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Oberammergau Passion Play & the Splendours of Lake Garda
From the world-famous Passion Play, to the celebrated city of Cologne, the shores of Lake Garda and the fair city of Verona, there is so much to see on this spectacular coach holiday. We begin in Germany, where we enjoy a few days visiting Cologne and Heidelburg before we head to Oberammergau for the moving and emotional Passion Play. After an emotive evening, we journey towards Italy and the stunning shores of Lake Garda, paying a visit to Austria’s Innsbruck along the way. From our base on the lake we offer many fabulous excursions. Why not join us as we cruise the shores of Lake Garda? Visiting the surrounding towns and villages, experience Verona on our included tour. Or, why not join our optional tour to the floating city of Venice? All making for the perfect holiday.
Tour Includes
- 11 nights hotel (including two nights in the Oberammergau area) with continental breakfast
- 1 lunch
- 9 evening meals
- Ticket for the Oberammergau Passion Play
- Convenient local joining points
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Itinerary
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Local departure by coach or Door-to-Door service, then to Belgium for an overnight stay.
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 to join an optional 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.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
Optional Excursions
Our optional excursions are a great addition to enhance your holiday experience and are highly recommended.
The optional excursions will be available to book during your tour.
Prices are per person and are subject to change. Payment will be in Euros (cash payments only).
Enjoy an included morning visit to the picturesque town of Heidelberg on the River Neckar, famed for its university dating back to 1386, castle and Old Town – the ‘Altstadt’.
After time for lunch, we head south to our accommodation in the Oberammergau area for a two-night stay, with time to relax ahead of tomorrow’s spectacle.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
This morning, relax and soak up your surroundings. We will have lunch at noon, ahead of the Passion Play.
The play has a running time of approximately five hours in total, with a meal served during the interval. The performance begins at 2:30pm* concluding around 10:30pm, with a three-hour break at 5:00pm when dinner is provided. After the performance, you will be transferred back to your accommodation.
The play is traditionally performed in German and a textbook with the complete play text is included on all tours.
* From 17th Aug-4th Oct, times for the play are as follows: performance begins at 1.30, dinner 4pm-7pm, performance ends at 9.30pm.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Lunch
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
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 I 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.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
A leisurely morning followed by an optional excursion to a local wine cantina to taste the local produce.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
Optional Excursions
Our optional excursions are a great addition to enhance your holiday experience and are highly recommended.
The optional excursions will be available to book during your tour.
Prices are per person and are subject to change. Payment will be in Euros (cash payments only).
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.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Included Highlights
Optional Excursions
Our optional excursions are a great addition to enhance your holiday experience and are highly recommended.
The optional excursions will be available to book during your tour.
Prices are per person and are subject to change. Payment will be in Euros (cash payments only).
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.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Optional Excursions
Our optional excursions are a great addition to enhance your holiday experience and are highly recommended.
The optional excursions will be available to book during your tour.
Prices are per person and are subject to change. Payment will be in Euros (cash payments only).
It’s our final day in Lake Garda and there’s so much to see and do around the lake. Our optional lake tour will stop at some of the most picturesque villages.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Optional Excursions
Our optional excursions are a great addition to enhance your holiday experience and are highly recommended.
The optional excursions will be available to book during your tour.
Prices are per person and are subject to change. Payment will be in Euros (cash payments only).
We leave after breakfast and enjoy a leisurely drive through the Alps to the Lucerne area of Switzerland for an overnight stay.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
We head north, crossing the French border, arriving at our overnight hotel in northern France this evening.
Includes Breakfast
Return home.
Includes Breakfast
Deposits
£550pp to confirm booking.
Balance Due
70 days before departure.
Oberammergau Tickets
Tickets for the 2022 Passion Play are only available as part of an official package and are allocated along with the hotel. Whilst we can't advise on the exact location of the seats, as a general rule, the higher the grade of accommodation, the better the seats – please see 'Accommodation' for more information.
Category D: 2-star
hotels or 3-star pensions/guest houses – includes
a category 2 ticket.
Category C: 3-star hotels or 4-star
pensions/guest houses – includes a
category 1 ticket.
Category B: 4-star hotels or 5-star
pensions/guest houses – includes a
category 1 ticket.
Accommodation
You will stay for five nights at a 3-star hotel on Lake Garda such as the Club Hotel La Vela in Torbole sul Garda. You will also stay for two nights in the Oberammergau area.
Overnight stays in Belgium, northern France and Germany will be in city-style hotels and in Switzerland, you will stay in a tourist-style hotel.
Your Choice of Accommodation in
Oberammergau
All
our holidays include accommodation in either Oberammergau itself or the
surrounding villages, so you can arrive in Oberammergau in good time before the
play and enjoy an included lunch before the performance begins. During your
stay in Oberammergau, you will also enjoy a three-course meal each night.
We
offer a choice of accommodation to suit all tastes. Hotels in Oberammergau have
been graded by the Passion Play committee according to the facilities
available. All categories of accommodation include shower or bath and WC.
There
are three different accommodation categories to choose from:
Category D: 2-star
hotels or 3-star pensions/guest houses – includes
a category 2 ticket.
Category C: 3-star hotels or 4-star
pensions/guest houses – includes a
category 1 ticket.
Category B: 4-star hotels or 5-star
pensions/guest houses – includes a
category 1 ticket.
Please
click the 'More Information' button for more information on tickets.
Details
of accommodation will be confirmed closer to the time.
