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Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley! Group Organizer: Ms. Suzanne Marden

Tour Includes Investment Departure Date Meals Tour Cost $3229 February 18, 2017 All breakfasts. All dinners. Dinner at the -$200 until March 31, 2016 troglodyte restaurant La Cave Aux Fouées on Total $3029 Overnights Day 5. 2 • St. Malo 1 • Amboise 1 • Paris 1 Final payment is due 10/31/2016 or, with E-Z Pay, Guides 1/19/2017. Tour cost is based on enrollment of 20 Accommodations participants. Departure from San Francisco, CA. Services of a specially-trained passports Adults 24 years or older are automatically charged Accommodations in centrally-located Tour Director throughout. for double rooms. With doubles, total price is three-star or four-star hotels. Rooming on $3,229. a triple basis. Double rooms: $200 per Included Travel Insurance person. The benefits package conveys high-option life, health, and accident insurance, baggage loss Transportation and delay, trip delay and trip interruption Round-trip transportation on scheduled coverage. airline. Deluxe touring motorcoach. Enroll Today! Visit our website 1 secure.passports.com

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Voyage en France: Paris, Normandy and the

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Internal Transit Airport arrival transfer on Days 1-2. Airport departure transfer on Day 7.

Days 1-2: Home - Paris Courier-led walking tour in the Île de la Cité with Notre-Dame: Île Saint-Louis

Day 3: Paris Paris City Sightseeing: Local Guide Museum Bateaux-Mouches cruise x Day 4: Paris - St. Malo E-Z Pay Normandy landing sites, Arromanches 360 Opt for automatic monthly payments: circular cinema, Omaha Beach, American Cemetery • reduce enrollment deposit to $95 • extend final payment deadline to 30 Day 5: St. Malo - Amboise days prior to departure Abbey of Mont Saint-Michel passports.com/ezpay Dinner at the troglodyte restaurant La Cave Aux Fouées TravelPak+Plus Day 6: Amboise - Paris Available for $249 Château de Chenonceau, Chenonceau audioguide, Chartres Cathedral, Cathedral Cancel for one of 17 covered reasons audioguide and receive 100% of your money back Ascent

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Detailed Itinerary

Days 1-2: Arrival, Ile de la Cite Garnier. On the Left Bank, you'll see the English ships, and Jacques Cartier, who Walking Tour, Notre-Dame Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Latin sailed to the New World and up Canada's Quarter, the Luxembourg Gardens and St. Lawrence River in 1535. Weeks, or even months of preparation Saint-Germain-des-Prés. come to fruition at last as you board your Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner A local guide, well-educated and Overnight: St. Malo airplane bound for Europe and the specially-trained on the history and glittering jewel at her heart, Paris, the , will accompany your Day 5: Mont St. Michel, "City of Light." Bienvenue! group. Settle into your centrally-located hotel, Amboise, La Cave Aux Fouees then set out to explore one of the world's Louvre Museum • Visit the Louvre Dinner Museum to explore its restored galleries most beautiful capital cities. See how Mont Saint Michel rises out of You may want to head to , and their ancient treasures, as well as the modernistic underground galleria beneath the sea mists, its spired abbey church Paris' highest hill and its most celebrated perched upon a mountain of granite. bohemian district. Artists still flock to the I. M. Pei's glass pyramid. You will see Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and the On your way up the mount for a visit to charming , as they did the abbey, you will walk along steep when Toulouse-Lautrec painted the Vénus de Milo, among countless other masterpieces. streets and hear tales of pilgrimages and French Cancan dancers at the famous of prisoners who were once kept on this cabaret. Visitors enjoy Bateaux-Mouches cruise • See Paris small island. panoramic views of the city as they make transformed into a wonderland like no Then, spend some time browsing in the their way to the Sacré-Coeur, the white- other during a Bateaux-Mouches cruise village's souvenir shops. Have a look at domed basilica that anchors the Parisian along the River . the surrounding seabed, a flat sandy skyline. Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner expanse at low tide, where incoming tides Courier-led walking tour in the Ile de Overnight: Paris are said to rush in as fast as a galloping la Cite with Notre-Dame • In the horse. Travel to Amboise • Head to company of your courier, explore the Ile Day 4: D-Day Beaches, St. Malo Amboise, where the town's most de la Cité, the very heart of the ancient Travel to Normandy. illustrious resident was Leonardo da city which the Romans called Lutetia. This is indeed Second World War Vinci. He was 64 when he arrived in Visit Notre-Dame. This cathedral has country: sobering memorials, bunkers, Amboise in 1516 at the invitation of King presided over centuries of glorious and and occasional remnants of barbed wire. François I. somber French history, from its Over sixty years after D-Day, the beaches Stroll around town, below the Royal construction in the Middle Ages to the of Normandy are still referred to by their Castle, and see the Hôtel de Ville, the French Revolution and the coronation of WWII code names. Arromanches 360 fountain designed by Max Ernst and the Napoléon in 1804 (the 35-year-old upstart circular cinema • View the impressive Church of St. Denis, which dates back to crowned himself emperor!). Admire the Normandy's 100 Days show, a twenty- the 12th century. bas-reliefs, statuary, gargoyles and minute HD film with surround sound, Dinner at the troglodyte restaurant remarkable rose windows. Ile Saint- which is presented on nine screens. It La Cave Aux Fouées • Tonight, dinner Louis • Cross the footbridge to the Ile places the spectator in the middle of the is at La Cave aux Fouées, a restaurant Saint-Louis, the second in the pair of Battle of Normandy, thanks to archival housed in one of the caves typical of the islands on the Seine. This quiet enclave in footage. Omaha Beach • Step on the region. The menu includes a choice of the center of the city has always attracted five-mile-long beach with the code name fouées, traditional flat breads baked in a well-known residents, from Voltaire and of Omaha, where the Americans stormed wood oven and filled with local deli Baudelaire in past centuries to Président ashore on D-Day. In all, over 135,000 specialties such as rillettes. François Mitterand and the intelligentsia men landed on the Normandy beaches, Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner at the in our time. Its main street is lined with which now welcome swimmers and fine restaurants, boutiques and antique troglodyte restaurant La Cave Aux Fouées sunbathers. American Cemetery • Just Overnight: Amboise shops. Don't miss Berthillon, the best ice over the coastal cliffs, in Colleville-sur- cream parlor in Paris! Mer, lie the 9,387 military graves of the Day 6: Chenonceau, Chartres, American Cemetery and Memorial, which Meals included: Dinner Paris, Eiffel Tower Ascent Overnight: Paris you will visit. Their endless, crisp rows are poignant reminders of heroic days that Visit the castle of Chenonceau, the Day 3: Paris City Sightseeing, changed the outcome of World War II. prettiest of the Loire Valley châteaux as it spans the River Cher. In 1547, a century Louvre, Bateaux-Mouches Travel to St. Malo • Travel on to the medieval harbor of Saint-Malo. The town before the royal palace was designed at Set out on a coach tour of the city. On the is perched on a rock at the mouth of the Versailles, King Henri II gave this Right Bank of the River Seine, see River Rance, its only link to the mainland property to his mistress, Diane de Poitiers. Napoléon's , the a narrow causeway. It is known as la Cité On her orders, splendid gardens were Champs-Elysées, the Place de la des Corsaires for famous native seafarers added and a bridge was built to link the Concorde, and the exuberant Opéra such as Surcouf, who captured countless castle to the other bank of the Cher. The passports educational travel Voyage en France: Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley! 800 332 7277 Ms. Suzanne Marden famous gallery erected upon that bridge by Queen Catherine de Medici served as an escape route between Nazi-occupied northern France and unoccupied southern France during WWII. Travel to the Beauce region on your way to Chartres. Chartres Cathedral • The spires of Chartres Cathedral first come into view, solemnly rising above the wide-open fields of La Beauce. Soon, you're facing the most beautiful Gothic structure in Europe, reputed for its stunning stained-glass windows. The cathedral itself defines Gothic architecture and the concept of the flying buttress, which you will see during your visit. Travel to Paris • A short coach ride on the autoroute then takes you into a whole different world: the stately monuments and broad boulevards of the French capital. Eiffel Tower Ascent • It's a thrill just to ride the elevator to the third level of the most famous structure ever built, la Tour Eiffel ! At the top, you're further rewarded with an unforgettable panorama of Paris. Meals included: Breakfast, Dinner Overnight: Paris

Day 7: Departure Most good things must come to an end. Your suitcase full of memorabilia and of photos ready to be processed, you'll arrive home later today, eager to share your discoveries with family and friends. Meals included: Breakfast

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Itinerary Voyage en France: Paris, Normandy and the Loire Valley! Departing February 18, 2017 Departure City San Francisco, CA Rooming Triples Program Cost $3,229 -$200 Early Enrollment Discount for enrollments before March 31, 2016

Total Cost $3,029 Estimated Monthly Payment $267 with E-Z Pay and $95 deposit *Total Cost includes discounts which expire as listed. Program Cost includes weekend fees of $40. Program Cost is valid for those who enroll and pay in full before October 31, 2016. Alternate convenience monthly payment of $317 for enrollments before March 15, 2016 after $495 deposit.

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