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TURKEY
4 nights from £575
Istanbul - 4 nights
key vJv features · VJV Special Event · VJV Sightseeing Programme · Free Excursion Offer · No Single Supplement · Regional Flights · Walking Content: 2 (see page 145) · Group Size: 4 25
per person in a twin room hotel antis british airways from heathrow
2012 Thursdays
st. sophia, istanbul
TURKisH DeliGHTs
Staying in Old Istanbul, capital of the Ottoman and Byzantine empires
B
yzantine and Ottoman inspiration VJV Special Event and language has enriched our OTTOMAN DINNER culture in many ways: from coffee, croissants, divans, slippers, silks, turbans, tiles and carpets to tents, harems and the language of flowers - all deriving from that legendary city known in turn as Byzantium, Constantinople and Istanbul. The allure of ancient Byzantium was popularly fashioned by the fertile imagination of many grand baZaar, istanbul an author including Graham Greene aCCoMMoDatIon (`Stamboul Train') and Agatha Christie All hotels have an excellent location (`Murder on the Orient Express') and it in Old Istanbul, a few minutes' was of course George Naglemackers's walk from Topkapi Palace, Blue A drink in a typical Ottoman house followed plush Pullman train, later to be dubbed Mosque and Grand Bazaar. All have by a candlelit dinner in the vaulted dining the `Orient Express' that was to be room of an ancient 6th-century cistern. air-conditioned rooms with private the main setting for these tales of facilities, mini-bar, hairdryer, safe high-class courtesans, seductive spies, and satellite TV. secret messengers and assassins. In Hotels Antis & Avicenna: These `Special-Category' Ottomanan earlier period, Mozart was to transport his creative mind style hotels (3-star equivalent), located on the same street, to the Topkapi Palace with `Die Entführung aus dem Serail' Hotel Antis offers a rooftop terrace and Hotel Avicenna a (Flight from the Harem) and the silver screen gave us `Topkapi' rooftop restaurant. which told of the theft of the emerald dagger from the Topkapi President Hotel: A 4-star hotel with restaurants, coffee Palace Treasury. It is still on display in the Palace Treasury, shop, bar, pool (heated in winter), health club, jacuzzi and which also displays the 86-carat Spoonmaker diamond, 204 rooms. the gold-plated Bayram throne and bejewelled aigrettes Crowne Plaza Hotel: Formerly Hotel Merit Antique, an for the imperial turban. The harem (Arabic for `Forbidden') old favourite of VJV guests, this 5-star hotel is close to is a labyrinth of brilliantly tiled 16th-century chambers, the Grand Bazaar. Restaurants, bar, café, shops, indoor which includes the Paired Pavilions, Dining Room of Ahmet pool and Turkish bath. 265 rooms with tea/coffee making III, Imperial Hall and Harem Baths. The Bosphorus cruise facilities. excursion encompasses a greater part of this 30-km waterway separating Asia and Europe and passes the Dolmabahçe and ItInerary Beylerbeyi palaces, the 15th-century Rumeli and Anatolian Day 1 Fly from your chosen airport to Istanbul and transfer castles guarding the narrowest points of the European and to your chosen hotel for four nights. Asian shoreline, mosques and wooden Ottoman houses. Day 2 Visit St. Sophia, the Roman Hippodrome and Blue Mosque. Afternoon cruise along the Bosphorus and visit to the Egyptian Bazaar. Day 3 Full-day sightseeing includes the Eyup Mosque, Church of St. Savior, Crowne Prince Mosque, Topkapi Palace including the harem and Treasury, ending with the Grand Bazaar. Day 4 An optional day excursion to the 6th-century Basilica Cistern, the Rustem Pasha Mosque and the Dolmabahçe Palace of the Sultans. It includes a Bosphorus crossing by boat to Asia to visit Camlica Hill, returning via the Bosphorus Bridge - £75 (Excursion is free on dates indicated thus). Enjoy a `Special Ottoman Dinner' (departures Jul 12-Aug 9, the dinner will be held on the roof-top of the Adamar Hotel). Day 5 Return flight.
ortakÖy on the bosphorus
Jan 19* ....... £575 Feb 2* ......... £595 Feb 9.............. £595 Feb 23............ £595 Mar 8........... £625 Mar 15, 22 .... £645 Mar 29........... £645 Apr 5 .............. £745 Apr 12.......... £725 Apr 19, 26 ..... £695 May 3, 10 ...... £745 May 17, 24 .... £725
May 31 ........... £725 Jun 7 ............ £725 Jun 14 ............ £695 Jun 21, 28 ... £645 Jul 12 ............. £625 Jul 26 ............. £645 Aug 9, 23........ £645 Sep 6 .............. £695 Sep 13, 20 ... £725 Sep 27 ............ £745 Oct 4, 11 ...... £725 Oct 18, 25 ...... £695
Supplements per person
*NO SINGLE SUPPLEMENT Antis & Avicenna (limited availability) Single supplement (Antis/Avicenna)...£95 (Apr/May/Sep/Oct £135) Single supplement 3 extra nights (Antis/Avicenna) ..£95 (Jan-Mar £75) Hotel Antis 3 extra nights ....£150 (Jan-Mar £95) Hotel Avicenna...£25 (Jan-Mar £15) 3 extra nights ..£170 (Jan-Mar £110) President Hotel ..£45 (Jan-Mar £35) Single supplement..£125 (Jan-Mar £95) 3 extra nights ..£170 (Jan-Mar £140) Single supplement ...£110 (Jan-Mar £75) Crowne Plaza Hotel ................ £140 Single supplement .....................£225 3 extra nights ..£275 (Jan-Mar £245) Single supplement .....................£195 Turkish Airlines from Heathrow or Gatwick ........................................ Nil Turkish Airlines Business Class.... £595 Turkish Airlines from Manchester or Birmingham.......... £30 (Apr-Oct £60) British Airways Club Europe .....£395 easyJet from Luton........................nil Private Journey this tour may be taken as a Private Journey (see page 144) based on 2 persons on the above dates. add £195 per person
Price includes
Air travel, UK departure taxes, overseas airport taxes, transfers, 4 nights' accommodation, breakfast daily, `Ottoman Dinner', itinerary as described, services of guides and local representatives.
Not included
Travel insurance, tourist visa, optional excursions, tipping (see page 145), any government taxes or compulsory charges introduced after publication.
Independent Arrival (see page 144)
Price reduction .............. deduct £300
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