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Taste of Welsh Life Coach Tours - 5 Days Tour Highlights • Travel down a Coal Mine • St Fagans National History Museum • Wine tasting at Llanerch Vineyard • Cardiff Bay • Castell Coch |
If you’ve ever wondered
what it would be like to go down a coal mine, this is your
chance! In fact we’ve combined a whole host of fascinating
visits with some lovely scenic coach touring, to make this
a truly unforgettable short break experience. |
| A Taste of Welsh Life - Your Excursions |
FULL DAY Spend the morning at St Fagans, a 100 acre parkland at the edge of Cardiff, where re-erected buildings from all over Wales can be explored, including miners’ cottages, farmhouses, a working bakery, blacksmith, and Victorian shop, in a vast open-air museum. Into the Vale of Glamorgan in the afternoon for a guided tour and winetasting at Llanerch Vineyard, where grapes are grown for the award winning Cariad wines. |
FULL DAY We include a tour of Castell Coch (the Red Castle) this morning, only five minutes drive from our hotel. It is a fairytale fantasy, a late 19th century creation for the wealthy Marquis of Bute, looking medieval outside, but with an extravagant Victorian interior. From here, at the entrance to the Taff Gorge, we tour the South Wales Valleys past Aberfan, Merthyr Tydfil, Aberdare and by a wild moorland road to descend to the Rhondda Valley and the Rhondda Heritage Park at Trehafod, for an included opportunity to take a cage ride to 'Pit Bottom' and explore the underground workings of a 1950’s colliery, guided by former miners. There is also a museum depicting the living conditions in the Rhondda Valley in years gone by. |
FULL DAY An excursion to Cardiff Bay to see Mermaid Quay, the Wales Millennium Centre, and the Norwegian Church where Roald Dahl was baptised. At the nearby seaside suburb of Penarth, there are views of the Somerset and Exmoor hills across the Bristol Channel, if the weather is fine!. |
| Quality Hotel Cardiff | |
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NESTLED JUST BENEATH the fairytale Castell
Coch in the village of Tongwynlais, just fifteen minutes from
Cardiff, this modern hotel offers spacious public areas, a
restaurant, bar lounge and leisure facilities including an
indoor heated swimming pool. All of the bedrooms feature private
facilities, television, telephone, radio, hairdryer, trouser
press and tea and coffee making facilities. • Full breakfast and three course evening dinner plus tea or coffee • Lift |
| A Taste of Welsh Life - 2009 Tour Code CAQ 5 Days Half Board | |||
| Grand UK Brochure Price in Black Travel 55 Discount Price in Red |
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April 6 |
£249 £232 |
October
5 |
£279 £260 |
May 4 |
£259 £241 |
October
19 |
£279 £260 |
September
21 |
£289 £269 |
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| Reserved Coach Seats | |
| YOU
HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY to choose the coach seat of your choice
which is yours from the moment you join your tour coach. Seat
numbers are not allocated on regional transfer services. In
most cases on coaches equipped with a rear mounted WC, seats
23 and 24 move to the driver’s side of the vehicle, whilst
seats 45 and 46 move one seat forward of the rear seat. |
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| Please note
that SMOKING IS NOT PERMITTED ON COACHES. Passengers who do
smoke will have ample opportunity to do so at the comfort
stops en route. |
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| Joining Points | |
| On most of our coach holidays you can choose from more than 350 (200 for departure code C tours) convenient local joining points across Southern England, East Anglia and the South West, the Midlands, London and the Home Counties. |