DAY    1            DEPARTURE FROM NORTH AMERICA
Enjoy full meal service on your scheduled wide-bodied flight to London.

DAY    2            ARRIVE LONDON (6 NIGHTS) - WINDSOR
We will be met at the airport by our tour manager/guide where we will board our own private coach and transfer to nearby Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world with over 1,000 rooms and the Queen's favorite home. Our visit will include the richly decorated State Apartments (unless the Queen is in residence) and St. George's Chapel, a pantheon of English monarchs.   After free time to explore Windsor, we continue on to London the historic capital of Britain.   Upon our arrival we can take you on a leisurely Walking Tour of Westminster and Whitehall including Trafalgar Square, Horseguards, Parade Parliament Square, Downing Street, St James’s Park and Buckingham Palace.

DAY    3            LONDON (KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND)
We will take a Blue-badge tour of Westminster Abbey where English kings and queens have been crowned since 1066. We will visit the Royal Chapels, which hold the tombs of monarchs from past centuries including Henry VII, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots.  We will also visit Poets' Corner to see the memorials to famous literary figures.  We will walk past the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben before taking a River Trip through the heart of London to the Tower of London.  You will have the opportunity to discover William the Conqueror’s magnificent bastion, which displays almost a thousand years of English history.  During our visit, we will see the Crown Jewels Exhibit.

· Your First Concert Performance will be today

DAY    4            DAY TRIP TO HEVER CASTLE - HAMPTON COURT
This morning we will visit Hever Castle and Gardens, the childhood home of Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII wooed Anne at Hever Castle, and he later gave the castle to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves. Highlights of our tour will include: the Anne Boleyn Prayer Books, the Six Wives of Henry VIII, and the Model Houses exhibit. This afternoon we will visit the grandiose Hampton Court Palace, a stately residence once rented by Cardinal Wolsey and given to Henry VIII. Our tour will include: the Queen's Apartments, the Tudor Chapel Royal and the Great Hall. Our visit will also include a stroll through the amazing fountain Gardens, the pond gardens and Baroque Maze. We return to London for the night.

DAY    5            LONDON (FROM THE ROMANS TO THE BLITZ)
Our morning begins with a visit to the British Museum where we will see the Egyptian Collection, the Rosetta Stone, the Elgin Marbles and the Anglo-Saxon Sutton Hoo treasure. After lunch we continue with a visit to St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren’s Renaissance-style masterpiece.  Our visit will include an ascent to the Whispering Gallery, an acoustic marvel in which the faintest whisper can be heard clearly on the opposite side, as well as the American Memorial Chapel, honoring the 28,000 U.S. service personnel who lost their lives while stationed in Britain during World War II.

· Your Second Concert Performance will be today

DAY    6            DAY TRIP TO STONEHENGE, SALISBURY & BATH
This morning we visit mysterious Stonehenge, a huge circle of lintels and megalithic pillars, and one of the most impressive prehistoric monuments in Britain.   We continue on to Salisbury, where we will visit Salisbury Cathedral.  Our visit will include the cathedral's 13th-century octagonal Chapter House, which displays one of the four surviving original texts of the Magna Carta.  This afternoon we explore the ancient Roman city of Bath.  We begin with a visit to the Roman Baths, first associated with the Celtic King Bladud, and later established by the Romans in the 1st century.  We continue with a Walking Tour through historic Bath, where we will see: the spectacular façade of Bath Abbey; Pulteney Bridge, featuring quaint shops and wonderful views of the city; the Circus and the Royal Crescent, one of Britain’s finest streets before returning to London for the night.

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DAY    6            DAY TRIP TO STRATFORD & OXFORD
This morning we will journey to Stratford-upon-Avon, a town forever associated with the playwright William Shakespeare.   We will visit the modern Shakespeare Center, built next door to Shakespeare’s Birthplace to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the Bard's birth.  We continue with a brief visit to Holy Trinity Church, the parish church where Shakespeare is buried, located in an attractive setting near the River Avon.  Our time in Stratford concludes with a visit to Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, located just outside the city center.  The cottage provides a rare insight into the life of a family in Shakespearean times, and many of the original furnishings are preserved inside the house.  We will then continue on to Oxford, England’s oldest University city dating from 1167 and also associated with many notable literary alumni including such diverse characters as Geoffrey Chaucer, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, C.S. Lewis and Evelyn Waugh.  We will take a Walking Tour to view many of the colleges that make up Oxford, as well as the Sheldonian Theater and the Bodleian Library.  We will also visit Christ Church College, Oxford’s biggest and grandest Renaissance College, which was founded in 1525 by Cardinal Wolsey.  The college’s Christ Church Cathedral is the smallest in England.

DAY    7            LONDON (LONDON TODAY)
We will begin the day with a visit to a London Street Market to look for some bargains and experience a real `taste' of London life.  This afternoon we will take a special walking tour on the Sherlock Holmes Mystery Trail (a Beatles Magical Mystery Tour or The Shakespeare and Dickens Walk can be substituted prior to travel).

· Your Third Concert Performance will be today

DAY    8            DEPARTURE FROM LONDON
Your enjoyable and rewarding tour will come to an end as your tour manager/guide accompanies you to the airport for the return flight home.

Please note that the sightseeing content may be amended or eliminated in order to facilitate the best possible concert arrangements for your group.