APRIL 12-23, 2008
TOUR FEATURES
FLORENCE
- Five nights at the first-class Hotel Brunelleschi
- Walking tour to view the city’s main sites with Dan and Donna Taylor
- Welcome dinner at the hotel
- Visit the Uffizi Museum
- Visit the Accademia Museum and view Michelangelo’s “David” statue
- Full day Tuscany sightseeing including visits to Siena and San Gimignano, as well as wine tastings
- Cocktail reception
- Time at leisure for additional sightseeing and shopping
ROME
- Five nights at the first-class Ponte Sisto Colonna Palace Hotel
- Visit Orvieto and its Cathedral
- Nighttime walking tour of Rome by Dan and Donna Taylor
- Tour of the Forum and Colosseum
- Tour the Vatican Museums and Sistine Chapel
- Visit St. Peter’s
- Full day coach tour to Pompeii and Naples Museum
- Time at leisure for additional sightseeing and shopping
LAND TOUR INCLUDES:
- Study leaders, Dan and Donna Taylor, throughout
- Breakfast daily, three lunches, and four dinners, on buffet or table d’hôte basis including water, coffee or tea, and house wine; one cocktail reception
- Deluxe, air-conditioned motorcoach transportation when required
- All transfers and handling of one regular-sized piece of luggage per person
- All entrance fees, taxes and service charges for group functions
- Gratuities to drivers, porters, waiters, and site guides
- Travel portfolio with packing tips, brochures, maps, baggage tags, and Italy Travel Guide
OPTIONAL FEATURES:
- Round-trip economy class air transportation from Chicago to Rome and Rome to Chicago
- Additional gateways and airline upgrades available at published fares
- Comprehensive insurance coverage for trip cancellation, interruption, baggage, illness, and accident at special group rates
COSTS
$3,940 land only cost, per person, double occupancy
Cost is based on a minimum of 30 participants. If the minimum 30 participants is not met, the
tour cost will be adjusted slightly.
Single Supplement: $815 ($4,755 land only cost)
Round-trip, economy-class airfare from Chicago to Rome, and Rome to Chicago
including U.S. tax & fees: $1,132
Alternate gateway, business-class, and first-class fares are available on request. The group airfare is based on a minimum of 10 participants flying together from/to Chicago on the same dates. Airfares are subject to change until time of ticketing.
Minibus transfer from/to Wisconsin available for minimum of 14 participants each way.
ANTICIPATED GROUP FLIGHT ITINERARY
(Subject to Change)
April 12
3:35 p.m. Depart Chicago’s O’Hare Airport via American Airlines flight # 110
April 13
7:50 a.m. Arrive Rome’s FCO Airport. Transfer via Executive Coach to Florence
April 23
11:30 a.m. Depart Rome’s FCO Airport via American Airlines flight # 111
3:05 p.m. Arrive Chicago’s O’Hare Airport
The group airfare is based on a minimum of 10 participants flying together from Chicago to Rome, and from Rome to Chicago on the same departure dates. Airfares are subject to change until time of ticketing.
