Normandy Coast & Monet's Garden

PASSPORT NEEDED FOR THIS TOUR

5th September – 5 Days

INCLUDED IN YOUR HOLIDAY PRICE

• Pick-up from your home and return • All ferry and luxury coach travel
• 4 nights half board accommodation
• with choice of menu plus tea/coffee after dinner
• Regional dinner on the first night • Happy hour each evening 7pm-8pm
• Admission into the Bayeux Tapestry • Admission into Monet’s Garden
• Admission into the Abbey and Gardens of Saint Georges de Boscherville.
• Excursions as listed • Services of our Kardan Travel Holidays Driver/Courier

Mercure Deauville Pont L’Eveque Hotel - 3 Star
This excellent 3 star hotel is situated in a beautiful landscaped garden. The famous seaside resort of Deauville is just 6 km away, while 3km away is Pont L’ Eveque, the ancient cheese making town. All 63 en suite, renovated bedrooms contain satellite TV and hairdryer. Guests can enjoy the glorious views of the countryside from the panoramic restaurant or summer terrace. Guests can also make use of the outdoor
pool and tennis courts or simply stroll around the stunning gardens. The hotel has a lift.

Day One: After a pick-up from home, you join our luxury touring coach and travel to Portsmouth for the day sailing to Caen with Brittany Ferries. On your arrival in France you travel along the Normandy coast through beautiful villages arriving in Saint-Martin-aux-Chartrains late afternoon.
Day Two to Day Four: At leisure with three included excursions.
Day Five: After a leisurely breakfast, you leave your hotel late morning and make your way to Bayeux famed for the Bayeux Tapestry, which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. You have time to visit the museum and also the town of Bayeux, before making your way to Caen for the afternoon sailing to Portsmouth. You arrive back on the Island around midnight

Included Excursions:
A day tour to Giverny and Monet’s Garden. Monet's Garden is the colourful garden of an artist, by an artist. This is the garden created from 1883 to 1926 in the Valley of the River Epte by Claude Monet,
one of the world's best loved artists. You return via the ancient cheese making town of Pont L’ Eveque.
A full day tour visiting the Normandy coastal towns of Deauville and Trouville and finally to the old fishing port of Honfleur.
A day tour first to the city of Rouen, with its magnificent cathedral, then onto the Abbey and Gardens of Saint Georges de Boscherville, a beautifully restored Benedictine garden, which includes 80 species of medicinal plants still used today by the monks of the order of St Maur. The backdrop of this
working abbey with magnificent views of the River Seine makes this garden a delight to explore.

KARDAN TRAVEL PRICE £495 per person

 BASED ON TWO ADULTS SHARING

Single supplement £115

Victorian Southport

12th September – 5 Days

INCLUDED IN YOUR HOLIDAY PRICE

• Pick-up from your home and return
• All ferry and luxury coach travel
• 4 nights half board accommodation with choice of menu
• plus tea/coffee after dinner • Lunch instead of dinner on one day
• Admission into Leighton hall • Excursions as listed.
• Services of our Kardan Holiday Driver/Courier

The Royal Clifton Hotel - 3 Star
The Victorian 3 star Royal Clifton Hotel occupies a great location on Southport’s Promenade offering panoramic views across the North West coastline and yet is only a couple of minutes walk from the heart of the town. Enjoy dinner in The Royal Pavilion Restaurant renowned for its fine cuisine, ambience and charm. For a relaxing drink choose between the Conservatory Bistro or Chatsworth Lounge. The hotel consists of 111 tastefully furnished bedrooms and each provides facilities including complimentary hospitality tray, satellite TV and hairdryer. Complimentary use of the hotels leisure centre is also included with indoor pool, sauna, whirlpool spa and gym. There is a lift to all floors.

Day One: After a taxi pick-up from home, you join our luxury touring coach and head northwards to Southport with comfort stops made en route.
Day Two to Day Four: At leisure with three included excursions.
Day Five: After breakfast, we leave Southport and head south arriving back on the Island early evening.

Included Excursions:
A day excursion, first to the resort of Morecambe and then onto Leighton Hall. This historic home of the world-renowned Gillow furniture making family, Leighton Hall is a stunning location for a day
out. Its romantic Gothic towers and acres of beautiful gardens annually lure thousands of visitors, who are as enthralled with Leighton’s fascinating heritage as they are captivated by the breathtaking beauty of their
surroundings.
A day excursion to the city of Chester awash with history and heritage and famous for its unforgettable half-timbered buildings, Chester has a gentle medieval air. From the cobbled paths to cathedral spire, Chester offers buildings of every era, each carefully restored to retain the old world backdrop to the modern day bustle of vibrant city life. Chester is home to the unique 13th Century rows, half-timbered galleried shops, the largest Roman amphitheatre in Britain and a glorious cathedral.
An excursion to the lively town of Blackpool. Leaving the hotel after lunch, which is included today instead of dinner, we travel the short distance to Blackpool. The afternoon will be free for you to enjoy the sights, sounds and many attractions of this vibrant town. In the evening you will rejoin the coach for a tour of the famous illuminations before returning to the hotel.

KARDAN TRAVEL PRICE £399 per person

 BASED ON TWO ADULTS SHARING

No Single supplement

Royal Scotland

17th September – 8 Days

INCLUDED IN YOUR HOLIDAY PRICE

• Pick-up from your home and return
• All ferry and luxury coach travel
• 7 nights half board accommodation
• with choice of menu plus tea/coffee after dinner
• Entrance into Blair Castle • Entrance into Scone Palace
• Blue Badge guide in Edinburgh • Entrance to the Royal Yacht Britannia
• Excursions as listed • Services of our Kardan Travel Holidays Driver/Courier

The Angus Hotel -3 Star
This traditionally styled Scottish 3 star hotel is located in the centre of this delightful Highland town. Enjoying extensive public areas for outstanding entertainment together with a cosy ground floor restaurant, the hotel has good leisure facilities including an excellent indoor swimming pool. Each of the 81 bedrooms is tastefully decorated and comes readily equipped with excellent facilities including tea/coffee
making facilities, hairdryer and satellite TV. There is a lift to all floors.

Day One: After a pick-up from home, you join our luxury touring coach and head north to Carlisle via the motorway network with comfort stops made en route. Your overnight stay is the 3 star Cumbria Park Hotel.
Day Two: After breakfast you continue north into Scotland passing Gretna Green, through Glasgow, stopping for lunch and comfort stops en route. You will also make a stop at Perth with an opportunity for afternoon tea.
Day Three to Day Six: At leisure with three included excursions.
Day Seven: After breakfast you head south for your overnight stay at the Cumbria Park hotel in Carlisle.
Day Eight: An early breakfast today before your departure for the Island. You head south via the motorway network with comfort stops made en route, arriving back on the Island in the evening.

Included Excursions:
A day excursion first to Pitlochry, a gloriously colourful and vibrant Victorian town surrounded by some of the most magnificent mountain scenery in Europe. Its fame as a holiday resort dates from the 1860’s and it is an absolute must for any visitor to Perthshire. You then continue your tour passing Loch Faskally and onto Blair Castle, the ancient home of the Earls and Dukes of Atholl. Some 30 rooms display
beautiful furniture, fine paintings, armour, china, costumes, lace and embroidery.
A full day excursion to Edinburgh and the Royal Yacht Britannia. You make your way to Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital where you will have a guided city tour on the coach with a blue badge guide. After lunch you make your way to Leith to board the Royal Yacht Britannia.
This magnificent ship has played host to some of the most famous people in the world.
A day tour, first to Perth, once Scotland’s capital city. You will find that Perth enjoys an air of elegant prosperity and retains the genuine atmosphere of a true county town with a rich history and tradition of welcoming visitors.
Perth’s streets and public gardens are filled with colour from Easter to autumn. After lunch you visit Scone Palace. Scone is a place that breathes history like nowhere else in Scotland. Today, in the 21st century, it is the home of the Earl of Mansfield and a major attraction to visitors from all over
the world.

KARDAN TRAVEL PRICE £715 per person

 BASED ON TWO ADULTS SHARING

Single supplement £24

Southern Ireland & The Ring of Kerry

24th September – 8 Days

INCLUDED IN YOUR HOLIDAY PRICE

• Pick-up from your home and return
• All ferry and luxury coach travel
• 7 nights half- board accommodation
• with choice of menu plus tea/coffee after dinner
• Entrance into Muckross House and Gardens
• Excursions as listed.
• Services of our Kardan Travel Holidays Driver/Courier

The Brehon Hotel - 4 Star
This 4 star luxury hotel is an impressive sight in Killarney. Upon stepping through the doors there is a feeling of warmth, tranquillity and opulence. The hotel opened its doors in June 2004 and all 125 bedrooms are furnished to the highest standards and include air conditioning, minibar, hairdryer and safe. The Sequana Spa is the only one of its kind outside Thailand and the restaurant serves a mouth-watering array of exquisite dishes. There is a lift to all floors.

Day One: After a pick-up from home, you join our luxury touring coach and travel west into Wales to the Ramada Hotel Swansea for your overnight stop.
Day Two: After a leisurely breakfast you travel through the Pembrokeshire countryside to Fishguard for the ferry crossing to Rosslare Ireland. You then travel the short journey to Waterford and the Days hotel for your second overnight stop.
Day Three: After breakfast you head south to the town of Dungarvan a thriving seaside market town nestled beneath the Comeragh Mountains with a stop for morning coffee and sightseeing. You then continue on your journey to Muckross House and Gardens which is one of the most popular
Irish visitor attractions, situated in Killarney National Park. You then continue to the Brehon Hotel your stop for the next four nights.
Day Four to Day Six: At leisure with two included excursions.
Day Seven: After breakfast, you leave Killarney and head north via the Glanaruddery Mountains to Limerick with a stop here for an early lunch and sightseeing. You then continue onto Tipperary where you will have a stop before making your way to Waterford for your overnight stop.
Day Eight: After an early breakfast you travel to Rosslare for the sailing back to Fishguard, before continuing your journey to Southampton arriving back on the Island in the evening.

Included Excursions:
A full day tour around the famous “Ring of Kerry”. This tourist trail is 106 miles long and takes in some of southwest Irelands most spectacular scenery along the Iveragh Peninsular. A full day tour of The Dingle Peninsular and Slea Head. The Dingle Peninsula has the most rugged Atlantic coastline in Kerry and is scattered with forts and pre-historic huts such as the Gallarus Oratory. Slea Head is the most westerly point in Europe and standing there, looking towards America, instills a feeling of excitement and empathy with the millions of emigrants who took this route.

KARDAN TRAVEL PRICE £725 per person

BASED ON TWO ADULTS SHARING

Single supplement £130