Welcome Orientation Dinner • London Pomp & Pageantry Sights • EuroStar - English Channel Crossing • Paris Museum Pass • French Bistro Dinner • Paris-by-Night • Seine River Boat Cruise • Overnight French Express Train • ROMA Pass * Viva Italia Pizza Party • Rome’s Ancient Ruins • Trevi Fountain • Vatican City & St. Peter’s Basilica • Lavish Roman Banquet...AND MUCH MORE!
Day 1
Travel to London
Board
your jumbo jet for an overnight flight toward the rising sun
in pomp and pageantry London.
Meals:
In-flight meals
Day 2
London
You have
the afternoon to rest or to explore a bit before our welcome
orientation and Pub Dinner. Then join some of your new travel
mates during your free evening: go on a pub-crawl or hobnob
with royalty at a posh nightclub.
Meals:
In-flight meals, Fish & Chips dinner
Day 3
London
AESU shows
you all the best of London Town today: Big Ben, Piccadilly Circus,
St. Paul's Cathedral, Buckingham Palace and more. Spend your
free afternoon strolling through Hyde Park, or hop on a double-decker
bus to the fashionable area of Knightsbridge to shop for cashmeres
and tweeds at Harrods. Why not attend a
West End Play tonight?
Meals:
Breakfast
Day 4
London
Enjoy a day at leisure in London. Explore the British Museum, the National Gallery or the London Dungeons. After dusk, you may want to take in some Shakespeare at the Globe Theater.
Meals:
Breakfast
Day 5
London * Eurostar to Paris
Travel through the “Chunnel” below the English Channel, to Paris. Our local art historian shows us the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral and Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine once stood. Tonight, dine on French specialties at our bistro dinner. Afterward, take a romantic cruise down the river Seine.
Meals:
Breakfast, French Bistro Dinner
Day 6
Paris * Optinal Cabaret Show
Free day in Paris: Included Paris 2-day Museum Pass allows access to over 70 museums and monuments in and around Paris including the world famous Louvre, housing the Mona Lisa, Musée d’Orsay, Musée National Picasso, and the Châteaux de Versailles. Consider an optional Cabaret show tonight.
Meals:
Breakfast
Day 7
Overnight Train to Rome
This morning consider exploring Paris’ fabulous stores, stroll through the artists’ section of Montmartre, or browse the bookstalls on the Left Bank. On our free afternoon mingle with the rich and famous at “Fouquet’s” café on the Champs-Elysées. In the evening we board our overnight express train to Italy.
Meals:
Breakfast
Day 8
Rome * Vatican City
Check in to our hotel and enjoy a leisure afternoon exploring Rome. Tonight, join us for our Viva Italia Pizza Party. Following dinner, perhaps walk to Piazza Navona, one of the city’s most beautiful Baroque squares and try the local gelati.
Meals:
Breakfast, Pizza party dinner
Day 9
Rome * Operional excursion to the Catacombs of San Callisto
This morning see the historic ruins of Caesar’s Forum and the Colosseum where Gladiators fought. A trip across the Tiber River takes us to Vatican City, where we’ll visit St. Peter’s Basilica. Free afternoon, make sure to visit the Vatican Museum to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. We’ll also offer an optional excursion to the Catacombs of San Callisto, located outside of Rome along the ancient Appian Way. Explore the four levels of hand-dug tunnels to the tombs of a half-million Christians. Buried here during the 1st - 4th centuries A.D., these early Christians rejected the pagan custom of cremation and practiced their rituals in secret. This macabre labyrinth of tunnels with tomb niches and bones is chillingly fascinating. An evening on our own might include a visit to the Trevi Fountain-toss in three coins to ensure your return to Rome.
Meals:
Breakfast
Day 10
Rome * Vatican City
The entire
day is free to discover all the splendors that are still Rome.
Go shopping for Italian leather goods on the elegant Via Condotti,
sip cappuccino on the Via Veneto or immerse yourself in the
historic and artistic treasures that abound in this city. Tonight
we indulge in our Roman Banquet Farewell Dinner. Enjoy mouth-watering
Italian specialties as live music entertains.
Meals:
Breakfast, Roman Banquet farewell dinner
Day 11
Travel Home
Reluctantly
we say farewell to Europe and new-found friends. Jet back home
with thoughts of planning your next European Adventure!
