Rome • Paris • London • & more...
12 Days - Our prices include airfare from your hometown and exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels everywhere
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Trip Includes
- A Catholic priest will be with the group to celebrate daily Mass.
- Round-trip airfare from your hometown connecting in a major city to fly overseas is included.
- Airport Taxes, Security Fees, and Fuel Surcharges!
- Exclusively 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
- 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.
- Dress casually throughout the whole trip. Shoulders and knees should be covered when visiting Basilicas or churches.
- If you are traveling alone and you allow us to find you a roommate, you don't pay the $900 single supplement. If you wish to have your own room and you are not open to rooming with another passenger, then the single supplement fee is $900.
- Taxi and wheelchair can be provided gratis for those passengers who cannot walk, with prior notice at registration. 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 credit card. For example, if your trip costs $3,700, when you sign up, you pay a $500 deposit, then 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 pay the entire cost of the trip at registration.
Trip Does Not Include
- Lunch
- Insurance ~ The total trip cost is non-refundable, we recommend trip insurance to protect your investment.
Trip Itinerary
Day 1: You will depart from your hometown airport in the United States.
Day 2: Upon arrival, you will be met at the airport by one of our local tour guides. Our first stop will be to the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Wall where the body of St. Paul is buried. As amazing as it is, it is the second largest Basilica in Rome and one of the five largest in the world. After we leave the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the wall, we will stop and check into the hotel. In the afternoon we will be visiting St. Mary Major, the main Basilica dedicated to Mary in Rome. St. Mary Major is home to the remains of Jesus' manger, brought by St. Helen, the mother of Constantine, to the Eternal City of Rome; the tomb of Bernini (the Architect of St Peter's in the Vatican); the tomb of St. Jerome who translated the Bible from Greek to Latin as he lived next to the manger of Jesus in Bethlehem; and the oldest icon in the world of the Virgin Mary painted by St. Luke: the famous Salus Populi Romani. We will have dinner with red and white wine included and stay overnight in Rome.
Day 3: Today we will spend the day in Vatican City, the smallest country in the world. First, we will visit the Vatican Museums, including the Sistine Chapel (the Pope's private Chapel). After the museums we will enter the Basilica of St. Peter in the Vatican. Since we arrange all of our tours in advance you will not have to stand in long lines to gain entrance. St. Peter's is the largest Basilica in the world and the building itself is great piece of art by Bernini, whose tomb you will remember seeing at St. Mary Major on Day 4. Vatican rules dictate that your shoulders and knees must be covered out of respect while in St. Peter’s Basilica, so make sure your wardrobe today includes long pants, capris, or skirts below the knee, and no sleeveless shirts or tank tops. Again, we will have dinner with red and white wine included and stay overnight in Rome.
Day 5: Today, enjoy the most well know symbol of the city of Rome: The Colosseum. Built in 80 A.D., it still stand as one of the greatest monuments in human history. This will be followed by a visit to the nearby Basilica of St. John Lateran; the first Basilica ever to be built in the Roman Empire after it became a Christian empire under Constantine. In the afternoon, we will have an amazing tour of the Catacombs where 500,000 people were buried. After the Catacombs enjoy a scenic ride to the charming Castel Gandolfo where the Pope's Summer Residence is located. This is an awesome, quaint little village on the shore of spectacular Lake Albano; it’s just like those towns you see on TV. We will have a wine tasting followed by dinner at 6:00 pm at a local upscale restaurant: eat where the Italians eat. There will be several courses of delicious Italian food, and, of course, red and white wine will be included. We will arrive back at the hotel in Rome around 9:00 pm.
Day 6: We will be outside most of the day today so dress casually with comfortable walking shoes. This morning is the Audience with the Pope at 10:00 am (10:30 am). We will need to depart from the hotel early so we get to see the Pope very closely. Following the General Audience there will be time for lunch in the area of the Vatican. We will spend the afternoon visiting the historical center of Rome. Our first stop will be the Spanish Steps, where the ancient Romans hung out. From there it is a short walk to Trevi Fountain; throw a coin over your shoulder into the fountain and have time for shopping. This will be followed by a walk to the Pantheon, the oldest functional building in the world. Finally, we will end at the great artistic place of Piazza Navona, arriving about 4:30 pm. This evening’s dinner will be at a local restaurant in the area of Piazza Navona, and, as always, will include red and white wine. This will be our last night at our hotel in Rome.
Day 7: This morning we will say good-bye to Rome as we fly to Paris. Our tour begins with the luscious Parisian gardens of the Tuileries, the world renown Champs-Elysees to shop (or window shop) at Louis Vuitton and Herm's. We will stop at Napoleon’s Arc de Triomphe, to see the tomb of the Unknown Soldier and end with a memorable panoramic view of Paris' main boulevard. Later in the day we visit the Basilica of Sacre Coeur; the artists and antique shops of Montmartre, then enjoy a delicious dinner and overnight in Paris.
Day 8: Today we enjoy a leisure start, eat breakfast and then explore amazing Paris beginning with a bus tour to see the most famous sites, including the Eiffel Tower, the Opera, the Palace of the Invalides, eat lunch in the Latin Quarter, and then look out over Paris from the Montparnasse, enjoying the stunning views of Paris. With afternoon free time, you can choose to see more sights or rest. In the evening after dinner, we will relax and enjoy the beauty of the Seine River by moonlight and see Picturesque Paris all aglow while we sail down the river during a wonderfully romantic ride on a Bateau Mouche. For our nightcap, we stop at Berthillon, for an ice cream or espresso, on our way back to the hotel in Paris.
Day 9: Today we see the Mona Lisa and Nike, the Winged Victory, as we tour the most famous art museum, Louvre. After lunch, we set our own pace by choosing a tour of the Pantheon, where the most prestigious French philosophers and writers are buried, a leisurely walk, or visit the Sainte Chappelle, with its beautiful stained glass windows. We end the day with a mouth-watering cuisine dinner and overnight in Paris. (Don’t forget to pack).
Day 10: After breakfast at the hotel we check out and our bus take us to the airport for our departing flight to London. Your local English tour guide will meet you at the airport. After a few pointers as our private coach takes you to the city, you will have the remainder of the day to explore London. We will gather for dinner together at a local restaurant and spend our first night in our hotel in London.
Day 11: Today we will head out of London so we will depart from the hotel early in order to fit it all in. Our first destination is Stonehenge where we will see the ancient monoliths placed in position nearly 2000 years before the birth of Christ and which were once used to calculate the eclipses and equinoxes. This is followed by a tour of Highclere Castle ~ one of England’s most beautiful Victorian castles set amidst 1,000 acres of spectacular parkland. This is the place that Downton Abbey was filmed. Our next stop is an excursion to Winchester Cathedral. Originally built as a Catholic church, it became Church of England under Henry VIII, returned to Roman Catholicism by Henry’s daughter, Mary Tudor, who married her Spanish husband here, but has since returned to the Church of England. One of the largest cathedrals in England, Winchester is part of a former monastic settlement originally founded by the Benedictines in 642. Elements of the monastic buildings may still be traced throughout the Cathedral Close. After lunch in Winchester we head back to London to visit Windsor Castle, built by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. Another delicious dinner of local English fare and we return to our hotel for another night in London.
Day 12: Today will be our main day of touring London. We begin at the Shrine of the Sacred Heart & Tyburn Martyrs in Hyde Park Place where we will have Mass. Then on to a sightseeing tour which will include Westminster Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral of London, Buckingham Palace and the Changing of the Guard ceremony (if held), and Piccadilly. We will then proceed to the impressive Westminster Abbey and then Big Ben. Then continue to the Tower of London where Thomas More was imprisoned in the Bell Tower for more than a year for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession. He was found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. His final words were, "The King’s good servant, but God’s First". This evening we have a closing dinner at a local London restaurant and attend a Shakespeare play at the Globe Theater (if available). As our three city tour comes to an end we will spend our last night in our hotel in London.
Day 13: Today we will return home to the United States. We will need to get an early start so our private bus can take us to the airport in time for our departing flight.