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Best of Germany - Oberammergau Dept.
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Vacation Details

Duration: 9 Days
Accommodation: Hotel
Meals: 7 Buffet Breakfasts (BB), 1 Lunch (L), 3 Dinners (D)
Travel Date: May - September, 2010
Tour Code: 94-0929

Priced from (land only)
CAD$3,140pp/double occupancy

Summary

 

Highlights

WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE TOUR PRICE

Inter-city Travel: By private motorcoach, trains and ferries (see itineraries).

Touring: By air-conditioned luxury motorcoaches with on-board washroom and reclining seats for maximum comfort.
• Premium touring coaches are configured with 40 or 41 seats for just 40 guests. However, due to recent changes in EC regulations on drivers hours, replacement coaches may be required to be used once per touring week on certain selective itineraries. When this occurs the replacement coach may have in excess of 40 seats. Also, transfer coaches, sightseeing vehicles, or, in the event of a mechanical breakdown, relief coaches may feature 49 or 53 seats.

• If, due to circumstances beyond our control, coaches are used on tours otherwise than advertised, a refund of $10 per person will be made.

Hotel Accommodation: Prices per person are based on two persons sharing a twin-bedded room with private bath or shower.
• When booking triple rooms please note that the third bed may be a 'roll-away'. Availability of triple rooms is limited.

• Please note that single rooms in Europe will generally be smaller than twin-bedded rooms.
• Please note European hotel standards & services provided may vary from those in other parts of the world and are often in the local style.

• Passengers who are members of Hotel Frequent Traveller programmes are not entitled to earn points with any of the hotels featured on an Escorted Vacations tour.

• Any special room request will be made on a REQUEST basis only. Hume Travel cannot guarantee special room request although every effort will be made to request from respective hotels.

Cruises: Per person prices are based on two persons sharing a cabin with two berths, private shower and toilet. A limited number of single cabins are available on request at extra cost.
• Single Traveller Savings do not apply to tours featuring cruises.
• Triples are not available on Nile cruises or European river cruises.

Tour Director: Escorted tours are conducted in English only by a professional multi-lingual Tour Director.

Meals: Continental or buffet breakfasts in the local style are included as indicated on all tours except in Ireland, provincial Britain and Scandinavia, where full national style breakfasts are served. Dinners are included as detailed in itineraries. All meals are included on cruises. In-flight meals and snacks are served according to airline policy.
• Any special meal requirements will be made on a REQUEST basis only. Hume Travel cannot guarantee special meal requests nor will it assume any responsibility or liability if clients' special meal requests are not fulfilled.

Sightseeing: Excursions and entrance fees to places of interest as detailed on each itinerary with an English- speaking guide where necessary. Headphones will be provided as advertised on the itinerary pages. No refund will be made if they cannot be provided for operational reasons.

Premium Highlights: Featured sightseeing is integral to our tours, therefore no refund will be given (or value attached) if not used or operated for any reason.

 

 


Tour Itinerary

Day 1 - DEPART CANADA.

Board your overnight flight.

 

Day 2 - ARRIVE FRANKFURT - MAINZ.

On arrival at Frankfurt Airport, take your airport shuttle service for the tour hotel. As night falls, join your Tour Director for a Welcome Drink.

 

Day 3 - MAINZ - ROTHENBURG.

Start with an orientation tour of Frankfurt to see Romerberg Square, the cathedral and the house where Goethe was born. Continue to Heidelberg and climb up to the castle for views over the old quarter. Now on to medieval Rothenburg, the most well-preserved town on the Romantic Road. Walk through narrow cobbled streets to the market square dominated by its Renaissance Town Hall. Tonight, enjoy traditional German fayre at your Highlight Dinner. (BB,HD)

 

Day 4 - ROTHENBURG - OBERAMMERGAU.

Follow the Romantic Road south to Munich.Your orientation tour shows you the Olympic Stadium, Victory Arch and Glockenspiel in the Marienplatz. Continue to Oberammergau. (BB,D)

 

Day 5 - OBERAMMERGAU.

You have the best seats in the house for the Passion Play. (BB,L,D)

 

Day 6 - OBERAMMERGAU - DRESDEN.

Drive north to Nuremberg, still entirely enclosed by its fortifications. In the Old Town see the charming blend of stone and timbered dwellings and the massive ramparts with its 46 towers. Continue to the 'Florence of the Elbe', Dresden. (BB)

 

Day 7 - DRESDEN - BERLIN.

Join a local guide to see the splendours of the city. From the Frauenkirche, which has risen again from the destruction of WWII, walk past 'The Procession of the Dukes', a mosaic of colossal proportions on the Royal Palace facade. See the cathedral, Semper Opera House and Zwinger Palace, before departing for the capital of Berlin. (BB)

 

Day 8 - BERLIN SIGHTSEEING.

A guided sightseeing tour takes you along the Unter den Linden past the Humboldt University and Opera. Stop on Museum Island before passing the Brandenburg Gate. See the glass-domed Reichstag building and drive through the Tiergarten. Spend the afternoon at leisure. (BB)

 

Day 9 - RETURN TO CANADA.

Your tour ends after breakfast.(BB)

 

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