This is our most popular tour option. It combines our two most popular tours into an eight-day action packed tour, including Normandy and WW1.
This tour starts in Bayeux, Normandy or Arras. It is your responsibility to get to Bayeux (or Arras) to begin the tour and to make your own arrangements for travel wherever the tour ends.
Here is the itinerary for this fascinating one-of-a-kind tour:
Day 1, 2, 3 & 4 – Your tour begins in Bayeux Normandy. You will tour following the itinerary set out in the following link – http://www.canadianbattlefieldtours.ca/battle-of-normandy/
Day 5- This is a free travel day. You will arrange your own travel, at your own cost, from Bayeux to Arras, France to prepare for your WWI tour. Overnight in Arras.
Day 6, 7,8 & 9 – Your four-day WW1 tour will begin when your guide picks you up at your accommodation, in Arras. The following link will give you the itinerary for your four-day WWI tour – http://www.canadianbattlefieldtours.ca/ww1-battlefield-tour/.
Additional Tour Information
As with our other tour options, this tour will be a private, personalized tour, available anytime on a first come-first serve basis, ideally for groups of 1-3 people.
However, if the size of your group exceeds 3 people, then your tour fee will increase accordingly and you will be responsible for all costs necessary in providing an appropriately sized vehicle to carry the members of your group, as well as the guide.
As with our other tours, our personalization service allows you to participate in the structure of the tour. If you have any special requests, like following the footsteps of a particular Veteran or unit, we are happy to accommodate, whenever possible. If you do have an interest in a particular soldier or unit, please provide us with his details and we will do extensive research on his service, to make your tour an even more meaningful experience.
Of course, the tours combined in this package are still available on a stand-alone basis or any combination thereof, that best suits your interests.
This tour, as well as our others, will be costed on the following basis. The price quoted will be for all ground transportation within the battlefield areas, with professional guide(s). It does not include anything else. Of course, we are happy to make recommendations to help with your travel planning, like hotels, B&B’s. With this tour, the planning will be quite simple. The cities where you will need accommodation Bayeux – four nights; Arras – three or four nights; both are larger centres with many choices.
