Top Class Destinations!

Starting - Liverpool

Liverpool, the birthlace of the beatles, more specifically, The Cavern. Playing a starting gig at the Cavern and then flying out from the John Lennon Airport.

1- New York

As the largest city in the United States, New York City is the main centre of world trade and finance; a centre for educational excellence; an international hub of advertising, publishing, entertainment, and fashion; and a creative outlet for the arts.

Whether you are interested in food, theatre, shopping or business - it doesn't matter what you do or where you go in New York because the city itself is an exciting experience.

New York is home to 150 world-class museums, the 38 theatres deliver some of the most famous productions in history, and with 18,000 restaurants and 10,000 shops visitors alike are never at a loss for activity. With its numerous parks and gardens, including Central Park and The New York Botanical Garden, home to the nation's largest Victorian glasshouse, ensure that even with its size, the city is still beautiful.

Facts:
Population: 8,000,000
Time Zone: GMT -5 (Eastern Time)
Area: 303 sq miles
Climate: The best time to visit New York is during the spring and fall when temperatures hover around 68ºF (20ºC). New York winters tend to be unpredictable, sometimes wild, sometimes severe and stormy and summers are hot and muggy often lasting until September.

2 - Las Vegas

As often as you might have seen it on TV or in a movie, there is nothing that prepares you for that first sight of Las Vegas. The skyline is hyper reality, a mélange of the Statue of Liberty, a giant lion, a pyramid, and a Sphinx, and preternaturally glittering buildings. At night, it's so bright you can actually get disoriented -- and suffer from a sensory overload that can reduce you to tears or fits of giggles. And that's without setting foot inside a casino.

Las Vegas is a true original; there is nothing like it in America or arguably the world. In other cities, hotels are built near the major attractions. Here, the hotels are the major attractions. For that matter, what other city has a skyline made up almost entirely of buildings from other cities' skylines?

Facts:
Population: 478,434
Time zone: GMT -8
Area: 113 sq miles
Climate: The summers in Las Vegas get hot and the winters are cool, making spring and fall the best, and most popular, times to visit. Between June and September the temperatures get up to 100°F (38°C), and from December to January they drop to around 55°F (13°C).

3 - Tahiti

People come to French Polynesia to live it up in stylish resorts, scuba dive in lagoons teeming with tropical fish, gorge on the unique mix of French and Polynesian cuisine and, basically, experience a little French chic mixed with South Pacific charm. For more than 200 years, Tahiti has represented the tropical-paradise myth for Europeans.

It's French Polynesia's biggest, most famous and historically interesting island, but the glossy pictures that you see in travel agents' windows are quite likely to be some other French Polynesian island. Large and abundant, Tahiti is the modern traveller's gateway to French Polynesia, just as it was for the late 18th-century discoverers who used it as a natural base to explore the South Pacific.

In later years, the capital city, Papeete, became a major shipping crossroads. Located on Tahiti's northwest corner, the city curves around one of the region's busiest harbours.

Facts:
Population: 245,405
Time zone: GMT -10
Area: 1,930,500 sq miles
Climate: It receives in average 2,500 to 2,900 of sunshine per year. (I.e.: 8 hours of sun per day). Temperatures range between 24°C and 30°C all year through and lagoon water temperature varies between 23°C and 26°C.

4 - Sydney

Sunny, sexy, and sophisticated, Sydney basks in its worldwide recognition as the shining star of the Southern Hemisphere. The "emerald city" is one of the most attractive on earth. Some people compare it to San Francisco -- it certainly has that relaxed feel - but the gateway to Australia is far from a clone of an American city.

Sydney is one of the biggest cities in the world -- but fortunately most of the interesting things are concentrated in a relatively compact area around one of the finest urban harbours in the world. Unless visitors to Sydney are specifically seeking out friends in outlying areas, most will have no real need to travel too far away from the central city area and the harbour.

Most Sydney tourist attractions are either within the central business district, close to the CBD, or at points around the harbour. The exceptions are Bondi and Manly - surf beach suburbs situated south and north of Sydney Heads.

Facts:
Population: 4,000,000
Time zone: GMT+10 (Eastern Time)
Area: 812 sq miles
Climate: The summer season (November to March) is the most popular time to visit Sydney with temperatures regularly hitting the mid-30s. November and March are favoured by visitors wanting sunshine without the searing heat. Winter days can also be warm, regularly in the 20s, but can also be damp and chilly. Winter nights are likely to be cold.

5 - Shanghai

If you simply count heads, Shanghai is the biggest city in the biggest country on Earth. If you simply scan statistics, this is China's capital of commerce, industry, and finance. But numbers don't tell the whole story. Shanghai's has a colonial past more intense than that of any other city in China, save Hong Kong, and this legacy gives it a dramatic character, visible in the very facades of its buildings.

But the city is not only a museum of East meeting West on Chinese soil. Overnight, Shanghais has become one of the world's great modern capitals, the one city that best shows where China is headed at the dawn of the 21st century.

Shanghai is a scintillating city boiling with rapid cultural change. Since market restrictions were lifted, Shanghai has embraced the forces of business and design and rewritten its rule book shaping a fresh, new city that is sophisticated, innovative and living a life it has never lived before. While it can't match the epic history of Beijing, Shanghai is the hotspot of modern China; a cosmopolitan city buzzing with the concept of 'lifestyle revolution', showcased in the architectural temples of art, fine dining and contemporary urban living on The Bund.

Facts:
Population: 13,400,000
Time Zone: GMT +8
Area: 2,448 sq miles
Climate: Spring and autumn are the best months to visit Shanghai. The peak summer months (July and August) can be searingly hot with temperatures in the late 30's with 80% humidity. Most of Shanghai's rain also falls during this time. September and October can be windy, with the odd typhoon. In winter, evening temperatures often drop below zero.

6 - Dubai

Dubai's relentless love affair with tourism continues to transform the city's skyline. Waterfront hotels and tax-free shopping malls spring up along the serene Gulf coast in mere months, while new theatres and performance venues tap into a newfound thirst for cultural stimulation.

The city is all about spin, and likes to float at least half a dozen audacious new projects each year - current headline-grabbers are the construction of the world's tallest tower, the world's largest indoor ski slope and a network of reclaimed islands in the shape of the globe. Dubai is the quintessential home of sand, sun and shopping.

A century ago, it was a tranquil town whose coral-and-gypsum huts housed Bedouin traders and pearl divers. Today the merchants have gone international and science-fiction skyscrapers stand alongside the mosques and wind towers of Old Dubai.

Facts:
Population: 997,000
Time zone: GMT +4
Area: 14 sq miles
Climate: Straddling the Tropic of Cancer, the UAE has a sub-tropical arid climate and is warm and sunny in winter, but hot and humid during the summer months. The humidity is particularly high in the coastal areas. Rainfall is virtually non-existent, with occasional short showers occurring mainly in winter (December to March). Localised thunderstorms sometimes occur in summer.

Finish - London

Return back to the good old capital city, London

Excursions

At each destination we will also be operating a series of excursions and adventures during both the day and the evening to allow you to make the most of your time in each place. This information, together with the costs will be available soon.

The excursions are not compulsory but would allow you the chance to see the destination in the hands of a local accomplished guide either as a group or individual.