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2024 Tour code: 24NFS
About the tour
Explore the meandering waterways and heritage railways of Norfolk. Based in historic Norwich, experience scenic journeys on the Mid and North Norfolk railways, sail the Norfolk Broads on a Mississippi paddle boat, and visit Sandringham - the royal's country retreat.
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Your holiday begins today in Norwich, the lively capital of Norfolk, where you meet your Tour Manager at your hotel. Once you've checked in, you can start familiarising yourself with the city's cultural delights and welcoming atmosphere. Wandering the cobbled streets at leisure, you'll discover Norwich's vibrant arts scene, bustling markets, and rich literary heritage.
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4.3 / 5 · 262 reviews
R Birnie
Submitted 17/Sep
The trip was good value and the outings were interesting. The hotel was comfortable and well located except for the fact that bedrooms overlooking the football stadium had constant noise from some kind of machinery. The food was plentiful but not wonderful.
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Stephen Rhodes
Submitted 17/Sep
Advertised as a 5 day break, in fact you only do something on two days with a 2 hour walk around Norwich on a third day? The choice of Holiday Inn as a place to stay leaves a lot to be desired, the views of Norwich City`s football pitch are splendid. Breakfasts are ok but dinner is awful, we got a special menu, a choice of three starters, main courses and desserts. The hotel uses the cheapest options in preparing these meals, most are frozen, all are over cooked, tasteless (soup, chicken, bread and butter pudding), hard to identify (cottage pie) tough (Chicken) and mostly inedible. If the hotel has a qualified chef, he should be ashamed of what he serves. Rail Discoveries should be even more ashamed to have ordered such awful food in the first place. Their tour manager, who agreed with me the food was awful should be even more ashamed not to have done something about it previously or on our visit.1950 school meals were more enjoyable! As for Holiday Inn, here is part of their reply to my complaint:- We are sorry to hear that your stay was not up to our usual standards namely the food. With the first night of the group, we understand their must be some misunderstanding as on the first night of each group staying one of the team members goes table to table and take the order. ( There were two waiters looking after 36) With regards to the young lady, we do apologise if you were made to feel this way but please be assured I have spoken with her and this was never her intention to make you both feel this way. (A complaint to the young lady in charge on the said evening brought no response) As far as we are made aware, we did not have any complaints from this group so we are very disappointed to hear you had a bad experience. We regularly have Rail Discoveries stay with us at the Holiday Inn and normally receive very high feedback. As yet Rail Discoveries are still investigating my complaint. I you still wish to go, we can recommend a very nice restaurant next to the railway station call GEM. We went there on the second night and went home on the third night! Good luck
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A Attard
Submitted 3/Sep
Enjoyable trip but hotel evening meals were disappointing.
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David
Submitted 3/Sep
A good four day break however dinner menu could be better.
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Roger
Submitted 31/Aug
Interesting, varied, well organised trip.
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Mr K C Day
Submitted 30/Aug
Value for money.
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