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Siegfried Line & Battle of the Bulge Mini-Cruise & Tour
On this tour including overnight crossings from Newcastle, you will understand more about the Allied breaking of the Siegfried Line in September 1944 and the German Offensive in the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge.
Tour Includes
- 2 nights overnight ferry in a low-berth inside cabin
- Extensive buffet breakfast and buffet dinner on board the overnight ferries
- 2 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- 1 lunch
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Regional joining points
- Porterage at the hotel
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Itinerary
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Regional departure by coach or Door-to-Door service and we continue towards Newcastle for our overnight crossing to the Netherlands.
We have an included meal package on board, featuring an extensive buffet breakfast and buffet dinner. Afterwards, enjoy the other facilities on board including bars and live entertainment.
Includes Dinner
We depart the ferry and travel to the Overloon War Museum, a massive WW2 museum with tanks and vehicles, and have an included visit and lunch.
We then continue to the Netherlands American Cemetery, looking at the stories of some of the ‘Band of Brothers’ and one of the ‘Monuments Men’.
We end the day on the Siegfried Line, seeing original concrete defences – Dragon’s Teeth – which were part of the German Westwall where Allied units broke through in September 1944. We then continue to our hotel in Belgium for two nights.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Lunch
Key Visits
Today we look at the German Offensive in the Ardennes in December 1944, starting where an SS Battlegroup fought its way through the American lines and at Malmedy carried out a massacre of US troops, seeing the Malmedy Memorial.
We follow the route of this Battlegroup into La Gleize, seeing a rare King Tiger tank before looking at the fighting at Parker’s Crossroads. We then visit a Panther Tank at Houffalize before going into central Bastogne for the lunchtime period.
Later, we visit the 101st Airborne Museum and then see where Airborne troops defended Bastogne, looking at the fighting around Foy and Recogne.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
We begin at the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery where many of the dead from the Battle of the Bulge are buried and commemorated. Later we visit the excellent Remember 39-45 Museum, seeing an original Sherman tank, before heading to the Netherlands, where we have time for lunch and a visit to where the 101st Airborne jumped into Operation Market Garden near Eindhoven in September 1944.
We then continue to Ijmuiden for our return overnight crossing to the UK. We have an included meal package on board, including extensive buffets for breakfast and dinner.
Includes Breakfast
Includes Dinner
Key Visits
We disembark this morning and continue our journey home via an en route stop in York.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
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Accommodation
You will stay for two nights at the 3-star Post Hotel Liège.
Overnight ferry accommodation is based on a low-berth inside cabin.
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