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LOIRE VALLEY TOUR 2024 BY CHEF DIDIER :
Friday April 5th to SUNDAY April 14th, 2024
The price and itinerary include all of the following: 10 days of hotel accommodations, all breakfasts, and all meals are 3 to 4-course meals, with choices.
(All 8 luncheons, 4 dinners, all accompanied with wines & beers, coffee, etc., sometimes aperitifs too, only 4 evenings will be at your leisure ). Also includes all bus travel, entrance & and tickets to daily activities (see activities below). All daily travels (from Friday, April 5th to Sunday, April 14th ) are with a 44-seat Deluxe A/C and Heated Motor Coach. Every new day is more enticing than yesterday!!!
With the 5% “Early Bird “ the discounted cost is $3372.00 ( normally $3550 ) all taxes included, per guest, twin occupancy. Single occupancy is available at $425 additional. (That price does not include the airfare from the States to Paris and return. It does not include the TGV Ticket from Angers to Paris,
for Sunday, April, 14th which you can buy while in France )
Friday, April 5th –Meet Chef Didier in Paris, at the Charles De Gaulle airport, who will be waiting for you, with the bus. Your arrival time would be from 8 am to 10 am on Friday, April 5th, which means you should be leaving the States,
on Thursday, April 4th, around 4 pm
Pick-ups, in Paris, will be available, Friday morning, at specific locations.
Chef Didier’s cell: 773-620-3986
Email: chefdidierdurand@yahoo.com
Friday, April 5th –the Tour begins:
Leaving Paris, with the bus, going to the town of BRIARE for a wonderful lunch along the Canal du Biare, dining on a boat.
Visit a Goat Cheese farm, and enjoy a degustation of the famous
“Les Crottins de Chavignol”
Going to a 3-star Hotel, in Chavignol, where we will stay for 2 nights
as we visit the Sancerre area
Visit an Art Gallery
Welcome Michelin-style gastronomic dinner at a Restaurant
owned by Chef Jean Marc Bourgeois
(The Hotel is above the restaurant)
Saturday, April 6th :
Breakfast at the Hotel in Chavignol.
Taking our Deluxe, a/c & heated bus (the same bus for the whole trip, Mr Abdel, he is wonderful!! ) to the town of Sancerre, the most praised and appreciated village by the French people!!!
Visit “La Maison de Sancerre” a center to promote the whole Sancerre region
Visit the Village of Sancerre
Lunch in the center of Sancerre
Visit the Domaine Henri Bourgeois, along with a wine and cheese tasting, specially guided by Mrs Emilie LeBlond
Return to the Hotel
Evening at your leisure in Chavignol
Sunday, April 7th :
Breakfast at the Hotel in Chavignol
Taking the bus to visit the Chateau de Chenonceau.
Visit a market in Saint Georges sur Cher
Lunch in Chenonceau.
Visit of the Chateau de Chenonceau
Arriving at our Hotel for 2 Nights in Chenonceau.
Dinner a your leisure
Monday, April 8th :
Breakfast at the Hotel in Chenonceau
Visit the Gardens and the Chateau de Villandry
Lunch in Villandry
Back at the Hotel in Chenonceau
Dinner at your leisure
Tuesday, April 9th :
Breakfast at the Hotel in Chenonceau
Taking the bus. Direction Saumur and its beautiful wine area
Visit of the Abbaye Fontevraud
Lunch in a mushroom cave
Visit of the Mushroom Museum
Arriving at the hotel, for two nights
Wednesday, April 10th
Breakfast at the Hotel
Visit Chateau Langlois
Visit Cadre Noir, an equestrian Military School, and gala dinner
Arriving at 7 pm at a new 3-star hotel, in Bergerac
CHÂTEAU DES VIGIERS
Dinner at a local Restaurant in Bergerac
Thursday, April 11th
Breakfast at the Hotel
Leaving with the bus to Angers with a hotel for three nights.
Chateau
Cathedral
Centre ville Chateau de Brissac
Le Puy du Fou
Terra Botanica
Arriving at an 4-star hotel in Angers
Dinner at your leisure in Bergerac,
Friday, April 12th
Breakfast at the Hotel
Evening at your leisure
Back to the hotel
Saturday, April 13th
Breakfast at the Hotel
Going to Nantes
Return to Hotel
Dinner in Brasserie
Memoir of this Tour
Back to Hotel
Sunday, April 14th
Breakfast at the Hotel
Morning at your leisure
Leaving Anger to Paris with a TGV (1 hour, 30 minutes )
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