Tour Dates	Duration	Price	Highlights
11th - 16th June 2012	6 Days	€969pps	Monet's Garden, Bayeux Tapestry, Honfleur, D-Day Landing Beaches, Mont St Michel, St Malo, Chartres, Paris

Your Tour Price Includes:

• Return flights from Dublin to Paris including flight / airport taxes & charges.
• Professional English speaking tour manager and executive coach transfers throughout
• 5 nights in the 3* Mercure Caen Hotel in central Caen including breakfast (www.accorhotels.com)
• Guided sightseeing tour of beautiful Paris
• Guided tour of Monet’s glorious gardens at Giverny 
• Guided tour of the D-Day Landing Beaches of Normandy including Omaha Beach
• Visit to the colourful seaside harbour at Honfleur and to Beuvron en Auge, the prettiest village in France 
• Visit to a traditional cheese factory and 17th Century Calvados distillery, famous for its apple brandy
• Visit to the historic Bayeux Tapestry Museum
• Guided tour of Mont St Michel and free time to enjoy beautiful St Malo
• Free time to enjoy shopping and sightseeing at leisure

Day 1
Fly from Dublin to wonderful Paris where you will be met on arrival by your local GTI representative. Transfer by executive coach to Giverny where we will visit the famous Gardens of Monet before continuing onto historic Caen.

Day 2
After breakfast enjoy a guided sightseeing tour of the evocative D-Day Landing Beaches where the Allies stormed ashore on 04th June 1944. Visit the evocative beaches of Omaha and Utah, the American Cemetery at St Laurent sur Mer and St Mere Eglise, the first town liberated by the Allies.

Day 3
Enjoy travelling through the Norman countryside to the prettiest village in France, Beuvron en Auge before continuing on to one of Normandy's oldest cheese factories and a local cider and apple brandy estate for tastings. Next we visit the pretty seaside town of Honfleur before returning to Caen.

Day 4
This morning enjoy a visit to Bayeux to see the famous tapestry. Listed as a “Memory of the World” by UNESCO, the Bayeux Tapestry is an embroidery, 70 metres long, made in the 11th century that depicts the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. Free time in Bayeux .

Day 5
Day trip to beautiful Brittany. Enjoy a guided tour of the wonderful abbey of Mont St Michel, an architectual feat which rises up out of the sea to preside over the surrounding area in monastic glory before continuing on to the stunning walled city of St Malo for free time. Return to Caen.

Day 6 
This morning travel to the beautiful city of Paris for a guided tour followed by free time and sightseeing at leisure. Meet your coach driver at designated point for transfer to Paris airport for return flight to Dublin. 

Booking Information:

• Price is based on twin share. A single supplement is applicable.
• Price is inclusive of 1 standard piece of luggage.
• Optional insurance is available at €25 per person (terms and conditions apply).
• A non refundable / non transferable deposit of €350 per person is required at time of booking.
• Balance is due 8 weeks prior to departure.
• A minimum number of 20 persons must book on this tour for it to proceed.
• Please note in the unlikely event this tour does not proceed your deposit will be refunded in full.
• Flights, taxes, prices and itinerary are subject to change.