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Brendan Tours have been conducting European coach tours and now most parts of the world for over fourty years. Brendan are considered by many travel professionals to be the benchmark in coach touring. Their tour directors have experience and professionalism making them second to none in the coach touring industry. The quality and location of their hotels is amazing. Their motor coaches are the most modern and up to date with drivers who are experienced seasoned professionals with an unparalleled safety record.
Panoramic Vacations: These escorted vacations are designed to cover a number of countries, Brendan and Affordable Cruises Tours believe they are great for the first time traveller or a family wanting to enjoy a school break together.
Locally Guided Tours and Independent Vacations: Perfect for the experienced traveller who has perhaps been there before and wants plenty of free time with little structure. All with Brendan Vacations advantages and the services of local Brendan staff.
Regional Discoveries: Fantastic for the person who wants to see a particular country of region in depth. With expert tour directors and mainly 2 night stops these are the perfect vacation to really experience the culture, history, food and people of the area.
City Break Vacation: Perhaps you might want a week in just Paris to celebrate your anniversary well these are for you. Allthat's great about Brendan; excellent hotels, transfers, some included sightseeing, breakfasts and more. Yet with the majority of your time free to do as you please.
Train: Train travel and Brendan might not come to mind immediately but ask your personal vacation planner to explain how you can experience the majic of train travel in Europe.
River Cruises: River cruising is fast becomming the way to go in certain destinations around the world with navagable waterways. The experiences vacation planners at Affordable Cruises Tours know these intimately and will be happy to walk you through why they might be just right for you.
Tour and Cruise: Largely in the Mediterranean these combinations of touring and cruising are irresistable if you want to experience places like Greece, Egypt and the Mediterranean basin in the way they should be seen.
Brendan Tours are proud of the fact that they have probably the modern fleet of motor coaches in Europe with trained professional experienced coach drivers. So you can enjoy your vacation safe in the knowledge that driving is the last thing you need to worry about.
Coaches are not the only means of transportation you will enjoy on a Brendan Tours vacation. Trains, planes, cruise ships, gondolas and many more unique forms many be experienced depending on the vacation you choose.
Brendan Tour directors know their stuff and are the key to everything on an escorted vacation. The average experience in years for one of their tour directors is over 10 years but in reality once you meet one most have 15 to 25 years in the bgusiness.
What a Brendan Tours tour director doesn't know about the places you will be visiting you could probably write on the back of a postage stamp. Not only are they historians who also know the best places to see, shop at and enjoy a great meal, but they act as your own personal concerege.
Brendan Vacations hotels are carefully selected after being reviewed by an independent team who travel the length and breadth of the globe searching for hotels that offer their clients the very best in location, comfort and value for money.
Affordable Cruises Tours staff often encourage our clients to add up the cost of the hotels they stay in on their vacation with Brendan. It soon become eveident when you are staying in hotels with rates of many hundreds of dollars a night the value in a Brendan vacation.
The richness of a destination, its culture, its heritage is often revealed through its cuisine. That’s why Brendan goes to great lengths to give you culinary experiences with our Highlight and Farewell dinners, intriguing Local Specialities programs and our exclusive “Be My Guest” dining opportunities in authentic family homes, farms and chateaux.
On every tour you will enjoy breakfast daily with a mix of hot/cold buffets or cooked breakfasts. Lunches are generally not included so that you have the flexibility to choose whatever takes your fancy. Your tour director will also be on hand to point out the best eateries that only locals know about. Around 50% of all dinners are also included which will give you a real taste of your destination, with the opportunity to experience more, with recommendations from your tour director.
Brendan Tours want their clients to feel comfortable while on holiday. The experienced personal vacation planners at Affordable Cruises Tours often spend that little extra time with our valued customers explaining how their vacation will go and what to pack for the journey of a lifetime.
Most days are smart casual and there will be times when non formal evening attire would be appropriate.
Luggage is where booking a vacation with an experienced agent who know really how Brendan works can save you time and money. Brendan's policy says suitcases should not exceed 30”x18”x10” and not exceed 50 lbs. Please take the time to ask one of the personal vacation planners at Affordable Cruises Tours to explain this in more detail.
Rules can be bent a little if you know how.
Brendan welcomes children five years of age and older on their escorted programs. You may never have thought of an escorted vacation for your family but we at Affordable Cruises Tours often recommend them. Imagine the logistics of organising a two week vacation to Europe and think realistically of the cost. Then imagine that same time on an escorted Brendan vacation with absolutely nothing to worry about except where to have an ice cream with your family in Florence?
On a Brendan vacation there will be ample opportunity to shop for local specialities that you may not be readilly able to find back home. Like a hand knitted woollen sweater there is just something memorable about purchasing it in Ireland or Scotland.
There are a number of very interesting demonstartions in included in your tour with the opportunity to shop at these venues at in many cases duty free prices.
Tipping for most items on you Brendan Vacation is already part of the price you pay for the tour. However there are some gratuities that they leave to the individual for a number of reasons. For example your tour director and Driver. There will be guidelines in your tour documentation and the experienced staff at Affordable Cruises Tours will be happy to advise on this issue.
Once most people have travelled on a Brendan tour and they realise just how great it was many are ready to start looking at their next holiday with this enduring company. As a reward and if you travel with them within the next two years they will discount most vacations by 5% before any other discounts.
Add to that the 5 - 10% discount you get by being an Affordable Cruises Tours customer and you could be starting with a 15% discount off your next vacation before any other incentives.
Info@AffordableCruisesTours.com
Ph: 1 866 959 2111
