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Panzers in The Ardennes
Now a remarkable outdoor museum of tanks, battle sites and memorials, The Ardennes is the largest single WW2 battlefield in Western Europe. Join us on this fascinating tour as we focus on armoured warfare in the Battle of the Bulge in 1944, and also take a look at the German Blitzkrieg in The Ardennes in 1940.
Tour Includes
- 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast and 3 evening meals
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Convenient local joining points
- Travel by Silver Service coach
5 days from £669pp
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Local departure by coach, then to Belgium for a four-night stay.
We start today at the Ardennes American Cemetery near Liège. There are more than 5,000 burials here from the fighting in the Ardennes in 1944/45, including GIs who fought in tank units. From here, we look at German armoured forces and see a King Tiger Tank at La Gleize, one of only a handful left in the world.
After lunch, we see an American M4 Sherman at Vielsam and at Manhay we visit the War Museum and see an original Panther Tank used in the Battle of the Bulge.
We then end at Houffalize to see the newly restored Panther Tank, which fought in the town in 1944.
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Key Visits
Today we journey to Recogne to visit the German War Cemetery, where we will see the graves of German tank crews including Knight’s Cross recipients.
In Bastogne, we visit Bastogne Barracks for a tour of the many tanks exhibited here, as well as the tank workshops and displays relating to the 1944 battles in the area.
After lunch, we visit some of the Sherman Tank turrets which now circle the town of Bastogne, marking the old defensive perimeter from 1944/45.
We then cross into Luxembourg and visit the superb Diekirch War Museum which has a remarkable collection of armoured vehicles - perhaps the best in the Ardennes. We then travel back via Troisvierges and see a Pak43 88mm anti-tank gun.
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Today we look at the German Blitzkrieg in the West, following the route of German Panzers as they came down through the Ardennes in May 1940. We will take some of the routes they used down into northern France, and look at the battlefield around Stonne, one of the biggest armoured engagements. Here we see a Char B tank as well as a selection of other memorials.
After lunchtime in Sedan, we look at the Meuse River crossings by German Panzer formations, before crossing back into Belgium to visit the Hitler bunker at Bruly. This concrete bunker was used by Hitler as a headquarters during the Battle of France, and is now a WW2 museum.
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Return home.
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Accommodation
You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Hotel Vayamundo in Houffalize in the Ourthe Valley. Situated amongst pine forest, the hotel offers a restaurant, bar and indoor swimming pool.The hotel provides the ideal place to unwind after a day of touring the battlefields.
Silver Service Coach
More than simply your method of transport, Silver Service offers a coach with added comfort and facilities, such as deluxe reclining seats with leather headrests, an onboard entertainment system, and a spacious rear lounge so you can socialise with your fellow passengers.
Silver Service Features
- Specially designed reclining seats, with leather headrests, footrests and extra legroom.
- A spacious rear lounge where you can relax, socialise and get to know your fellow passengers.
- Our onboard entertainment and satellite navigation system makes your journey fly by.
- Free personal headphones mean you can tune into the music channel, listen to the radio or watch DVDs being played by your crew.
- Personal tables so you can enjoy your refreshments in comfort as you take in the passing scenery.
Reviews
4.4 Out of 5 ( 5 Reviews )
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4 / 5
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4 / 5
N Worthington, 0 years ago
Booking our Panzers in the Ardennes Battlefield Tour was straightforward. The journey was smooth until Dover, where we found it would be a four hour wait for immigration. Not Leger’s fault, but it led to arriving at the hotel in Belgium after midnight. The non-English speaking night receptionist directed us to take our cases back outside – in the rain – and to walk round the side of the hotel and down two flights of steps. The room was comfortable but hot as no air conditioning. The tour itself was very interesting and informative with a very knowledgeable guide, but rather disjointed as the first two days were visiting Battle of the Bulge sites from late 1944/early 1945, but the third day covered sites from 1940 which were a long coach journey from the hotel. The tour days were long, approx 8.30am start and back after 7pm. There was a lot crammed in, with excellent museums and interesting stops, but it meant a dash into the hotel evening meal before the food ran out. Our travel back day was an early start – 5.15am cases downstairs – and we were given a rather rubbish packed breakfast of a bread roll, cheese and not much else. All in all it was a good tour but exhausting as a lot of travelling, the final day in particular. We had to cover a lot of the same ground on the way back to Calais the next day so it would have been good to have had a hotel closer to the coast for the last night. Fortunately our Silver Service coach was comfortable and the drivers Rob and Ashley friendly and professional.
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Suzanne Smith, 0 years ago
Very interesting and informative tour with a very knowledgeable tour guide.
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Anthony Friend, 0 years ago
It was excellent, the guides and the drivers were also very good. The only criticisms I have that it would have been useful to have had USB ports on the bus and the itinerary could have been a little easier, for example on the last tour day we drove two hours west, to drive back two hours back, only to drive four hours west again to get the ferry. It would have been a lot easier, used less fuel and been less of a strain on the drivers allowed hours if one night could have been spent in a hotel in or near Sedan
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D Duhig, 0 years ago
The holiday was fantastic , the issue I have was with the return journey having had to get up at 04.30 and not getting to my home till 11.45 I think it's just to long a journey .
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John Patrick Williams, 0 years ago
Tour guide was excellent but very disappointed in the quality of the hotel.
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