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Re: Grand Family Safari
Hi Polly, My family is on the same Bridges Africa trip as British. I have a 7 year old grandson who is a very picky eater so I’m happy to hear that British’s grandson is an adventurous eater. Maybe some of that will rub off on my grandson. They are both 7. The restaurants often have pasta and I remember a lot of rice and beans even for breakfast when we went on the K & T tour in 2018. Hopefully he can fill up on those things because I doubt that they will have his usual chicken nuggets. We did the balloon and it was amazing. My grandson has expressed a little concern on having to get in the basket while it is laying it’s side before it takes off but I’ve been showing him pictures and I’m sure he will be fine. It was so fun to look down at the giraffes below us. We can’t wait!
CASueK
Re: Romantic Germany
Again, if you have recently returned from this tour, would you kindly post your review.
GM
Re: Switzerland: Europe's Crown Jewel - September 2024
SueTimAltoona
June 26
. . . how you know that the hotels were switched for your trip. We are on the Sept 6 Crown Jewel trip, and we have not received any info about the trip at all.
There are several ways you can learn about or be notified if changes have been made. If a change or changes have been made before you book they will appear on the Tauck main website in a pop-up window (see below), they should also be noted somewhere on your Financial Summary which you can get to by following a link in the "Tauck Journey Confirmation" email you should have received within a few minutes of booking with a Tauck agent. Changes will also be shown in the "Journey Summary" in "My Account" on the Tauck website (not the forum website). If changes are made subsequent to booking, Tauck will send you an email. If you are not getting emails from Tauck, either Tauck has the wrong email address for you or you booked using a Travel Agent and your agent, who gets all the communications, is not forwarding them to you like they should. This happens more often than it should.
If you go to the Tauck main website > your tour pages (Switzerland: Europe's Crown Jewel) (make sure you have selected the correct year) > then select the "Pricing and Availability" tab > and finally click your specific departure. You should get a pop-up window that looks like the screen capture below- Note there are a lot of changes to this tour but it looks like none affect your departure!!!
AlanS
Re: Switzerland: Europe's Crown Jewel - September 2024
We are on the Sept 1 Crown Jewel trip and received notification from Tauck about the Glacier Express and the earlier stop in Chur rather than Andermatt. We were also looking forward to the GE because it's so famous, but Tauck's notification said that the regional train would showcase the same incredible scenery. We have never been to Switzerland, so we are looking forward to lots of gorgeous scenery no matter what form of transportation.
Re: Parthenon
Believe it or not, the Parthenon in Athens is heavily restored. In 1687, the Venetians lobbed a mortar shell into it. The Turks had been using it as a powder magazine (!) and the whole thing blew up spectacularly. It remained a pile of rubble for many years, during which Lord Elgin (then ambassador to the Ottoman Empire) made off with the "marbles" (allegedly with the permission of the Ottoman Turks, but certainly to the ongoing chagrin of the Greeks). It was later rebuilt over many years, but a portion of what you see today was replaced with new stone.
Re: Grand Australia and NZ--days 9 and 15
Debi -- I flew from Boston to Melbourne via San Francisco and Auckland to Boston via Denver on United first class for continental flights and Polaris business class for trans-Pacific flights. The Polaris flights were great; the first class, very good. I wouldn't hesitate to do them again. (I just checked the United website. It looks like the one-stop return flights are all either through LAX or SFO now.)
MCD
Re: Grand Australia and NZ--days 9 and 15
Debi - We went in March and the weather was just great. Nice sunny days. Unable to help or make suggestions regarding airlines as we live in Tucson but we were able to fly on United using miles for first class. This would be impossible today!
Noreen
Re: Bayeux Tapestry
Last year on the Normandy, Brittany, Loire Valley and Paris tour, in addition to the Bayeux Tapestry, we also saw the Apocalypse Tapestry at Château d'Angers.. It is a large medieval set of tapestries commissioned by Louis I, the Duke of Anjou, and woven in Paris between 1377 and 1382. It depicts the story of the Apocalypse from the Book of Revelation by Saint John the Divine in colorful images, spread over six tapestries that originally totalled 90 scenes, and were about 20 feet high, and 450 feet long in total. Though a few hundred years younger than the Bayeux which dates from the 1070's, it is quite a bit larger. The Apocalypse Tapestry is regarded as the most famous tapestry from the 14th century.
AlanS
Re: Tauck account bucket list - how to add a tour?
went to look at my bucket list and everything is gone at well and it isn't letting me add either. Having the same experience of sending me to the login screen again. Ugh.
cetammi