HOLLAND, LUXEMBOURG & BELGIUM 9 DAYS WITH GLOBUS THE DETAILS ARE DONE You'll aiways visit the key sights and enjoy more inclusions; inside visits and special features are shown in UPPERCASE in the tour description, including admission charges where applicable. For standard inclusions, see page XX.
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ALL THIS IS INCLUDED • SIGHTSEEING AND MORE AMSTERDAM VVelcome dinner; guided sightseeing, canal cruise, visit Rembrandt's masterpieces in the Rijksmuseum: visit a major diamond ahr-iter; visit the Anne Frank House
INKLSMEER Visit the world's largest flower auction
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KEUKENHOF Visit the Flower Park (departures 0404-0516) DELFT Visit the Royal Pottery factory THE HAGUE Orientation drive NUENEN
Visit the "Vincent van Gogh Village" and museum and learn about his early work
BASTOGNE Visit the Bastogne War Museum; take pictures of the American Memorie]
LUXEMBOURG Guided sightseeing, visit the Cathedral of Our Lady, General Patton's grave
WATERLOO Visit the battle site with included Lion Hamlet Pass and enjoy lunch with local specialties at the Wellington Café
BRUSSELS Walking tour including the Grand'Place and a picture stop at Manneken Pis; Efarewell dinner with wine at a local restaurant
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Canal cruise with Belgian chocolate bonbons; guided walking tour, visit the Church of Our Lady and the market square; enjoy a traditional lace demonstration
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RANSPORTATION Motorcoach; canal cruise in Amsterdam and in Bruges; high-speed first-class Thalys train (Tour HWE)
• MEALS Full buffet breakfast (B); 1 special lunch with a drink (L) in Waterloo; 3 three-course dinners with wine (D), including a welcome dinner in Amsterdam and a special farewell dinner in Brussels
• HEADSETS Throughout the tour • FREE WI-Fl
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CUSTOMIZE YOUR VACATION • EXTRA NIGHTS in Amsterdam, Brussels, Paris • EXTEND YOUR VACATION to Paris (Tour HWE) II AIRPORT TRANSFERS Included if you purchase air from Globus. Private transfers available for purchase if you book extra nights.
• MyGLOBUS Personalize your tour ahead of time with additional excursions. Visit our website for details and conditions.
DAY 1 ARRIVE IN AMSTERDAM, HOLLAND. (Sat.) Welcome to Amsterdam! At 6 pm, meet your Tour Director and traveling companions for a welcome dinner with wine at your hotel. (D) DAY 2 AMSTERDAM. (Sun.) Your discovery of Holland features a morning sightseeing tour of the capital with a Local Guide. Enjoy a CANAL CRUISE past gabled merchant houses, arched drawbridges reminiscent of the Golden Age, and the strikingly modern buildings of a young-at-heart city. Next, visit the fabulous RIJKSMUSEUM with priceless paintings by Rembrandt and other Dutch masters. Then, time to explore Dam Square and the city center on your own, or to join your Tour Director for a visit to a major DIAMOND CENTER to appreciate how a rough mineral is transformed into a sparkling jewel. Afternoon at leisure. An optional excursion is available to a cheese farm, a dog maker, a working windmill, and dinner in the fishing village of Volendam at the former Zuiderzee. (B) DAY 3 AMSTERDAM. EXCURSION TO AALSMEER (OR KEUKENHOF), DELFT & THE HAGUE. (Mon.) Start with an early highlight visit to the impressive AALSMEER FLOWER AUCTION (departures 0523-0926), where more than 17 million flowers and two million plants are sold each day. (Departures 0404-0516 visit the famous bulbfields of South Holland and the extraordinary flower park of KEUKENHOF instead.) Next, continue to the world-renowned ROYAL DELFT POTTERY FACTORY with its magnificent collection of handpainted earthenware pieces, and see skilled craftsmen at work. After an orientation drive of The Hague, seat of the Dutch government and the International„Court of Justice, return to Amsterdam and visit the ANNE FRANK HOUSE. (B) DAY 4 AMSTERDAM-NUENEN-BASTOGNE, BELGIUM-LUXEMBOURG. (Tue.) Enter the Province of Brabant, and stop In the picturesque town of Nuenen, the "Vincent Van Gogh Village". Enjoy a unique experience: follow Van Gogh's footsteps in the town where he lived and worked from 1883-1885, visa the fascinating MUSEUM, and learn about his life, family, and early paintings like the world-famous Potato Eaters, which he painted there. Next, cross the border and stop in Bastogne. Here, visit the fascinating BASTOGNE WAR MUSEUM, then see the AMERICAN MEMORIAL of the Battle of the Bulge, where thousands of soldiers and civilians dient during the winter of 1944-1945. Arrive in Luxembourg, the capital of one of Europe's smallest sovereign states. (B,D)