satellite TV and • Visit to the capital of Tyrol, Innsbruck. the Arosa Train telephone. The hotel has a lift. • Journey on the Hungerburg train and the Nordketten cable car to the from Chur Seegrube restaurant with its spectacular views over Innsbruck. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See • Visit to the spectacular Neuschwanstein Castle, the most popular of • Visit to Meran, Italy pg 8 for service details). Single room Europe’s palaces and castles. NB. Entry to the castle is extra and will • Visit to Chur supplement £88 include a lot of steep walking. 26th Jun £954 Saturday We depart and make our way to our overnight hotel with bed PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe 28th Aug £954 and breakfast payable locally in resort at a cost of between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach Sunday We journey home via Calais and Dover. per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day AUSTRIA, VIENNA & CZECH REPUBLIC
9 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 6 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included A wonderful excursion to the city of Vienna is included on this stunning holiday along with a visit to the heritage site 9 DAYS of Cesky Krumlov. Vienna £1034 Your itinerary Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Saturday We depart for Dover and the ferry to France and our overnight with bed & breakfast. • A wonderful The Attergauhof of the Sunday We travel through some changing scenery as we travel south to our Sollinger family is centrally hotel in the Austrian Lakes District for the next six nights with dinner, bed excursion to the located in St. Georgen im and breakfast. city of Vienna Attergau. All bedrooms are en Monday to Friday – You will enjoy the following: • A scenic tour of suite with satellite TV and Wi- • Journey on the Attergau narrow gauge railway in St. Georgen & boat trip Fi. The hotel has a lift. on Lake Attersee the Austrian Lakes • Visit to the Czech Republic with a guided tour of Cesky Krumlov & excursion to the • Day out to the `Sound of Music’ city, Salzburg. Czech Republic Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room • Vist to fantastic Vienna. • Narrow gauge supplement £120 • Visit to Gmunden railway journey 26th Jun £1034 Saturday We make our way back for our PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe from St Georgen overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. payable locally in resort at a cost of 21st Aug £1034 between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach Sunday We journey home via Calais per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day and Dover. Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 119 CONTINENTAL THE BEAUTIFUL BLACK FOREST 8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included From our base, we take a Coach Tour of Germany’s most stunning natural regions, The Black Forest and The Rhine Valley with their breathtaking scenery. 8 DAYS Your itinerary The Black Forest £854 Sunday We depart for Dover and the ferry to Calais and then continue to our overnight stop in Liege, with dinner, bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Monday We make our way to the Hotel Baeren in Oberharmersbach for the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast and there is a welcome • Visit to Zell am Situated in the heart of the schnapps to enjoy on arrival. Harmersbach on pretty village our Hotel Tuesday to Wednesday – You will enjoy the following: Baeren exudes Black Forest • Scenic tour of the Black Forest the Little Train charm with its style and • Visit to Schonach, where you find one of the region’s largest clocks of this type. • Waterfall at Triberg quality of décor. All bedrooms • Visit to Triberg, the home of Germany’s highest waterfall. are en suite with satellite TV • The Black Forest Open Air Museum where we discover how people have • Lake Titisee and hairdryer. The hotel has a lift. lived and worked in this area over the last 400 years. • Visit to Strasbourg • A day at leisure • Visit to Freiburg where you have time to explore this impressive old town. Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See pg 8 for service details). Single room • Cruise on Lake Titisee. supplement £77 • Spend the day at the European Capital Strasbourg. 2nd May £854 Thursday We depart after breakfast and head to Liege for our overnight PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe hotel with bed and breakfast. payable locally in resort at a cost of 22nd Aug £854 Friday We make our way to the port and our ferry crossing to Dover, then between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach onwards to the West Country. per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day THE SPLENDOURS OF ANDORRA
8 DAYS Coach Tour This is a GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included The Hotel Nordic El Tarter is a firm favourite with Bakers Dolphin and when you visit you will see why this really is a tour not to be missed. 8 DAYS FROM Your itinerary Andorra £894 Saturday We depart for Dover and the ferry to France for our overnight with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We travel through France to arrive in Andorra and the Hotel Nordic where we enjoy the next five nights with dinner, bed and breakfast. The luxurious Hotel Nordic El Monday to Thursday – You will enjoy the following: • Free time in El Tarter Tarter, is situated in a quiet • Visit to Aux–les-Thermes with its Roman bath • Visit to La Seu location off the main road in • Foix with its myriad of little streets, d’Urgell on market the small town of El Tarter and • Visit to Pas de la Casa where we can enjoy commanding views across Andorra. day is traditionally decorated with • La Seu d’Urgel on market morning. • Visit to Meritxell, many wooden features and • Morning visit to the capital of Andorra La Vella Engolasters and Foix there is even a Rolls Royce in • Morning at leisure in the hotel. reception. All bedrooms are • Visit to the sanctuary at Meritxell en suite with hairdryer, TV, Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See • The crystal lake of Engolasters where you can admire the views and relax on pg 8 for service details). Single room air conditioning and balcony. the lakeside. supplement £208 The excellent leisure facilities Friday We leave the delights of Andorra and make our way back to Orleans for 10th Jul £894 include both indoor and outdoor our overnight hotel with bed and breakfast. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe pools, spa bath and sauna. The payable locally in resort at a cost of 18th Sep £904 Saturday We journey home via Calais hotel has a lift. and Dover. between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day 120 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM COSTA BRAVA, ROSES & THE LITTLE YELLOW TRAIN CONTINENTAL OF THE PYRENEES
This is a 8 DAYS Coach Tour GOLD Coach • 2 overnights with bed & breakfast Tour 5 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included The sunny resort town of Roses is perfectly positioned on the Costa Brava for a wonderful holiday this summer! 8 DAYS Your itinerary Costa Brava £909 Saturday An early start for Dover and the ferry to Calais then on to our hotel in Dijon for our overnight with bed and breakfast. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Sunday We depart and make our way into Spain to our hotel where we enjoy the next 5 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast • Wine with dinner The lovely Coral Platja Hotel Monday to Thursday – You will enjoy the following: is perfectly located on the each evening. beachfront, only 300 metres • Relaxing drive to Cadaqués where upon arrival we will have a short guided • Spanish themed from the centre of Roses tour to help us get our bearings before enjoying an afternoon at leisure. and the hotel has a lovely • Spend the day at leisure, relaxing on the beach or explore the lovely old dinner. outdoor swimming pool. All town of Roses. • Live musical the traditional bedrooms are en suite with TV, hairdryer, air- • Visit to Villefranche-de-Conflent, a medieval town, deep in a French mountain entertainment each conditioning and balcony. The valley, where we embark on the Little Yellow Train to Latour-de-Carol. evening. hotel has a lift. • Full day excursion to Barcelona, starting with a stroll along the wide • Full day in Gold Coach Tour Prices & Dates. (See promenade of Las Ramblas where we can explore the narrow alleyways, pg 8 for service details). Single room boutique shops and tapas bars. Barcelona. supplement £147 Friday We say farewell to Roses and head back to Dijon and our overnight 12th June £909 with bed and breakfast. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe payable locally in resort at a cost of 18th Sep £909 Saturday We head towards Calais for our return ferry crossing to Dover then between 1-5 euros per person, This holiday includes the Gold Coach onwards to the West Country. per night. Tour supplement at £15 pp per day SPAIN & PORTUGAL 10 DAYS Coach Tour • 2 overnights on Brittany Ferries with bed & breakfast, 7 nights dinner, bed & breakfast • Home Pick-Up Included Enjoy this beautiful holiday including spectacular mountain scenery of the green coast of Northern Spain and the beauty of Portugal. 10 DAYS
Your itinerary Porto, Portugal £1329 Tuesday We make our way to Portsmouth for the late afternoon luxury ferry to Spain with en suite cabin included. Holiday Highlights Your Hotel Wednesday On arrival in Santander we make our way to the Milagros Golf Hotel and Spa with overnight dinner, bed & breakfast. • Santiago de The Axis Vermar is situated on Thursday Today we continue through Spain to Santiago de Compostela and the beach in Povoa de Varzim the Los Abetos Hotel for our overnight with dinner, bed & breakfast. Compostela and facilities include a Spa, Friday Morning free to explore the historic town of Santiago de Compostela • Guided tour of the indoor and outdoor pools with before heading into Portugal and the Axis Vermar Beach Hotel for the next 5 city of Porto a sun-lounger terrace and all nights with dinner, bed & breakfast. bedrooms are en suite with TV, Saturday to Tuesday – You will enjoy the following: • The charismatic air conditioning and minibar. • Full day in the vibrant city of Porto with guided tour. city of Braga The hotel has a lift. • Visit the charismatic city of Braga. • The historic town of Guimares. • Cruise through the • Leaving the hotel early, enjoy breakfast and lunch on board whilst cruising Douro Valley through the picturesque Douro Valley. • Free time in the resort. PLEASE NOTE: Hotel bed tax maybe Prices & Dates Single room Wednesday Head back to Santander for our return crossing to Plymouth payable locally in resort at a cost of supplement £192 between 1-5 euros per person, with en suite cabin included. per night. 31st Aug £1329 Thursday Arrival in Plymouth in the afternoon then our return home. Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MARE or BRISTOL 121 TRADING CHARTER & BOOKING CONDITIONS Bonded Coach Holidays Group - Trading Charter right to cancel we must receive written notice within 20 days of the IMPORTANT NOTE Compensation will not be payable if the J.N.Baker Ltd trading as Bakers Dolphin, 48 Locking Road, date of the surcharge invoice. The currency exchange rate used holiday is cancelled because the number of persons booked is less Weston- super-Mare, North Somerset BS23 3DN in the holiday costings are based on the rate of 1.12 Euros as at than the number required, or for events beyond our control, which OUR TRADING CHARTER WITH YOU October 2020. include: war, threat of war, riots, civil disturbances, terrorist activity 6. If you change your booking and its consequences, industrial disputes, natural and nuclear 1. Financial Protection If, after our confirmation has been issued, you wish to change to disasters, fire, epidemics, health risks and pandemics, unavoidable Your contract is with J.N.Baker Ltd, trading as Bakers Dolphin another of our holidays or change departure date, we will do our and unforeseeable technical problems with transport for reasons Coach Travel, 48 Locking Road, Weston super Mare, North utmost to make the changes, but we cannot guarantee to do so. beyond our control or that of our suppliers; hurricanes and other Somerset. BS23 3DN. When you book a holiday with us, which However, notification must be received in writing at our offices actual or potential severe weather conditions and any other similar doesn’t include a flight, the money you pay us for the booking from the person who signed the booking form, at least 6 weeks events. You are also advised to check with The Foreign and will be protected by the Bonded Coach Holidays (BCH), this before departures. This must be accompanied by a payment Commonwealth Office Advice Unit regularly at www.fco.gov.uk/ is a Government approved consumer protection scheme. The of £25 to cover our administrative costs, plus costs we incur in travel prior to travel. scheme will also ensure your repatriation in the event the company making the amendment. Alterations cannot be made within 6 All holidays operate if the minimum number of participants is met. becomes insolvent. Our Trading Charter and Booking Conditions weeks of departure and any such request for an alteration will be However, in no case will we cancel your holiday less than 4 weeks set out clearly and simply the responsibility we have to you and in treated as a cancellation of the original booking and will be subject before the scheduled departure date, except where you have turn, you have with us, when a contract is made. Please see the to the cancellation charges set out in paragraph below. Some failed to pay the final balance or because of force majeure (force BCH Consumer Guarantee at www.bch-uk.org.There is no financial arrangements cannot be changed without paying a cancellation majeure means an event which we or the suppliers of the services protection if you purchase just transport or accommodation-only charge of up to 100% of the ticket cost. in question could not foresee or avoid and is therefore beyond our from us. We fully comply with the Package Travel and Linked control). Travel Arrangements Regulations 2018. The combination of travel 7. Transferring your booking services offered to you is a package holiday within the meaning of You can transfer your booking to somebody else but the person 10. Our responsibility to you the Regulations. Therefore, you will benefit from all rights applying must satisfy all the conditions of the holiday and you must inform We accept responsibility for ensuring the holiday which you book to package holidays. Bakers Dolphin will be fully responsible for us either by letter or email no less than 7 days before departure. with us is supplied as described in our publicity material and the the proper performance of the holiday and providing assistance if This transfer will cost £25 plus reasonable costs to make the services offered reach a reasonable standard and if you are in you are in difficulty. Your key rights will be in the details of the tour transfer. You will remain responsible for ensuring payment before difficulty we will assist you. If any part of our holiday contract which will be provided prior to booking. the balance due date. This is in addition to (and does not affect) the is not provided as promised, you may terminate the contract without paying a termination fee and we will pay you appropriate 2. Booking and Payment separate liability of the transferee to us. 8. If you need to cancel your holiday compensation if this has affected your enjoyment of your holiday. When a booking is made, the ‘lead name’ on the booking We will however, not be liable if there are any unforeseeable or guarantees that he or she is 18 or over and has the authority and You or any member of your party, may cancel your holiday at any time provided the cancellation is made by the person signing unavoidable actions of a third party not connected with our travel accepts on behalf of the party the terms of these booking conditions services, or there were unavoidable or extraordinary circumstance, and pays the deposit indicated in the brochure and as confirmed the booking form and is communicated to us in writing via the office who made your original booking. You must pay cancellation or the lack of conformity is due to a traveller in the party. We accept in the pre-contract information. After we receive your booking and responsibility for the acts and/or omissions of our employees, all appropriate payments, if the arrangements you wish to book are charges to cover our administration costs and to compensate for the risk of us not reselling the holiday. If the holiday is resold a agents and suppliers except where they lead to death, injury or available, we will send you or your booking agent a confirmation illness. Our liability in all cases shall be limited to a maximum of invoice within 14 days. This confirmation will include any special refund will be made. Your cancellation will take effect from the date on which we or our agent receive your written confirmation of your twice the value of the original holiday cost (not including insurance requests we have agreed. All monies paid to your booking agent premiums and amendment charges). We accept responsibility are held by them on your behalf until we issue our confirmation cancellation. You must also return any tickets or vouchers you have received. A reduction in room occupancy may increase the charges for death, injury, or illness caused by the negligent acts and/or invoice, thereafter your booking agent holds the money on our omissions of our employees or agents together with our suppliers behalf. A binding agreement will come into existence between us for the remaining passengers by the application of supplements for low occupancy of rooms. Where bought in supplies, such as ferries, and sub-contractors, servants and/or agents of the same whilst when we dispatch this invoice to the ‘lead name’ or your booking acting within the scope of, or during their employment in the agent. Please check the confirmation carefully to ensure all the hotel accommodation etc have been bought in on your behalf, and where the terms and conditions of the supplier are non-refundable, provision of your holiday. We will accordingly pay to our clients information is correct. This contract is governed by English Law, such damages as might have been awarded in such circumstances and the jurisdiction of the English Courts. You can book by paying a these products will be charged to you at the full retail rate. If this applies, the non-refundable items will be deducted from your under English Law. In respect of carriage by air, sea, tunnel and deposit for each person named on the booking but our commitment rail and the provision of accommodation our liability in all cases is always conditional upon the balance being paid as below; holiday costs and the following scale of charges will be applied to the remainder: will be limited in the manner provided by the relevant international Deposit 2 day breaks £40.00 per person convention. Deposit all coach holidays £75.00 per person Scale of Cancellation Charges If we make any payment to you or any member of your party for Coach holidays death or personal injury or illness, you will be asked to assign to us Deposit Channel Island Holidays, £200.00 per person. Amount of cancellation The balance of the price of your holiday must be paid at least 6 Period before departure within or our insurers the rights you may have to act against the person or which written cancellation of Charge as a % of total organisation responsible for causing the death, personal injury or weeks before your departure. If you book within our balance due package cost. period, you will need to pay the total holiday cost at the time of package price is received illness. This clause does not apply to any separate contracts that booking. If the balance is not paid in time we reserve the right to More than 42 days Deposit only you may enter for excursions or activities during or outside of your cancel your holiday, retain your deposit, and apply the cancellation 42 - 35 days 40% or Deposit, if greater holiday. If you or any member of your party suffer death, illness or charges set out in the paragraph below. The date of cancellation 34 - 28 days 60% injury whilst overseas arising out of an activity which does NOT will normally be the date we receive your written confirmation 27 - 14 days 80% form part of your holiday, we may offer guidance and where legal 13 - 1 days 100% action is contemplated and you want our assistance, you must that you intend to cancel or 15 days after the balance due date, obtain our written consent prior to any proceedings (We limit the whichever comes first. Where optional items are purchased as Departure day or later including Total package cost cost of our assistance to you or your party to £5,000 per party) part of the holiday, these are payable on the balance due date voluntary termination during except where items, such as theatre tickets, have been specifically the package. 11. If you have a complaint purchased for you. In this case the cost will be payable at a If you have a problem during your holiday, please inform your Tour Manager, your driver or the relevant supplier/resort separate date notified to you and will not normally be refunded Channel Islands Holidays unless we obtain a refund from the supplier we use. representative immediately who will endeavour to put things right. Period before departure within Amount of cancellation If your complaint cannot be completely resolved locally, you must 3. Single Occupancy Charge as a % of total Single occupancy of rooms, when available, may be subject to a which written cancellation of complete a Holiday Report Form which can be obtained by your package price is received package cost. driver or local representative, which you should keep. Our contact supplementary charge and these will be shown in the brochure. number, for unresolved complaints will be our office number on However these charges may vary once we have exceeded the More than 56 days Deposit only 01934 415000 (open in office hours) If you remain dissatisfied available rooms within our initial allocation from the hotel. 56 - 43 days 30% or Deposit, if greater please follow this up within 14 days of your return home by writing Where we state ‘no single room supplement’ this is only applicable 42 - 29 days 60% to Bakers Dolphin giving your original booking reference number for the number of single rooms we have secured from a particular 28 - 7 days 90% and all other relevant information, including the reference of the hotel, once this allocation of rooms has been exceeded we may Less than 7 days 100% Holiday Report Form. It is therefore a condition of this contract be able to secure further single or sole use rooms at an additional Departure day or later including Total package cost that you communicate any problem to the supplier of the services charge. Any applicable additional charges will be advised to you by voluntary termination during in question AND to our representative whilst in resort and obtain a member of our reservations team at the time of booking and in the package. a written report form. If you fail to follow this simple procedure, writing on your confirmation & invoice. we cannot accept responsibility as we have been deprived of the 4. Brochure Accuracy 9.Alterations to your holiday by us opportunity to investigate and rectify the problem. Should you wish Although Bakers Dolphin make every effort to ensure the accuracy We hope that we will not have to make any change to your holiday to pursue the complaint further, the BCH/CPT have an Alternative of the brochure information and pricing, regrettably errors do but, because our holidays are planned many months in advance, Dispute Resolution scheme and full details are available from them. sometimes occur. You must therefore ensure you check the price we sometimes do need to make minor changes. We reserve the Please contact them at, The Confederation of Passenger Transport and all other details of your holiday with us at the time of booking right to do this at any time. We will let you or your booking agent UK, Fifth Floor South, Chancery House, 53 – 64 Chancery lane, and when you receive our confirmation invoice. know about any important changes as soon as possible, including London WC2A 1 QS. the minimum number of passengers required on the trip. If after 5. Our Pricing Policy 12. Our Coaches Bakers Dolphin endeavour to ensure that the most up to date booking, and before departure, we make a major change to your and correct prices are shown in our brochure. Occasionally, an holiday, you will have the option of withdrawing from the holiday We will always use our reasonable endeavours to provide a incorrect price may be shown, due to an error. When we become without penalty or transferring to another holiday without any coach to the specification in our brochure or advert, but reserve aware of any such error, we will endeavour to notify you at the charge. In either case, we will pay you compensation, according the right to substitute an alternative vehicle should there be time of booking (if we are then aware of the mistake) or as soon to the scale set below. A major change includes the time of your unforeseen circumstances. There is a seating plan but in as reasonably possible. We reserve the right to cancel the booking departure or return time by more than 12 hours, a change in some cases, operational reasons may require a coach with a if you do not wish to accept the price which is applicable to the departure point, location of resort or type of hotel, a change in different configuration. We re-serve the right to alter a coach holiday. Local Authorities in many towns and cities throughout cross channel travel, or specification of the coach. If we tell you seating plan and allocate seats other than those booked. Single Europe have introduced new tourist taxes which must be paid about any of these changes after we have confirmed your holiday passengers may be required to share a double seat with other directly to the hotel by all guests in person. These taxes are not booking (other than force majeure), you may either: single passengers. When your booking is confirmed, you will be included in our prices but we will notify you when applicable. - accept the new arrangements offered by us; or offered the best seats that are available at that time. If you feel - accept a replacement holiday from us of equivalent or similar that you require two seats, then these must be booked and paid Holiday prices include all travel, hotel accommodation and meals for in advance, at the time of booking. If you fail to do this and as specified in the holiday description and VAT payable in the UK standard and price (at the date of the change), if we can offer you one; or it transpires that the seat allocated to you is insufficient for your where applicable. The price of the holiday will not be subjected to needs and there is no alternative seating available then you will be any surcharges except those arising from exchange rate changes, - cancel your holiday with us and receive a full refund of all monies refused access to the coach and any payments made will be liable transportation including the price of fuel, air & ferry operator fares Either way, we will pay you compensation, using the Compensation to forfeiture. and tolls, embarkation or disembarkation fees at terminals, duties table shown, Specific seats will not be allocated on coaches operating a feeder and taxes (including the rate of VAT). Even in these cases we will Period before departure in absorb the cost equivalent to cost of the first 2% of the holiday service between joining points and main holiday departure points or which significant change is on coaches that carry out transfers between airports, seaports etc. price. Amounts more than this plus £1 administration fee and notified to you or your agent Amount per person Travel Agents commission will be surcharged to you. If this means 13. Hotel facilities the total cost of the holiday increases by more than 8% then you More than 28 days Nil Some hotel facilities and entertainment may be withdrawn for are entitled to cancel your holiday and receive a full refund of 15 to 27 days £15 routine maintenance or be subject to seasonal availability and all monies paid except any insurance premium and amendment 8 to 14 days £20 provision of the facilities cannot be guaranteed. Single occupancy charges. We will communicate the options with you either through 0 to 7 days £25 of rooms may be subject to a supplementary charge. email or letter, with a reminder if necessary. If you exercise the
122 To book call us on 01934 41 5000 or visit WWW.BAKERSDOLPHIN.COM 14. Health and Safety excursions not taken. Optional excursions booked and paid for 18. Passenger Behaviour TRADING CHARTER & BOOKING CONDITIONS In some foreign countries, standards of infrastructure, safety and in re-sort do not form part of your booking. Admission fees to We want all our customers to have a happy and carefree hygiene may be lower than those to which we are accustomed buildings may not be included in the price of the holiday, please holiday. You are responsible for your behaviour and hygiene and in the UK. You should therefore exercise greater care for your check are unavoidable and we reserve the right to make them the effect it may have on others. If you or any other member of own protection. There may be countries that we visit that have at any time. your party is abusive, disruptive or behaves in a way that could special medical requirements for tourists. These regulations are 16. Special requests cause damage or injury to others or affect their enjoyment of subject to change and our clients are responsible for complying All special needs and requests, if agreed, should be entered their holiday or which could damage property, we have the right with entry and current health requirements. If you are not sure of on the booking form and be included in the confirmation of the to terminate your contract with us and we will have no further the health requirements for the country you are visiting, you are holiday. These cannot be guaranteed except where confirmed liability or obligation to you. The coach driver/representative, advised to check with your own GP before travelling. You are as part of our holiday commitment to you and are detailed on ship’s captain, or authorised official is entitled to refuse you also advised to refer to the Department of Health leaflet “Health your holiday booking confirmation. We are keen to ensure boarding if in their reasonable opinion you are unacceptably Advice for Travellers”. that we plan the arrangements for your holiday so that special under the influence of drink or drugs or you are being violent or Some people may be at risk from discomfort or deep vein needs and requests can be accommodated as far as possible. disruptive. If you are refused boarding on the outward journey thrombosis (DVT) if they remain immobile on a journey for a If you will need assistance, or may be unable to fully enjoy all we will regard it as a cancellation by you and we will apply long period. If you are planning to undertake a journey of more aspects of your holiday you must tell us in advance so that we cancellation charges. If on your return journey, we have the right than three hours, you should consult your doctor, if you have can maximise your enjoyment of the holiday. We will need to to terminate the contract with you. We also request that mobile ever had DVT, pulmonary embolism, a family history of clotting know if you will need special facilities in the hotel, taking part in telephones are not used on the coach. conditions, cancer or treatment for cancer, stroke, and heart or the excursions or have difficulty boarding and travelling on the 19. Travel Insurance lung disease or If you have had major surgery in the past three coach or other means of transport. Before booking your holiday, We strongly advise that you take out personal travel insurance months. you should be sure that you and your party are both physically for the trip. We have arranged comprehensive travel insurance We reserve the right to refuse any booking in the absence of a and mentally capable of completing the itinerary. If you need with Towergate Chapman Stevens, which is outlined below. doctor’s certificate confirming that you are fit to travel. Where advice or further information either you or your booking agent You may use an alternative insurer but you must advise us. we provide comfort stops you are encouraged to walk around. should contact 01934 415000 If you will require a special diet The insurance should cover medical and repatriation costs, Exercise reduces any discomfort, which may be caused by please tell us at the time of booking, or as soon as you are personal injury, loss of baggage and cancellation charges. If periods of immobility. medically advised, together with a copy of the diet. you do not have adequate insurance and require our assistance NO SMOKING is allowed on our coaches (including 17. Passengers with disabilities during your holiday, we reserve the right to reclaim from you any E-Cigarettes) and we do not allow pets or any other animals, We want everyone to enjoy our travel arrangements. We are medical repatriation or other expenses which we may incur on although we accommodate registered assistance dogs, but not happy to advise and assist you in choosing a suitable holiday. your behalf which would otherwise have been met by insurers. on overseas holidays. But, as some of the accommodation and resorts featured You must advise us if you use an alternative insurer, the policy 15. Travel documents, itineraries, pick-up points and may not cater for even minor disabilities, it is important that, number and 24 hour contact number. passports when booking, you advise us of any disability, specific need or 20. Luggage complex need you may have and any special requirements that Please restrict your luggage to a suitcase weighing no more For all Continental holidays, you will require a full 10-year will make sure the holiday is suitable. If a passenger requires British Passport (machine readable) valid for a further 6 months than 20kgs per person. We cannot accept responsibility for loss personal assistance (for example, assistance with feeding, or damage to luggage unless through our negligence. Please do after your holiday. If you do not hold a full British Passport or dressing, toileting, mobilising) then this passenger must travel you have any doubts about your status as a resident British not leave valuable items in your suitcase when left on the coach. with an able-bodied companion or carer and written confirmation Please contact us for our policy on mobility scooters. subject, you must check with the Embassies or Consulates that such assistance will be provided for the entirety of the of the Countries to be visited to confirm the Passport or visa holiday is required at the time of booking. Coach drivers/ 21. General Data Protection Regulations requirements when you book. We cannot accept responsibility Hostesses are unable to provide such assistance. We comply with the GDPR 2018 Regulations, our data controller if passengers are not in possession of the correct travel is Stephen Hunt and our data protection policy can be found documents. For full details on passport requirements, please Important online at www.bakersdolphin.com or you can request a copy contact ‘the identity and passport service’ on 0300 222 0000 You must tell us if you have an existing medical condition, from Bakers Dolphin, 48 Locking Road, Weston super Mare, (www.direct.gov.uk)” disability or complex need that may affect your holiday or other North Somerset. BS23 3DN. You are responsible for ensuring you are at the correct departure group members’ enjoyment of it before you book your holiday. 22. Emergency Contact point, at the correct time and with the correct documents. Bakers We reserve the right to request a doctor’s certificate confirming the passenger is fit to travel. If, in our reasonable opinion, A member of staff is always on hand 24 hours a day to help Dolphin reserve the right to modify itineraries to conform with either before your holiday or on the day of departure by requests from competent authorities both within the UK and your chosen holiday is not suitable for your medical condition or disability, we reserve the right to refuse your booking. You telephoning 07860 433003. This number should be used should abroad, and as itineraries are written many months in advance you require any assistance during your holiday. can be changed at any time without notification. are responsible for bringing with you the proper clothing and Excursions which are included in the cost of your booking are equipment, which we advise you about in our printed trip 23. Publication date and details information. We want you to enjoy your holiday and will help you This brochure was printed in the United Kingdom October 2020. detailed on the brochure page and refunds will not be made for select an appropriate trip.
Our Client Holiday Travel Insurance is available to all eligible passengers travelling on our holidays which is HEALTH DECLARATION AND HEALTH EXCLUSIONS You will not be covered for any directly or indirectly related claims (see note arranged by Travel & General Insurance Services Limited in conjunction with Wrightsure Services (Hampshire) It is very important that you read the following: at the end of this section) arising from the health of a travelling companion, Limited, and underwritten by AWP P&C SA and is administered in the UK by Allianz Assistance. Allianz Assistance For UK travel only - If you are only travelling within the UK, Channel Islands someone you were going to stay with, a close relative or a business associate if is a trading name of AWP Assistance UK Ltd. AWP P&C SA is duly authorised in France and the United Kingdom or Isle of Man during your journey, it is a condition of this policy that you can at the time your policy was issued: and subject to limited regulation by the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority. AWP comply with the following: • You were aware they had undiagnosed medical condition(s) for which they Assistance UK Ltd and Wrightsure Services (Hampshire) Ltd are authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct 1. You are fit to travel and undertake your planned journey. were awaiting tests, investigations or the results of these; Authority (FCA). Wrightsure Services (Hampshire) Limited is permitted to advise on and arrange general insurance 2. Following any claim investigation, your doctor confirms they would have • You were aware that their medical condition(s) were unstable, were likely contracts. You can check these details online using the Financial Services Register (accessible from https://register. agreed with or recommended your travel plans when you took out this to get worse in the next 12 months or they had been diagnosed as having a fca.org.uk) or by contacting the Financial Conduct Authority Consumer Helpline on 0800 1116768. insurance, booked your journey or at the time you travelled (whichever is later). terminal condition. Should you wish to take out this travel insurance please include the appropriate premium when booking your holiday. 3. You are not travelling with the purpose of having medical treatment or a Note: Only claims relating to a medical condition where any of the above apply DEMANDS AND NEEDS consultation. will be affected. This includes indirectly related claims. For example, if someone This insurance policy will suit the demands and needs of an individual or group (where applicable) who have no 4. You are not awaiting the outcome of any medical tests or an appointment at breaks a bone and a doctor confirms it is related to an existing diagnosis of excluded medical condition(s), are travelling in countries included within the policy terms and who wish to insure a medical facility for any medical investigations. osteoporosis (brittle bone disease), this would not be covered if we have not themselves against unforeseen circumstances/events detailed in the cover section below. Subject to the terms, For travel outside of the UK & All Air & Cruise Holidays - You will not agreed in writing to cover the osteoporosis. conditions and maximum specified sums insured. be covered for any claims arising as a direct or indirect result of an existing SIGNIFICANT EXCLUSIONS IMPORTANT medical condition if, in the 12 months before taking out this insurance or RESIDENCY We will not provide you with advice about the suitability of this product for your individual needs but will be happy to booking your journey (whichever is later), you: If you or anyone else named on this policy has not been a resident in the UK provide you with factual information. a) Were referred for tests, investigations, treatment or surgery, or were awaiting for more than 12 months, or if studying or working in the UK for more than 6 We summarise below the details of the insurance cover provided which also includes 24-hour emergency service the results of any referral months, before the policy was issued, this policy cannot cover you. from Allianz Assistance. The following is a brief summary of the cover available. Full details of cover and exclusions b) Attended or were due to attend a hospital or clinic as an outpatient or In addition to the above the policy also contains the following main exclusions: will be forwarded with your confirmation of booking. In any event you may ask for a specimen copy of the policy inpatient; • Any existing medical conditions unless they have been declared to (where c) Received treatment or saw a medical practitioner for a medical condition; or
HOLIDAY TRAVEL INSURANCE TRAVEL HOLIDAY wording before booking should you wish to examine this in advance. appropriate) and accepted by the insurer. d) Were prescribed medication. • Your participation in any organised sports or dangerous activities unless they Unless the condition(s) has (have) been declared to and accepted by us in have been declared to and accepted by the Insurer. SUMMARY OF COVER PLEASE SEE THE POLICY WORDING FOR FULL DETAILS OF THE COVER, writing. You should contact the Medical Screening Team by calling 02392 • Suicide, self injury or deliberately putting yourself at risk (unless you are trying LIMITATIONS AND EXCESSES, A SPECIMEN COPY OF WHICH IS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. 419063 if: to save another person’s life). Cover Sum Insured Excess i) You need to declare a medical condition. • Travel against the advice of the carrier, any other public transport provider, the Cancellation Up to £2,000 (£5,000 in respect of Air/ £75 (Nil in respect of Loss of ii) You are unsure whether a medical condition needs to be declared or not. Foreign Office or the World Health Organisation. Cruise Holidays) Deposit) The confidential helpline will be able to confirm if cover can be provided for • Any manual work or hazardous occupation undertaken during the insured trip. Travel Delay Travel Delay up to £60 Travel Delay Excess = 12 your medical condition(s). If you need to make a claim arising from a medical • The bankruptcy / liquidation of the tour operator, travel agent or transportation Cancellation (holiday abandonment) up hours condition that has not been declared and accepted by us, it is unlikely that your company with whom you have booked your trip. to £2,000 (£5,000 in respect of Air/Cruise claim will be paid. Each person insured by us would still be covered for any Examples of these and other conditions and restrictions and what to do if you Holidays) £75 unrelated medical condition(s) and other sections of cover subject to the terms are unsure about any aspect of an exclusion are contained within your policy and conditions of this policy. information. Full details are contained within your policy information. Missed Departure Up to £100 in England, Scotland, & Nil Wales/£300 for Northern Ireland, Isles of You will not be covered if: How to make a claim Scilly, Channel Islands & Europe • Following any claim investigation, your doctor confirms they would not have All claims should be made direct to Allianz Assistance. Please visit the website agreed with or recommended you travel as planned either when you took out www.azgatravelclaims.com. This will lead you to our online claims notification Personal accident Up to £10,000 Death and corresponding Nil this insurance, booked your journey or at the time you travelled (whichever service where claim forms can be obtained immediately via email or by Benefits limited to £5,000 in respect of is later). downloading directly from the site. Alternatively, please phone and ask for a persons aged 66 and over at time of travel • You know you will need medical treatment or a consultation at a medical claim form or write to: Allianz Assistance Travel Insurance Claims Department, Medical & Other Up to £1,000,000 outside of the UK. £75 facility during your journey. PO Box 451, Feltham TW13 9EE, telephone 0208 603 9958 or email travel. Expenses (including Dental treatment limited to £350, • You are travelling specifically for the purpose of having surgery, procedures or [email protected]. Curtailment and additional travel accommodation hospital treatment, whether medically necessary or not. Protecting your information Repatriation) and repatriation expenses if you are • You had been diagnosed with a terminal illness prior to the date you took out We will only use your personal details in line with our Privacy Notice. This can hospitalised or have to stay in beyond your this insurance or booked your trip (whichever is later). be found on our website or is available in hard copy format upon request and return date. Trips solely within the UK are If we are unable to cover a medical condition, this will mean that any other you should read this carefully and contact us immediately if you have any limited to £1,500 and to £300 for additional person insured by us will not be able to make a claim arising from the medical queries. Your personal information includes all of the details you have given us travelling expenses condition(s). This may even apply if the person with the medical condition(s) to process your insurance policy (we will not ask for more information than is Funeral expenses £1,000 purchases cover from another provider. necessary). We may share your data with Third Parties for the provision and abroad £100 Exclusions relating to the health of someone not insured on this policy, but ongoing performance of your insurance policy. Your data may be transferred Taxi fares & telephone whose health may affect your decision whether to take or continue with your outside the UK. All of the personal information you supply to us will be handled calls journey: strictly in accordance with the applicable Data Protection regulations and legislation. Medical Confinement £10 per 24 hours up to £100 UK Nil J.N.Baker Ltd. trading as Bakers Dolphin Coach Travel are an appointed Benefit £15 per 24 hours up to £450 Channel Travel insurance from just £31.00 per person* Representative of Travel & General Insurance Services Limited who are Islands & Europe Duration UK Europe authorised and regulated by the FCA (their registration number is 304788) Curtailment Up to £1,500 and which is permitted to advise on and arrange general insurance contracts. You can check these details online using the Financial Services Register Personal Property Up to £1,500 in all £75 Up to 3 days £31.00 £45.00 (accessible from www.fca.org.uk) or by contacting the Financial Conduct Including Money Single Article Limit £200/Valuables £200 Authority Consumer Helpline on 0800 111 6768. Personal Money Up to £200 £75 Up to 5 days £34.00 £49.00 Delayed Baggage (after 12 hours) - Up Nil to £100 Up to 6 days £37.00 £54.00 Loss of Passport Up to £200 including loss or theft of visa Nil Up to 10 days £41.50 £79.50 Missed Departure Up to £100 UK & £300 Europe Nil Up to 12 days £56.50 £93.00 Personal Liability Up to £1,000,000 Nil * These insurance prices are valid up until the 31st December 2020 and new insurance rates will apply for holidays starting from 1st January 2021 Legal Costs & Up to £25,000 Nil For insurance on air holidays, please enquire at time Expenses Visit our shops in WESTON-SUPER-MAREof booking. or BRISTOL Eligibility: Please note that this travel insurance is only available123 to UK residents. Winners of the 2018 Coach Tour Operator of the Year, Large Fleet and 2018 Coach Driver of the Year at the British Coach Tourism Awards.
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