Leger Holidays

Your Holiday Itinerary

• Executive Coach

12-Day Break

• Monday - Depart from one of our local joining points or take advantage of our Door to Door service* and connect to your transfer service to Dover. Here you meet your Silver Service luxury coach and fellow travellers then sail to Calais. Onwards to our 4-star overnight stop hotel in Belgium.
• Tueday (Cologne & the Rhine Valley) - We leave Belgium and head to the city of Cologne with its splendid Gothic Cathedral with twin spires that dominate the skyline view from the River Rhine. After some free time we continue along the Rhine Valley with the opportunity for a relaxing cruise along the river to enjoy the sedate scenery of the vineyards and castles that adorn the Valley. We continue to the Mannheim area for our overnight stay. B,D
• Wednesday (Heidelberg) -  A morning visit to the picturesque town of Heidelberg, which lies on the River Neckar and is famed for its university, which dates back to 1386, castle and Old Town-the ‘Altstadt’. After lunch we head south to our accommodation in the Oberammergau area with time to relax ahead of tomorrow’s spectacle. B,D
• Thursday (Oberammergau) -  Enjoy a relaxing morning in the environs of Oberammergau. Lunch is taken at noon before the start of the Passion Play at 2.30pm. After a break for dinner between 5pm and 8pm the Play ends at 10.30pm. Transfer back to your accommodation. B,L,D
• Friday (Innsbruck) -  We leave after breakfast and head for the splendours of Lake Garda. En route to Lake Garda we call into Austria’s Tyrolean capital of Innsbruck. Surrounded by steep mountains the city’s location is most impressive. Perhaps the most notable landmark is the Golden Roof from where the Emperor Maximilian 1 used to watch the events in the square below. Leaving Innsbruck we travel over the spectacular Brenner Pass into Italy to our hotel in Lake Garda for a five night stay.  B,D
• Saturday (Lake Garda) -  A leisurely morning followed by an included excursion to a local wine Cantina to taste the local Veneto produce. This evening you can enjoy an optional cruise across the lake to the pretty shore-side village of Limone. B,D
• Sunday (Verona) -  Today we include a visit to the charming city of Verona. Famed as the home of Romeo and Juliet, it also boasts the impressive amphitheatre where the opera festival takes place each year. The many charms of Verona will be brought to life on our optional walking tour with a local guide who will reveal many fascinating stories behind the buildings and personalities of this fine historic town. B,D
• Monday (Venice) -  Today No time in this part of Italy is complete without a visit to Venice. Join our optional excursion to this city of canals, gondolas and palaces. Enjoy the famous sights including the Bridge of Sighs, St Mark’s Square and the Doge’s Palace. For a different view over St Mark’s Square enjoy our optional Lagoon Cruise as we sail past Guidecca Island and Venice’s Lido resort made famous by the International Film Festival. B,D
• Tuesday (Villages of Lake Garda) -  It’s our final day in Lake Garda and there’s so much to see and do around the lake. Our optional sightseeing tour will stop at some of the most picturesque villages including Sirmione from where we take a boat across the lake passing the private island of Garda. B,D
• Wednesday -  We leave after breakfast and enjoy a leisurely drive through the Alps to the Lucerne area in Switzerland for an overnight stay. B,D
• Thursday -  We head north crossing the French border arriving at our overnight hotel in northern France this evening. B,D
• Friday -  We travel on to Calais for our return crossing to the U.K. and then continue on our transfer service to your chosen local drop off point or if you selected our Door to Door service to your front door* B,D

B=Breakfast L=Lunch D=Dinner

Notes

PASSION PLAY TICKETS

Tickets are allocated together with the accommodation so we have no control over the exact location of seats, but suffice to say the higher the grade of hotel, the better the seats.

OBERAMMERGAU ACCOMMODATION

• HC3 HOTEL Comfortable rooms with shower or bath/WC in superior middle class hotels; all rooms are equipped with mini-bar or a range of drinks, colour television, radio, telephone, hairdryer, cosmetic articles. In combination with admission ticket category 1
• HC4 HOTEL Well kept rooms in middle class hotels with shower or bath/WC; all rooms are equipped with colour television In combination with admission ticket category 2
• PC3 PRIVATE LANDLORDS & HOLIDAY APARTMENTS Adequate, well-kept rooms or holiday apartments with shower or bath/WC (private shower may be on the landing). In combination with admission ticket category 3

Prices are per person, based on two sharing. No single rooms available.

Extras:

• Optional excursions;
• travel insurance: from £42.95.