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Best way to visit Europe, great value

Monograms, new way to plan a trip to Europe, and beyond. Great savings,

Monograms – a better way to travel

I review travel literature night and day and this one caught my attention. You can be an FIT,( foreign independent traveler) or go on a tour which can have from 15 to 54 passengers in the group, or now, go Monogram. This is an all in one, first class holiday package and definitely a cut above making all the arrangements on your own. Each package comes with hand selected hotels with daily breakfast, a local host service, exclusive VIP sightseeing, and transportation which includes first class trains. You travel in style, independently, without going it alone. You save as much as 40% going on a tour over an FIT, and as much as 30% buying a monogram package

After sixty years in the industry , I have mastered the art of travel and this idea I think is a good one. For someone who doesn’t want to be with a group, yet wants some guidance and all arrangements made for you then this is a smashing deal. No matter how expert a traveler you think you are, You can walk in circles or you can explore famous squares. You can personalize your trip. You tell us where you want to go, and we help with the planning. You can select city combinations, such as London and Paris, or multi country combinations, England, Ireland and Scotland, or just a city getaway, such as Amsterdam. Italy is always one of the top three destinations, and you can pick out which towns you want to visit.

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In each location, you will meet with a local host at the airport, or at the hotel, and they will be available in the lobby at a certain time each day to advise you on what to see, book theatre tickets for you, tell you where to eat like the locals do. Each city gives you a guided tour and you are treated like a VIP. No long queues for you to stand in, you walk ahead of the group at St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Prado Museum, or the Sistine Chapel. I am flabbergasted when I see the hundreds of people in line wasting their valuable holiday time, because they didn’t get help from a travel professional.

You get the benefit of volume booking, and a choice of several three or four star hotels, and we advise you on the best location. It’s no good taking the lowest price hotel when you are an hour out of town.

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A group tour is perfect for the first time visitor to Europe who wants to have their hand held every inch of the way, The motor coach companies are doing an excellent job of taking the stress out of travel, and spending more than one night at each location. We recommend three good companies, depending on the client’s lifestyle, budget, and destination. The days of sixteen countries in sixteen days are over.

With this Monogram program, you are free to explore on your own, have lunch and dinner wherever you discover yet you have had the main parts of the trip taken care of for you. We get the best price for air, even business class, plus the hotel, and a city tour in each place. The local host can tell you about museums, parks, theatre, train trips, excursions you might be interested in taking, and give you some help with local restaurants. You are taken to and from the airport, and to each hotel, which is better than doing it on your own,

This is a great graduation gift, or a birthday present, and it means the traveler is not on their own, you have a local host to turn to if you have a problem. For the inexperienced traveler, this is a godsend.

If you are a single traveler, then I would definitely go on a small group tour. Top destinations right now are Scandinavia, Great Britain, Ireland, and Italy.

If you have twenty friends or family we can create and customize a tour which is a great savings. The theme are you in a club, and have a similar interest such as cooking, golf, religion, wine, gardening, art, the list is a mile long. Go on our website – www.allhorizonstvl.com – and dream. A week in London starts at $1,058.

They have 120 options in 43 different countries. Is one of them on your bucket list?

Maureen Jones

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