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ALKI TOURS PRESENTS Downton Abbey and English Castles TOUR PRICE: $3899.00 PER PERSON/DO Single Supplement starting at: $960 (limited) April 9th-16th, 2015/ 8 Days Air Taxes & Fees: $232.63 Fuel Surcharge: $TBA If Alki Tours secured coveted tickets to increased by the airline. Highclere Castle (Downton Abbey) for the next 3 nights. This beautiful 16th century mansion with beautiful terraced TRIP REGISTRATION April 9th, 2015-Seattle to London gardens, became particularly famous as To register, contact The trip back in time begins as we pick the host hotel to Team England during Alki Tours at (206)935-6848 you up at your Seattle area castle and their victorious world cup campaign. or 1(800)895-2554 take you to Seatac Airport. Your tour You may also register on our Host will meet and assist you with web site at your transatlantic flight to London. www.alkitours.com Meals: Meals on own A deposit of $500.00 per person is due within 7 days of booking April 10th, 2015– Windsor Castle to confirm your reservation. Full Upon arrival at Heathrow Airport, we payment is due 90 days prior to the trip’s departure. will be met by our local guide and led to our private coach. We will visit Please make checks payable to: Windsor Castle, the official residence Meals: Dinner Alki Tours, 6417A Fauntleroy of Her Majesty The Queen. Then enjoy Way SW, Seattle WA 98136 a panoramic tour of the city and see th April 11 , 2015: Westminster Abbey some of the historic landmarks before -Big Ben-Buckingham Palace we arrive at Hendon Hall, our home Follow us on Facebook After breakfast, we are off to central London. Visit Westminster Abbey, initially built by Henry III in 1245, it is one of the most important Gothic buildings in England. We will see Big Ben, enjoy a walk around Buckingham Palace. Surrounded by vast parklands and gardens, this grand palace has been the Royal London residence since the the residence of King George III. Step back in time and explore this intimate and beautiful royal retreat. Kew Palace will always be associated with the It’s Included: At home pick up in the greater Seattle area time of Queen Victoria. We continue Roundtrip airfare from Seattle our city tour and stop at the Tower of to London London. Tonight enjoy a lovely dinner. All transfers Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Hotel accommodations: th 3 Nights North London April 12 , 2015- Highclere Castle ‘madness’ of George III. Then we Mansion After breakfast, we depart for continue on to the British Museum. 3 Nights Central London Hotel “Downton Abbey” Home to the Earl Established in 1753 it’s permanent Meals: collection, numbering some 8 million works, is among the largest and most 7 Breakfast comprehensive in existence and 6 Dinner originates from all continents, Sightseeing: illustrating and documenting the story Westminster Abbey of human culture from its beginnings to Big Ben the present. Our home for the last 3 Buckingham Palace nights is a riverside 4 star hotel in Highclere Castle central London. Tonight, enjoy a Kew Gardens & Palace and Lady Carnarvon. Highclere Castle lovely dinner. Windsor Castle known as Downton Abbey in the Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Stonehenge Emmy nominated series is well th Roman Baths recognized. The castle is used for April 14 , 2015- Stonehenge-Roman Jane Austin Visitors Center interior filming of the series as well as Baths-Jane Austin Visitors Center Bampton & Waddesdon exterior shots of Downton Abbey. After breakfast, we depart for a full day Manor Tickets to Highclere Castle are in of touring as we visit Stonehenge one Fully escorted and narrated so extreme demand as the Castle is only of the most famous sites in the world. you won’t miss a thing! open certain times to visitors. You Stonehenge, believed to have been will have plenty of time to stroll the built in 3,000 BC, is composed of a Cancellation Policy grounds as you visualize your favorite circular setting of large standing stones character in the series. We depart set within earthworks. Then we are off Cancel before 121 days prior to the to Bath to see the Roman Baths dating trips departure: $300 penalty pp from back to 60 AD. A stroll through 120-91 Days prior to departure: historic Bath is like visiting an open-air 75% Refund museum. Then follow in the footsteps 90-76 Days prior to departure: 50% Refund of Jane Austen with a stop at the 75 Days prior to departure or less: visitor center names in her honor. NO REFUND Tonight we return for Dinner Meals: Breakfast, Dinner TRAVEL INSURANCE Information regarding a variety of Highclere Castle visualizing scenes in travel insurance policies are availa- th ble upon request. We recommend our minds of times gone by. April 15 , 2015- Bampton & that sufficient insurance be pur- Meals: Breakfast, Dinner Waddesdon Manor chased to cover the possibility of lost After Breakfast we head off to the or damaged baggage, accidents or th village of Bampton. Also known as illness. April 13 , 2015- Kew Gardens/ Palace– British Museum Bampton-in-the-Bush this Oxfordshire After breakfast we depart for Kew village was used to film scenes in Gardens and Kew Palace which was th Downton Abbey. Home of 12 flight on Iceland Air, bound for the century St Mary's Church and the land of Ice and Fire. Upon Arrival, library which served as the entrance we will check into our hotel. to the cottage hospital in the series. Meals: Breakfast Bampton is one of the oldest and prettiest villages in the area and is April 17th, 2015: Reykjavik City Tour After Breakfast, we will take a city tour of Reykjavik Weaving our spring area is covered with ways through narrow alleys framed multicoloured pools of water and with old timber houses, we learn mud. Strokkur, the Great Geysir’s about the life of the Icelandic capital little brother, is spouting to a height of from its very beginning to the about 25 metres (82 ft) and erupts at present day. about 5-7 minute intervals. Then we Meals: Breakfast drive on to Skálholt, the site of an also used to film many outdoor ancient bishopric, and for centuries scenes. Today it retains its character April 18th, Iceland’s main cultural centre. We of a traditional Cotswold village. 2015: Golden pass the greenhouse town of Next we visit Waddesdon Manor in Circle Tour Hveragerði and continue over the Buckinghamshire. Originally built Over a scenic mountain pass Hellisheiði, an area by Baron Ferdinand de Rothchild in route we reach with large lava fields and steaming 1874, this is the fictional Haxby Þingvellir Park and the estate that Sir Richard (Thingvellir) Carlisle intended to buy in National Park Downton Abbey series 2. The and UNESCO house is set with formal gardens and World Heritage a English landscaped park located Site. We stroll around the country’s on a hilltop overlooking Waddesdon most sacred site, home of the oldest Village. Later we will return to a existing parliament in the world, the lovely dinner. Alþingi, and major events in our Meals: Breakfast, Dinner history. Thingvellir is a place of valleys. Passing the geothermal power fascinating natural beauty, one of station Hellisheiðarvirkjun we learn April 16th, 2015-London to Seattle the most geologically spectacular, how Icelanders use the energy from After breakfast we say farewell to set on a vast plain flanked by large the earth, so called green energy, for the world that we have come to fissures, right on Iceland’s largest heating their homes. know as Downton Abbey and lake, Thingvallavatn. The Great Meals: Breakfast transfer to the Heathrow Airport for Atlantic rift is clearly visible; a rift our return flight to the USA. that is slowly pulling Iceland apart April 19th, 2015: Free Day: Meals: Breakfast along tectonic plates and you can Enjoy a free day to explore or take Optional 4 night 5 day literally walk between the American an Optional Tour: $119 Iceland Extension and Eurasian continental plates. We SOUTH SHORE ADVENTURE drive to the mighty Gullfoss (the We drive over a lava plateau and Golden Waterfall), perhaps the most through the Threngsli pass, beautiful in the country. We walk descending onto the southern coastal around Gullfoss Falls, where the lowlands and crossing Ölfusá, river Hvitá tumbles 32 meters (105 Iceland’s most voluminous river. ft) in a double cascade. When the Eyrarbakki is an attractive and sun is shining, you’re likely to see a picturesque coastal village with many rainbow. After an optional lunch old wooden houses. The route passes stop we explore the geothermal through some of the prettiest April 16th, 2015: London to active valley of Haukadalur which countryside in Iceland with fields, Iceland contains the geysers Geysir and farms and villages towards the The fun begins as you board your Strokkur. This otherworldly hot Eyjafjalla and Mýrdalsjökull glaciers Westminster Abbey lowlands and crossing Ölfusá, Reynisfjara that is famous for its bird Iceland’s most voluminous river. species including puffins. This location Eyrarbakki is an attractive and offers impressive rock formations and picturesque coastal village with many caves, spectacular high surf of the old wooden houses. The route passes North Atlantic and one of the worlds through some of the prettiest most beautiful black lava beach. From countryside in Iceland with fields, Reynisfjara you can enjoy stunning farms and villages towards the views of picturesque Dyrhólaey Eyjafjalla and Mýrdalsjökull glaciers promontory, a 120m spur of rock and in glaciers in South Iceland. We reach Big Ben Seljalandsfoss, a graceful ribbon-like waterfall, which drops from an overhanging lava cliff.