Rome • Assisi • Lourdes

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  • 11 Days - Our prices include airfare from your home town and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere

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Trip Includes

  • A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate Mass. Daily Mass is available.
  • Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting to a gateway city to fly overseas is included. If your city has a direct flight to your destination, we will guarantee a direct flight as long as it is available.
  • Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
  • Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas (5 Star in Galilee on the Lake of Tiberias guaranteed).
  • All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine is included with all dinners.
  • Transportation with luxury bus.
  • All entrance fees to all the sites.
  • All tips to everyone involved in the tour.
  • The tour fees for our guides. Our tour guides are well educated, caring, and professional. Most of them have their PhD's in Church history, archeology, philosophy, languages, or Theology.
  • Luggage handling. Please pack light, one piece of luggage and one carry-on.
  • We limit our group to a maximum of 24 passengers, unless the priest on the trip requests a larger group. Small groups with a 5 star service in 5 star hotels.
  • If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't have to pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to the idea of rooming with another passenger, then $900 is what you pay for single supplement fee.
  • Dress casually all throughout the trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
  • Taxi and wheelchair is provided gratis for those passengers who cannot walk. But a traveling companion has to push the wheelchair throughout the trip.
  • At the time of registration, as a part of the total balance, a non-refundable $500 (hotel and airfare deposit) is due in the form of a check. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up and you pay the $500 deposit, your balance would be $3,200 and is due 4 months before departure date. If you sign up after the final payment due date or at the last minute, you must overnight the entire cost of the trip immediately.

Trip Does Not Include

  • Lunch
  • Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, so we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.

Trip Itinerary

Day 1: Departure from USA.

Day 2: Arrival. Drive to Assisi. Visit Santa Maria degli Angeli on the way to the convent of Soure Svedesi. There is the chapel where the Franciscan movement started. Dinner and overnight in Assisi.

Day 3: Full tour of Assisi. See the tombs of St. Francis and St. Clare; Mass in the Church of St. Francis. Enjoy a peaceful walk on the streets of Assisi. Dinner and overnight in Assisi.

Day 4-6: Free days in Assisi to meditate, pray, pray the Rosary.  Relax and enjoy this 'little place like heaven.' Dinner and overnight in Assisi.

Day 7: Drive to Rome. Tour of the Colosseum, the symbol of the City of Rome. Tour of St. Paul outside of the Wall and of St Mary Major. Dinner and overnight in Rome.

Day 8: Tour of St. Peter's in the Vatican, the largest Basilica in the world. Then see the Vatican Museums, and the Sistine Chapel (the Pope's private Chapel). Long pants, capris, or skirts below the knee, shoulders covered. Time to rest before dinner in the area of the hotel. Red and white wine included. Overnight in Rome.

Day 9: Our private bus brings us to the airport in Rome to fly to Lourdes. Upon arrival, you will be met by your tour guide and motor coach for transfer to the hotel. After checking into the hotel, we will enjoy dinner and participate in the Rosary Candlelight Procession at the Shrine. This is a seasonal event and may not take place during some tours. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.

Day 10: We will start the day by celebrating Mass at the Grotto of Apparitions. We will enjoy a walking tour of Lourdes visiting places associated with St. Bernadette's life, which is helpful to understand the 1858 Apparition. Afternoon is free to visit the Grotto, the underground Basilica or the Miraculous Baths. After dinner, gather for the evening Candlelight Rosary Procession, if available. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.

Day 11: Free day in Lourdes, a beautiful town in the middle of the Pyrenees Mountains. Dinner and overnight in Lourdes.

Day 12: Fly from Lourdes to the USA. Arrive in U.S. same day.

 

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