• Five days of intensive music rehearsal and trip orientation at Elizabethtown College
• "All you can eat" breakfast, lunch and dinner each day while at Elizabethtown College
• Modern air-conditioned room accommodations, dining room, rehearsal and performance areas while on Elizabethtown College campus
• Transfer by chartered motorcoach from Elizabethtown to New York
• Roundtrip transatlantic flight aboard a regularly scheduled flight from U.S. to Europe
• All international departure taxes and customs taxes
• Extensive concert tour through six European countries
• Transportation via deluxe air conditioned motorcoach throughout the European continent
• First Class, Superior First Class and Superior-Tourist Class hotels (with private bath)
• Meals:
  • 22 breakfasts
  • 4 lunches
  • 22 dinners
• An English-speaking experienced Tour Escort on each bus throughout the tour
• Special guided tours with local professional English- speaking Guides in Venice and Paris
• All entrance fees and transfers to:
  • Salt Mine Tour
  • Verona Coliseum
  • Seine River Cruise
  • Eiffel Tower (all levels, weather permitting)
  • optional Louvre Museum
  • reduced fee for optional guided tour of Palace of Versailles
• Round-trip, privately chartered vaporetti boat rides while in Venice
• Privately chartered truck with hydraulic lift for transporting all musical instruments, choral risers and sound and recording equipment throughout the tour
• A full-time American physician to handle medical situations throughout the European Tour
• Nine full concert performances and two cathedral performances as listed in the itinerary, including publicity and promotion
• Farewell Party last night
• All tips and taxes normally found on hotel / restaurant bills, including US chartered bus driver gratuities
• Possible special musical score arrangements written for the Honor Band & Chorus
• The convenience of making tour payments by credit card (Visa & MasterCard only)
• Multiple (5-6) pre-tour packets containing much detailed information concerning passports, clothing, foreign currency, flying to the college and home, electrical differences, calling home, maps of Elizabethtown, uniform details and order forms, and much more.
• Special Information designed for maximum use of time
• A detailed packet outlining SOA's fund-raising plan
• Option of ordering foreign currency packet to have before arriving in Europe

TOUR EXCLUSIONS

The tour price of $5129 TBA does not include:

the $85 Application Fee, excess or regular airline accessed baggage charges, baggage or other optional personal insurance, transportation to and from points of departure and arrival at the college and return from airport at conculusion of tour, sheet music (for choral members if they wish to keep it), passport expenses, laundry, beverages or foods that are not part of the menu of included meals, European bus driver gratuity, concert uniform and all other expenses of a purely personal nature.

* Price based upon air costs and currency exchange rate in effect as of October 2009 and may be subject to change. Keep in mind that the dollar's value against the euro has dropped over 20% since September 2007. So far, the dollar has gained in value, which is helping our trip price. We hope this will continue, but if the dollar weakens again, we expect you will understand the need for a surcharge may be necessary. Prices will be made to the best estimate possible.

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