5 days, 4 nights starting on 30th September 2026

The Beautiful Lake District

£999 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £159 single room supplement.

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Featuring:
The 3* Damson Dene Hotel  (www.damsondene.co.uk)

Including:

• Half board accommodation
• All excursion travel and guided tours included
• Entrance fees to non-National Trust properties included
• Train and boat tickets included
• Blue Badge guide on Days 2 to 4
• Executive coach throughout

Visiting:

• Little Moreton Hall
• Holker Hall
• Lakeside & Haverthwaite Steam Railway
• Cruise on Lake Windermere
• Dove Cottage
• Rydal Mount
• Ambleside
• Blackwell
• Pencil Museum
• Kendal
• Sizergh Castle & Gardens
• Moseley Old Hall

Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance, gratuities and lunches.

5 days, 4 nights starting on 8th May 2026

The Historic Houses & Heritage of Northamptonshire

£759 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £99 single room supplement.  
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Featuring:
The 4* Delta Hotel by Marriott 

Including:

• Half board accommodation
• All excursion travel and guided tours included
• Entrance fees to non-National Trust properties included
• Private coach
• Welcome drink included

Visiting:

• National Trust’s Waddesdon Manor
• National Trust’s Upton House
• 78 Derngate
• English Heritage’s Kirby Hall
• Rockingham Castle
• The Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne
• Boat trip along the Grand Union Canal
• National Trust’s Canons Ashby 
• Bletchley Park

Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance, gratuities and lunches.

Please email Richard@Lebus.net if you would like to go on the trip.

5 days, 4 nights starting on 12th October 2025
The Arts & History of Dublin

£1,049 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £129 single room supplement.  
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Featuring:
The 3* Academy Plaza Hotel in central Dublin.

Including:

• Half board accommodation
• Direct scheduled flights to Dublin
• All excursion travel and guided tours included
• Entrance fees to non-National Trust properties included
• Guide on all transfers and excursions
• Private coach in Ireland
• Welcome drink included

Visiting:

• Guided introductory tour of Dublin
• National Gallery of Ireland
• Trinity College and the Book of Kells
• Dublin Castle - the Chester Beatty Library and State Apartments
• Russborough House
• Guinness Brewery Experience
• The Irish Emigration Museum

Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance, gratuities and lunches.

5 days, 4 nights starting on Thursday 8th May 2025
£799 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £99 single room supplement 

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Featuring:

The 4* Holiday Inn Rotherham - Sheffield Hotel.

Including:

• Half board accommodation

• Welcome drink included

• All excursions & guided tours included

• Entrance fees to non-National Trust properties included

• Blue Badge guide on Days 2 to 4

• Executive coach throughout

• Audio headsets included on Days 2 to 4

Visiting:

• Baddesley Cinton

• Chatsworth

  Eyam Hall and Craft Centra

  Renishaw Hall and Gardens - guided Hall tour

  Hardwick Hall and Gardens - guided Hall tour

  Bakewell

  Haddon Hall - guided tour

  Kedleston Hall

  Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance, gratuities and entrance fees to National Trust properties (free to National Trust members), lunches.

5 days, 4 nights starting on 15th September 2024
£929 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £149 single room supplement 
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Featuring:
The 3* Ufford Park Hotel near Woodbridge

Including:

• Half board accommodation

• Welcome dinner included

• All excursions & guided tours included

• Blue Badge guide on Days 2 to 4

• Executive coach throughout

   

Visiting:

• Gainsborough's House - guided tour

  Sutton Hoo

  Aldeburgh - guided tour

  Snape Maltings

  Christchurch Mansion - guided tour

  Constable Country  - East Bergholt, Dedham and Bridge Cottage

  Bury St Edmunds – guided tour

  St Edmundsbury Cathedral

  Melford Hall

  Ickworth House

Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance, gratuities and entrance fees to National Trust properties (free to National Trust members).

6 days, 5 nights starting on 16th May 2024
£1,554 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £249 single room supplement.  
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Featuring:
The 4* K+K Hotel in Budapest

Including:

• Centrally located 4* Budapest hotel

  Welcome dinner included

  All excursions, entrance fees & guided tours included

  Direct scheduled flights from Heathrow to Budapest

  Professional local guide for all transfers & excursions

  Executive coach in Hungary

  Audio headsets included on Days 2 to 5

  Local accommodation tax included

Visiting:

• Budapest – guided city tour

  Parliament House – guided tour

  Danube Bend

  Basilica at Esztergom

  Visegrád - Museum Palace of King Matthias & Citadel ruins

  Szentendre

  Dohany Synagogue – guided tour

  Jewish Museum

  Hungarian National Gallery – guided tour

  Frans Liszt Academy – guided tour

  Museum of Fine Arts – guided tour

  Castle of Sissi

Not Included: Single room supplement, insurance and gratuities.

5 days, 4 nights starting on 27th September 2023
Northern Ireland

£969 per person sharing a twin or double room.  £119 single room supplement.  
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Featuring:
The 4* Dunadry Hotel and Country Club at Templepatrick.

Including:

• Half board accommodation
• Direct BA flights from Heathrow to Belfast
• All excursion travel and guided tours included
• Entrance fees to non-National Trust properties included
• Local guide on Days 1 to 5
• Private coach in Northern Ireland
• Audio headsets on Days 2 to 4
• Welcome drink included

Visiting:

• Mount Stewart House and Gardens
• Guided tour of Belfast
• Ulster Museum
• Giant’s Causeway
• The Walled Garden at Glenarm Castle
• Guided tour of Derry
• Tower  Museum
• Titanic Experience

Not Included: Single room supplement, entrance fees to National Trust properties (free to National Trust members), insurance and gratuities.

5 days, 4 nights starting on 21st May 2023
The Art & History of Glasgow

£889 per person sharing a twin or double room, excluding travel costs to and from Glasgow.  You arrange your own travel - most of us travelled by train.  £129 single room supplement.  Click here to view the brochure online.

Featuring:
The 4* Glagow Grosvenor Hotel which is 3 miles from Glasgow Central Station

Visiting:

• St Mungo’s Cathedral
• Glasgow guided tour
• Kelvingrove Art Gallery & museum
• House for an Art Lover
• Dumfries House – guided tour, tea or coffee & shortbread
• Burrell Collection
• Tarbet
• Hill House
• Hunterian Gallery

5 days, 4 nights starting on 10th October 2022
The Castles, Gardens and Heritage of North Wales

Featuring:
The 3* Best Western Waterloo Hotel, Betws-y-Coed.  Click here to download the brochure

We visited:
The National Memorial Arboretum with land train tour included
Bodnant Gardens
Conwy Castle – entrance fee included
Plas Mawr- entrance fee included
Caernarfon Castle – entrance fee included
Portmeirion – entrance fee included
Ffestiniog Narrow Gauge Railway – train ticket included
National Slate Museum
Plas Newydd Country House & Gardens
Powis Castle and Gardens

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Featuring:
The 3* Limpley Stoke Hotel which is a stunning hotel, 4 miles south of Bath in a delightful village setting in an area of outstanding natural beauty.

We visited:
American Museum at Claverton Manor – guided tour
Bath – guided walking tour
Holburne Museum of Art – guided tour
Bristol – guided tour
Bristol Harbour cruise
Wells Cathedral – guided tour
Stourhead (entrance fee not included)
Herschel Museum of Astronomy – Guided tour
Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and village (entrance fee not included)

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Featuring:
The 4* Double Tree by Hilton Hotel Lincoln which overlooks Brayford Marina  and is located just a ten minute walk from the city centre. Facilities at the hotel include a restaurant, bar and gymnasium. All rooms are en suite and feature a hairdryer, television, telephone and tea & coffee making facilities.

We visited:
Stamford
Burghley House – guided tour
Lincoln – guided walking tour
Lincoln Cathedral
Medieval Bishops’ Palace
Lincoln Castle
Newark on Trnt – guided tour
Boat cruise on the River Trent from Newark
The Workhouse, Southwell
Doddington Hall – guided tour
Gainsborough Old Hall
Belton House

This trip was cancelled due to Covid.  Click here for the brochure

Featuring:
The 4* K+K Opera Hotel which is centrally located next door to the Opera House, on bed & breakfast basis

We were hoping to visit:
Budapest – guided tour
Parliament House – Guided tour
Danube BendBasilica at Esztergom
Visegrad – Museum Palace of King Matthias and Citadel ruins
Szentendre
Dohany Synagogue – guided tour
Jewish Museum
Hungarian National Gallery – guided tour
Franz Liszt Academy – guided tour
Museum of Fine Arts – guided tour
Dinner Cruise on the River Danube
Castle of Sissi

Click here to see the itinerary (PDF version)
Click here to see the itinerary (Word version)
 

This trip was run and organised by The Arts Society Ealing who kindly invited Richmond members to join them. We are really grateful to the committee of The Arts Society Ealing for allowing us this opportunity to enjoy their wonderful holiday.

Hotel:
We stayed at the 4* Hotel Due Golfi on bed & breakfast basis. The hotel is a 5 minute walk from the centre of the village of Saint-Agata sui Due Golfi and a 15 minute drive from Sorento. The hotel has a swimming pool.

We visited:
Amalfi Coast
Belvedere Positano
Ravello
Herculaneum
Oplontis & Villa Poppaea
Mount Versuvius
Pompeii
Paestum
Naples

This was our 5-day trip to Umbria in partnership with The Arts Society Moor Park.  The tour leader for this trip was Arts Society lecturer, Siân Walters, who has given us lectures on several occasions.  Click here to see the Itinerary.

We visited:
Città di Castello
Sansepolcro
Assisi
Perugia
Arezzo

This was our 5-day trip to Yorskire.  Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Harewood House
Castle Howard
Harrogate – guided tour
York – guided tour
York Minster
Merchant Adventurers’ Hall – guided tour
Scampton Hall – guided tour
Birdsall House – guided tour
Yorkshire Sculpture Park – guided tour

This was our 5-day trip to Corwall.  Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Clivedon Court
St Ives
Tate St Ives
Penlee House
Pencarrow House
Prideaux Place – guided tour and cream tea
Eden Project
Lost Gardens of Heligan
Exeter Cathedral
SS Great Britain

This was our 6-day trip to Shropshire.  Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Compton Verney Art Gallery
Ironbridge Gorge
Blists Hill Victorian Village
Shrewsbury – guided tour
Powis Castle and Garden
Chester – guided walking tour
Erddig
Attingham Park

This was our 6-day trip to Berlin and Potsdam. Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Berlin – guided city tour
East Side Gallery
‘Kaffee und Kuchen’ visit to the Reichstag
Museum Island
Pergamon Museum – guided tour
Neues Museum
Charlottenburg Palace – Knobelsdorff Wing
Gemäldegalerie – guided tour
Potsdam
Sanssouci Palace
Cecilienhof Palace
Jewish Museum Berlin – audio tour

This was our 5-day trip to Northumberland. Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Belton Hall
Durham
Durham Cathedral
The Bowes Museum
Alnwick Castle
Craigside House and Gardens
Lindisfarne Priory
Bamburgh Castle
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden

This was a 6-day trip to Andalucia in September 2016.  Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Granada
The Alhambra Palace
Cordoba and the Mesquita
Seville
Reales Alcazares
Jerez and the Tio Pepe factory
Museo de Bellas Artes
Ronda

This was a 4-day trip to Norfolk in May 2016.  Again it was a great success and much enjoyed by the 35 people who were on it. 

We visited:
Ely Cathedral and the Stained Glass Museum
Norwich City walking tour
Oxburgh Hall
Sandringham Estate
Holkham Hall
Felbrigg Hall
Blickling Hall

Our first trip was a 4-day trip to Liverpool in September 2015.  It was a great success and much enjoyed by the 29 people who were on it.  Click here to see the brochure.

We visited:
Little Moreton Hall
The two cathedrals
Walker Art Gallery
Port Sunlight Village
Lady Lever Art Gallery
Speke Hall
Tate Liverpool
Quarry Bank Mill