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Competition

 

 

English Department Packages - 2008

London

London enjoys a great literary heritage. This extensive itinerary goes a long way to taking it all in!

An extensive two night trip staying at the Meininger City Hostel

Includes:

  • Tickets for two London productions

  • Themed Guided Walking Tour
  • London Poetry Library
  • Shakespeare’s Globe exhibition, tour and workshop
  • Backstage tour and supper at the National Theatre
  • Flight on the ‘London Eye’
  • Dinner at Salieri
  • 3 days unlimited group travel on the underground
  • 2 nights bed & buffet breakfast at the Meininger Hostel
  • (+1 packed lunch).

 

 
Itinerary

Day One: Spend the morning in The Charles Dickens Museum followed by lunch at ‘The Crypt’ in St Martinin-the-Fields. In the afternoon choose a matinee performance from: Twelfth Night, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet, The Vortex, The History Boys and many more. Enjoy dinner at the quirky Salieri restaurant with its compelling theatrical décor. Then walk off your dinner with a Dickens’ or Shakespeare’s Walking Tour. Retire to the hostel for a bedtime drink-fuelled discussion of the day’s events.

Day Two: Visit the London Poetry Library to encourage wider reading and develop information, literacy and research skills with a range of subjects from WW1 poets to Carol Ann Duffy. Follow this with the exhibition, tour and workshop at Shakespeare’s Globe. Take a flight in the London Eye before heading to the National Theatre for a backstage tour, pizza supper and an evening performance.

Day Three: Morning coffee and recitals at the Poetry Cafe. Time for a little shopping in Covent Garden then, laden with bags and memories, leave for home.

Price
Cost per child under 18 years from £229.00
1 adult free for every 10 students
Per Extra adult in a single room £280.00

Optional Extras for either London itinerary:
• Packed lunches
• Doctor Johnson’s House
• Freud Museum
• Keats House
• Sherlock Holmes Museum
• BBC Backstage Tour
• Theatre Workshops
• The Poetry Playground - listening, reading, writing and performing poetry for 11-14 year olds.