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Trip Includes

• Flights from anywhere in the United States and flights between countries as per your itinerary. (all necessary flights on your trip are included)
• Daily Mass will be scheduled.
• Airport Taxes, Security Fees & Fuel Surcharges Saving you an average of $400-$600!
• Transfers as per itinerary.
• 4 or 5 star hotels in downtown areas.
• Transportation with luxury bus.
• All breakfasts and all dinners. Wine included with all dinners.
• All tips to driver, hotel, and tour guide. If you feel that the tour guide did a great job, offering them extra tips is greatly appreciated.
• Guided Tours and Tour Fees ~ Our tour guides are very caring, licensed, and well educated. Many of our guides have their PhD's.
• Luggage handling (1 suitcase and 1 carry-on per person)
• Single Supplement (as long as the passengers is willing to room with someone and allows us to provide them with a roommate. If the passenger wants a guaranteed room to of their own, then they have to pay the $900 single supplement)
• Remember: Our trips are not more expensive during high season ~ Passengers will never be expected to pay extra for anything while on the trip.

Trip Does Not Include

• Lunch
• Trip Insurance. Work directly with Travel Guard to protect your investment and insure your money. There are different packages to choose from depending on what your travel needs are. Use the above link or the link right below the picture of the Pope on our home page to visit their site.

Steps for Registration

1. Call us (855) 842-8001 or register online with a credit card and pay your $500 deposit per person to save your spot. The $500 deposit is part of the total price of the trip.
2. A $1,000 Additional Deposit (AD) per person is due one month from the registration. The AD is paid ONLY in the form of Check (personal, money order, or bank check).
3. The balance is due 4 months before the trip departure date. The balance is paid ONLY in the form of Check (personal, money order, or bank check).

Proximo Travel
PO Box 561
Auburn, MA 01501

September 7: Departure from USA to Shannon.

September 8: Early Arrival in Shannon, County Clare. On route to Knock or Galway, see the beautiful Cliffs of Moher: they rise vertically to a height of 720 feet over the crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Dinner at a local restaurant and overnight in the Knock or Galway area.

September 9: Gentle start to the day: drive to Our Lady of Knock in County Mayo, enjoy the museums, and feel the presence of our Blessed Mother. Dinner and overnight in the area of Knock or Galway.

September 10: Enjoy the long ride to Killarney, County Kerry with a stop in the quaint village of Bunratty. Here you will see a medieval castle (1425) and one of the most famous Irish pubs Durty Nellys (1620) with a chance to shop in Blarney Woollen Mills. Dinner and Overnight in Killarney.

September 11: Early in the day, enjoy a guided tour of Muckross House, see the Killarney Lakes, Torc Waterfall, and Aghadoe Heights just to mention a few. During your free afternoon in Killarney, you may want to shop or enjoy a horse and carriage ride with fantastic views of the Killarney National Park with local wildlife (optional). Dinner in Killarney. After dinner, some may choose to visit local pubs or see the magical show that is Celtic Steps to enjoy some Irish dancing and hear some Irish music (optional). Overnight in Killarney.

September 12: Today we will visit the beautiful Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry: one of the most amazing coastal villages and quaint shops. Also, walk along Ireland’s longest beach, Inch Beach with fantastic views. Enjoy historical sites dating back to the Stone Age as well as the majestic views of the Blasket Islands, the Beehive huts (2000 BC) where you may get to see and hold a baby lamb. Dinner and overnight in Killarney

September 13: Today we will travel to County Cork and visit the famous Blarney Castle where you may kiss the Blarney stone. Shop at the Blarney Woollen Mills where you will find Irish crystal, beautiful Irish linens, etc. After lunch we will drive to Dublin to visit The Shrine of the Venerable Matt Talbot which is located in the Church of Our Lady Lourdes in Dublin. As you approach the altar, on the left, you will find his tomb. Many votives are left here and pilgrims come to offer their prayers and petitions. Dinner and overnight in Dublin

September 14: Begin the day with a visit to the monastic site of St. Kevin in Glendalough. From there, we will visit St. Peters Roman Catholic Church in Drogheda. This church was built in the French Gothic style with local limestone in 1884. Originally, there were no Catholic Churches within the Drogheda's town walls. The first church was built on this plot of land in 1793. The head of Saint Oliver Plukett, and Irish born priest and scholar whom was accused of treason in 1681, a time when Roman Catholics were excluded from the Pale area in Ireland. Lunch in the area of Drogheda. Return to Dublin where you may have time to either visit Trinity College's Book of Kells or have some shopping time in the famous Grafton Street area. Dinner show at the Arlington hotel with traditional Irish music and dance. Overnight in Dublin.

September 15: Depending on arrival we will visit Windsor Castle, built by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. Dinner and overnight in London.

September 16: We will have an early start as we head out to Canterbury and Canterbury Cathedral, St. Thomas Becket where we will have mass. Next, we have an excursion to Winchester Cathedral. It was built as a Catholic church, became Church of England under Henry VIII, returned to Roman Catholicism by Henry’s daughter, Mary Tudor, who married her Spanish husband here, but has since returned to the Church of England. One of the largest cathedrals in England, Winchester is part of a former monastic settlement originally founded by the Benedictines in 642. Elements of the monastic buildings may still be traced throughout the Cathedral Close. Following Winchester, we will visit Stonehenge, which is perhaps the world’s most famous prehistoric monument. It was built in several stages: the first monument was an early henge monument, built about 5,000 years ago, and the unique stone circle was erected in the late Neolithic period, about 2500 BC. Dinner and overnight in London.

September 17: We start our morning with Mass at Westminster Cathedral, the Catholic Cathedral of London, we will then enjoy a panoramic tour of London which will include views of Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and Piccadilly. We will stop to see the changing of the guard ceremony (if held) and then continue to tour the tower of London. We continue to tour the Tower of London where Thomas More was imprisoned in the Bell Tower for more than a year for refusing to swear to the Act of Succession and the Oath of Supremacy. He was found guilty of treason and beheaded on Tower Hill. His final words were, "The King’s good servant, but God’s First". We will visit Roman Catholic Church of the English Martyrs in London. Dinner and overnight in London.

September 18: On this final day, you will travel to Walsingham and St. Mary’s Shrine. Mass will be celebrated private time for devotion. Lunch on return to London and free time in the afternoon for shopping. Closing dinner at a local restaurant and overnight in London.

September 19: After breakfast our bus takes us to the airport for our flight back to the USA.

Please note: We do our best to ensure that all sites listed in this itinerary will be seen. However, due to scheduling conflicts, or other circumstances beyond our control, sites may be visited on a different day than listed. If this happens it will also necessitate a change in the restaurant for dinner. However, we will never sacrifice the quality of the meal, all restaurants will meet Proximo Travel's very high standards. Since we have several different trip configurations touring at the same time, it is likely that groups on different tours will be combined when their itineraries overlap in certain areas.