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Single Supplement of £179
Each year, the beautiful city of Amsterdam hosts an international light festival, where artists from across the globe are chosen to provide lighting installations within the central area.
We travel up to Amsterdam to stay in the fabulous 4 star Movenpick Hotel and enjoy a free day before it gets dark. Once the lights have come on, we will take a beautiful boat trip around the canals to experience everything in full. Finally we head to Antwerp to enjoy the Christmas Market and stay at the unique 4 star Hotel Theatre.
Estimated departure times: TBA
Transport from Merriments and Millbrook, Staplehurst can be arranged subject to demand.
Monday 5th December 2022
Our aim at Pennywood Tours is to give you a relaxing and carefree time where we do all the work so you can sit back and enjoy the trip.
To this end, all tours are escorted by a group leader who will check you on board and make sure you can find your allocated seat. We’ll seat you with the person/people you are booked with but if you know of anyone else on the trip who has booked separately please let us know in advance and we’ll try to seat you all together. The coach will be a super deluxe vehicle with a toilet and is incredibly comfortable.
Our Group Leader will advise you of all the details of travel times, stops, when to return to the coach etc. so you will be in no doubt about what and when. He or she will be available for any additional questions you may have.
We will do our best to stick to our itinerary but you will understand that when there are traffic jams or adverse weather conditions, we may struggle to do everything as planned but we will let you know what information we have in these situations when we have it.
We look forward to seeing you and welcome any questions you may have by contacting us at info@pennywoodtours.com or on 01622 434 981.
We depart around 8.00am and make our way to the Channel Tunnel terminal at Folkestone. After our crossing we’ll journey directly to Amsterdam, stopping along the way for breaks.
On arrival in Amsterdam, we’ll check into our hotel, the 4-star Mövenpick Hotel, which is only a few hundred metres from Amsterdam’s famous Central Station, at the heart of the beautiful old city. Here we’ll enjoy an evening meal and spectacular views across the city.
We have allowed free time during the day, so you can shop and see the sights of the city at Christmas. In the evening, we’ll enjoy the fabulous lights that we’ve travelled to see. To get the very best view, we’ve arranged a boat trip, so you can see them whilst sitting down and under cover. Later, you can also walk around the streets to see your favourites once again, as the boat trip won’t finish too late. To give you the greatest flexibility in your plans, we’ve not arranged dinner for this evening.
Following a leisurely breakfast, and after checking out of the Mövenpick, we’ll travel south to the beautiful old city of Antwerp, where we’ll check into the Hotel Theatre (which is a converted old theatre, renowned for its big rooms), before spending an evening at the famous Christmas Market. Once again, we’ve left the choice of dinner to you, so you’ll be able to feast on waffles, crepes, mussels and frites, and possibly the famous Belgian beer!
On our last day of travel, we wind our way back to Calais for Eurotunnel to carry our coach back to Kent, returning sometime in the early evening.
The holiday includes coach transport, hotel accommodation on a bed and breakfast basis, with an extra dinner on the first night, entry to all named venues, including the boat trip to view the lights, and the services of a group leader.
Please note that all destinations will require walking, with steps and slopes, which may be slippery. Sensible shoes are a requirement, and you should dress for the weather.