London to the Alps

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Length: 7 Days. Travel abroad with your group of 12 or more, students or adults can enjoy an amazing educational experience that you have fully customized.

Highlights: London City Tour, Windsor Castle, Paris City Tour, Highlights of the Louvre, Palace of Versailles, Lucerne City Tour, Heidelberg Castle

Itinerary: London (2), Paris (2), Lucerne (2), Heidelberg (1)

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Day 1– Depart USA

Fly through the night to London.

Day 2 – London

Welcome to England! Arrive in Europe’s largest city, where your private bus and driver will escort you to your hotel. Option: Enjoy a fabulous theatre performance at one of London’s famous historic West End Theatres.

Day 3 – London

On today’s London City Tour, see Piccadilly Circus, Tower Bridge, Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Fleet Street, the Houses of Parliament, St. Paul’s and Big Ben. Continue to Westminster where you’ll tour the formidable Westminster Abbey, site of numerous royal weddings and coronations. Then travel to Windsor on the southern bank of the Thames. Visit Windsor Castle, country retreat of the royal family and the largest castle still inhabited. See the Round Tower built by Henry II, St. George’s Chapel, and Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House.

Day 4 – Paris

Then cross the English Channel by way of the Channel Tunnel to France and discover the City of Lights with your advisor. You may want to visit the Right Bank and stroll through the bustling Les Halles or cross the Pont Marie to the Ile St.-Louis to sample the world’s best ice cream, Berthillon. Option: Enjoy a Bateaux Mouche cruise on the romantic Seine. View the monuments of France from a unique perspective as you take in the brilliance of the lights of Paris after nightfall.

Day 5 – Paris

Enjoy a guided Paris City Tour. Visit the gothic masterpiece Notre Dame, made famous by Victor Hugo’s Hunchback. Visit the Eiffel Tower. See the highlights of the Louvre, the largest museum in the world. Next, venture to the Palace of Versailles, home of the Sun King, Louis XIV, who remodeled this former hunting lodge into one of the most spectacular buildings in the world.

Day 6 – Lucerne

Travel by train to the town of Lucerne, Switzerland. Situated on the northwestern tip of Lake Lucerne, this city is famous for its ancient churches and covered bridges. Option: Journey to Switzerland on the high-speed TGV train and enjoy extra time in Lucerne.

Day 7 – Lucerne

Tour the beautiful city of Lucerne today. See the historic Old Town, the the 8th century Hofkirche and the seven medieval bridges across the Reuss. Also visit the Verkehrshaus or Transportation Museum to witness the history of transportation in Switzerland. As an option, travel on the world’s steepest cog railway and cable car up to Mt. Pilatus.

Day 8 – Heidelberg

Journey to Germany and the ancient town of Heidelberg celebrated in song and poetry. See the Old University, the little 15th century St. Peter’s Church, and visit magnificent Heidelberg Castle. Climb up to the famous ruined castle where you’ll see an 18th century wine barrel which holds 49,000 gallons of wine! Stroll down the town’s avenues along the banks of the Neckar River and luxuriate in the old world charm of its shops and cafés.

Day 9 – Depart

Travel to Frankfurt to board your flight home, filled with fabulous memories of your European adventure, from London to the Alps!

London

London city tour
Westminster Abbey
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Buckingham Palace
Changing of the Guard
Hop-on, Hop-off bus tour
West End play
Shakespeare’s Globe tour
Globe theatre performance
Behind the Stage tour
Thames River cruise
Tower of London
Covent Garden
Greenwich
London Eye
Madame Tussauds
Afternoon tea at Harrods
London Dungeon
Jack the Ripper tour
British Museum
The National Gallery
Victoria & Albert Museum
Imperial War Museum
Churchill War Rooms
Charles Dickens Museum
Windsor Castle
Leeds Castle
Hampton Court Palace
Kew Palace
Kensington Palace
Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare’s Birthplace
Anne Hathaway’s Cottage
Warwick Castle
Stonehenge
Bath
Canterbury
Salisbury
Oxford
Cambridge
White Cliffs of Dover

Edinburgh

Edinburgh city tour
Edinburgh Castle
Holyrood Palace
The National Museum
The National Gallery
Scottish folk dinner show
Witchery tour
The Writers’ Museum
The Royal Yacht Britannia
Our Dynamic Earth science museum

Dublin

Dublin city tour
Dublin Castle
Trinity College – Book of Kells
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Dublin Writers Museum
Guinness Storehouse

Limerick

Rock of Cashel
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park
Adare Village
Glenstall Abbey

Killarney

Ring of Kerry
Blarney Castle
Muckross Abbey
Ross Castle
Torc Waterfall

Paris

Paris city tour
Paris by Night tour
Notre Dame Cathedral
Sainte-Chapelle
Eiffel Tower (2nd or 3rd Level)
Bateaux Mouches river cruise
Seine River dinner cruise
Louvre Museum
Musee d’Orsay
Rodin Museum
Opera Garnier
Pere Lachaise Cemetery
Montmartre dinner
Moulin Rouge show
Sacre-Coeur Basilica
Paris Catacombs
Paris Sewers Tour
Latin Quarter tour
Le Marais tour
Centre Pompidou

Saint-Malo

Saint-Malo city tour
Musée du Château
Jacques Cartier Manor House
Le Grand Aquarium
Fort National
St. Vincent Cathedral

Lyon

Lyon city tour
Basilica Notre Dame de Fourvière
Gallo-Roman Museum and Ruins
St-Jean Cathedral

Aix-en-Provence

Aix city tour
Cézanne’s Studio
Cathedral of the Holy Saviour

Nice

Nice city tour
Monaco city tour
Eze perfume factory
Language homestay
Matisse Museum
Le Chateau
Theatre de la Photographie et de l’Image
Russian Cathedral
Nice Archaeology Museum

Caen

Caen city tour
Abbaye aux Dames
Abbaye aux Hommes
Musée de Normandie
Musée des Beaux-Arts

Tours

Tours city tour
Tours Cathedral
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Château d’Amboise
Château de Chambord
Château de Chenonceau
Château de Chantilly

Normandy

D-Day tour
Mont Saint-Michel
Bayeux Tapestry

Marseille

Marseille city tour
Notre Dame de la Garde
Mediterranean Archaeology Museum
Longchamp Castle
Château d’If

Geneva

Geneva city tour
Natural History Museum
Cathédrale de St-Pierre
Russian Church
Maison Tavel
Palais des Nations
Patek Philippe Museum
Fondation Martin Bodmer
Voltaire Institute & Museum
International Red Cross & Red Crescent Museum
Museum of the History of Science
Lake Geneva cruise
Le Salève cable car
CERN
Montreux & Château de Chillon
Chamonix & Mont Blanc
Gruyère

Bern

Bern city tour
Einstein Museum
Paul Klee Center
Münster-Cathedral
Swiss Alpine Museum

Lucerne

Lucerne city tour
Alpineum Museum
Swiss Transport Museum
Glacier Garden

Zermatt

Zermatt bike tour
Klein Matterhorn & Glacier Grotto
Gornergrat mountain train
Glacier Express train to St. Moritz

Zurich

Zürich city tour
Grossmünster tower
Swiss National Museum
Kunsthaus Zürich
Rhine Falls by train
Zürich Zoo
Uetliberg Planet Walk

Interlaken

Interlaken village tour
Alpin Raft white water rafting
Jungfraujoch Railway
Lake cruise
Niederhorn bike tour
Trümmelbach Waterfalls
Gimmelwald
Grindelwald
Wengen
Lauterbrunnen

Montreux

Montreux city tour
Château de Chillon
Steamboat cruise
Musée du Vieux-Montreux
Vevey

Lausanne

Lausanne city tour
Olympic Museum
Art Brut Collection
Musée de l’Elysée
Gruyère

Berlin

Berlin city tour
Checkpoint Charlie
Holocaust Memorial
Jewish Museum
Reichstag Building
Berlin Zoo
Charlottenburg Palace
Olympia Stadium
Pergamon Museum
Old National Gallery
Museum of Pre-History and Early History
Botanical Museum
Bauhaus Archive

Dresden

Dresden city tour
Zwinger Palace
Semper Opera House
Royal Palace
Frauenkirche
Brühl Terrace
Military History Museum

Frankfurt

Frankfurt city tour
Goethe House
Paulskirche
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History
Museum of Modern Art
Botanical Gardens

Nuremberg

Nuremberg city tour
Nuremberg Trials/Nazi rally grounds tour
National Germanic Museum
Imperial Castle
Nicolai Copernicus Planetarium
Albrecht Dürer House

Cologne

Cologne city tour
Cologne Cathedral
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum
Romano-Germanic Museum
Jewish Museum

Düsseldorf

Düsseldorf city tour
Schloss Benrath
Löbbecke Museum and Aquarium
Heinrich-Heine-Institut

Regensburg

Regensburg city tour
Bavarian Natural History Museum
Kunstforum Museum
Danube Shipping Museum

Munich

Munich city tour
Nymphenburg Palace
Munich Residenz
Alte Pinakothek
Neue Pinakothek
German Museum
BMW Museum
Hofbräuhaus
Isar River rafting
Mike’s Bike tour

Weimar

Weimar city tour
National Goethe Museum
Schiller House
Bauhaus Museum
Town Castle (Palace Museum)
Duchess Anna Amalia Library
Buchenwald Memorial

Heidelberg

Heidelberg city tour
Bergbahn scenic train ride
Neckar River cruise
Heidelberg Castle
Alte Universität
Schwetzingen

Leipzig

Leipzig city tour
Stasi Museum
St. Nicholas Church
Botanical Garden
Bach Museum
St. Thomas Church

Stuttgart

Stuttgart city tour
Wilhelma Zoo
Mercedes-Benz Museum
Porsche Museum
Altes Schloss (Württemberg Regional Museum)
State Gallery of Stuttgart

Hamburg

Hamburg city tour
Emigration Museum
Hamburger Kunsthalle
Church of St. Michaelis
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