DAY 01

Depart USA .meals , drinks and in-flight entertainment included

DAY 02

Arrive Paris , welcome to city of lights by Golden Royal Tours, transfer to your hotel , remainder of the day is at leisure to enjoy fabulous city with its grand avenues and boulevards and eternal monuments

DAY 03

After breakfast , enjoy an optional full day sightseeing in Paris , cathedral of Notre Dame, place de la concorde , champs-elysees , Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower , free time at landmarks at Opera area , ending our tour by a panoramic city tour by cruise (bateau mouche) on the Seine river, Invalides (tomb of Napoleon) . Tonight perhaps enjoy a cabaret show at Lido De Paris or Moulin Rouge (B)

DAY 04

After breakfast , (optional) overday  in Lisieux Most people, however, come to Lisieux as a place of pilgrimage based around the cult of St Thérèse, the most popular French spiritual figure of the last hundred years. Passivity, self-effacement and a self-denial that verged on masochism were her trademarks, and she is honoured by the gaudy and gigantic Basilique de Ste-Thérèse, completed in 1954 on a slope to the southwest of the town centre. The huge modern mosaics that decorate the nave are undeniably impressive, but the overall impression is of a quasi-medieval hagiography. The faithful can ride on a white, flag-bedecked fairground train around the holiest sites, which include the infinitely restrained and sober Cathédrale St-Pierre. Return to Paris.Overnight at hotel 

DAY 05

After breakfast , early departure to Lourdes by TGV (high speed train) .Arrival inLourdes .Check-in your hotel. Evening Dinner at your hotel , then at 8.45 p.m. attend the processions (be there 15 m. earlier) near the Grotto where the various pilgrimages meet under their banners next to the Gave (duration one hour)

DAY 06

After breakfast , full day pilgrimage starting with THE WAY OF THE CROSS , laid on the mountain , it measures 1530m. it is possible to take THE WAY OF THE CROSS accompanied by a priest who preaches along the way (meeting at 8.30 a.m. every day at the Crowned virgin) , enjoy the Baths (are to the right of the Grotto) , THE 17 Baths were cut into the rock in 1954 where hundreds of people take a dip every day.  Lunch & Dinner included for more activities and pilgrimage related matters , please refer to our reservation department for details,brochures,informations ... and special events in Lourdes  

DAY 07

After breakfast , visit the Rosary Basilica, Upper Basilica or (Basilica of the IMMACULATE CONCEPTION) Departure to Paris by TGV .Arrival , check-in to hotel.Overnight

DAY 08

After breakfast , transfer by Golden Royal Tours to airport for homebound flight arrives the same day

TOUR FEATURES

Scheduled transatlantic flight (round trip from and to NYC)

(for supplements from other us gateways, please refer to our reservation department)

Accommodation at hotels (meals as per itinerary)

Accommodation in Lourdes on full board basis

T G V (high speed train) Paris/Lourdes/Paris

Arrival and departure transfer in Paris

Included sightseeing as per itinerary

Professional tour directors to escort you

NOT INCLUDED

Transfers in Lourdes 

Optional tours and tipping

Transfer from hotel to station and v.v. in (Paris)

Airport taxes and september 11th security fees

2006  .  Paris with Lourdes & Lisieux                                       

STARTS

ENDS

 land only

air & land

FEB 24

MAY 19

855

1355

MAY 26

JUN 30

995

1595

JUL  07

SEP 01

955

1655

SEP 08

NOV 03

995

1595