The Gardens of England & Wales with Chelsea Flower Show - 2022

Highlights

• : Our Well-Being Directors take a proactive approach to your welfare ensuring all well-being regulations are met (available on tours with 21 or more guests).
• : Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• : Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
• : We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.
• London: Experience the world-famous Chelsea Flower Show, an inspiring and enjoyable showcase of fabulous floral displays and cutting-edge garden design. Immerse yourself in colour and ingenuity as you enjoy the very best show gardens, flowers, and gardening from around the world.
• Woking: Explore the beautiful Bowes-Lyon Rose Garden and delight the senses with roses of all shapes, sizes, colours and fragrances. Stroll through the picturesque orchard, the huge cathedral like Glasshouse and the Exotic Garden.
• Chipping Campden: Hidcote Gardens is astunning collection of small gardens within a garden, with water features, wildflower areas and relaxing pools. Created last century by the great horticulturist Major Lawrence Johnston, the garden is famous for rare shrubs and trees, and its outstanding design features.
• Welshpool: Explore the gardens of Powis Castle. Under the gaze of the dramatic medieval Castle, wander Italianate terraces blasted from the solid rock, marvel at spectacular yew hedges, dancing statues and lavish herbaceous borders.
• London: Enjoy a Thames River Dinner Cruise and admire this magnificent city from the water. Sit back and take in the striking landmarks and bridges, and enjoy the eclectic riverbank architecture along with a delicious meal.
• London: Have a tasty lunch in a typical English pub. More than a place to have a drink, the pub is an important social space where people, friends and families come together. Often the focal point of community life in villages, towns and cities, expect a vibrant atmosphere, delicious home cooked food and a great selection of ales and wines.
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What's this trip about?

Take a once in a lifetime trip across Britain, hobnobbing with London’s high society at the Chelsea Flower Show and promenading through the Trentham Gardens of Llandudno Bay, in Celtic Wales. This grand three-week journey showcases the vast Victorian Greenhouses of the Royal Botanical Society at Kew, the magnificent riverside gardens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace and the long-lost grounds of Heligan, on the Cornish Coast. View Wales from up high, as you ascend the country’s tallest peak on the Snowdon Mountain Railway. From the shores of England’s Lake District to Robin Hood’s Sherwood Forest stomping grounds in Nottingham, these horticultural highlights are a joy to behold.

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