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Brosura GET WINTER 2021 210X210 Mm 02.02 GUARANTEED ESCORTED TOURS Autumn 2021-Winter 2022 6 languages • 15 tours • 60+ departures BALTICVISION table of contents: BALTICVISION is the largest provider of guaranteed escorted tours in the Baltic Sea region and far beyond. Our tours combine three things, which are important The Wine Route of for modern travellers: affordable prices, first class service and plenty of individual Moldova and Ukraine 4 choices. Our autumn and winter programs are featuring traditional Christmas Markets Autumn Colours of National Parks 5 Winter city Break in St. Petersburg 6 in the Baltic capitals, sparkling New Year Celebrations, Winter Adventures in Russia Winter Cultural Weekends in Riga 7 and City Break programs during winter month. On the of the most popular summer Riga Christmas Market 8 program Russian Capitals has been extended into autumn and winter period. Tours Tallinn Christmas market 8 combining Moldova and Ukraine wine route and the one through the National Parks New Year in Riga 9 of Estonia and Latvia are unique autumn programs enlarging variety of our offers. New Year in Tallinn 9 BALTICVISION distributes its products through an extensive network of reliable and Baltic Highlights New Year 10 trustworthy tour operators Russian Capitals New Year 11 New Year in St. Petersburg 12 Polish Capitals New Year 13 A First Class Product Russian Capitals winter edition 14 Murmansk Winter Adventure 15 GUARANTEED ESCORTED TOURS sales, most tours are bilingual and guests are normally Russian Winter in Golden Ring 16 All our tours are guaranteed. Tours are offered in up to six from a number of different countries. Other guests with the different languages (English, German, Italian, Spanish, same languages may join in or may leave during a tour. Our Booking Conditions 18 Portuguese and French). Please see specification of tours represent a unique possibility to meet people across included services for each particular tour. Depending on borders and win new friends. 2 SERVICE STANDARDS Hotels: We are using good centrally located three-star superior and four-star hotels. We reserve the right to change the featured hotels. Alternative hotels will be of the same standard as the featured hotels both in terms of standard and location. Any changes from featured hotels will be advised latest one month prior to arrival. Breakfast: Breakfast is buffet style at all hotels. Coaches and vans: Our coaches are new 49-seater first class coaches with air conditioning, adjustable seats, toilet, fridge and possible other conveniences. Depending on sales, some tours or segments of tours and optional tours are operated with new first class vans with adjustable seats and air conditioning. For comfort and security we always keep at least three empty seats in coaches and vans. Passengers are covered by third person liability insurance. Drivers are driving strictly according to EU regulations. Seating in the vehicles is free. Tour escorts: Our tour escorts are university graduates and have been specially trained as guides and as tour MORE VALUE other form, aiming to help us to maintain and raise the escorts. The tour escorts are very experienced and standards of our product. Optional excursions and dinners: Most of our tours most have been working for us for many years. The come with an extensive choice of optional excursions tour escorts are assisted by local guides if needed or Safety and security: Safety and security is a priority and dinners. The optional services can be booked in required. in all our operations. We only use suppliers that advance or during the tour. guarantee the same. We carefully check the insurance Porterage: Porterage of one piece of luggage is and operating licenses of all our suppliers included when indicated. The optional excursions feature important highlights not included into the standard sightseeing tours and Visa support: Visa is required for almost all always include transport, guide service and entrances. PRICE POLICY nationalities for tours including Russia and only The optional dinners are half-board at hotel or special All prices in this catalogue include service and VAT. for some few nationalities for tours covering EU highlight dinners at local restaurants. All prices are gross rates and are commissionable to destinations. Unless otherwise indicated, we supply reliable and trustworthy tour operators. visa support complementary. For Saint Petersburg city The optional dinners at hotels are substantial 3-course break programs e-visa can be obtained. Please check set menu or buffet style and include ice-water and coffee/ carefully e-visa requirements. tea. Highlight dinners at local restaurants include a BOOKINGS substantial 3-course menu with ice-water and coffee/ We recommend to use B2B online booking platform Number of participants: We allow maximum 31 tea. In some cases alcoholic drinks or live entertainment Seagull-online.com for bookings. It is the fastest and guests on the same tour. Several tours are small group is included. The highlight dinners at local restaurants easiest way to get instant confirmations. departures with maximum 16 guests on the same tour. include guide and transport, in few cases the restaurants are within walking distance from the hotel (max 10 min walk) and transport is not included. At both hotels and SPECIAL FEATURES local restaurants additional drinks can be ordered and Arrival and departure transfers: Guests can pre- paid for on the spot order private arrival and departure transfers if not specified otherwise. By private transfer the guests are met by a driver with a name board reading their PRE- AND POST STAYS surnames in the arrival hall of the airport We offer attractive hotel rates for guests who would like to arrive earlier or depart later. Please ask for a detailed Welcome info: On arrival to the hotel the guests pricelist. We are also offering more comprehensive receive information announcing time and place for the customized pre- and post-arrangements on and around welcome meeting or the first meeting with the tour the destinations. Please contact us for detailed offer. escort or welcome package with further details about the start of the tour. QUALITY, SAFETY AND SECURITY Welcome meeting: For programs with welcome Quality control: We ask all guests to fill out a service meeting the guests are served a welcome drink. The questionnaire. The questionnaires are handed over tour escort introduces the program and the optional to the guests during the welcome meeting or at the tours, and the guests receive various materials such start of the tour and collected at the end of the tour. as a personalized program and information materials. Moreover, we are happy to receive feedback in any 3 Chisinau Odessa THE WINE ROUTE OF MOLDOVA AND UKRAINE DAY 1: ARRIVAL CHISINAU with production, wine storage areas and have a walk in Arrival in Chisinau, optional transfer to Hotel Park the winery cellars before wine tasting and lunch. We City**** or similar, check-in, welcome meeting. continue to Odessa where we arrive late in the afternoon and check in at Hotel Continental**** or similar. October 2021 – DAY 2: CHISINAU November 2021, Once founded as monastery village in the centre of what DAY 5: ODESSA was once known as Bessarabia in the 20th century, rebuilt Standing on a shallow indentation of the Black Sea coast 7 days/6 nights by Soviets into a city of grandiose Stalinist architecture north of the Dniester river, Odessa is an energetic and mixed with gloriously brutal modernism, Chisinau is now decadent boom town. The city is perhaps most known for the capital of Moldova. The morning sightseeing tour will its neoclassical pastel buildings and famous Potemkin take us to the Square of Stefan the Great, the Triumph Steps. During morning we will see French Boulevard, Dates: Arch, the Parliament House and the Eternity Memorial Arcadia district, Odessa National Opera, Duke de Richelieu and the Alley of Classics with sculptures of Romanian Monument and Sobornaya Square. In the afternoon an GMW01: 02.10-07.10.21 Classics. The afternoon offers an optional tour to the open- optional excursion to Odessa Catacombs tour is offered. GMW02: 17.10-23.10.21 air archaeological complex “Orehuil Vechi” with lunch at Located outside the city it is one of the largest underground GMW03: 31.10-06.11.21 Trebucheni village and an exciting vist to Cricova Winery labyrinths in Europe. It was previously a limestone carry with wine tasting in a real underground town. and partisan base during the World War II and features a Package prices per person: Partizan Glory Museum. EUR 675.00 (double occupancy) DAY 3: CHISINAU EUR 225.00 (single supplement) This day is reserved for a full day optional tour to DAY 6: ODESSA Transistria, a narrow strip of land between river Dniester The day is reserved for a full day optional tour to Shabo and the Ukrainian border. Our first stop on the way is Winery and Akkerman Fortress. Akkerman Fortress is at Bender town for a visit to Bender Fortress, which in a unique monument reflecting defensive architecture the 16th century saw fighting between Turkish and dating back to 13th century and is considered as the best- Including: preserved medieval fortification facility in Ukraine. We • 6 overnights at centrally located 4 star hotels Russian forces. From there we continue to Tiraspol, second largest city of Moldova and administrative region drive further to Shabo Wine Cultural Centre to learn about • 6 x buffet breakfast ancient wine tradition and visit the Wine Museum before • Welcome meeting with champagne-cocktail or of unrecognized Pridnestrovian Republic which is often juice referred to be the place to get back to the USSR. During wine tasting and visit to Shabo Winery. • Personalised welcome package the tour we will see the Parliament building with a statue • Visit and wine tasting with lunch at Purcari of Vladimir Lenin in front of it, Drama Theatre building DAY 7: ODESSA Winery and the impressive Orthodox church on Shevchenko Optional transfer to airport.
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