DAY 1 – 27 DECEMBER SAMPLE Depart on your flight(s) to . Flights may be multi-sectored. One main meal ITINERARY and one snack meal will be served on your trans-atlantic flight, along with complimentary soft drinks. Movies and audio entertainment will also be available on your trans-atlantic flight.

DAY 2 – 28 DECEMBER On your arrival in London you will be taken by motor coach to your hotel. There may be a short delay before you have access to your room and so we will schedule lunch and a walk of the local area. Your tour assistant will inform you of the time and place for an orientation meeting, where you will receive your information book and itinerary book and learn all about your week in London. Your pack will include your own Visitor Oyster Card, which allows you to travel on London’s Underground (Tube) and Bus network. For information on how to use your card please refer to the travel section in your information book. You will also receive your own MP4 player, loaded with nine unique self guided walking tours of London. Please check that your player is fully charged, as it may need a top up before you start your first walk. To accompany you on your DAY 3 – 29 DECEMBER adventure we have produced a compact booklet with maps and A substantial buffet breakfast information on each walk. will be served each morning in a private suite on the ground floor At the earliest opportunity, of your hotel at the time indicated make your way to your nearest in your daily itinerary. Underground Station and board Breakfast is served. the train to Station. This morning we will whisk As you emerge you will be you away on a spectacular adjacent to the Ritz Hotel, the tour of London’s most famous starting point for the first of landmarks, including the Palace your Audio Walks, the Parade of , home of the two Route. This will take you along Houses of Parliament, Westminster the spectacular processional Abbey, St. Paul’s Cathedral and route of London’s New Year’s the . Soak up the Day Parade through the heart of atmosphere as your Blue Badge Westminster. It features The Ritz guide introduces you to over Hotel, , , 1,000 years of history. This is also , and your opportunity to look out for . Learn about the places you would like to visit the rich history of the area and the during your unstructured time. buildings along the route, with the added flavour of the pomp and There will be a couple of stops for ceremony of the Parade. photographs. Return by Underground to your Tour ends. Lunch at leisure. hotel. Depart by Underground to Westminster Station on the Dinner will be served in a private District, Circle and Jubilee Lines. suite in your hotel. As you exit the station you will The rest of the evening is free for be close to ‘’, where the you to acclimatise to European ‘Princes, Palaces and Power’ audio time. walk begins. Walk shoulder to shoulder with over 1,000 St. John’s, in the heart of Westminster, years of Royalty, as you learn about the is one of London’s major concert venues history of The , and favourite historic buildings, valued , Clarence House, for its superb acoustics. Built in 1728, and much much more. and restored after damage in the Second World War, St. John’s is one of the finest Make you own way back to your hotel by examples of English Baroque architecture Underground. and is considered a masterpiece of this Concert performers and staff will depart style. St. John’s has been dubbed ‘Queen by motor coach to the concert hall, for a Anne’s Footstool’ due to a legend that the rehearsal in preparation for the concert this architect, Thomas Archer, consulted Queen evening. Anne on the design of the new church. In reply the monarch petulantly kicked over Rehearsal begins. her footstool and snapped ‘like that!’ Thus Board your coach to return to your hotel. the four towers are said to give the building the semblance of an upturned footstool. Dinner will be served in a private suite in your hotel. The concert begins. Depart for the concert hall, the venue for Concert ends. Your coach will be on hand your performance at this evening’s LNYDP to take you back to your hotel. Festival Concert. This will either be at Cadogan Hall or St. John’s, Smith Square. DAY 4 – 30 DECEMBER Cadogan Hall is a 900-seat venue on Breakfast is served. Sloane Terrace in Chelsea. Built as a church, Meet your Blue Badge guide and board it was completed in 1907 to designs by your motor coach for today’s tour. the architect Robert Fellowes Chisholm and is now a Grade II listed building noted Today you will experience the delights of for its stained glass windows. Since 2001 the counties of Surrey or Oxfordshire and Berkshire with a visit to Hampton Court it has been a concert hall of some renown, Palace or Oxford in the morning and and the home of the Royal Philharmonic Windsor in the afternoon. Orchestra. It has also been used by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque This morning we will treat you to a tour Soloists as a recording venue for the of Hampton Court which lies just 20 Mozart symphonies. miles upstream of Westminster on the River Thames. This spectacular entrance to the castle. Enter and palace dates from 1514 and enjoy a self-guided audio tour of was the favourite home of King the wonderful Royal Apartments, Henry VIII, he of the 6 wives. followed by a visit inside St. Your visit includes a view of his George’s Chapel and a walk of the state apartments and the Tudor castle walls. kitchens. The house was expanded in the late 17th century by You will have some free time London’s most famous architect, to discover the town and the Sir Christopher Wren and so fantastic shops for yourself. there is much to see as you stroll Time to leave Windsor. around the six acres of magnificent buildings. Your tour will end at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. Make your way or ... arrive in Oxford, known as to the King’s Suite on the second the ‘city of dreaming spires’. The floor in the West Wing. university buildings and the 40 colleges dominate the centre of Join Dr. Tim Lautzenheiser, a very the city. Your guide will take you well known and respected name on a walk of the most famous in the music education world, streets and will include entrance to as a teacher, clinician, author, Christ Church College. composer and adjudicator. He Continue on to Windsor. This will talk to you this evening about beautiful historic country town is “building tomorrow’s leaders renowned for it’s cobbled lanes today”. and narrow passages. At the heart The talk ends. of the town is the castle which has for over 900 years, been residence In the adjacent room we have and fortress for the British set up the LNYDP Pop Up Shop, monarch. where you can check out all of the LNYDP branded clothing. Our staff On arrival, your guide will take you will be delighted to show you all up in to the town, where you will of the items that are normally only have lunch at leisure. available on our web site, saving Join your guide again for a walk you $’s on postage and packing. of the town that will end at the We have a terrific t-shirt, a super sweatshirt, a magnificent mug, a special Eastern & Western hemispheres meet, runs scarf, a brilliant beanie hat and loads more! through the town. Don’t forget to bring your Dollars ($) and Today you will visit the Royal Observatory, Pounds (£) tonight as it is cash only! the oldest scientific institution in Britain The Metropole is adjacent to Edgware and home to some of the most important Road Station on the District, Circle & timepieces ever made. Bakerloo Lines, and you may use your There will also be time to visit the Royal Oyster card to travel in to town. Naval College, one of the finest palatial Dinner at leisure, using the vouchers buildings in the country and home to the provided. largest maritime museum in the world, and to wander through the historic part of the This evening you may choose where you town. would like to dine using the vouchers provided. Check the eating out section in Depart Greenwich by motor coach. your information book. Your tour ends at the Tower of London, Evening at leisure. where you may find an independent lunch at one of a number of eateries in the area. Return to your hotel by Underground. Join your Blue Badge guide for a tour of The Tower. DAY 5 – 31 DECEMBER The ancient stones reverberate with dark Breakfast is served. secrets, priceless jewels glint in fortified Meet your Blue Badge guide and board vaults and ravens strut the grounds. The your motor coach for today’s tour. Tower of London, founded by William the Conqueror in 1066, holds some of the Depart to Westminster Pier. most remarkable stories from across the Board a Thames river boat for the 50 centuries. Despite a grim reputation as a minute cruise to Greenwich. Your guides place of torture and death, this powerful will provide an historical commentary en- and enduring fortress has been enjoyed as route. a royal palace, served as an armoury and for a number of years even housed a zoo! Greenwich, in south-east London, is famous the world over as the home of Gaze up at the massive White Tower, tiptoe time (Greenwich Mean Time) and because through a kings’ medieval bedchamber Zero Longitude, the point where the and marvel at the priceless Crown Jewels.