Highlights
Selected departures from March to October 2018
An amazing tour exploring the unique culture, history and music of America’s Deep South, the home of blues, jazz and country music, combined with the charms and the classic images Texas, the ‘Lone Star State’.
- Stay in Atlanta and tour the Centre for Civil and Human Rights, an engaging cultural attraction
- Tour Studio B in Nashville and Sun Studios in Memphis, where some of the world’s best loved songs of the last 50 years were recorded
- Stay in Nashville, ‘Music City USA’, and visit the Country Music Hall of Fame
- Tour Graceland and explore the incredible life and times of Elvis, the King of Rock and Roll, through the places where he recorded his greatest hits and his unique home
- Experience a ride on Amtrak’s renowned train service from Memphis to New Orleans
- Walking tour of New Orleans’ iconic French Quarter with a local guide
- Guided tour of Houston’s NASA Johnson Space Centre, from where the Apollo Moon landings were controlled
- Visit the Alamo in San Antonio, where the settlers fought for Texas’ independence from Mexico
- See where President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, and tour the fascinating museum dedicated to that fateful day
- Services of our experienced tour manager
- Stay in hand-picked three and four-star accommodation including all local taxes
- Return travel from the UK with transfers to and from the hotel included
Dates & Prices
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Overall this was an excellent holiday, pretty full on and looking back still can’t quite believe all the places we visited and things we saw. Througout the trip Bob was a really good guide organising things in a calm way and keeping us well informed with lots of loacl knowledge.
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Price Includes
The price of this holiday is per person, based on two people sharing a twin room with single rooms available at the relevant supplement. Price includes scheduled return flights to Atlanta, all transfers and journey on Amtrak ‘City of New Orleans’ rail service from Memphis to New Orleans, domestic flight from Dallas Fort Worth to Atlanta, twelve nights’ accommodation on room only basis in three-star superior or four-star hotels, four continental breakfasts, all tours as mentioned, all flight and accommodation taxes, hotel porterage of one item of luggage per person and the services of a Riviera Travel tour manager.
Included excursions are: Chattanooga incline railway, tour of Jack Daniels Distillery, entrance to Country Music Hall of Fame, Studio B tour, Sun Studio tour, ‘Platinum’ tour of Graceland, New Orleans walking tour with local guide, NASA Johnson Space Centre, entrance to the Alamo, 6th Floor museum in Dallas, tour of and entrance to Atlanta Civil Rights Museum
