DEPARTURE DATES &
PRICES FOR YEAR 2010
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Tour Code |
Join London |
Depart London |
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ROCK |
Sunday |
Saturday |
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Rock 01
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June 27
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July 03
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*Rock
02
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Aug 22
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Aug 28
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Rock 03
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Sep 19
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Sep 25
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*Bank
Holiday Weekend. Option to stay on in Liverpool for the Mathews
Street Festival.
These dates are our group departure dates. You can choose your
own dates if wanting an individual 'Going Solo' package. There
is a small price supplement for 'Going Solo'.
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Price: GBP £1115
pp twin share / GBP £275 single supplent
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What your tour price includes
- Your accommodation for 6
nights while on the tour is included in your tour price,
and this includes full breakfast. Dinners are not included
unless specified
- Your
price also includes all entrance fees to attractions,
transportation, services of driver/guide-companion and all
taxes and tips other than those you may wish to give your
guide
- Pre or
post tour accommodation can be booked on request. Subject
to availability, London accommodation is in one of the
cities renowned 'rock 'n' roll' hotels and features in
many song lyrics.
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Contact
reservations@londonrocktour.com
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TENTATIVE ITINERARY |
NIGHTSTOP |
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DAY ONE - Sunday
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Our tour commences at
09.00 from the Columbia Hotel, Bayswater. This is London’s
rock’n’roll hotel (mentioned in Oasis lyrics, amongst many others)
so it’s the appropriate place to start the tour! Today, we enjoy a
full day discovering the city’s iconic landmarks associated with
the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Clapton, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Marc
Bolan, Bowie, Radiohead, Coldplay, Queen, Led Zeppelin and more!
Our September tour focuses on Jimi Hendrix, who died at a London
apartment 40 years ago this very weekend. You’ll see houses where
the rock stars lived, died and partied! We have movie and video
locations, recording studios, and legendary gig sites. A high
point of the day will be taking a walk across Abbey Road. This
evening we enjoy a ‘beggars banquet’ at The Rolling Stones
restaurant ‘Sticky Fingers’. |
London
Dinner inc.
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DAY TWO - Monday
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Today we enjoy a day seeing
Cambridge and North eastern London. Our featured band is Pink
Floyd but we’ll also see sites connected with Iron Maiden, the
Kinks, Clash, Rod Stewart and a host of others. You also have free
time to enjoy the ancient university city of Cambridge. Tonight,
we’ll take you out to find some live music and to see where some
of rock greatest moments happened in the clubs and pubs of central
London. |
London |
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DAY THREE - Tuesday |
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We depart London stopping
first to see several Beatle film locations. 'Who' fans, this is
also your day! We’ll see where the band first started and various
of the band’s houses. Next, we drive to see George Harrison’s
house and Dusty Springfield’s grave at the pretty riverside
village of Henley. Our route today also takes us past the site
where rock was robbed of the great Eddie Cochran in a car crash,
fifty years ago this year. We also have a few more rock visits en
route focusing on Led Zeppelin and the Stones. |
South Wales
Dinner inc.
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DAY FOUR - Wednesday
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Raglan Castle was built in
the 13th century but it was used in Robert Plant’s sequences in
‘The Song Remains the Same’ providing us with a great excuse for
going there! Rockland studios are also nearby. We’ll introduce you
to Wales’s rock history (Tom Jones, this Manic Street Preachers,
Super Furry Animals and Stereophonics, amongst them!) There are
other Zeppelin sites as we then travel north to Ozzy Osbourne’s
Midlands. Tonight we’ll discover the local music scene that gave
birth to Black Sabbath and Robert Plant and Jon Bonham (who died
30 years ago this year)! |
Wolverhampton/
Birmingham
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DAY FIVE - Thursday
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Today the focus is on the
Fab Four and we take a Beatle sites tour (visiting the boys’
original houses, Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields). Also included
on today’s itinerary is the fantastic Beatles Story
Exhibition, the ferry across the Mersey River.
Tonight, we’ll have
fun at the famed Cavern Club! |
Liverpool
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DAY SIX - Friday
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After a visit to the
Beatles Story, we take the 50-minute ride to Manchester, the UK’s
greatest ‘hidden’ rock secret! ‘What Manchester does today, London
does tomorrow’ has been this cities proud boast. Where do we
start? Herman’s Hermits, Graham Nash and The Hollies, 10CC,
Simply Red, Factory Records, Oasis, The Smiths, The Hacienda and
Happy Mondays, John Mayall, Joy Division (it’s the 30th
anniversary of Ian Curtis’s suicide), The Buzzcocks, The Bee Gees,
Barclay James Harvest, The Verve, The Fall, James, New Order, The
Stone Roses… the list is endless. You’ll enjoy a fully-guided
tour of the rock sites, stars homes, album covers and lyric
references. Tonight we’ll enjoy a traditional end of tour
party!
(Those going on
to festivals, or to Dublin, depart by train either this evening or
on Saturday morning. Those staying on for the Mathews Street
Beatles Festival, return to Liverpool). |
Manchester
Farewell dinner inc.
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DAY SEVEN - Saturday
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We drive south to London
and, en route, take the advantage of the stopping at Stratford
upon Avon, Oxford (Radiohead and Supergrass) and, finally, some
end of tour ‘Madness’ at Camden Town!! |
Hotel not incl.
End of tour
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Dublin |
Dublin
Extension Option (can be taken with any tour date).
You fly to Dublin
from Manchester and spend two fantastic nights in U2’s city,
enjoying a fully guided tour of the city’s rock sites (bands
include U2, Thin Lizzy, Cranberries, Sinéad O'Connor, Rory
Gallagher, Boomtown Rats). Your evenings are spent discovering
Dublin’s musical pubs! You fly back to London. |
Stay in U2’s hotel!
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Glastonbury Festival
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Wed,
June 23rd until Sun, June 27th
40th Anniversary festival! Unfortunately, we cannot get you
tickets; you can only get these directly from
Glastonbury
itself. |
Camping accom. Own arrangement
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Reading Festival |
Sat, August 28th – Mon,
August 30th
Bank Holiday Weekend, Reading (30 miles
from London) |
Camping accom. Own arrangement
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Beatles
Festival |
Sat, August 28th – Mon,
August 30th
Bank Holiday Weekend, Liverpool. |
Various packages
available
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