Beatles London Rock Tour

DEPARTURE DATES & PRICES FOR YEAR 2010

Tour Code	Join London	Depart London
ROCK	*Sunday*	*Saturday*
Rock 01	June 27	July 03
*Rock 02	Aug 22	Aug 28
Rock 03	Sep 19	Sep 25
*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'.

Price: GBP £795 pp twin share / GBP £195 single supplent

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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TENTATIVE ITINERARY		NIGHTSTOP
DAY ONE - Sunday
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.
DAY TWO - Monday
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
DAY THREE - Tuesday
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.
DAY FOUR - Wednesday
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
DAY FIVE - Thursday
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
DAY SIX - Friday
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.
DAY SEVEN - Saturday
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

Extension Packages
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!

Glastonbury Festival	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

Reading Festival	Sat, August 28th – Mon, August 30th Bank Holiday Weekend, Reading (30 miles from London)	Camping accom. Own arrangement

Beatles Festival	Sat, August 28th – Mon, August 30th Bank Holiday Weekend, Liverpool.	Various packages available

Note: you can also take this tour as a 'Going Solo' option. It is unescorted but we book all of the elements for you and you simply present your vouchers on arrival.