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The West End Theatre cruise will be tailored to suit your charter group’s individual theatre preferences and requirements. Whilst being pampered on board London’s most deluxe floating hotel and enjoying daily cruising on the river Thames, your group will be escorted to a variety of top West End shows, theatre tours and exhibitions.

Your guides for the week will be experienced professional artistes from the world of the West End Theatre and your cruising week will include:

• Top price seats to 4 productions in the West End; 3 evening performances and one matinee: Musicals, Opera and / or Straight Plays.

You will have a wide choice of West End theatres and shows; all tickets will be pre-purchased on your behalf and included in the cost of your week aboard, along with transfers to and from the Magna Carta. Other visits may include:

• The Royal Opera House, The English National Opera, The Albert Hall, & The Royal National Theatre, and Festival Hall on London’s southbank.
• Afternoon visits to the legendary Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre to see the matinee performance and enjoy the Globe’s Theatre tour.
• Following your champagne, smoked salmon and strawberry picnic in the grounds, a visit to the picturesque Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, for either the afternoon matinee or evening performances.
• A visit to Holland Park’s celebrated Opera Season.
• The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, back-stage theatre tour, conducted by your resident tour guide.
• A visit to Covent Garden’s Theatre Museum.
• An exciting musical soiree performance, following your spectacular 4 course “Captain’s Dinner” aboard the Magna Carta on the Friday evening, to be performed on board by leading musical theatre artistes from the World of Opera and Musical Theatre.
• Surprise visits to The Magna Carta by leading artistes, well known in the West End and the UK’s entertainment industry for a cocktail party on board.
• A visit to the historic Richmond Theatre or The Theatre Royal in Windsor, two outer London Theatres situated within walking distance from The Magna Carta’s moorings. AND…
• Other excursions to see the classic sights of The City of London.

Day 1, Sunday
Afternoon High Tea at London’s beautiful Stafford Hotel. At 16.00 hrs you will be transported to The Magna Carta, moored at St. Katharine’s Dock and invited to our Champagne Reception. You will be welcomed by the Crew and your West End Theatre Host will be on board to explain the week’s plans and Theatre Itinerary. Dinner is aboard.

Day 2, Monday
Today we take a round-trip cruise to the Thames Barrier, seeing some of London’s most historic sights; The Tower of London, Greenwich and the famous tea clipper Cutty Sark, the Royal Naval College and the Millennium Dome. Return to St Katherine’s Dock, renovated in the 1970’s with its swing bridge, boutique shops and Yacht haven. Lunch is on board. We may take the celebrated “Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Backstage Tour” in the afternoon, followed by a pre-theatre dinner in the West End. 19.30 hrs. curtain up on your first West End Theatre Performance, following which you will be chauffeured back to the Magna Carta for canapés and drinks.

Day 3, Tuesday
We cruise from St Katherine’s Dock to Chiswick. Lunch is on board. We may visit Covent Garden Market and the Theatre Museum. There may also be time for shopping and other London sights, depending on the River Thames’ tides. A light dinner on The Magna Carta is at 17.00. Then transfers into The West End for your second Theatre Performance. Return to The Magna Carta for canapés and drinks.

Day 4, Wednesday
Today you cruise from Chiswick Pier to Richmond. In the morning, conducted by your Theatre Host, you may take “Shakespeare’s Globe” tour, followed by a smoked salmon and champagne picnic lunch, specially prepared by the chef of the Magna Carta. 14.00 hrs. enjoy the matinee performance in the Globe Theatre’s top price seats – your third Theatre visit. Transfers back to The Magna Carta, for your special mid-cruise cocktails and dinner on board. This evening also sees a surprise visit to the Magna Carta by one of the top Theatre or Variety artistes. Your after-dinner entertainment will round off the perfect West-end Theatre cruise Day and will be a hilarious evening you are unlikely to forget.

Day 5, Thursday
In the morning, we cruise from Richmond, past the Royal Botanic Gardens of Kew, to Hampton Court, the former Tudor Palace of Henry VIII. Lunch is on board. In the afternoon, there will be a guided tour of Hampton Court and you may wander through the beautiful Royal Gardens and get lost in the late seventeenth century maze. An early light dinner on board will be served before your chauffeur transfers you to your theatre for your fourth and final evening performance. As before, your host will be there to greet you at the theatre and delicious late-evening snacks and drinks will be served on board following your return to The Magna Carta.

Day 6, Friday
The final cruise of the week is from Hampton Court to Runnymede and then onto Windsor in the afternoon. Upon arrival at Runnymede, we moor at Bell Weir Lock adjacent to a luxury spa hotel. You have the opportunity to visit the spa before cruising through Runnymede itself, where King John faced the powerful barons and signed the “Magna Carta” in 1215. Lunch is served on board. Arriving at Windsor in the afternoon, we visit Windsor Castle, built by William the Conqueror and inhabited for over 900 years by The Royal Family. You are then invited to the ‘Captain’s Dinner’, which will be followed by a wonderful “Farewell Musical Soiree”, performed on board by West End Artistes

Day 7, Saturday
Following breakfast disembark and you are transferred back to London.