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Monday, October 17, 2011

Tour Discounts Available for 2013!


EF has notified me that they are offering a $150 discount to anyone who signs up for the Berlin, Prague, Krakow, and Budapest tour by February 29, 2012.

The current total adult price with this discount is $3,534 (excluding travel insurance). You can go here to enroll. The tour number is 1115941.

Saturday, August 13, 2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Flight Schedule

EF will post the flight schedule online 21 days from departure. You can access it online then by going to the EF web site and logging in. Use your account number as the username and type in your password.

To see a list of flights, click on Tour Details in the left blue box. Scroll down and click on the Flight and Hotel Information tab.

However, I received a phone call from our tour consultant and he has already given us our flight schedule! I will email it to you in a separate private email.

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Rhodes revisited - Excursion to Philerimos


I noticed after looking more carefully at the optional excursions offered by the cruise line that I had neglected to tell you of another one offered on the island of Rhodes which includes Old Town Rhodes and Philerimos.

It is a 3-hour bus tour with some walking for 47 Euros (price subject to change) a short distance from Old Town Rhodes featuring a monastery set on the beautiful hillsides of Mount Philerimos (sometimes spelled Filerimos).

The tour drives along the medieval walls west of town to Mount Smith, the acropolis of Rhodes which offers panoramic views of the city and harbor. It is named for the English Admiral Sir Sidney Smith who kept watch from there for Napoleon’s fleet in 1802. It is also known as Agios Stephanos.

The hill is the site of a 3rd century BC city featuring a stadium, acropolis, and small theater, or odeion, built in an unusual square shape. Only three columns remain of the mighty Temple of Pythian Apollo. Nearby are the ruins of temples to Athena Polias and Zeus Poliefs.

The summit of Philerimos a short drive away is the next stop on this excursion, and is the site of Ialyssos, one of the three ancient cities of Rhodes. Among the cypress and pines sits the restored Byzantine Church of Our Lady of Philerimos, a complex of four chapels; the main one built in 1306 leads to the other three. The innermost chapel has a Byzantine floor decorated with a red mosaic fish.

The Italians erected a Calvary from the entrance of the monastery in the form of an avenue with the Stations of the Cross illustrated on plaques. On the headland stands a giant 59-ft. cross.

This tour concludes with an easy and flat walking tour of Old Town Rhodes and a stop at a ceramic workshop.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Another EF Price Discount!

EF is currently offering another price discount for potential travelers who want to join our June 2011 tour of Athens with a Greek Island cruise. Until March 31, participants may enroll and receive $150 off the current price.

Adults may enroll for $3,719 with double rooms while persons age 23 and under may enroll for $3,174 in quad rooms. If a person under 23 wants a double room then they will be subject to adult fees.

Feel free to share this information with family and friends. Full information on the trip is in postings below, including a slide show on the sites we will see and links to the full itinerary and a video of the cruise.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Join Us for Our Athens and the Islands Tour!

We are planning our next tour and it will be to Athens with a 4-day Greek Isle cruise to Mykonos, Patmos, Rhodes, Crete, and Santorini with a stop in Kusadasi, Turkey to tour Ephesus. The 10-day tour is June 16-25, 2011.

This tour combines highlights from multi-cultural periods including Classical Greek, Byzantine, Roman, medieval, and the ancient Minoan civilization with all the natural beauty of island life on the Aegean Sea.

For a full itinerary from EF Tours...

For complete cruise details from EF Tours...

For a video on the Greek Isle cruise from Louis Cruise Lines...

And if you would like to see the slide presentation of the sites we will visit on this tour that I presented at our introduction meeting Sept. 13...


Click on the forward button in the middle of the screen to start the show. To advance the slides, click on the forward button at the bottom left to view this size. To view full screen, click on the square in the lower right corner of the slide show and simply click your mouse on the screen to advance the slide show. Enjoy!
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General Information for Athens and the Islands Tour 2011

--We are traveling with EF Educational Tours.
--This is a 10-day private tour June 16-25, 2011 especially for our adult group. (We are not doing the 3-day extension.)
--The all-inclusive tour price is $3,942 per adult. This includes the $95 enrollment fee, current departure fees*, program fee, weekend supplement, all-inclusive insurance plan, private bus, adult supplement, 4 nights Athens hotel in double rooms with private baths, 4-day Greek Isle cruise with inside double rooms with private bath, roundtrip airfare from DFW, all breakfasts and dinners in Athens, and breakfast, lunch and dinner on the cruise.
--Ship to shore transportation is provided in the tour cost. Optional excursions are available for all ports of call through Louis Cruise lines while on tour.
--This price is good through Feb. 26, 2011 when the final payments must be received. $125 late fee will be charged if final payment is not received by that date. *Departure fees are subject to change according to the airport tax.
--The $135 All-Inclusive Insurance Plan covers medical and accident, baggage and property, and tour cancellation and interruption. The insurance is not required, but I do recommend it. The insurance is automatically billed to all travelers and must be paid upon enrollment or within 30 days of enrollment. If you do not want it, you must decline in writing. Once you decline it, you cannot get it back.
--Each participant must have a roommate or will be subject to a single supplement charge. As of 2010, the single supplement is $40 per night in a hotel or cruise cabin. That would be $40 x 8 nights = $320.
--Enrollment options:
Internet: enroll online quickly and easily at http://www.eftours/enroll. Our tour number is 193839. (The lower student price appears first; the adult supplement appears on the next page after you register with your birthday to provide your age)
Phone: call 1-800-665-5364.
Mail: send in the enrollment form with the full payment in the prepaid envelope provided (I have these).
Fax: complete the enrollment form and fax to 1-800-318-3732.
--Payment options:
--Manual payment: the full price is due upon enrollment through Feb. 26, 2011.
--Credit card or direct bank debit: pay $95 ($230 with insurance) with enrollment, then the balance is automatically divided into monthly payments deducted monthly from your checking account or credit card. With this plan you have 2 more months (until May 15, 2011) to make payments (30 days prior to departure) and do not have to worry about late fees.
--When registering, you MUST put your name on the application EXACTLY as it is on your passport or birth certificate. This is the same name that will be put on your airplane tickets (and passport if you don’t have one yet) and the names must match. Married women use your married name. EF requires you include a middle name (or maiden name if that is on your passport) for enrollment.
--You will need a passport to travel abroad. If you have one, make sure it will be valid at least six months after our return in 2011. Adult passports are good for 10 years; children’s passports are good for five years. If you do not have a passport, then wait until about 6 months prior to departure to apply.
--Once we have organized our traveling group, I will keep you informed of everything you need to know. I will have meetings a few months prior to departure. Until then I will keep you informed on sites we will see, what to expect, what to pack, how to obtain currency, where to shop, how to get passports, inform you of airline flights and hotels…everything you need to know through this travel blog at http://luv2go.blogspot.com/.
Right now you just need to decide if you want to join us…and we hope you do!
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