A fabulous 4 day trip to Glasgow – highlights include:-

• 4* central Glasgow hotel
• 2 dinners & 2 light lunches included (as
  detailed in the itinerary)
• All excursion travel & guided
  tours included
• Most entrance fees included
• Blue Badge guide on Days 2 & 3
• Executive coach throughout
• Audio headsets included on Days 2 & 3
• Hunterian Gallery
• Glasgow – guided tour
• St Mungo’s Cathedral
• House for an Art Lover
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
• Hill House (entrance fee not included)
• Burrell Collection
• Dumfries House – guided tour, tea or coffee & shortbread

Please note, we are using a new process for this trip, employing Tailored Travel to make the detailed arrangements.

To book, click on the following link to download the Brochure and Booking Form and then post the completed Booking Form with your deposit payment as instructed on the Booking Form.

Please note that you cannot book this holiday online.

Once you receive a Confirmation and invoice from Tailored Travel as confirmation of your booking, you can pay the final balance online as quoted on your Confirmation and invoice using the Pay Final Balance tab from the following link:

Detailed itinerary below:-

Day 1
We board our private executive coach at our designated pick up points and
travel to Glasgow. On arrival at Glasgow we enjoy an included light lunch at
a carefully selected restaurant. This afternoon we visit the Hunterian Gallery,
safeguarding the Mackintosh Collection, and comprising of 800 drawings,
designs and watercolours, as well as a small but important archive of
correspondence, photographs and periodicals. Whilst at the Hunterian
Gallery, you may choose to visit Mackintosh House (entrance fee not
included) on an individual basis, which is a reconstruction of the principal
interiors from the original Glasgow home of the architect. Rooms on display
include the hall, dining room, studio drawing room and main bedroom where
Mackintosh’s distinctive and contemporary style is evident. We then check
in at the centrally located 4* Grosvenor Hotel at Glasgow for a three night
stay. A welcome dinner with a limited volume of house wine is included in
our hotel this evening.
Day 2
Our Blue Badge guide meets us at our hotel this morning and accompanies
us throughout the day. During our guided tour of Glasgow this morning we
visit St Mungo’s Cathedral (donation not included). Consecrated in 1197, the
medieval cathedral is home to one of the finest post war collections of
stained glass windows in Britain. Later this morning we visit the unique
House for an Art Lover, which opened to the public in 1996 and was inspired
by Mackintosh’s competition entry of 1901. The attraction incorporates a
permanent exhibition of decoratively furnished rooms, realised by
contemporary artists and crafts people, which allow visitors the opportunity
to compare the original drawings against each completed room. This
afternoon we visit the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Scotland’s most
visited museum and home to one of Europe’s greatest civic art collections.
Day 3
With our Blue Badge guide we travel to Helensburgh to visit Hill House.
Sitting high above the Clyde, Hill House is considered one of Charles Rennie
Mackintosh’s finest domestic creations. The feel of the house, which was
decorated with the help of Mackintosh’s wife, is of restrained elegance
combined with dazzling architecture. We then enjoy an included light lunch
at a carefully selected restaurant. On arrival back in Glasgow this afternoon
we visit the newly refurbished Burrell Collection where we see an extensive
collection of over 9,000 works of art including important displays of
medieval art, tapestries, alabasters, stained glass, English oak furniture and
European paintings by notable artists such as Degas and Cézanne.
Day 4
After checking out of our hotel and en route home we visit Dumfries House
for a guided tour followed by included tea or coffee, and shortbread.
Designed 250 years ago by renowned 18th century architect brothers John,
Robert and James Adam, Dumfries House is an imposing Palladian mansion
nestled within 2,000 acres of scenic countryside in Ayrshire in south-west
Scotland. It contains a fine collection of Chippendale furniture designed for
the house. Today the house is widely acknowledged as one of the most
architecturally significant stately homes within the United Kingdom. Taking
carefully selected comfort stops en route, we return back to our original pick
up points.
NB:- Please note we reserve the right to alter the above itinerary if required for operational
reasons. Given the historic nature of the places visited, a certain degree of walking will
be involved, and this holiday may not be suitable for those with mobility problems.

For more information on this tour contact your Group Organiser –
Julie Goldsmith
Tel: 07950 606305
Email: julieagoldsmith32@gmail.com
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Apartment 1, 35 Ripon Road,
Harrogate HG1 2JL