Trefoil Guild Annual Meeting - Portsmouth 2024

We are pleased to offer packaged tours to Portsmouth for Trefoil Guild members to attend the Annual Meeting in June 2024. Our tour includes transfers and accommodation as well as optional extras including excursions and pre & post tours

 

Your Price includes

 

• All coach transfers including ‘Meet & Greet’ at Portsmouth & Southsea Railway Station

• 3 nights’ accommodation on a dinner, bed and breakfast basis at Marriott Portsmouth

• Live entertainment on Sunday evening

• Services of Greatdays staff

• ABTA bonding

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Featured Hotel:

 

PORTSMOUTH MARRIOTT HOTEL ****

Southampton Road, Portsmouth PO6 4SH

Distance to Portsmouth Guildhall – 5.0 miles

 

 

Portsmouth Marriott is a four-star hotel located on the outskirts of Portsmouth.

The hotel boasts modern hotel rooms, featuring stylish décor, high-speed Wi-Fi, blackout curtains, flat-screen TVs, tea & coffee making facilities, hairdryer, iron,

air-conditioning, and open wardrobes. Some bedrooms have atrium views.

Hotel facilities include a bar, coffee shop, lounge area, restaurant and lifts to all floors. There is a small outside seating area. Dinner will be held in a private suite.

A pre-order for dinner is required and you will be contacted about this closer to departure. Owing to limited timing, dinner on Saturday will be a two-course hot fork buffet.

The hotel has a limited number of fully-accessible bedrooms. The hotel does not have any walk-in showers in standard rooms. Walk-in showers are on request

and at a supplement.

Please let us know of any dietary/accessibility requirements on your Greatdays Booking Form. Whilst we will endeavour to accommodate

requests, they are subject to hotel availability and cannot be guaranteed

 

 

 

 

Optional excursions - Sunday 9th June 2024

 

 

Hovercraft Crossing to Isle of Wight with Two-Course Lunch  - £95.00 per person

We board our chartered Hovercraft at Southsea at 9.45am for the journey across the Solent to Ryde on the Isle of Wight. The 20-minute flight features a special Hovercraft demonstration including 360-degree turns. Once we arrive at Ryde, there will be chance to meet the pilot and crew and see an external view of the Hovercraft. We then take a short walk to The Royal Esplanade Hotel for tea and coffee and a one-hour presentation from our guide covering the history of the island. This is followed by a two-course lunch at the hotel (pre-order required).

There is then free time in Ryde before we board the Hovercraft at 3pm for the 10-minute journey back to the mainland.

 

Best of Portsmouth with Cream Tea  - £95.00 per person

Discover some of the outstanding attractions Portsmouth has to offer. We begin with the D-Day Story whose museum covers the preparation, landings and the Battle of Normandy. Our visit also includes the Landing Craft Tank, and a guided tour of the magnificent Overlord Embroidery. The embroidery tells D-Day story in 34 extraordinary hand-stitched panels with a total length of 83 metres.

Next we travel to Gunwharf Quays and enjoy the spectacular views from the viewing platform in Spinnaker Tower, followed by a cream tea in their ground-floor harbour-side restaurant. In the afternoon we visit The Mary Rose at Portsmouth Historic Dockyards, Henry VIII's favourite ship and the largest collection of Tudor objects in the world. There is chance to ‘Dive the Mary Rose’ in the new 4D immersive cinema experience.

 

Beaulieu and Buckler’s Hard with River Cruise  - £79.00 per person

Today we visit Beaulieu where there is free time to visit the many attractions on site, ranging from the National Motor Museum, Palace House and Gardens, and Beaulieu Abbey and Exhibition. We then travel to the picturesque village of Buckler’s Hard. After time for lunch we take a tranquil 30 minute cruise along one of the world’s only privately owned rivers. Next we visit the fascinating Museum which focuses on the village’s shipbuilding heritage. The reconstructed 18th century cottage interiors complete an insight into how people lived and worked in this part of the New Forest.

 

Please note coaches, attractions and some hotels will have steps and uneven surfaces throughout and we regret that Greatdays’ staff are unable to offer

assistance to guests who are unable to navigate these unaided. Minimum numbers are required to operate day trips. Itinerary subject to change. Prices correct

at time of printing.

 

 

A minimum of 30 persons are required to operate day trips. Itinerary subject to change.

Please note coaches, attractions will have steps and uneven surfaces throughout.