| DATES | The group will leave for Rome on Saturday 22nd August 2009 Spend five nights in Rome and two nights in Assisi. Returning to the United Kingdom on Saturday 29th August 2009 |
Travel will be by scheduled air services from an airport close to London to Ciampino Airport, Rome and vice/versa. Transfers from the airport and the hostel in Rome, between Rome and Assisi and from the hostel in Assisi to the airport by coach. Details of the flights are not yet available but will be advised as early as possible. There may also be flights available from Liverpool and East Midlands Airports to Rome.
ASSEMBLY
The group will assemble at the airport and participants will be expected to make their own arrangements for travel thereto and therefrom.
ACCOMMODATION
| Rome: | Centro Giovanni XXIII, Via Colle Pizzuto 2, Frascati. This is a large hostel run by the Sacred Heart Fathers, on train routes to central Rome (30/45 minutes journey to the Vatican). |
| Assisi: | Domus Pacis, Santa Maria degli Angeli. A modern hostel adjacent to the basilica. |
Both hostels are of a high standard with private facilities (toilet and bath or shower) in all rooms. Most participants will be accommodated in twin-bedded rooms but there will be some rooms of three or four beds.
The number of single rooms is very limited and there will be a surcharge of £84 for any allocated.
COST
The cost of the visit is £564 per person. With air travel there is no reduction for juveniles.
ORGANISATION
The visit is being organised by a committee, which is responsible directly to the National Director.
ELIGIBILITY
Altar Servers and their families are eligible to join the group, together with all Guild Directors and Chaplains.
MEALS
The visit will be on a half-board basis, providing a continental breakfast and evening meal each day. Members of the group will be responsible for providing whatever food they require during the day.
PROGRAMME
The general organisation will follow closely the lines of previous visits. The programme in Rome will include several sight-seeing tours in and around the city, visiting: the four major basilicas; the tomb of St Stephen; the catacombs; the Colosseum; and other places of interest - historical as well as religious. In Assisi visits will be made to places of interest associated with the Life of St Francis.
Most of these tours will be made by bus and by walking. Coaches are only being used when essential. Although the visit is intended to be a holiday, rather than a pilgrimage, there will be several group Masses, including one at the tomb of St Stephen. It is also anticipated that the group will have an audience with the Holy Father. There will be time for private sightseeing, visits to the swimming pool, souvenir hunting and the like.
OPTIONAL EXCURSION
Optional excursions may be arranged to places such as Castel Gandolfo, the Alban Hills and to the Carceri and San Damiano in Assisi. Details of these will be made available nearer to the date of the visit.
INSURANCE
The cost of the visit does not include insurance although we insist that all participants take out adequate insurance. We also recommend that everyone apply for a 'European Health Insurance Card', which you can obtain at the Post Office, to cover any medical costs whilst anywhere in Europe. Pax Travel, the company through which this trip is being arranged offers an excellent scheme of travel insurance at a reasonable cost.
BOOKINGS
All bookings must be made on the enclosed application form. Where there is a group coming from a parish please send in the forms as they come to hand. The organisers undertake to keep the group together. All form should be sent to Pax Travel Ltd, 152-156 Kentish Town Road, London, NW1 9QB.
PAYMENTS
Payments will be staged as follows:
£90 deposit per person with booking form.
A further payment of £250 per person by 15th January 2009.
Balance payment of £224 by 22nd June 2009.
(An inclusive tour organised in association with Pax Travel Ltd ATOL 3011. Pax Travel are also members of AITO (Association of Independent Tour Operators), www.aito.co.uk.
All correspondence concerning the "Visit to Rome and Assisi", should be addressed to:
The pilgrimage by air in this brochure is ATOL Protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 3011. |
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