Our
UK Tours, Events, and Experiences --- A Sampling:
A
private backstage and onstage tour of the three auditoriums, scenic
workshop, etc. of the Royal National Theatre. Our guests will have a
private meeting with a member(s) of the Royal National Theatre's
creative/administrative staffs. Guests will see a performance of their
choice at The National Theatre.
Lunch or Dinner in the private room of a fine
West End Restaurant.
A V.I.P. Tours of New York
Exclusive: During the
meal, our guest of honor will be a member of the West End Theatre
Community.
A
V.I.P. Tours of New York Exclusive:
A private meeting with the
Trustee Chairman of the UK Theatres Trust, an organization
set up by the National Parliament to restore historic theatres
throughout the UK. A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: A
private visit to two West End theatres owned by and restored by the
Theatres Trust.
A
private behind-the-scenes tour of one of the West End's most beautiful
theatres.
A
V.I.P. Tours of New York Exclusive:
A private entertainment
featuring TWO cast members from two hit West End musicals, hosted by
the long-time Company Manager of "Les Miserables." Accompanying our
entertainer on the piano will be a well-established member of London's
musical theatre. Guests will have the opportunity to ask
questions and get a behind-the-scenes view of life in London theatre.
Accompanied
by a West End Actor and a Blue-Badge London Expert, a coach/walking
tour of London's Theatreland,
the City of Westminster (the
heart of royal and political power), the City of London (London's
financial district), and Shakespeare's
Southwark. We will
visit Southwark Cathedral. We will have a private tour of the re-created Old Globe
Theatre. This will be followed by a visit to London's
newest and instantly world-famous Modern Art Museum - The Tate Modern.
A
private behind-the-scenes tour of one of the world's most famous
theatres.
Our hosts will be three actors who will bring to life the history of
one of the world's oldest and one of London's most magnificent theatres.
A
private visit and late morning Tea at one of the English speaking
theatre's most important private clubs.
A
V.I.P. Tours of New York Exclusive:
Dinner in one of London's best
kept Private Club secrets. Pre-dinner, our guests will have a private visit to the
Royal Court Theatre, and a private meeting with artistic/creative staff
members of the Royal Court. During dinner, our guest of honor will be a creative staff
member of the Royal Court. Post-dinner, our guests will enjoy a performance at the
Royal Court Theatre.
A
private tour of one of London's most famous vaudeville and legit
theatres.
A
private tour of several of London neighborhoods and their ornate motion
picture palaces, as led by the co-founder of the British Cinema
Association
and the person responsible for the National Register listing of many of
the UK's historic theatres.
A
visit to the headquarters of the Royal National Ballet with a private
meeting with members of the Ballet's administrative and creative staffs.
Private tour of the National Museum of the
Performing Arts, including 1) a private make-up demonstration showing
period styles, aging and special effects and 2) a private costume
demonstration, with selected program participants acting as models.
Private backstage tour of the newly renovated
Royal Opera House.
A private visit to the National Theatre Museum.
A private tour of Windsor Castle, followed by a
private horse-drawn carriage ride around Windsor and through the park.
Guests will enjoy a custom-made, picnic box lunch.
A private tour which will unravel the secrets of
a magnificent historic house, dating back to 1341, in the beautiful
Weald of Kent. The medieval Barons Hall is
considered to be the best-preserved example of 14th century domestic
architecture in England., This stately house, with its' beautiful
gardens, is the setting for Tom Stoppard's haunting play "Arcadia". Our
private tour will continue through the
Gardens, not only one of the most beautiful in England, but one of the
oldest, with recorded references dating back to 1346. The
garden we will see was laid out in 1580 and has remained true to its
early design.
Lunch
in a lovely, 1730's inn on the main street of an unchanged medieval
village.
Accompanied by a horticultural expert, a private
tour of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, a World Heritage Site.
A private visit to the striking Garrick's Temple
and its surrounding 18th Century pleasure-garden setting,
built in 1756 by David Garrick to celebrate the genius of Shakespeare.
A
private tour of the Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's Renaissance Style
manor, the home of one of the world's finest collections of 18th
Century French decorative arts.
Lunch in an 1887 Inn,
with its' charming, baroque exterior complete with turrets, gables, and
balconies.
A
private tour of one of the finest mixed gardens in the UK.
A
private visit to one of the most romantic and historic buildings in the
UK.
Guests will have the opportunity to explore
two formal gardens and an aviary containing 100 species of endangered
species.
A
private visit to the most famous 20th Century garden in England, designed
as a series of 'outdoor rooms' surrounding the gatehouse of a decayed
Tudor Mansion.
An
in-depth, blue-badge coach tour of
the City of London (London's financial district) and the City of
Westminster (the heart of royal and political power).
Literary
London: A coach and walking exploration during which our
guests will discover the homes and workplaces of famous authors such as
T.S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, and members of the Bloomsbury set who
"lived in squares and loved in triangles". The tour will end at the new
British Library to admire classic manuscripts from the Magna Carta to
the Beatles' lyrics.
An
unbelievable demonstration, accompanied with a
discussion/question & answer period, with
one of the UK's foremost, young magicians.
Lunch in
London's only remaining galleried coaching inn.
The doors of one of the world's most famous
stores will be opened exclusively for our guests, who will enjoy a
privately served full English breakfast and fashion demonstration.
Canal trip on a gaily painted barge starting in
London's Little Venice, ending in
one of London's renown neighborhoods for antiquing and buying
alternative clothing designs.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: Our guests will have the very rare privilege of
visiting any or all of London's six most prestigious and
architecturally important clubs:
A private
visit and late morning Tea at one of the English speaking theatre's
most important private clubs.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: Dinner
in a private, historic room of one of London's most revered private
clubs, located in an 1841 building of rare beauty and
major architectural significance.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: Dinner
in one of the most elegant and architecturally unusual dining room of
all London clubs. Guests will have the opportunity to retire to an
aesthetically magnificent room comfortably furnished with live fires in
season.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive:
Dinner in London's only 5 star Residential private club, located in a
beautiful 1892 Victorian mansion.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: Lunch
in a private Financial District club, located in an 1895 bank building,
originally founded for Oxford and Cambridge graduates, but now boasting a membership of mostly brokers,
lawyers, and bankers.
Dinner in a
private, social club catering to London's authors, scriptwriters,
journalists, actors, television producers, and musicians.
A private tour
of the Houses of Parliament, hosted by a Member of Parliament.
Guests will have the rare opportunity to visit
the clock tower of Big Ben. Guests will enjoy afternoon tea within the Houses of
Parliament.
Cocktails
and canapés in a private capsule of the Millennium London
Eye, the world's largest ferris observation wheel.
A private,
blue-badge guided, afternoon coach exploration of the English
countryside between London and Salisbury, with stops in two lovely
villages for boutique explorations on your own.
Our guests
will have PRIVATE
access to Stonehenge, after the grounds have been closed to the public,
and will be among the privileged few to be able to go beyond the
protective fence and
meditate directly among the stones, access to which is
completely forbidden to the public during the day.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive: Our
guests will enjoy dinner in the Royal Courts of Justice. Our guests of
honor will be a knighted Barrister.
Our guests
will be welcomed into the historic vaults of a splendid house for a
spectacular Medieval Banquet.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive, Unforgettable Evening: The drawbridge of the double moated, 13th
Century home of Anne Boleyn will be lowered, leading to a castle which
will be opened, exclusively for our guests. Our guests
will be honored with 1) a private
tour of the castle and 2) a private, butlered, Tudor Banquet in the
castle's grand dining room, where King Henry VIII ate as
he was courting Ann Boleyn.
A V.I.P. Tours
of New York Exclusive, Unforgettable
24 Hours: Our guests
will be the sole and exclusive occupants of a magnificent Georgian
stately home set in 543 acres of mature parkland. This house is never open
to the public, enabling us to have total privacy, taking
our guests back in time to enjoy the history of this stunning private
estate. From arrival to departure,
our guests will be pampered and serviced by one of the UK's finest,
butler staffs. Upon arrival our guests will be treated to
full butler service for tea and biscuits in the manor's exquisite
drawing room. After exploring nearby mansions, castles and gardens, our
guests will enjoy a sumptuous five
course, private butler-served dinner served in the Manor's
magnificently beautiful ballroom. Our
guests will be the only guests staying overnight in this beautiful
manor. Up to 16 guests (double occupancy) will have
overnight accommodations in some of the
loveliest bedrooms in the UK. The manor's butler staff will be
available to serve our guests throughout the night. In the
morning, our guests will have a private,
butler-served breakfast in the Manor's music room, followed by a tour
of the house and gardens.
As we travel
from London to Stratford, our guests will be led by a Blue-Badge guide
on a full day private, luxury coach exploration of the honey-colored
stone villages and cultivated uplands of The Cotswalds. While
exploring the English countryside, and visiting quaint villages, guests
will have time for antiquing, exploring, and eating lunch on their own.
A private walking tour of
Oxford - the town and the University.
Dinner in a tucked-away, charming restaurant
in historic Stratford-upon-Avon.
A private tour of one of England's
architecturally perfect castles. Our guests will also have a private
meeting and demonstration with the castle's bowman.
A private coach and walking exploration of the
fascinating life of William Shakespeare. We will explore the
Stratford-upon-Avon countryside, as well as the historic village
centre.
Private tour of the lovely parish church where we
will find the graves of William Shakespeare and other members of his
family.
A 3 course dinner cruise on a canal boat along
the River Avon.
A full 1471 dinner in the undercroft of one of
England's architecturally perfect castles.
Private
visit to a large, ornate Sixteenth Century country manor,
home of the Lucey family since 1247. A
V.I.P. Tours of New York Exclusive: His schedule
permitting, we will have a private
meeting with Sir Edmund, who still lives in Charlecot, and
whose family has owned the property since the twelfth century and lived
in the house since 1551.