Included:

• Return coach travel from local joining points

• 3 nights hotel accommodation at the modern Holiday Inn Gosforth Park hotel, within quiet grounds in Gosforth, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with 151 well-appointed air-conditioned rooms on two floors (lift available) with free wi-fi, tea and coffee-making facilities, and tv; indoor pool and spa also available.

• Breakfasts and all evening meals

• 15 single rooms at no supplement

• Private coach travel and services of an experienced driver

• Cancellation protection

  With Excursions to include:

• Raby Castle, including simple lunch of soup and sandwich

• the extraordinary ‘Northumberlandia’ land sculpture, designed by internationally renowned architect Charles Jencks

• Alnwick Castle - ancestral home of the Percy family, Dukes of Northumberland, and famously featured in Harry Potter films

• Beamish Museum - the living museum of the north

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Some of the highlights:
Alnwick Castle has been in the Percy family since 1309, when Henry Percy, great-great grandfather of Hotspur, purchased a typical Norman-style castle of motte and bailey form. Altered and extended over time, the castle contains one of the most important collections of fine and decorative art in the United Kingdom outside the Royal Collection: paintings including 16th century Old Masters of the Venetian School, furniture by important 17th, 18th century and 19th century cabinetmakers, and a ceramics collection comprising porcelain, principally of European manufacture such as Meissen, Sèvres, Paris, Chelsea and Minton, which can be seen throughout the State Rooms.

Beamish Museum - the living museum of the north, a huge site with exhibits of historic local cottages, shops and working industrial buildings, vehicles etc from 1820s Pockerley Old Hall, 1900s Town, Pit Village and Colliery, through to the 1950s Town and Farm.