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

5 days / 4 nights      Tuesday - Saturday

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.

DEPARTURE DATES & PRICES FOR YEAR 2008

Tour Code

Join London

Depart Dublin

ROCK

Tuesday

Saturday

ROCK1

20 May

24 May

ROCK2

10 Jun

14 Jun

ROCK3

15 Jul

19 Jul

ROCK4

09 Sep

13 Sep

These dates are our group departure dates. You can choose your own dates if wanting an individual 'Going Solo' package. There is a small price supplement for 'Going Solo'.

Cost: $1129 USD per person in a twin share room. Single $1215 USD single occupancy

What your tour package includes:

Your accommodation for 4 nights while on the tour including 4 breakfasts. Your price also includes all entrance fees to attractions, transportation, services of driver/guide-companion and all taxes and tips other than those you may wish to give your guide. Dinners are not included.

Tour price excludes Manchester to Dublin airfare, which is quoted at the time of booking. The earlier you book the cheaper the flight on a 'no-frills' carrier.

Airport transfers and accommodation pre and post tour are available at a specially discounted price. Subject to availability, your London accommodation is in one of the cities renowned 'rock 'n' roll' hotels featured in many song lyrics.

Want to upgrade your tour package to include international airfare? Click here for info.

TENTATIVE ITINERARY

DAY ONE - Tuesday

You will be met at London’s original Hard Rock Cafe for the 10AM departure of our ''London's Rock Legends and Beatle sites' tour. You'll see five decades of rock history. See where the legends lived and still live, and where some died. Visit the heart of the Hippies 'Swinging Sixties' and the birthplace of the Seventies Punk Rock movement. See famous gig sites, clubs, rock hotels, record labels, management offices and studios. See where famed album covers were shot. Get your own photo taken at Abbey Road and at the Bill Wyman's (Stones) 'Sticky Fingers' restaurant. See all the most important Beatle sites such as Paul and Ringo's houses, Apple HQ, EMI Studios and many more.

This tour takes you where other walking tours can't! Visit Camden, Primrose Hill, Hamstead, Muswell Hill, Chelsea, Kensington, Notting Hill, St John's Wood and Soho!

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 - Wednesday

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 - Thursday

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 - Friday

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 - Saturday

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.

If you are interested, why not connect up with one of our Irish tours from Dublin? Choices include select departures of the Heart of Ireland and Classic Southern Ireland tours.

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

This tour is operated by Back-Roads Touring Co Ltd

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