This is a tour that requires no introduction.

June 6th 1944 is a date forever etched into our consciousness. Our four-day tour will provide you with an emotionally moving and learning experience that will not be soon forgotten. You are accompanied by one of our battlefield guide specialists who will guide you expertly through the events of the day and subsequent Battle of Normandy.

This tour can also be run for private groups at any time of year. We can also adapt the itinerary to focus more on the involvement of specific nationalitites, divisions or regiments in the Normandy invasion and battle.

The cost per person for special groups will depend on the number travelling. Please contact us if you'd like a quotation.

In 2004, for their 60th Anniversary tour, we proudly carried members of the Winnipeg Rifles who stormed Juno beach as part of the initial D Day assault. We also welcomed several US veterans who both landed on D-Day and fought in the Normandy campaign. Their combined experiences and memories have been incorporated into our tour with their blessing. We thank them and salute their bravery. Lest We Forget.

Tour Code

Depart London

Return London

  DDay

Saturday

Tuesday

Price:   GBP £455.00 pp twin share     Single Supplement:  GBP £65.00

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NIGHTSTOP

DAY ONE - SATURDAY

This is our own 'longest day'. We leave London early in the morning heading south west. Our itinerary contains many unique references and sites connected with the days leading up to June 6, 1944 before we board our ferry to France. There are also several of the better known sites, including the Portsmouth D-day museum and you'll see Eisenhower's HQ where 'Operation Overlord' was planned (occasionally this may be not accessible due to ad hoc security issues as it is on a functioning base). We take the early afternoon ferry across the channel arriving in France four hours later. This will undoubtedly be a less stressful crossing than the men faced on the night of June 5.

Bayeux region

DAY TWO and DAY THREE - SUNDAY and MONDAY

From our bases at Bayeux and Honfleur, we spend the following two days visiting sites whose names will be etched into 20th century history; the D-day beaches Omaha, Utah, Juno, Sword, Gold, Arromanches, Pegasus Bridge, the Falaise Pocket, Operation Epsom. We'll also visit the solemn national cemeteries, and museums en route such as the airborne at Ste Mere Eglise, the undersea wrecks museum at Port en Bessin and Commando museum at Ouistreham. A major highlight will be the Caen Peace Memorial museum.

We'll see sights connected with all of the allied armies and will be able to amend the itinerary on a daily basis to visit any location that might have a special meaning for one of our tour participants. Depending on the date of tour there may be a special commemorative event taking place at one of the sites and we'd always endeavour to visit such.

We stay two nights near Caen and one in the pretty harbour town of Honfleur.

Day two Bayeux

Day three Honfleur

DAY FOUR - TUESDAY

We've an early start and a drive to Dieppe. This was the site of an abortive raid by Canadian and British soldiers in 1942. It cost the Canadians dear with over 2000 casualties.

We board the 11.45 fast ferry for our return crossing to Newhaven. This afternoon we'll return to London through Kent with a final fitting stop at Winston Churchill's home of Chartwell, where you can still virtually smell the great man's cigar smoke.

London not included

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