VIMY RIDGE
CENTENARY
2017
The Finest Premium and Luxury Escorted Tours
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CONTENTS PAGE
DESIGNED FOR YOU
WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH INSIGHT
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GREAT SAVINGS AND DISCOUNTS
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TERMS & CONDITIONS
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YOUR TOURS
VIMY RIDGE CENTENARY (SUMMER
2017)
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WHAT’S INCLUDED WITH INSIGHT
PREMIUM & LUXURY CENTRAL HOTELS
SMALLER GROUP SIZES
When it comes to great accommodation, Insight believes
that nothing is more important than the best hotels in
desirable central and scenic locations. Not just here and
there but everywhere, and on every tour.
Travelling with fewer people vastly improves your comfort
and enjoyment. An average of just 32 guests, and a
maximum of 40, makes our tours more intimate, friendly
and relaxing.
EXCEPTIONAL SIGHTSEEING & PRIORITY
ENTRY
BUSINESS CLASS LEGROOM
Using our in-depth knowledge Insight will bring you a
unique collection of authentic and included sightseeing
experiences that bring the magic of each destination to
life. We’ll even arrange entry to the major sites in advance
so you avoid the lines.
DINE-AROUND & HIGHLIGHT EVENINGS
We’ll introduce you to tantalising flavours and authentic
regional cuisine. Dine at your choice of restaurants on
our Dine Around evenings or enjoy a night of delicious
regional flavours often accompanied by local music at a
splendid Insight Highlight Evening.
WINE TASTINGS & COOKING
DEMONSTRATIONS
Each country has its own unique flavours. On many
Insight tours you’ll be introduced to a local wine-maker,
brewer or chef who will demonstrate their craft and invite
you to try their creations.
Insight’s smaller group sizes allow us to uniquely
customise our touring coaches with up to 100% more
legroom. It's like travelling business class. On every seat,
on every coach, on every tour.
HOTEL/RESTAURANT TIPS & LUGGAGE
HANDLING
When you travel with Insight, you can relax and
concentrate on simply enjoying your vacation because
we take care of everything. Your luggage will be carefully
handled everywhere and we include gratuities for hotels,
dining, porters and maids.
THE INSIGHT TOUR DIRECTOR
Your Tour Director’s informed insights and unobtrusive
organisation will ensure you experience far more than
any independent traveller could possibly do in the time
available. They’ll make you feel like a local with expert
knowledge and help you to make the most of your
vacation.
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GREAT SAVINGS AND DISCOUNTS
We offer many ways to make great savings on your tour price. View our range of discounts below and speak to your
travel agent or consult your complete brochure for full details of Insight’s discount combinations and restrictions.
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EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNT
Save up to 10%. Book and pay
early for massive savings –
but hurry as discounts may be
reduced or withdrawn as demand
for your selected tour increases!
The earlier you book, the sooner
your place is confirmed and the
more you can save!
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TAKE TWO TOURS AND SAVE
Book two tours and you will
receive a 5% reduction off the
lower priced tour. Take three
tours and save on two! Check
our full brochure to see which
tours can be combined for an
extended trip.
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YOUNG TRAVELLER SAVINGS
Share your happy vacation
memories with your children
or grandchildren. Save up to
10% when you accompany
passengers between the age of 5
to 17.
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TRIPLE ROOM DISCOUNT
When three people travel
together and share one room,
each of the three enjoys a
discount off the tour price. Look
for the Triple Room Reductions
in the price panel on the itinerary
of your choice.
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FREQUENT TRAVELLER SAVING
Customers who have travelled
with us previously become
members of Club Bon Voyage,
our past traveller club. Members
are entitled to a 5% discount
off the land portion of their next
Insight tour if they travel within
the next five years.
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SINGLE TRAVELLER SAVINGS
With Insight’s Room Mate
Matching we’ll find you someone
of the same gender to share, so
you don’t have to pay the single
room supplement. If we fail to do
so, we’ll provide a single room at
no extra cost.
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SMALL GROUP DISCOUNTS
Perhaps it’s a social club, sports
group or just friends or family!
5-8 guests booking together will
receive a 5% discount. For 9 or
more guests, further savings are
available!
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SPECIAL RED HOT DEALS
For further savings keep
an eye on our website at
www.insightvacations.com to
view our latest Red Hot Deals on
last minute travel.
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14 DAYS
Vimy Ridge Centenary (Summer 2017)
Tour Summary
Locations Visited
France - Belgium
INCLUDED SERVICES
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12 nights hotel accommodation as indicated.
An expert Insight Tour Director throughout your journey.
Luxury air-conditioned 40 seat coach with extended leg room and on-board restroom.
Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights without missing
any of your Local Expert’s fascinating insights and commentaries.
Baggage handling with delivery to your door at every hotel.
Hotel and restaurant tips included - Plus we include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
Complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi.
Insight Flourishes - from time to time, your Tour Director will enchant you with local tidbits, each
representing authentic food or beverages unique to the destination.
Airport arrival and departure transfers on Day 2 and Day 14.
INCLUDED QUALITY DINING
* 12 Buffet Breakfasts, Welcome Dinner and Reception, 4 three-course Evening Meals, 1 Boxed Lunch and
Celebration Dinner.
TOP RATED HIGHLIGHTS
* Explore Canada’s rich military heritage in Northern France and Belgium with Dr. Perrun as he takes you on
an in-depth journey tracing Canada’s participation in the great wars and paying homage to our contribution.
* Normandy Beaches: Visit the Juno Beach Memorial Centre and the Canadian War Cemetery at Beny-SurMer.
* Normandy Coast: See the remains of the artificial Mulberry Harbour at Arromanches. Visit the gun battery at
Longues-sur-Mer.
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Vimy Ridge Centenary (Summer 2017)
* Saint Germain-La-Blanche-Herbe: Visit the memorials to Canadian POWS murdered by the SS at the
Abbaye Ardenne.
* The Road to Falaise & Falaise Gap: Visit Falaise, St. Lambert-sur-Dives, and Mont Ormel.
* Honfleur: Visit the charming fishing town of Honfleur to see the port from where Samuel de Champlain set
sail to found Quebec.
* Dieppe: Tour of Dieppe and visit the Canadian War Cemetery and Memorial Museum. See the Canadian
landing sites.
* Vimy Ridge: Celebrate the 100th Anniversary at the National Historic Site of Canada.
* Ypres Battlefields: Visit the Flanders Fields Museum in Cloth Hall as well as Sanctuary Wood (Hill 62)
Museum. Visit the Tyne Cot Cemetery, and the Passchendaele Canadian Memorial (Crest Farm).
* The Battlefield of Verdun: With a Local Expert visit the Verdun Memorial Museum in Fleury-devantDouaumont, Fort Douaumont and its underground galleries, as well as the Ossuary.
* Chemin des Dames: Visit The Caverne du Dragon Museum.
* Compiegne: See where the Armistice was signed in November 1918.
My Itinerary
Day1: Depart Canada
Board your overnight flight to Europe (not included).
Day2: Welcome to Paris
Airport transfers depart from Charles de Gaulle Airport for your hotel at 08:30, 11:00 & 13:30. Relax and settle in, or start
exploring this great capital. Later, join Jody and your Tour Director for a Welcome Reception and the opportunity to mingle
and get to know each other over a pleasant evening of dinner and wine.
Day3: Normandy Beaches & Coast
There are poignant reminders of WWII as you drive along some of the beaches of the D-Day landings today. Visit Bernieressur-Mer for a walk along Juno Beach, where on June 6, 1944 the Third Canadian Division landed. Then onto visit Canada’s
remarkable Juno Beach Centre at Courseulles-sur-Mer. Then see the remnants of the artificial port in the bay of Arromanches.
We continue on to Beny-Sur-Mer and visit the Canadian War Cemetery. Then travel to Saint Germain-La-Blanche-Herbe
and view the medieval Abbaye Ardenne where Canadian prisoners of war were executed by the 12th SS Panzer Division.
Overnight in Herouville Saint Clair, 3 nights.
Day4: Bayeux & D-Day Landings
Visit the bunkers and the Rangers’ Memorial at Pointe du Hoc, followed by a few reflective moments at the American Military
Cemetery of St-Laurent near Omaha and German Cemetery in la Cambe. Then travel back in time to an invasion of a different
kind as you visit the Bayeux Tapestry Museum which chronicles the Norman invasion of Britain in 1066.
Day5: The Road to Falaise & Falaise Gap
Today, we take the road to Falaise where we will learn about Canadian operations during the latter stages of the Battle of
Normandy, including Operations Spring, Totalize and Tractable (on which Dr. Perrun has conducted extensive research). We’ll
stop at Point 67 and Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery before visiting Falaise, St. Lambertsur- Dives (where Major
David Currie won the Victoria Cross), Vimoutiers, and Mont Ormel to explore the closing of the Falaise Gap. We also visit the
Museum devoted to the battle.(Mercure Cote de Nacre / Herouville Saint Clair)
Day6: Delightful Honfleur
Visit Merville Battery & Pegasus Bridge before departing for delightful Honfleur where Samuel de Champlain commenced his
historic voyage which led to the founding of Quebec.
Day7: Dieppe Excursion
Today we tour Dieppe, beginning with the Canadian landing sites of the ill-fated raid. Later visit the Memorial Museum, housed
in the Municipal Theatre. Then explore Blue Beach in Puys to view the German gun emplacements situated along the cliff
tops. These guns would be responsible for the many terrible casualties the Canadians would encounter upon landing here.
We will end the day at the Canadian War Cemetery before returning to our hotel.
Day8: Somme Excursion
Today we explore the Somme Battles of 1916, beginning with a visit to the Newfoundland Memorial at Beaumont-Hamel where
the Newfoundland Regiment was virtually wiped out on July 1, 1916. Later, we visit the impressive Franco British Memorial
at Thiepval. After a lunch stop in Albert we visit the Somme Museum, the Canadian Memorial in Courcelette, and Australian
Memorial in Villers-Bretonneux. Overnight in Boves, 2 nights.
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Vimy Ridge Centenary (Summer 2017)
Day9: Vimy Ridge
This day of the tour will be dedicated entirely to our participation in the ceremonies commemorating the 100th Anniversary
of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
Day10: Ypres Battlefields
Today we will see preserved trenches in the Sanctuary Wood Museum and Hill 62. We’ll also visit the Essex Farm bunker where
Guelph, ON native John McCrae composed In Flanders Fields and visit the Flanders Field Museum. The day’s agenda includes
a tour of the Tyne Cot Cemetery and visits to the St. Julien Memorial, the town of Passchendaele and the Canadian Memorial
at Crest Farm. In the evening we will attend the “Last Post” ceremony at the Ypres War Memorial where buglers perform the
famous, haunting tune at 8PM each evening in a moving tribute to those who fell during WWI. Overnight Roeselare, 1 night.
Day11: The Last Hundred Days and Reims
Today we visit the Canadian memorials at Dury and Bourlon Wood, which commemorate Canadian Corps operations to break
the main German defences between Arras and Cambrai in September-October 1918. We then proceed to Reims where the
afternoon is at leisure. Overnight in Reims, 2 nights.
Day12: The Battlefield of Verdun
With our Local Expert we will explore the Verdun Memorial Museum at Fleury, Fort Douaumont and the Ossuary.
Day13: Return to Paris
We return to Paris via the Chemin des Dames, with a visit to the Caverne du Dragon museum to explore the underground
tunnels and galleries used by Allied soldiers during the fighting. En route to Paris we’ll Stop at Compiegne where the Armistice
was signed in November 1918. Tonight enjoy a “Diner de Célébration” served with wine in a typical authentic Parisian bistro.
Day14: Return to Canada
Your Journey comes to an end as you bid farewell to Jody and your Tour Director. After breakfast, departure transfers arrive
at Charles de Gaulle Airport at 8:00 am & 11:00 am.
Available Departures
Departs
01 Apr 2017
Returns
14 Apr 2017
Twin Land Only
CA$4739.00
Single Land Only
CA$5874.00
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Terms & Conditions
General Booking Conditions
Prices
Are based on costs, charges, tariffs, rates,
prices, taxes, levies and exchange rates
and other considerations as of the date of
production of this eBrochure. No surcharges
regarding cost or currency fluctuations will be
made to the LAND only price once the deposit
is received. However, this does not extend to
potential fuel surcharges and does not apply
to taxes, charges or levies imposed by any
government or its agencies. Airport taxes are
subject to change. No refund will be made if
costs are reduced. Please note that if the total
tour price increases by more than 10% guests
will have the right to cancel their tour within
7 days of notification of the surcharge without
penalty.
Cancellation
Insight reserves the right to cancel or
reschedule any tour departure in accordance
with operating requirements or when required
by circumstances beyond its reasonable
control. Should this occur, we will offer
you an alternative arrangement. If there is
a difference in cost this will be on your
account. If you do not accept this alternative
arrangement within 7 days, we may treat
this contract as at an end. We will refund
all monies and will then be under no further
liability. Insight is not responsible for any costs
for other travel arrangements affected due to
our cancellations or rescheduling of any tour
departure.
Full Booking Conditions &
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