The Galleries of London, Paris & Amsterdam
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Explore: London, paris & Amsterdam
Customizable Itinerary - 14 Days (from $4,867 / person)
Day 1: Depart USA
This evening you depart the USA on an overnight flight to London to begin your great art adventure.
Day 2: Welcome to London
Upon arrival you are met by one of our drivers and taken into London and taken to your hotel in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London. This area is noted for its association with the “Bloomsbury set” a group of authors like Virginia Woolf who lived here at the early part of the 20th Century. You may want to spend the afternoon at the British Museum which is close by and admission is free. Have a light dinner at the hotel before an early night.
Dinner
Day 3: A Day at the National Gallery
After breakfast you meet your guide and take the underground to Trafalgar Square, the location of the National Gallery. You will get a private tour of some of the main attractions including “sunflowers’ by Van Gogh, Rembrandt’s “ Self Portrait at 34” and three painting of bathers by Cezanne, Monet and, most notably, Seurat. As importantly, your guide will offer lesser known works of significance in the advancement of art. Your guide will leave you at the National Dining Rooms, a good place to have lunch. The gallery has over 2,300 Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th Centuries so an afternoon would be well spent.
Breakfast
Day 4: The Courtauld and the Wallace Collection
Meet your guide for a morning visit to the Courtauld Gallery which has a small but impressive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. This will serve as an appetizer for the works on display at the Orsay and L’Orangerie when you reach Paris. After time for a pub lunch you make your way to another London townhouse, home of the Wallace Collection. Here you will find an eclectic mix of masters including Titian, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Franz Hals including his iconic “The Laughing Cavalier."
Breakfast
Day 5: The Best of British Art
From art covering Western Europe you turn to British art. Tate Britain is the first of four Tate galleries and focuses on art from the time of Queen Elizabeth I as represented by William Hogarth to Queen Elizabeth II as represented by Lucien Freud. Other British notables include the Romantics like Blake, Constable and Gainsborough, the equine art of Stubbs and the maritime these of Turner. These highlights will take up the morning. In the afternoon you have the opportunity to cross the Thames on the “Tate Boat” to Tate Modern which is housed in an old power station. You might also opt to take a boat down to the Tower of London or further down the Thames to the quaint town of Greenwich. End your stay in London with an elegant evening dinner cruise on the Thames.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 6: London to Paris
After breakfast you will be picked up at the hotel and delivered to St. Pancras Station where 1st Class seats are reserved for the trip to Paris underneath the English Channel. The trip takes about two and quarter hours and about twenty minutes is in the tunnel. You arrive at Gare du Nord in Paris where one of our drivers will meet you and take you to your hotel. To put you in a Parisian art frame of mind we can set you up for dinner and show at Moulin Rouge the former haunt of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Breakfast
Day 7: A Day with Impressionists
Today you meet your guide and take the metro to the Orsay Museum originally built at the beginning of the 20th Century as a railroad station and luxury hotel and now converted to display the best of Impressionist art primarily, but not exclusively, French. As you explore the levels of the museum you will admire works by Gauguin, Degas, Manet, Van Gogh and many others. After an extensive visit, your guide will take you to a café close to Les Jardins des Tuileries where you can have lunch. After lunch you visit L’Orangerie which is situated on the edge of the Tuileries. Here you will find many additional works most notable a large diorama of some of Monet’s “Waterlilies” (as seen in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris?"
Breakfast
Day 9: Monet Immersion
In the morning you will leave Paris and head out towards the Normandy Coast to the village of Giverny. Here you will find the home of Claude Monet which also served as inspiration for many of his most famous works including the 300+ paintings of Waterlilies on the lake (which Monet also created). The Red Japanese Bridge also figures in many works. You tour the gardens and visit his studio. After viewing the sights as also seen by Monet you drive back into Paris to visit Musee Marmottan which holds one of the largest collections of work by Monet and his contemporaries like Sisley. Many of the paintings were donated by Monet’s son. Having the actual views still fresh in your minds provides more context to many of the works you are viewing.
Breakfast
Day 10: The Louvre and the Lights of Paris
No visit to Paris involving art is complete without a visit to the Louvre although many people find its size and scope daunting. Your guide will focus on the “must see” like “The Coronation of Napoleon” by Jean-Louis David, the Venus de Milo and, of course, the Mona Lisa by DaVinci. You may then want to focus on a particular wing of the museum for example Egyptian or French Romantics. You may also choose to do some sightseeing on your own. Regardless of your choice, in the evening you will be transferred to the Seine where you board a vessel for an elegant dining experience through an illuminated Paris.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 11: Paris to Amsterdam by Thalys
You will be picked up at the hotel and delivered to the station where you board a Thalys high speed train bound for Amsterdam. 1st class seats are reserved. After arriving in Amsterdam you will be met by our driver and taken to your hotel. You will meet your guide in the lobby who will take you on a bike tour that gives you an overview of the city, reaching places where busses and cars can’t. This evening we can make reservations for you at our favorite Rijstaffel restaurant which was imported from the former Dutch colony of Indonesia.
Breakfast
Day 12: Van Gogh and the Dutch Masters
This morning will take you on a walking tour through several beautiful neighborhoods including Jordaan which offers antique stores. This will be followed by Begijnhof an area that was home to widows and unmarried women who cared for the poor. Arrive at Museum Square which is the home of the Van Gogh Museum. Your guide will give you a private your of some of his best works. After your visit you will board a boat for a lunch cruise as you cruise the canals of Amsterdam. In the afternoon you arrive at the Rijksmuseum where you will get a guided tour including the major works by Rembrandt and other Dutch Masters.
Breakfast and Lunch
Day 13: The Hague, Vermeer and the Canals of Amsterdam
After breakfast, you are taken to The Hague and Mauritshuis home to some of the best 17th Century paintings. Here you will see “The Goldfinch” by Fabritius, “anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” by Rembrandt and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Vermeer. Vermeer left only 36 paintings and three of them are at Mauritshuis. You will also see the main government buildings and the palace where King Willem Alexander resides. You return to the city in time to relax and get ready for a gourmet dinner cruise through the illuminated canals of Amsterdam with candlelight on board adding to the ambiance. After the cruise, you return to your hotel.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 14: Return to USA
You will be driven to the airport where you board your USA bound flight arriving back the same afternoon.
Breakfast
This evening you depart the USA on an overnight flight to London to begin your great art adventure.
Day 2: Welcome to London
Upon arrival you are met by one of our drivers and taken into London and taken to your hotel in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London. This area is noted for its association with the “Bloomsbury set” a group of authors like Virginia Woolf who lived here at the early part of the 20th Century. You may want to spend the afternoon at the British Museum which is close by and admission is free. Have a light dinner at the hotel before an early night.
Dinner
Day 3: A Day at the National Gallery
After breakfast you meet your guide and take the underground to Trafalgar Square, the location of the National Gallery. You will get a private tour of some of the main attractions including “sunflowers’ by Van Gogh, Rembrandt’s “ Self Portrait at 34” and three painting of bathers by Cezanne, Monet and, most notably, Seurat. As importantly, your guide will offer lesser known works of significance in the advancement of art. Your guide will leave you at the National Dining Rooms, a good place to have lunch. The gallery has over 2,300 Western European paintings from the 13th to the 19th Centuries so an afternoon would be well spent.
Breakfast
Day 4: The Courtauld and the Wallace Collection
Meet your guide for a morning visit to the Courtauld Gallery which has a small but impressive collection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings. This will serve as an appetizer for the works on display at the Orsay and L’Orangerie when you reach Paris. After time for a pub lunch you make your way to another London townhouse, home of the Wallace Collection. Here you will find an eclectic mix of masters including Titian, Rembrandt, Velasquez and Franz Hals including his iconic “The Laughing Cavalier."
Breakfast
Day 5: The Best of British Art
From art covering Western Europe you turn to British art. Tate Britain is the first of four Tate galleries and focuses on art from the time of Queen Elizabeth I as represented by William Hogarth to Queen Elizabeth II as represented by Lucien Freud. Other British notables include the Romantics like Blake, Constable and Gainsborough, the equine art of Stubbs and the maritime these of Turner. These highlights will take up the morning. In the afternoon you have the opportunity to cross the Thames on the “Tate Boat” to Tate Modern which is housed in an old power station. You might also opt to take a boat down to the Tower of London or further down the Thames to the quaint town of Greenwich. End your stay in London with an elegant evening dinner cruise on the Thames.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 6: London to Paris
After breakfast you will be picked up at the hotel and delivered to St. Pancras Station where 1st Class seats are reserved for the trip to Paris underneath the English Channel. The trip takes about two and quarter hours and about twenty minutes is in the tunnel. You arrive at Gare du Nord in Paris where one of our drivers will meet you and take you to your hotel. To put you in a Parisian art frame of mind we can set you up for dinner and show at Moulin Rouge the former haunt of Toulouse-Lautrec.
Breakfast
Day 7: A Day with Impressionists
Today you meet your guide and take the metro to the Orsay Museum originally built at the beginning of the 20th Century as a railroad station and luxury hotel and now converted to display the best of Impressionist art primarily, but not exclusively, French. As you explore the levels of the museum you will admire works by Gauguin, Degas, Manet, Van Gogh and many others. After an extensive visit, your guide will take you to a café close to Les Jardins des Tuileries where you can have lunch. After lunch you visit L’Orangerie which is situated on the edge of the Tuileries. Here you will find many additional works most notable a large diorama of some of Monet’s “Waterlilies” (as seen in Woody Allen’s “Midnight in Paris?"
Breakfast
Day 9: Monet Immersion
In the morning you will leave Paris and head out towards the Normandy Coast to the village of Giverny. Here you will find the home of Claude Monet which also served as inspiration for many of his most famous works including the 300+ paintings of Waterlilies on the lake (which Monet also created). The Red Japanese Bridge also figures in many works. You tour the gardens and visit his studio. After viewing the sights as also seen by Monet you drive back into Paris to visit Musee Marmottan which holds one of the largest collections of work by Monet and his contemporaries like Sisley. Many of the paintings were donated by Monet’s son. Having the actual views still fresh in your minds provides more context to many of the works you are viewing.
Breakfast
Day 10: The Louvre and the Lights of Paris
No visit to Paris involving art is complete without a visit to the Louvre although many people find its size and scope daunting. Your guide will focus on the “must see” like “The Coronation of Napoleon” by Jean-Louis David, the Venus de Milo and, of course, the Mona Lisa by DaVinci. You may then want to focus on a particular wing of the museum for example Egyptian or French Romantics. You may also choose to do some sightseeing on your own. Regardless of your choice, in the evening you will be transferred to the Seine where you board a vessel for an elegant dining experience through an illuminated Paris.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 11: Paris to Amsterdam by Thalys
You will be picked up at the hotel and delivered to the station where you board a Thalys high speed train bound for Amsterdam. 1st class seats are reserved. After arriving in Amsterdam you will be met by our driver and taken to your hotel. You will meet your guide in the lobby who will take you on a bike tour that gives you an overview of the city, reaching places where busses and cars can’t. This evening we can make reservations for you at our favorite Rijstaffel restaurant which was imported from the former Dutch colony of Indonesia.
Breakfast
Day 12: Van Gogh and the Dutch Masters
This morning will take you on a walking tour through several beautiful neighborhoods including Jordaan which offers antique stores. This will be followed by Begijnhof an area that was home to widows and unmarried women who cared for the poor. Arrive at Museum Square which is the home of the Van Gogh Museum. Your guide will give you a private your of some of his best works. After your visit you will board a boat for a lunch cruise as you cruise the canals of Amsterdam. In the afternoon you arrive at the Rijksmuseum where you will get a guided tour including the major works by Rembrandt and other Dutch Masters.
Breakfast and Lunch
Day 13: The Hague, Vermeer and the Canals of Amsterdam
After breakfast, you are taken to The Hague and Mauritshuis home to some of the best 17th Century paintings. Here you will see “The Goldfinch” by Fabritius, “anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp” by Rembrandt and “Girl with a Pearl Earring” by Vermeer. Vermeer left only 36 paintings and three of them are at Mauritshuis. You will also see the main government buildings and the palace where King Willem Alexander resides. You return to the city in time to relax and get ready for a gourmet dinner cruise through the illuminated canals of Amsterdam with candlelight on board adding to the ambiance. After the cruise, you return to your hotel.
Breakfast and Dinner
Day 14: Return to USA
You will be driven to the airport where you board your USA bound flight arriving back the same afternoon.
Breakfast
