Queen Elizabeth's Maiden World Voyage

Sailing on January 5th, the Queen Elizabeth,
accompanied by the Queen Victoria, will depart from Southampton docks and sail up the solent to celebrate the Queen Elizabeth's maiden world voyage.

OUR 1 DAY PACKAGE INCLUDES

Return coach travel
Local pick up points
An included visit to Beaulieu
Entrance into the National Motor Museum
Entrance into the Palace House
A winter lunch at Beaulieu
Transfer to 'Ocean Village' for a 2 hour cruise
PRICE from £79.00pp (based on 45pp)

If your group are based too far away from Southampton for this to be a day trip, we can arrange for 1,2 or even 3 nights accommodation and propose a more comprehensive itinerary.

There are some superb places for you to visit in the area and we have some excelent hotel offers for this time of year, which will keep the package at a very affordable level.

HAVE A LOOK AT THIS SAMPLE 3 DAY ITINERARY

Sample Queen Elizabeth Itinerary
Day 1 – Departing this morning, we travel south, making a stop en route in the historic ‘city of Spires’ Oxford. We include a visit & tour to one of the world’s most famous libraries, The Bodleian Library & Divinity School (as featured in the ‘Harry Potter’ films), which is said to be the most beautiful room in Europe. The Divinity School was built in 1488 for the teaching of theology. With its elaborately vaulted ceiling and its 455 carved bosses, it is a masterpiece of English Gothic architecture. Take a look in the 17th century Convocation House and Court, where Parliament was held in the Civil War. You might want to visit Duke Humfrey's mediaeval library, still in use today, and is where generations of famous scholars have studied through the ages. These former readers, or users of the Library include five kings, 40 Nobel Prize winners, 25 British Prime Ministers and writers such as Oscar Wilde, C S Lewis and J R R Tolkien. In the Harry Potter films, Hogwart’s school library is that of Duke Humfrey’s and you should seek out the Exhibition Room where some of the library’s rare books and manuscripts are on display. After this visit you might like to purchase a coffee in Blackwell’s Bookshop in Broad Street, which houses the Norrington Room underneath Trinity College... a bookstore like you’ve never seen before……!! This tour shows you the interior of the buildings that form the historic heart of the University. Your guide will describe the wonderful architecture, explaining how the University came into being in the Middle Ages, and how it developed over the centuries. You will have some free time in the city before we continue south towards Southampton, where arriving later today, you will check in to your hotel, where having freshened up, dinner is included this evening.
Day 2 - We start the day with an included visit to Beaulieu in the heart of the New Forest. The Beaulieu Estate - home of the Montagu family since 1538 and also home to the world famous National Motor Museum. Palace House was first opened to the public in 1952 and Beaulieu has been welcoming visitors for over 50 years. It offers something for everyone’s tastes and interests including motoring, stately homes, historic buildings and beautiful gardens. History comes alive in Palace House with real Victorian characters, tales from the butler, cook and housemaids give a fascinating insight into the workings of a Victorian household, showing their life ‘Upstairs and Downstairs’. At the National Motor Museum you can view over 250 vehicles from every motoring era from some of the earliest examples of motoring to legendary World Land Speed Record Breakers including Bluebird, ‘TV Star’ cars such as Del Boy’s Reliant Regal and rare oddities like a giant orange on wheels. A buffet lunch is included at Beaulieu. Included also is a 2 hour cruise on the Solent accompanying the Queen Victoria and the new Queen Elizabeth as she departs on her maiden world voyage. This unique event will be something to be hold as from onboard our charter boat, you will be able to see these ships as never before. We return to the hotel following the cruise where dinner is included this evening.
Day 3 – Departing the hotel after breakfast, we re-trace our steps, stopping en route for lunch at the Windmill Carvery restaurant in Oxfordshire (payable locally). From here, we then visit the pretty village of Bourton-on-the-Water, in the heart of the Cotswolds which is regularly voted as one of the prettiest villages in England. Bourton has more than its share of Cotswold houses and cottages, many of them three hundred years old, some dating back to Elizabethan times four hundred years ago. Here, you could visit to the Cotswold Motoring Museum (entrance payable locally), which is a fascinating journey through the 20th Century. Though the main focus is on motoring, the Museum is also full of the everyday paraphernalia that made motoring so popular including picnic sets from the 1920s, alongside caravans, radio sets, gramophones and knitted swimsuits .You will have some free time also to visit the town centre at your leisure, enjoy the quirky shops and boutiques and take a stroll along the babbling stream that traverses the town centre and is criss-crossed with quaint foot bridges. Departing here, we continue on to Uttoxeter, arriving back later in the day.Simply Groups reserve the right to make minor alterations to this itinerary due to circumstances beyond our control.

This is a sample itinerary and subject to change due to circumstances beyond our control.