Coach Breaks
The Rhine and Moselle Valleys

The Rhine and Moselle Valleys 2017

What's Included
6 nights' accommodation with continental breakfast
5 evening meals
Convenient local joining points
Travel by Silver Service or Luxuria

Included Excursions
Rüdesheim
Rhine Valley
Cologne

Travel by Silver Service and enjoy these extras
Extra legroom for your added comfort
Comfortable rear lounge to relax and chat
FREE personal headphones with a choice of music & DVDs
Porterage in all hotels
Smaller, more personal group

Upgrade to Luxuria and enjoy these extras:
31 deluxe extra wide armchair-style reclining seats with extra leg room
Fully interactive T.V. screen at each seat with a wide choice of movies, T.V. programmes and music
Plug sockets and USB points at each seat to keep your devices fully charged

7 Day Itinerary

Day 1

Local departure by coach or Door-to-Door service, then to Belgium for an overnight stay.

  • Door-to-door available

On coach holidays of 7 days’ duration or more and Single Traveller coach holidays, you don’t even have to think about getting to your local joining point.

If you live within 20 miles of one of our free joining point, we’ll pick you up from your home and take you to meet your feeder coach, then return you back home at the end of your holiday. On European coach holidays of 7 days' or more, the cost of this is just £30 per booking each way (Up to 4 people per booking). For Single Traveller holidays, it’s free of charge.

If you live a little further afield, you can also take advantage of this convenient option for an additional charge

Please note: If you would like to take up the Door-to-Door service, you will need to call our reservations team as it is not possible to book this service online.

Day 2 - Cologne

We head to Cologne; its Old Town is a haven with welcoming bars, restaurants and the magnificent Dom, the Gothic cathedral, which dominates this fine city. We continue through the Rhine Gorge to reach Assmannshausen for a five-night stay.

  • Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 3 - Rüdesheim

Included visit to the picturesque riverside ‘wine town’ of Rüdesheim. Explore the lively Drosselgasse, a narrow street with cosy cafés, shops and bars. In the afternoon, join our optional sightseeing drive by little road train, which includes a visit to Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum, with its fascinating self-playing musical instruments.

  • Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 4 - Cochem and the Moselle Valleys

Today’s optional excursion begins at Koblenz, where the Rhine and Moselle rivers meet, then continues along the gentle Moselle Valley to charming Cochem. Later, enjoy an optional winetasting at the House of Anton Hammes in Alken, where you can learn more about the wine making processes and have the chance to sample and buy.

  • Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 5 - Rhine Valley

Full-day included excursion exploring the Rhine Valley, seeing the world-famous Loreley Rock and visiting Boppard, with its splendid Rhine Promenade and St. Goar, home to the world’s largest cuckoo clock shop. The perfect way to view the Rhine is from the water on our optional river cruise through the Rhine Gorge, seeing picturesque villages, terraced vineclad slopes and many ancient castles (Kaub, Cat and Mouse, to name a few).

  • Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 6 - Heidelberg

Optional excursion to the beautiful town of Heidelberg with its Castle, one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture in Germany and charming Old Town with its maze of little streets.

  • Included meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 7

Return home.

  • Included meals: Breakfast

Accommodation

You will stay for five nights at the traditional 3-star Hotel Alte Bauernschänke in charming Assmannshausen in the Rhine Valley.

The hotel has been welcoming Leger guests for many years and is typically ‘Rhineland’ in style, with an atmosphere to match. The original building is over 600 years old, and there is entertainment most evenings, a lift, restaurant, large bar area and a recently opened ‘state of the art’ wellness centre including sauna, steam-bath, massage, beautician and relaxation area.

The overnight stay in Belgium will be in a city-style hotel.

Extras

Optional Excursions

  • Rüdesheim - Road Train
  • Cochem & the Moselle Valleys
  • Moselle Winetasting
  • Rhine River Cruise
  • Heidelberg

REF: LE