London Spring Break 2025
The Arts and Culture Club is organizing a 7-day tour of London on Spring Break 2025. Are you ready to dive into the heart of British culture, history, and innovation? Pack your bags and embark on an unforgettable journey to London and its picturesque surroundings! The tour is fast paced and covers major attractions in London and surroundings. Students will also be able to get a concrete visual of the history of London and its amazing heritage.
Requested date of departure: March 20-26, 2025
Student Program Fee: $4,992 (Students who register by November 15th will get $200 off the program fee)
Fees include transportation, hotel, breakfast, dinner, entrance to all museums/performances and the excursion outside of London (such as Windsor, Stonehenge, Oxford and Stratford Excursions). Fees also includes the mandatory Global Travel Protection Plan ($199).
Additional expenses: Passport cost, check-in luggage (sometimes included depends on airline), lunch, spending money per day (depending on spending habits) and tour customary guide gratuity.
ITINERARY is tentative and if anything changes, updates will be shared closer to the trip. During free time we will be visiting the National Gallery (houses a collection of more than 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900)
DAY 1: OVERNIGHT FLIGHT TO ENGLAND
DAY 2: LONDON
- Meet your Tour Director at your destination.
- Take a walking tour of London
- Covent Garden
- National Gallery
- Leicester Square
DAY 3: LONDON
- Take a guided tour of London
- Big Ben and Houses of Parliament
- Piccadilly Circus
- St. Paul’s Cathedral
- Westminster Abbey
- Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace (if scheduled)
- Visit St. Paul’s Cathedral
- Ride the London Eye
- Attend an evening theatre performance
DAY 4: WINDSOR AND STONEHENGE (Included Optional Excursion $169)
- An invitation to the Royal Family’s retreat, Windsor Castle. Join a local guide to Windsor, built by William the Conqueror in 1070. Admire priceless objects in the State Apartments, from paintings by Rubens to Henry VIII’s sword and suit of armor. Student’s will see Queen Mary’s Dolls’ House and St. George’s Chapel, the final resting place of many monarchs. Then, continue on to unmistakable Stonehenge, whose exact origin and purpose remain shrouded in mystery more than 4,000 years after its construction.
DAY 5: LONDON
- Visit the Tower of London
- Take a cruise on the River Thames
- Visit the Royal Observatory and the National Maritime Museum
DAY 6: OXFORD AND STRATFORD (Included Optional Excursion $139)
- Visit two of England’s most acclaimed towns on a full-day excursion into the English countryside. First, visit ivy-draped Oxford, home to the oldest university in the English-speaking world. After free time, it’s on to Stratford-upon-Avon, where Shakespeare was born, married, and buried. You’ll also see the English gardens and orchard belonging to his wife at Anne Hathaway's Cottage.
École Salish Secondary Fine Arts and English department’s Arts and Culture Club believe that this trip will provide students with an incredible learning experience of history and contemporary culture outside of the classroom. I know I am really looking forward to this wonderful experience.
Students can see Ms. Trujillo or visit her website for more information (). Parents can contact Ms. Trujillo at Trujillo_a@surreyschools.ca
