10 DAY FULLY INCLUSIVE TOUR
MONDAY 25TH APRIL TO WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY
With cool summers, a rich cultural history and stunning rolling countryside, the Glen Innes Highlands is the home of Australia's premier Celtic Festival. Held amidst the ethereal Australian Standing Stones this celebration of all things Celtic includes a street parade, dancing, massed pipe bands and poetry. Be completely absorbed by the unique history of the Celtic nations.
MONDAY 25TH APRIL TO WEDNESDAY 4TH MAY
With cool summers, a rich cultural history and stunning rolling countryside, the Glen Innes Highlands is the home of Australia's premier Celtic Festival. Held amidst the ethereal Australian Standing Stones this celebration of all things Celtic includes a street parade, dancing, massed pipe bands and poetry. Be completely absorbed by the unique history of the Celtic nations.
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TOUR HIGHLIGHTS
Benalla Street Art, Albury, Yass Country Kitchen, Parramatta, Karuah, Coffs Harbour, Glen Innes, Australian Celtic Festival, Land of the Beardies Museum, Emmaville Mining Museum, Australian Celtic Festival, Tamworth, Dubbo and Wagga Wagga.
MULTIPLE NIGHT STAYS
4 nights in Glen Innes
TOUR COSTS
Twin Share Room First Tour: $4,440 per person
Twin Share Room Repeat Traveller 2 - 10 Tours: $4,390 per person
Twin Share Room Repeat Traveller 11 - 20 Tours: $4,365 per person
Twin Share Room Repeat Traveller 21+ Tours: $4,340 per person
Single Room Supplement: $680 per person
Deposit: $300 per person
As a thank you for travelling with O'Shannessy's Quality Tours, you will automatically receive a saving on the total tour price for your second and subsequent tours.
O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will match single travellers who wish to twin share, with another single traveller of the same gender.
However, if this is not possible, you shall be provided with single accommodation at the twin share fare (no additional cost).
O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours will match single travellers who wish to twin share, with another single traveller of the same gender.
However, if this is not possible, you shall be provided with single accommodation at the twin share fare (no additional cost).
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ITINERARY
DAY 1: mondAY 25th april, 2022
MELBOURNE TO ALBURY
Welcome to our wonderful Festival of Celts Tour! With personal pickup from home we are transferred to O’Shannessy’s Coach and begin our journey with lunch at Benalla. After lunch, we’ll drive around the city taking in some of the Street Art. Artists from around the world were brought together to paint murals on bare walls, some over three stories high. We continue onto Albury for over night stay.
OVERNIGHT: Best Western Plus Hovell Tree, ALBURY
Welcome to our wonderful Festival of Celts Tour! With personal pickup from home we are transferred to O’Shannessy’s Coach and begin our journey with lunch at Benalla. After lunch, we’ll drive around the city taking in some of the Street Art. Artists from around the world were brought together to paint murals on bare walls, some over three stories high. We continue onto Albury for over night stay.
OVERNIGHT: Best Western Plus Hovell Tree, ALBURY
day 2: tuesday 26th april, 2022
ALBURY TO PARRAMATTA
Departing Albury, we travel via the Hume Highway to Yass, stopping for a light lunch at the Yass Country Kitchen. Continuing on, we travel through Goulburn and Bowral to our destination this evening, Parramatta, in the outskirts of Sydney.
OVERNIGHT: Parkroyal, PARRAMATTA
Departing Albury, we travel via the Hume Highway to Yass, stopping for a light lunch at the Yass Country Kitchen. Continuing on, we travel through Goulburn and Bowral to our destination this evening, Parramatta, in the outskirts of Sydney.
OVERNIGHT: Parkroyal, PARRAMATTA
DAY 3: wednesday 27th april, 2022
PARAMATTA TO COFFS HARBOUR
Today’s a travel day as we head north making our way through to Coffs Harbour. We’ll stop en-route for a morning tea break off the coach then stop for lunch in Karuah. This afternoon we continue driving north along the coast to our overnight accommodation.
OVERNIGHT: Opal Cove Resort, COFFS HARBOUR
Today’s a travel day as we head north making our way through to Coffs Harbour. We’ll stop en-route for a morning tea break off the coach then stop for lunch in Karuah. This afternoon we continue driving north along the coast to our overnight accommodation.
OVERNIGHT: Opal Cove Resort, COFFS HARBOUR
DAY 4: thursday 28th april, 2022
COFFS HARBOUR TO GLEN INNES
Following breakfast we head inland via the Gwydir Highway, past the World Heritage listed Gibraltar National Park into Glen Innes, known fondly as the ‘Land of the Beardies’ and the Celtic Capital of New England. We check into our motel - home for the next four nights.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
Following breakfast we head inland via the Gwydir Highway, past the World Heritage listed Gibraltar National Park into Glen Innes, known fondly as the ‘Land of the Beardies’ and the Celtic Capital of New England. We check into our motel - home for the next four nights.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
DAY 5: friday 29th april, 2022
GLEN INNES AND THE CELTIC FESTIVAL
Glen Innes is in full festival mode today, with the official opening of the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival taking place in the Town Square late this morning. The Australian Celtic Festival is renowned as the premier Celtic event of New South Wales. It is the only Celtic themed festival in Australia to recognise different Celtic Nations each year and have the unique atmospheric benefit of being located at the nationally acclaimed Australian Standing Stones. Each year up to twenty different Clans and representatives from the six Celtic nations turn out in force to hold their annual Celtic ceremonies and spectacles. We’re off to the Land of the Beardies History House and Museum. Essentially a Folk Museum, the collection comes almost exclusively from the town and district, and mirrors the history and development of families, businesses, properties, public utilities, churches and the like. In the spacious grounds are numerous examples of early farm machinery. Several of these are very unusual and well worth a look. We enjoy lunch here before departing on our afternoon tour to Emmaville and the Mining Museum, where a guide will explain the extensive mineral displays including the renowned Curnow Collection. We return to Glen Innes to relax prior to dinner.
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
Glen Innes is in full festival mode today, with the official opening of the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival taking place in the Town Square late this morning. The Australian Celtic Festival is renowned as the premier Celtic event of New South Wales. It is the only Celtic themed festival in Australia to recognise different Celtic Nations each year and have the unique atmospheric benefit of being located at the nationally acclaimed Australian Standing Stones. Each year up to twenty different Clans and representatives from the six Celtic nations turn out in force to hold their annual Celtic ceremonies and spectacles. We’re off to the Land of the Beardies History House and Museum. Essentially a Folk Museum, the collection comes almost exclusively from the town and district, and mirrors the history and development of families, businesses, properties, public utilities, churches and the like. In the spacious grounds are numerous examples of early farm machinery. Several of these are very unusual and well worth a look. We enjoy lunch here before departing on our afternoon tour to Emmaville and the Mining Museum, where a guide will explain the extensive mineral displays including the renowned Curnow Collection. We return to Glen Innes to relax prior to dinner.
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
DAY 6: saturday 30th april, 2022
GLEN INNES AND THE CELTIC FESTIVAL
Our day is spent immersed in the local Celtic culture of the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival. There will be events throughout the day including Celtic bands, dances and, of course, the Street Parade*. This year’s festival celebrates Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, three of the 8 Celtic nations acknowledged in Glen Innes including Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, and Asturias. *until the program is released the day’s itinerary is subject to change.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
Our day is spent immersed in the local Celtic culture of the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival. There will be events throughout the day including Celtic bands, dances and, of course, the Street Parade*. This year’s festival celebrates Wales, Cornwall and Brittany, three of the 8 Celtic nations acknowledged in Glen Innes including Wales, Scotland, Cornwall, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Brittany, Galicia, and Asturias. *until the program is released the day’s itinerary is subject to change.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
DAY 7: SUNDAY 1st may, 2022
GLEN INNES AND THE CELTIC FESTIVAL
This morning we head back to the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival. Depending on the programme, there will be entertainment and more events throughout the day.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
This morning we head back to the 30th Anniversary Australian Celtic Festival. Depending on the programme, there will be entertainment and more events throughout the day.
Lunch at own expense and arrangement
OVERNIGHT: Rest Point Motor Inn, GLEN INNES
DAY 8: monday 2nd may, 2022
GLEN INNES TO DUBBO
We farewell the “Land of the Beardies” and travel via Armidale and Uralla to Tamworth where we’ll stop for lunch. We then continue on to Dubbo for our overnight stop.
OVERNIGHT: Comfort Inn Blue Lagoon, DUBBO
We farewell the “Land of the Beardies” and travel via Armidale and Uralla to Tamworth where we’ll stop for lunch. We then continue on to Dubbo for our overnight stop.
OVERNIGHT: Comfort Inn Blue Lagoon, DUBBO
DAY 9: tuesday 3rd may, 2022
DUBBO TO WAGGA WAGGA
We have a slightly earlier start this morning; from Dubbo we take the Newell Highway through Peake Hill. Our lunch venue today is in Grenfell and our afternoon journey takes us through Young and Cootamundra to Wagga Wagga for our overnight stay.
OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA
We have a slightly earlier start this morning; from Dubbo we take the Newell Highway through Peake Hill. Our lunch venue today is in Grenfell and our afternoon journey takes us through Young and Cootamundra to Wagga Wagga for our overnight stay.
OVERNIGHT: Mercure, WAGGA WAGGA
DAY 10: wednesday 4th may, 2022
WAGGA WAGGA TO MELBOURNE
What a great holiday we have had! This morning we travel south to Victoria and enjoy lunch at the Goorambat Hotel. We may also view the Goorambat Silo Art and the mural of Sofia in the Uniting Church before continuing onto Melbourne. As always our chauffeurs will be waiting to take us safely home, after a wonderful time away.
What a great holiday we have had! This morning we travel south to Victoria and enjoy lunch at the Goorambat Hotel. We may also view the Goorambat Silo Art and the mural of Sofia in the Uniting Church before continuing onto Melbourne. As always our chauffeurs will be waiting to take us safely home, after a wonderful time away.
TOUR INCLUSIONS
Complimentary Chauffeur Driven Transfers
Victorian passengers from Greater Melbourne, Bendigo, Torquay, Ballarat, Geelong, the Bellarine and Mornington Peninsulas, Phillip Island and selected areas of Gippsland will be picked up from home in a private chauffeured vehicle by one of our professional drivers.
For Victorian passengers not within this pick up zone, or our interstate passengers a quote can be provided for home pickup in extended areas. At the end of your tour, you will be safely returned home with memories of a sensational tour.
Luxury Touring Coaches
Our full size, 3 axle luxury coaches have only 32-36 passenger seats allowing you even more personal space and extra leg room. Our coaches are fitted with comfortable reclining seats with aisle arm rests, foot rests, seat belts, panoramic windows with blinds, refrigerator for passenger use, restroom, climate control air conditioning and Road Cam monitors which display the road ahead in real time. Each coach has a second door for easier entry and exit and touchless hand sanitizer dispensers at each entry to help keep everyone safe. Our coaches have full air suspension delivering a smooth and quiet ride which also allows us to lower the coach closer to the ground, making boarding and disembarking even easier.
Tour Directors
Dedicated O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours coach crew (tour directors) on board to ensure your travel experience is memorable.
Best Available Quality Accommodation
Ensuite motel accommodation each night.
Attractions
All tours and interest venues as per itinerary.
Meals
All full cooked breakfasts, morning teas and lunches most days, and two course restaurant
dinners daily. 3 lunches at own expense as per itinerary.
No Hidden Extras
O'Shannessy's Quality Tours are fully inclusive.
“... The Australian Standing Stones circle is unique in the
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PAYMENT AND CANCELLATION POLICY
Receipt of payment of funds will be taken as acceptance of O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours conditions of travel for this tour. Prices include GST and all taxes.
Deposit is fully refundable until 46 days prior to departure date.
Balance due on invoice approximately 45 days prior to departure.
Cancellation 45 to 8 days before tour departure date, 20% Refund of Tour Cost.
Cancellation within 7 days of tour departure date, No Refund.
On or after tour date departure, No Refund.
If a tour is cancelled for any reason by O’Shannessy’s Quality Tours before the departure date, all passengers will be offered the option of transferring to another tour of their choice, hold the funds in trust for a future tour or a full refund. There is no time limit as to when this must be used. If a lockdown is implemented while a tour is in progress, our first priority is the safety and wellbeing of our passengers and ensuring that we get each and every one of them home safely, and therefore we treat every situation individually. Travel insurance is not compulsory, however we highly recommend our passengers take out comprehensive travel insurance with a reputable provider at the time the balance of the tour is paid. Our office can provide contact information for companies we know are now providing travel insurance. It is a condition of travel that all passengers must be fully vaccinated against COVID19 unless medically exempt, and confirmation must be provided to our office upon payment of your invoice/booking.