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All Quiet on the Western Front for Solo Travellers
Are you a solo traveller looking for the perfect introduction to WW1 battlefield tours? Focusing on the key sites of WW1 on the Western Front in Belgium and France, we spend five days visiting the surrounding area of Ypres, The Somme, Arras and the Vimy Ridge on our All Quiet on the Western Front for Single Travellers tour, benefitting from no single supplements and sole use of your own room. See the Thiepval Memorial and the Menin Gate to pay your respects to the missing that are commemorated there. Visit the original WW1 trenches preserved at Sanctuary Wood, as you discover what the Great War was all about.
Tour Includes
- No single supplement and sole use of your own room
- 4 nights hotel with continental breakfast
- Specialist Battlefield Guide
- Travel by Luxuria coach
5 days from £859pp
No Single Room Supplement
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Door-to-Door departure, then by coach to Belgium or France where we stay for four nights.
The Battle of the Somme began on a summer’s day in July 1916 and ended in a snowstorm four and a half months later. It was a battle of contrasts from the blackest day when 57,000 became casualties to the first use of tanks and the change in approach to fighting on the Western Front. We look at all these stories and start our tour at Peronne where we visit the excellent Historial de la Grande Guerre Museum which helps to put into context not just our Somme day, but the whole tour. We then see the Lochnagar Mine Crater at La Boisselle, the largest British mine crater surviving on the battlefields. After lunch, we see the trenches in the Newfoundland Park and then take time to visit the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing and see the new Somme Museum here.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
We spend today in northern France visiting the ‘Forgotten Front’ between Flanders and the Somme. Starting on the Loos Battlefield, the scene of the first major British offensive of WW1, we see where the fighting took place and also the Loos Memorial and Dud Corner Cemetery. We then visit the new Lens 14-18 Museum which explains the rich history of this region. After lunch in Arras, we visit the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Visitor’s Centre to discover the history of the work to commemorate the dead after WW1. At the Arras Memorial, we pay our respects to the Missing and see the Air Services Memorial to those who died above the battlefields in WW1 and end our day with a visit to the stunning Vimy Ridge Memorial at Hill 145 to examine the attach by Canadian forces here in April 1917.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
The tour starts in Flanders around the Belgian city of Ypres. Here, one in three of Britain’s Western Front dead fell by 1918 and it has been a place of pilgrimage ever since. We begin by looking at the commemoration of Britain’s dead at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest British war cemetery in the world, taking time to also see the visitors’ centre. At Vancouver Corner, we examine the use of gas in the trenches and see the moving ‘Brooding Soldier’ Memorial to the Canadians who defended Ypres in 1915 and at Langemarck German Cemetery we see how Germany commemorated her dead and look at the story of ‘Fritz’ on the other side of No Man’s Land. After lunch at Hooge, we visit the preserved trenches at Sanctuary Wood Trench Museum, some of the last original WW1 trenches still surviving in Flanders together with an amazing collection of relics and stereoscopic photos. We then travel down the Messines Ridge to Ploegsteert to see the Ploegsteert Memorial to the Missing. Our day ends in Ypres where we attend the moving Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate Memorial, held at 8pm each evening.
Includes Breakfast
Key Visits
Return home.
Includes Breakfast
2 x packed lunch/museum package available whilst on tour approx. cost €50 per person.
Entrance to museums, places of interest and optional excursions are at extra cost.
Accommodation
You will stay for four nights at the 3-star Des Acacias Lille Tourcoing Hotel in Neuville-en-Ferrain or the Hotel Aparthotel Horizon in Ath Lessines.
Hotel Horizon Ath Lessines
Providing modern guest rooms, the Horizon Ath-Lessines is situated in the area of Ghislenghien, close to the towns of Ath and Lessines.
Hotel Facilities
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General
- English Speaking Staff
- 4 Star
- Guest Lounge
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Lift
Room
- TV
- Tea and Coffee Making Facilities
- Hairdryer
- Extra Pillows and Blankets
- Safe Box
- Air Conditioning
- Fridge
- Non-Smoking Rooms Available
- Shower or Bath
- Telephone
- Free Wifi
- Iron or Trouser Press
Food & Drink
- Vegetarian Meals
- Gluten Free Menu
- Lactose or Dairy Free Menu
- Vegan Menu
Accessibility
- Disabled Rooms Available
- Wheelchair Access
Service
- Room Service Available
- 24 Hour Front Desk
- Gym
- Dogs Allowed on Request
Hotel
- English Speaking Staff
- Guest Lounge
- Bar
- Restaurant
- Lift
- WiFi Available
Luxuria Coach
Stylish and modern, state-of-the-art Luxuria is the business class of coaches. Boasting comfort of the highest standard, sink into the deluxe armchair-style seats, stretch out with much more space around you, and enjoy a vast choice of entertainment on your personal touch-screen TV.
Luxuria Features
- Deluxe armchair-style seats with leather exterior, central arm rests* with cup holders, adjustable headrests and retractable calf rests on most seats to give you a more comfortable journey.
*Face to face seats are forward and rear facing with a table and will not have a calf rest. - Every seat has its own, fully interactive, touch-screen TV offering a wide choice of entertainment so you can control what you want to watch and when.
- There’s a selection of double and single seats, including six face-to-face seats with tables, and five single seats which are ideal for passengers travelling independently.
- Plug sockets and USB points at each seat mean you can keep your devices fully charged throughout your journey.
- Onboard toilet.
Reviews
4.8 Out of 5 ( 6 Reviews )
Reviews
Quality
4.8 / 5
Value for Money
4.8 / 5
Kevin Richardson, 1 year ago
Very well organised and
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Mrs Janet Babb, 1 year ago
Loved this tour as I knew some already but it helped fill in the gaps. Good to lay poppies at the wall of my great uncle, one of 35,000 unknown at the Arras Memorial
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Deborah Doherty, 1 year ago
Very informative, thought provoking and at times emotional. Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and looked after us well.
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David Clarke, 1 year ago
Quality Luxuria coach and drivers. Very knowledgeable guide Mark who added moving stories to many of the sites visited. The balance between museums, battlefields cemeteries and memorials was just right. All were moving experiences. A personal pilgrimage made the trip really special.
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Ellen Jones, 1 year ago
Brilliant tour for single travellers but also a great tour for an over view of the action on the Western Front if you then want to go to more in depth tours about certain areas.
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RALPH JONES, 1 year ago
As a single passenger on a single holiday, there is no single supplement. There are other single people on the tour, and this makes it ideal to make friends or socialise. And they like the same tour, and makes it more interesting, as someone might know a bit more on the subject, or are there to pay respects to a relative, and it's a go way to see first hand the places where it all happened. It would be nice to go to alternative cemetery's to learn about another lesser known battle.
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