WTVP-public television has always been your window to the world. Now, WTVP Travels is your passport to experience it for yourself. These exciting trips have been exclusively designed for the WTVP audience and highlight the rich historical significance, breath-taking natural beauty and exotic cultures of the places you’ve visited through your favorite public television programs. Be more adventurous … Join us as WTVP Travels.

Contact Norma Joseph (309) 677-4747 for more information or complete the interest form below.


Current Tours:

A Masterful Holiday

September 5th-14th, 2013

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Tour of England featuring London, Oxford, the Cotswolds, the Lake District, The Beatles’ Liverpool and signature sites from your favorite Masterpiece series—including Downton Abbey.

Extend your holiday with a walking tour of Hadrian’s Wall! See below for details.

See Pricing Below.

Contact Norma Joseph for booking and information, (309) 677-4747, or complete the form below.

 

Exclusive Tour Features:

  • Round trip motor coach transportation from Peoria to O’Hare Airport

  • Air transportation on American Airlines from Chicago to London and return from Manchester

  • 8 nights of First Class Hotel accommodations:

    • 2 nights – London

    • 3 nights – Oxford

    • 2 nights – Windermere, Lake District

    • 1 night – Liverpool

  • Continental breakfast in London, Full English breakfast daily outside of London

  • 5 dinners, 2 at the hotel and 3 at local pubs

  • English Tea in the Cotswolds

  • A Thames River Cruise in London

  • Visit to Windsor Castle and Stonehenge

  • Visit to Blenheim Palace & Gardens

  • Visit to Shakespeare’s birth place

  • Visit to Hidcote Manor Gardens

  • Visit to Lyme Park

  • A cruise on Windermere Lake

  • Visit of Dove Cottage and Wordsworth Museum

  • Guided Beatles themed tour

  • Local Guides in London

  • Full time Tour Director from Sep 8-14

  • Porterage of one suitcase per person at all hotels

  • Airline fuel surcharges

Not included: US and foreign departure taxes in the amount of $195.00 per person subject to change, gratuity to guides and drivers, optional insurance package.


Walking Tour of Hadrian’s Wall

September 13th - 20th, 2013

Join WTVP Travels for a unique travel adventure: a Walking Tour of Hadrian’s Wall. Whether you’re extending your “Masterful Holiday” or joining us directly from Peoria, this is an active travel experience you don’t want to miss. Hadrian’s Wall stretches across the rugged beauty of the northern lands between what is now England and Scotland. It was built at the very edge of the Roman Empire in AD 122 to protect the Romans from “the Barbarians.” Follow in the footsteps of the Legionnaires as you depart from Carlisle and walk a 55 mile (88km) trail along the Wall. The tour visits the fascinating Roman forts of Chesters, Housesteads, Vindolanda and Birdoswald, as well as numerous other sites of interest and intrigue, such as Brunton Turret, built by the Twentieth Legion of Men. The tour ends at Heddon-on-the-Wall, where the longest section of complete wall lies at its full width to congratulate you for completing this stirring section of the Wall Path. On your journey, you can expect to encounter spectacular scenery and experience the wealth of history that lies upon the trail. Again, this is a walking tour.

See pricing below.

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Exclusive Walking Tour Features:

  • Round trip motor coach transportation, Peoria to O’Hare*

  • Round trip air transportation from Chicago to Manchester on American Airlines non-stop flight*

  • Transfer from Manchester to Carlisle

  • 6 nights of accommodation in en-suite rooms with private bathrooms (where available) in selected hotels, inns and guesthouses along the trail

  • Breakfast daily

  • Door to door luggage transfer

  • Visits to 4 Roman forts, Oswald’s Church, Lanercost Priory, & Thirlwall and Carlisle Castles

  • Maps and a guidebook

  • Emergency assistance
     

Not included: US and foreign departure taxes in the amount of $195.00 per person* subject to change, gratuity to guides and drivers, optional insurance package.

* Walking Tour-Only travelers Travel Option


Tour Pricing:

Travel Option A

Masterful Holiday Only

$4,499 each (double occupancy)

Travel Option B

Masterful Holiday &
Hadrian's Wall

$5,898 each (double occupancy)

Travel Option C

Hadrian’s Wall Only

$2,379 each (double occupancy)

Contact Norma Joseph for booking and information, (309) 677-4747, or complete the form below.

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Past Tours:

South African Adventure (May 2nd - 14th, 2012)

Rhine River Cruise (September 29th - October 10th, 2012)

Contrasting Italy (September 25 – October 4, 2011)

Beautiful Blue Danube (May 9 – May 20, 2011)

Mediterranean Magic (October 16 - October 29, 2010)

Russia & The Rivers of the Czars (June 29-July 10, 2010)

Journey to Egypt and the Nile (October 31 - November 12, 2009)

The Three Seas (April 20-29, 2009)

Tour de France (Sept. 30 - Oct. 11, 2008)

Crown Jewels of Europe (May 5-17, 2008)

Majestic China & Yangtze River Cruise (October 12-24, 2007)

Wonders of Greece (May 3-12, 2007)

Alps and Rhine Adventure (September 24-October 7, 2006)

Best of Italy (May 2-14, 2006)

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