Our annual pre-holiday tour to *** NEW YORK *** to enjoy the city’s exciting seasonal celebrations, its dazzling holiday decorations – And a GREAT WEEKEND OF ENTERTAINMENT.

	Your Executive Worldwide Travel Tour Itinerary

	THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4 Depart Ottawa at 7:30 a.m. from the National Arts Centre in front of the Box Office. Coffee will be served prior to departure. Our deluxe private motorcoach will take us to New York and will be with us throughout our stay. Enjoy video and music programs during the drive. Champagne Luncheon prepared by the National Arts Centre Restaurant will be served enroute. Arrive at approximately 4:00 p.m. at the splendid Sheraton New York Hotel, located on 7th Avenue between 52nd and 53rd Streets close to Central Park and Times Square in the center of Manhattan's Midtown business and entertainment district. We are just a few steps from the excitement of Broadway, theatres, prestigious Carnegie Hall, famous up-town eateries and the world-class shopping of Fifth Avenue. Evening at Leisure Optional Entertainment Choices Our first evening in NYC will be free for your optional entertainment choices before a busy weekend program. You may wish to dine at a favourite restaurant, see a play or take in a performance at Carnegie Hall, within walking distance of our hotel. We will arrange a performance at Carnegie Hall for those who wish to take advantage of this optional entertainment. Overnight at the Sheraton New York Hotel.

		FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 Depart hotel with our own New York guide. We will tour the renowned Cloisters, devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe and incorporating elements from five medieval French cloisters — quadrangles enclosed by a roofed or vaulted passageway, or arcade — and from other monastic sites in southern France. Three of the cloisters at the branch museum feature gardens planted according to horticultural information found in medieval treatises. Approximately five thousand works of art from medieval Europe are exhibited in this unique and sympathetic context. Enroute to The Cloisters, we will visit the Cathedral Church of Saint John The Divine, the world's largest gothic cathedral. Lunch at the landmark Russian Tea Room. For the past eighty years, New York’s defining cultural moments have taken place at the Russian Tea Room. Ever since members of the Russian Imperial Ballet founded the restaurant in 1927, it has been a second home for boldface names and the intellectual elite – an exclusive enclave where actors, writers, politicians and businessmen planned their next deals and feted their friends’ latest Carnegie Hall performances. Recently reopened, the Russian Tea Room has retained the best of its history, authenticity and architecture while offering culinary masterworks and a menu of forty vodkas that includes varieties new to the United States. Evening performance – Billy Elliot the Musical a smash hit direct from London! With music by Elton John, book and lyrics by Lee Hall and directed by Stephen Daldry, the show is a roller-coaster ride of raw and powerful ballads, uplifting show tunes and a cheeky song or two. Billy Elliot is a funny, heart-warming and feel-good celebration of one young boy's dream in a gripping tale of triumph over adversity revolving around motherless Billy, who trades boxing gloves for ballet shoes. The story of his personal struggle and fulfillment are balanced against a counterstory of family and community strife caused by the 1980s coal miners' strike. Overnight at hotel.
	SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6 Full Day at Leisure Great museums and galleries! This is the best time of the year to catch the important art exhibits – the list of New York museums is endless. Morning motorcoach transportation to the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Evening Metropolitan Opera performance of Tchaikovsky’s “THE QUEEN OF SPADES,” conducted by Seiji Ozawa and featuring Canadian Tenor Ben Heppner. Overnight at hotel. SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7 Morning free to attend church services, stroll along the Avenues, or to do some last-minute shopping. Depart the hotel for Ottawa at 1:30 PM. A supper stop will be made enroute. Arrive in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre at about 10:30 p.m.

For more details on this tour or to request a brochure, please feel free to contact us at 613-236-5555 or email Jean Sheikh at jsheikh@executive-trvl.com. Please close this window to return to tours.