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Escorted Holidays by Rail January - December 2017 Enjoy the Freedom of Travel With Personal, Tailored and Guided Tours Escorted Holidays By Rail January - December 2017 Enjoy the freedom of travel with Welcome to our range of 19 Jan - 13 Feb New Zealand in style Page 6 2017 global escorted rail 4 Feb - 18 Feb Wonders of Sri Lanka by Rail Page 10 and culture holidays. 16 Feb - 2 Mar Slow Trains to Guantanamo Page 12 2 Mar - 16 Mar The Real Cuba - Steam and Culture Page 14 We are here to open up the world to 30 Mar - 6 Apr Springtime in Lisbon Page 16 you through the joy of travel. Almost 3 Apr - 10 Apr Vintage Sicily Page 18 all of our tours include the pleasure 26 Apr - 2 May The Great Hungary Track Bash Page 20 of rail travel of one sort or another 23 Apr - 7 May Ancient Wonders of Persia by Rail Page 22 ranging from luxury journeys to 2 May - 10 May Undiscovered Hungary Page 24 chartered day trips by steam, from 1 June - 8 June Classic Minho and Douro Page 26 the other side of the world or closer 2 June - 9 June Portmeirion and the Railways of Snowdonia Page 28 to home. Whether visiting a UNESCO world heritage site or taking time to 4 June - 12 June Galician Paradores - In Style Page 30 experience local culture or simply 8 June - 13 June Railway Ramble - Tâmega Line Portugal Page 32 spending the day on the beach, the 18 June - 29 June Wonders of Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania Page 34 choice is yours. 26 June - 5 July South West England in Style Page 36 1 July - 9 July Southern Finland by Special Train Page 38 1 July - 15 July Wonders of Costa Rica and Panama Page 40 4 July - 13 July Hidden Slovenia Page 42 10 July - 19 July A Taste of Russia Page 44 11 July - 19 July Vintage Loire Valley Page 46 12 July - 26 July By Train to the Midnight Sun Page 48 14 July - 23 July Vintage Slovakia (and into Poland) Page 50 11 Aug - 18 Aug A ‘Royal’ Douro Cruise Page 52 20 Aug - 1 Sept Alpine Railways and Lakes of Austria Page 54 7 Aug - 14 Sept Vintage Port 39 Page 56 8 Aug - 17 Sept Vintage Slovenia Page 58 14 Sept - 29 Sept Hidden Colombia by Rail Page 60 18 Sept - 25 Sept Classic Baltics Page 62 21 Sept - 2 Oct Southern France and the Pyrenees Page 64 9 Oct - 17 Oct Rail and Ancient Wonders of the Peloponnese Page 66 17 Oct - 31 Oct Rail Wonders of Sardinia and Corsica Page 68 23 Oct - 3 Nov Ancient and Natural Wonders of Peru Page 70 9 Nov - 19 Nov Wonders of Ecuador (and Galapagos) Page 72 10 Nov - 26 Nov Rail and Natural Wonders of Burma Page 74 2 PTG TOURS | Personal, Tailored, Guided Tours The PTG TOurs travel EXperience GROUP travel Let us guide you through unfamiliar territory In today’s world the group tour has become an opportunity in the most comfortable and relaxing way to travel with other likeminded people who share common interests. At PTG Tours our itineraries further enhance the possible. We journey on some of the most experience by visiting places not on the itineraries of other tour scenic routes in the world. Simply enjoy groups. However, our itineraries are designed to give you the the world passing you by as you travel in choice of having your independence from the group by giving you the option to take time out to enjoy your own comfort to your destination. day or evening experience. Your trusted guide will be traveling with you to make sure you get the best and most HOtels unique experiences. We make sure your trip The hotels we book come highly recommended or highly rated is relaxed and problem free. on Tripadvisor. We generally book Four Star hotels unless otherwise requested or when Four Star hotels are not on offer. Our guides have a passion for travel and extensive tour In Cuba for example, it is sometimes not possible to book experience over many years but from time to time we join up Four Star hotels throughout the tour due to Four Star hotels with local guides, in addition to our tour guide, who have local not always being available outside of the city. We will highlight insights and take your experience to another level that might be the shortfall in advance in such cases. Part of the cost of missed if travelling without a guide. travelling to unusual places ahead of the crowd. After 18 years of tailoring guided tours we have the expertise to ensure you get the rewarding holiday you are looking for time Prices, NO Fly and Flight OptiOns and time again. We expect to exceed your expectations and make a point of offering tours that can’t be found elsewhere. At PTG Tours we work hard to ensure our rail and culture holidays are great value. Our prices start from £799, making our tours available to as many travellers as we can without comprimising Financial PROtectiON the unique experiences we offer. We give you the option to For your peace of mind we are both ATOL & ABTA bonded personalise your tour and offer you the choices of how and where making your booking with us secure against any loss. It is you want to travel. We can offer you the full package from the always advised that you book with a company that offers UK by rail or air or a reduced price (tour only) where you are free to make your own arrangements. Many of our tours offer No Fly ATOL & ABTA protection options and prices. Trains leave for Europe from St. Pancras. Most tours are priced for tour only but we do display ‘including flight’ prices. 01235 227288 | [email protected] | www.ptg.co.uk 3 A guide to our range of tour experiences At PTG we have wide variety of tours and we want to guide you to the right tour for you and your rail holiday experience. With that in mind, we have put our tours into five categories: Classic, Vintage, In Style, Adventure and Enthusiast. We have given a brief description of each category to help you understand what you should expect from our tours.’ CLASSIC ADVENTURE TOURS Classic tours are our regular general interest tours that we These tours are for people with a real sense of adventure, tend to run each year and priced to represent good value for away from the normal tourist areas. Destinations include Sri our travellers. Destinations usually include Portugal, Bulgaria, Lanka, Cuba, Thailand, Burma and Alaska. The tours are very Slovenia, France, Slovakia and Italy. We stay at good hotels much unique to PTG. We stay at conveniently located hotels of (mostly 4 star) and the itineraries are designed for easy going good standard- but you should bear in mind that some of our days with plenty of off-train activities, culture, history, gardens destinations have never seen a four star hotel. Group sizes may etc… Where possible the trains we travel on are of a certain vary. Itineraries are designed with rail travel in mind but also a vintage and one or two steam hauled trips are often included. good mix of culture and unique wildlife. These tours tend to be ‘one offs’ so miss that at your peril! VINTAGE Vintage tours are Classic tours with an upgrade but continuing ENTHUSIAST TOURS to travel to similar destinations. We tend to use better hotels and These tours are focused on rail interest for people with a real often first class rail travel where available. sense of adventure, often away from the normal tourist areas. They are unique tours to PTG and are ‘one offs’ and most will IN style certainly never be repeated and for that reason there is an In Style are similar to our Vintage tours but with an element of opportunistic element to them. Take it whilst it is on offer! These luxury thrown in for the traveller who prefers that little bit more are generally for larger group sizes but we stay at conveniently comfort from their hotels and train travel. Not unusual for In Style located hotels of a good standard - normally a Four Star standard. tours to travel beyond Europe. 4 PTG TOURS | Personal, Tailored, Guided Tours Some of our 2017 tours aren’t quite ready at the time of our brochure going out to you which means we can’t feature them but that doesn’t stop us from telling you about our exciting extra plans! Keep checking our website for updates on these tours and any other new tours that have been added to our 2017 programme. Enthusiast - Denmark - 18 to 22 May Enthusiasts - Montenegro by Private Train Negotiations for a tour in Eastern Denmark based in Copenhagen 1st to 6th October are looking promising. The main tour engine would be a NOHAB An introductory four day tour is being planned for Montenegro, all class MY locomotive, with two heritage diesels also featuring main passenger lines radiating from Podgorica will be covered as well as an electric loco - essential to get us to an extremely taking the tour to Bar, Bijelo Polje and Nikši´c . It is also hoped to rare section of freight line. Almost all freight lines in the area also include the line via Tuzi and over the border to the Albanian and several heritage lines would feature in the itinerary currently border station of Bajze. under discussion. Requested traction will be some of the four ex Slovenian class 644 locos (Spanka’s) and if available a class 661.
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