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ROCK LEGENDS UK & Dublin
London, Liverpool, Manchester & Dublin

This is no 'Spinal Tap' but for the rock fan just as an unforgettable experience! Your very own time 'on the road'! Four days, four great cities, four great evenings. London rock legends tour, Beatle tour in Liverpool, 24-Hour party in Manchester and rockin' Dublin! This is a tour for rock fans, delivered by other rock fans, and designed by those with special insider knowledge of the rock world of the last forty years or so.

NOTE: This tour is unescorted between cities but local specialist guides in each location meet you. Manchester to Dublin airfare will be quoted at the time of booking. The earlier you book, the cheaper the flight on a 'no-frills' carrier.

Subject to availability, London accommodation is in one of the cities renowned 'rock 'n' roll' hotels and features in many song lyrics!

TENTATIVE ITINERARY

DAY ONE

Today, our Full Day Monsters of Rock tour. The morning tour will focus on the Summer of Love, visiting Central and North London (Camden, Hamstead, Highgate and ‘still swingin’ Soho) followed by the Classic Rock and Beatles tour, showing you parts of the Capitol missed by most tourists. Get an insider’s view of Chelsea and the Kings Road, Kensington, Notting Hill - including some famous film sites and St John's Wood. Go where the walking tours can’t! Get your own photo taken at Abbey Road and at the Bill Wyman's (Stones) 'Sticky Fingers' restaurant.

Artists featured include: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Queen, Sex Pistols, Clash, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Donovan, Frank Zappa, Dylan, Bowie, The Kinks, Fleetwood Mac, Van Morrison, Oasis, Boy George, Madness, U2, Blur, Elton John, Madonna and many, many more!!

At the conclusion of the tour you're taken to the Kings Cross rail station where you board a train to Liverpool. Your centrally located accommodation is a short walk from both the train station and Liverpool's' famed Cavern Club.

Dinner is not included tonight and you're free to explore the city's nightlife in the famed 'Mathews Street' quarter, or perhaps vist the Jacaranda Club, hardly changed since the Beatles themselves played there.

Accommodation: Liverpool

DAY TWO

Mecca or Macca? It's Liverpool and the starting point of the greatest musical adventure yet written. Today you'll see the city that gave birth to those Fab Four, the mop-topped Beatles!

This tour will take in over 60 important places around the Beatles' Liverpool. The homes of Paul and John (Mendips, Forthlin Road), Strawberry Field, Penny Lane, St. Peters Woolton, The Art College and the Liverpool Institute, The Casbah, The Cavern, Arnold Grove, Dovedale School. We'll take you to places important in the lives of the Beatles, and give you a true tatse of life in the 60s in this great city, such as taking the ferry across the Mersey! We'll also visit the fantastic Beatles Story Exhibition.

This gets us in the mood for a night's entertainment at the world's most famed Rock club, The Cavern, home of the Beatles, and where we'll enjoy a nostalgic night. With live bands on every night maybe we'll see the 'next' Beatles!

What better way to enjoy your evening than with a visit to the famed Cavern Club! With live gigs on every night, you might just see the next Beatles!

Accommodation: Liverpool

DAY THREE

This morning you take the fifty-minute train ride to Manchester, arriving by 10.30. You're met by your local '24 Hour Party Person' and taken on an amazing journey through this great city's musical heritage.

Manchester is the UK's greatest 'hidden' rock secret! 'What Manchester does today London does tomorrow' has been this city proud boast. This is a great and historic city enjoying a cultural renaissance and worth a visit in its own right. Where do we start with the music? Herman's Hermits, Graham Nash and The Hollies, 10CC, Simply Red, Factory Records, Oasis, The Smiths, The Hacienda and Twenty-four Hour party people (Acid House music), Happy Mondays, John Mayall, The Doves, Joy Division, The Buzzcocks, The Bee Gees, Barclay James Harvest, The Verve, The Fall, James, New Order, The Stone Roses, M People, Take That .. the list is endless. There must be something in the water!

You'll enjoy a fully guided tour of the rock sites, stars homes, album covers and lyric references. A visit to the local Hard Rock Cafe to see their Manchester 'greats' collection is a must.

And tonight you'll be free to either take in a concert (perhaps a university gig) and/or explore one of the UK's most vibrant nightclub scenes. Perhaps you'll catch the next mega-stars before the rest of the world does!

Accommodation: Manchester

DAY FOUR

Today you fly to Ireland, as today's rock city is Dublin. The flight is just an hour long. We take care of your transfer to the airport and you take the local bus to your accommodation in central Dublin.

Home of U2, Thin Lizzy, Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats, Sinead O'Connor, The Cranberries, The Waterboys, Chris De Burgh and many others. This afternoon you'll enjoy a 'rock and stroll' tour of this city seeing sites connected with Dublin's finest. This evening we'll 'hit the town' taking a Rock 'n' Roll pub crawl! This will be a memorable evening enjoying the 'craic' as there's nowhere on earth like a Dublin pub - live music, great drink and food, and the friendliest of locals!

Accommodation: Dublin

 

DAY FIVE

This morning you can continue your Dublin rock explorations. It's a great city for finding that obscure recording you've been looking for. It's also great for city 'buskers' (street musicians) and for simply 'hanging out'.

At your own choice of time you can return to London or onward travel to a destination of your choosing. Dublin has direct flights to many North American cities and low cost connections to cities throughout Europe. Transfer and return flights not included in your tour package. Additional nights' accommodation and transfers can be booked separately.

 

Note: you can also take this Rock UK & Dublin tour as a 'Going Solo' option. It is unescorted but we book all of the elements for you and you simply present your vouchers on arrival. You can take the 'Going Solo' option over any week of your choice provided your start the London portion on a Tuesday.

 

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