East Coast Extravaganza

Fly to the USA, meet your tour manager and board the coach for the transfer to the hotel.

Board the coach to enjoy a full day in America’s most European city, perhaps joining our fascinating optional tour to follow the Freedom Trail through its compact heart. See in the gold-domed State House, the green acres of Boston Common and the cobbled streets of historic Beacon Hill. Visit colourful Quincy Market and browse its speciality stalls, or perhaps cross the Charles River to Harvard University, before returning to your hotel.

Journey, through the leafy countryside of New England, into Canada and to stylish Montreal, the world's second-largest French-speaking metropolis, where you'll spend the next two nights.

Today's included excursion takes you to Quebec City, a charming place that's sure to prove one of the highlights of your holiday. Join our local guide to explore the narrow, cobbled alleyways of endlessly enthralling Vieux-Quebec on an optional tour before we return to the Montreal in the evening.

Enjoy a short orientation tour of Montréal, before heading along the Maple Leaf Trail to romantic Ottawa, Canada’s beautiful administrative capital, with its Victorian houses and famous Rideau Canal.

The Canadian capital will be brought to life on a guided tour, this morning, before you journey to glittering Toronto. In this glittering city you'll find the sky-piercing CN Tower, ultramodern shopping malls and countless cafes and restaurants.

Explore Toronto under your own steam, or join our optional guided tour, which will bring to life the sights and sounds of the city.

This afternoon, we'll journey around the shore of Lake Ontario to our next hotel, close to mighty Niagara Falls.

Spend the morning in awestruck wonder at the falls, which plunge over the famous precipices with a thunderous roar and a permanent misty spray. Take a helicopter flight for a bird’s eye view of the cascade, and perhaps enjoy lunch in a restaurant overlooking the Falls, before enjoying an evening in the resort.

Make the short journey across the bridge connecting Canada with the USA, passing the American Falls, today. Journey east and south through New York State and into Pennsylvania to spend the next two nights in New Jersey, just across the Hudson River from New York City.

Board the coach and head into the heart of New York, today. Explore on your own, or join our optional tour of the "city that never sleeps". Marvel at the famous sights, and take in the cityscape from the Top of the Rock - the 70th floor of the Rockerfeller Centre. After a hearty slice of the Big Apple, we'll return to New Jersey at the end of a wonderful day.

Heading south, this morning you'll visit the original US capital, Philadelphia. The Declaration of Independence was prepared and first read to the nation here in July 1776, after the tolling of the Liberty Bell. Let an included guided city tour bring the colourful story of America's birth to life before we continue to our final hotel, close to Washington DC.

Enjoy a full day in the nation's capital. See the domed Capitol building "on the Hill", the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans' Memorial, the Smithsonian museums and - across the green swathe of the Ellipse, at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue - the White House itself on our optional guided tour. Across the Potomac lie Arlington National Cemetery and the hulking Pentagon.

A last free morning brings time to relax, and perhaps indulge in a little shopping, before your afternoon transfer to the airport to board your flight home.

Arrive back in the UK after an overnight flight.