Best Of England And Wales

Guide

All Intrepid group trips in Europe are accompanied by one of our local European group leaders. ’Local’ in this context means a leader who is European or lives in Europe. The aim of the group leader is to take the hassle out of your travels and to help you have the best trip possible. Intrepid endeavours to provide the services of an experienced leader however, due to the seasonality of travel, rare situations may arise where your leader is new to a particular region or training other group leaders. Your leader takes care of logistics, will provide information on the places you are travelling through, offer suggestions for things to do and see, recommend great local eating venues and introduce you to our local friends. While not being guides in the traditional sense you can expect them to have a broad general knowledge of the places visited on the trip, including historical, cultural, religious and social aspects. At Intrepid we also aim to support local guides in the individual cities or locations we travel to. If you are interested in delving deeper into the local culture at a specific site or location then your leader can recommend an optional local guide service in most of the main destinations of your trip.

Meals

19 breakfasts, 3 lunches

Others

Salisbury - Leader led walk Stonehenge visit Dartmoor Princetown Walk guided walk & picnic lunch St Ives - Land’s End visit St Ives - Porthcurno guided hike St Ives - Minack Open Air Theatre visit Tintagel - Port Isaac Leader led walk Tintagel - St Michael's Rock visit Tintagel -Tintagel Castle visit Oxford - Punting Activity Moreton-in-Marsh - Cotswolds day trip & picnic lunch Cardiff - Cardiff guided city tour (Dr Who theme) Snowdonia National Park - Included guided hike: Lôn Gwyrfai trail from Beddgelert to Rhyd Ddu Liverpool - Chester boat tour Liverpool - Liverpool guided walking tour Windermere - West Shore Lakeside Walk Edinburgh - Leader led walking tour

Transport

Train,Private vehicle The main mode of transport on this trip is trains. These are modern and equipped with air conditioning and charging points. Train travel in UK is comfortable and takes you directly into the city centre of your destination. Most of the train station facilities will include lifts, but please note, you will be responsible for carrying your luggage on the platform and on and off the train.

Accommodation

OCCASIONAL ALTERNATIVE ACCOMMODATION: The style of accommodation indicated in the day-to-day itinerary is a guideline. On rare occasions, alternative arrangements may need to be made due to the lack of availability of rooms in our usual accommodation. A similar standard of accommodation will be used in these instances. TWIN SHARE BASIS: Accommodation on this trip is on a twin/multishare basis. We pair up solo travellers with another traveller of the same gender as per the gender marker on each of their passports. Please note there may be times where facilities will be shared rather than ensuite and rare occasions when you share a room with passengers travelling on different Intrepid trips than your own. CHECK-IN TIME: Throughout the trip we request that our hotels prepare rooms in time for our arrival, especially if we're arriving prior to normal check-in time. However this isn't always possible which means we won't be able to check-in immediately on arrival at some hotels. Instead, we can store our luggage and explore our new destination. PRE/POST TRIP ACCOMMODATION: If you've purchased pre-trip or post-trip accommodation (if available), you may be required to change rooms from your trip accommodation for these extra nights. FACILITIES: Your accommodation may not always have private en suite facilities or air-conditioning. European hotels generally don't provide kettles or fridges. Hotel (17 nights),Guesthouse (2 night)

Others

Other activities and services are not included

Flights

International flights are not included

Optional

Salisbury - Cathedral visit - Free Oxford - Oxford Castle and Prison tour - Free Oxford - University of Oxford visit - Free Oxford - Blenheim Palace visit - Free Oxford - Ashmolean Museum visit - Free

Insurance

Travel Insurance is not included