Top 10 reason to travel with your alumni association:
- Travel with fellow alumni
- Exciting itineraries
- Superior or first class hotels at great rates
- Reward for your hard work
- Reliable quality programs with many great experiences included
- Network and bond with former classmates and new alums - make friends for a lifetime!
- Save 40% on cost over 'do-it-yourself packages'
- Perfect balance between arranged itinerary and free time
- Experiences that will broaden your world view
- Once-in-a lifetime experience!
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Day 1: Travel to London
Embark on your overnight flight to London
Meals: In-flight
Day 2-4: London
Free afternoon, followed by our welcome orientation, London Pub Crawl and dinner. The next day, see Big Ben, Buckingham Palace, and Piccadilly Circus: these familiar names become familiar places on our morning tour. The afternoon is at your leisure. Why not attend a West End show tonight? Enjoy another free day in London.
Meals: In-flight, Fish & chips dinner, Breakfast daily
Day 5: London, Eurostar Train, Paris
Travel through the “Chunnel” below the English Channel, to Paris. Our local art historian shows us the Arc de Triomphe, the Eiffel Tower, Notre Dame Cathedral and Place de la Concorde, where the guillotine once stood. Tonight, dine on French specialties at our bistro dinner. Afterward, take a romantic cruise down the river Seine.
Meals: Breakfast, French bistro dinner
Day 6: Paris
Free day in Paris: Included Paris 2-day Museum Pass allows access to over 70 museums and monuments in and around Paris including the world famous Louvre, housing the Mona Lisa, Musée d’Orsay, Musée National Picasso, and the Châteaux de Versailles. Consider an optional Cabaret show tonight.
Meals: Breakfast daily
Optional Excursions: Cabaret show.
Day 7: Overnight Train to Rome
This morning consider exploring Paris’ fabulous stores, stroll through the artists’ section of Montmartre, or browse the bookstalls on the Left Bank. On our free afternoon mingle with the rich and famous at “Fouquet’s” café on the Champs-Elysées. In the evening we board our overnight express train to Italy.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 8-10: Rome, Vatican City
Check in to our hotel and enjoy an afternoon at leisure exploring Rome. Tonight, join us for our Viva Italia Pizza Party. Following dinner, perhaps walk to Piazza Navona, one of the city’s most beautiful Baroque squares and try the local gelati.
The next morning see the historic ruins of Caesar’s Forum and the Colosseum where Gladiators fought. A trip across the Tiber River takes us to Vatican City, where we’ll visit St. Peter’s Basilica. Free afternoon, make sure to visit the Vatican Museum to see the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. An evening on your own might include a visit to the Trevi Fountain-toss in three coins to ensure your return to Rome. Enjoy another free day for exploring the Eternal City.
Meals: Breakfast daily, Pizza party, Roman banquet
Day 11: Travel Home
Bid farewell to friends and ‘arrivederci’ to Italy before jetting back home with memories to last a lifetime.
Meals: Breakfast, In-flight
