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• 9 Nights of Accommodation
• All Ground Transportation (including transportation pass)
• Daily Continental Breakfast
• Welcome & Farewell Dinners
• Historical & Cultural Walking Tours
• Full Time Local Guide
• Full Time On Site Program Director (Available 24/7 in case of Emergencies)
• Travelers Health Insurance & Liability Insurance
• Tips & Gratuities
• London Symphony Orchestra Concert
• Royal Opera House Tour
• Abbey Road Studios Tour
• Royal College of Music Visit
• British Museum Guided Tour
• Royal Albert Hall Tour
• Royal Academy of Music Tour
• Thames River Cruise
• Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral Excursion
• Classical Music Concert at Southbank Centre
Airport Transfer
Check-in and Relax
Orientation Walking Tour - The group will become oriented with their neighborhood, the public transportation systems, nearby pharmacies, markets, ATMs, etc. Additionally, an in-depth safety briefing will be provided for what to do in case of an emergency.
Welcome Dinner - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a wide variety of menu options to cater all diets.
Jazz Concert at St Martin-in-the-Fields
Westminster Walking Tour of London - Westminster is London at its grandest: the place where kings and queens are crowned, where they lived, and often were buried. It's the forge of the national destiny, the place where the heart of the Empire beat, the Mecca of politicians throughout the ages. The past here is cast in stone and we take it all in: ancient Westminster Hall, the Houses of Parliament, the Jewel Tower, Westminster Abbey, and more.
Lunch Break at Camden Market - Over 1000 shops and stalls selling fashion, music, art, and food next to Camden Lock.
British Museum Guided Tour - The British Museum has more than seven million objects from all continents. They illustrate and document the story of human culture from its beginning to the present.
London Symphony Orchestra Concert
Royal College of Music Visit - The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performance, composition, conducting, music theory, and history.
RCM Museum - The Museum contains more than 15,000 musical treasures, including the earliest known guitar, the earliest stringed keyboard instrument, and the most recognized portraits of Joseph Haydn and Farinelli.
Lunch Break
Royal Albert Hall Tour - Together with a friendly guide, you’ll take a peek at the royal areas of the Hall, see the breathtaking auditorium, and glimpse the stage where the world’s stars have appeared – from Arctic Monkeys to Muhammad Ali, BBC Proms to Beyoncé, Cirque du Soleil to Winston Churchill, and Albert Einstein to Ed Sheeran.
Classical Music Concert
Abbey Road Studios Walking Tour - Abbey Road Studios is the most famous recording studio in the world and a global music icon. Originally a nine-bedroom house built in 1829, it was purchased by the Gramophone Company in 1928 who went on to build the world’s first purpose-built recording studio.
Lunch Break
Royal Academy of Music Tour - The Royal Academy of Music is the oldest conservatoire in the UK, having been founded in 1822. Students come from all around the world to study at the Academy, most of whom are classical performers, but there are also departments for jazz and musical theatre.
Royal Opera House Tour
Lunch Break at Covent Garden Market - Quintets, sextets, aspiring sopranos, and tenors often regale the crowds in the market at Covent Garden.
Southwark Cathedral - Explore the Cathedral uncovering its long and varied history. Discover connections with London’s hospitals, the theatreland of Shakespeare’s day, and the Bishops who held power over the area.
Classical Music Concert at Southbank Centre
Handel and Hendrix in London - Explore the homes of Jimi Hendrix and George Frederic Handel with a trip to the Handel & Hendrix Museum. The museum aims to promote the historical background of the Baroque period through live music showcasing instruments of the era while highlighting the life and work of hit guitarist, Jimi Hendrix. It also explores the strong connection Hendrix and Handel shared due to their Brook Street residences.
Lunch Break
London Thames River Cruise - Travel one of London's most famous waterway to explore the city's picturesque canals.
Victoria & Albert Museum - The V&A museum is the world's leading museum dedicated to art, design, and performance. It houses over 2 million objects that span over 5000 years of human history.
Lunch Break
Kensington Palace- Kensington Palace has been shaped by generations of royal women from Queen Mary to Victoria and, more recently Diana, Princess of Wales.
Day Trip to Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral - First we travel across Salisbury Plain to visit the mysterious World Heritage stone circle at Stonehenge. Then, along the lush valley of the river Avon to Old Sarum, the original site of Salisbury. On to Salisbury to visit the magnificent cathedral that has the tallest spire in England! Housed in the Chapter House of the cathedral is one of the original versions of Magna Carta of which only 4 survive.
Free day in London
Farewell Dinner & Program Closing - The group will be taken for an authentic dinner with a variety of menu options to cater all diets.
Airport Transfer
Depart London, England for Home