Your “West End Theater” cruise is brought to you by European Waterways - featuring the Thames celebrated 5 star floating hotel, Magna Carta. The West End Theater cruise will be tailored to suit your charter groups individual theater preferences and requirements. Your guides for the week will be experienced professional artistes from the world of the West End Theater and your cruising week will include:
- Top price seats to 4 productions in the West End; 3 evening performances and one matinee: Musicals, Opera and/or Straight Plays. You will have a wide choice of West End theaters and shows; all tickets will be pre-purchased on your behalf and included in the cost of your week aboard, along with transfers to and from the Magna Carta.
- The Royal Opera House, The English National Opera, The Albert Hall, and The Royal National Theater, and Festival Hall on London’s south bank.
- Afternoon visits to the legendary Shakespeare’s Globe Theater to see the matinee performance and enjoy the Globe’s Theater tour.
- Following your champagne, smoked salmon and strawberry picnic in the grounds, a visit to the picturesque Regent’s Park Open Air Theater, for either the afternoon matinee or evening performances.
- A visit to Holland Park’s celebrated Opera Season.
- The Theater Royal, Drury Lane, back-stage theater tour, conducted by your resident tour guide.
- A visit to Covent Garden’s Theater Museum.
- An exciting musical soiree performance, following your spectacular 4 course “Captain’s Dinner” aboard the Magna Carta on the Friday evening, to be performed on board by leading musical theater artistes from the World of Opera and Musical Theater.
- Surprise visits to The Magna Carta by leading artistes, well known in the West End and the UK’s entertainment industry for a cocktail party on board.
- A visit to the historic Richmond Theater or The Theater Royal in Windsor, two outer London Theaters situated within walking distance from The Magna Carta’s moorings.
- Other excursions to see the classic sights of The City of London.
Tour Itinerary:
Day 1, Sunday: Afternoon High Tea at London’s beautiful Stafford Hotel. At 16.00 hrs you will be transported to The Magna Carta, moored at St. Katharine’s Dock and invited to our Champagne Reception. You will be welcomed by the Crew and your West End Theater Host will be on board to explain the week’s plans and Theater Itinerary. Dinner is aboard.
Day 2, Monday: Today we take a round-trip cruise to the Thames Barrier, seeing some of London’s most historic sights; The Tower of London, Greenwich and the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark, the Royal Naval College and the Millennium Dome. Return to St Katherine’s Dock, renovated in the 1970’s with its swing bridge, boutique shops and Yacht haven. Lunch is on board. We may take the celebrated “Theater Royal, Drury Lane, Backstage Tour” in the afternoon, followed by a pre-theater dinner in the West End. 19.30 hrs. curtain up on your first West End Theater Performance, following which you will be chauffeured back to the Magna Carta for canapés and drinks.
Day 3, Tuesday: We cruise from Sts Katherine’s Dock to Chiswick. Lunch is on board. We may visit Covent Garden Market and the Theater Museum. There may also be time for shopping and other London sights, depending on the River Thames’ tides. A light dinner on The Magna Carta is at 17.00. Then transfers into The West End for your second Theater Performance. Return to The Magna Carta for canapés and drinks.
Day 4, Wednesday: Today you cruise from Chiswick Pier to Richmond. In the morning, conducted by your Theater Host, you may take “Shakespeare’s Globe” tour, followed by a smoked salmon and champagne picnic lunch, specially prepared by the chef of the Magna Carta. 14.00 hrs. enjoy the matinee performance in the Globe Theater top price seats – your third Theater visit. Transfers back to The Magna Carta, for your special mid-cruise cocktails and dinner on board. This evening also sees a surprise visit to the Magna Carta by one of the top Theater or Variety artistes. Your after-dinner entertainment will round off the perfect West-end Theater cruise Day and will be a hilarious evening you are unlikely to forget.
Day 5, Thursday: In the morning, we cruise from Richmond, past the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, to Hampton Court, the former Tudor Palace of Henry VIII. Lunch is on board. In the afternoon, there will be a guided tour of Hampton Court and you may wander through the beautiful Royal Gardens and get lost in the late seventeenth century maze. An early light dinner on board will be served before your chauffeur transfers you to your theater for your fourth and final evening performance. As before, your host will be there to greet you at the theater and delicious late-evening snacks and drinks will be served on board following your return to The Magna Carta.
Day 6, Friday: The final cruise of the week is from Hampton Court to Runnymede and then onto Windsor in the afternoon. Upon arrival at Runnymede, we moor at Bell Weir Lock adjacent to a luxury spa hotel. You have the opportunity to visit the spa before cruising through Runnymede itself, where King John faced the powerful barons and signed the “Magna Carta” in 1215. Lunch is served on board. Arriving at Windsor in the afternoon, we visit Windsor Castle, built by William the Conqueror and inhabited for over 900 years by The Royal Family. You are then invited to the ‘Captain’s Dinner’, which will be followed by a wonderful “Farewell Musical Soiree”, performed on board by West End Artistes.
Day 7, Saturday: Following breakfast disembark and you are transferred back to London.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Prices:
- Suite per person from $3,800
- Single supplement $1,200 - $1,400
- Charter 6 passengers whole boat from $24,900
- Charter 7 passengers whole boat from $26,550
- Charter 8 passengers whole boat from $28,200
- Charter 9 & 10 passengers whole boat – Prices on request.
Price Includes:
- Open bar
- Free wines
- Gourmet cuisine
- Entry fees to excursions
- Theater supplement POA.
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