School Trips to Ypres & the Somme Battlefields
The First World War was probably the world’s most bloody conflict and our tours are designed to support students understanding of the causes of the war as well as the suffering of the individual soldiers on both sides of the conflict. Tours include visits to the world famous Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres and the Thiepval Memorial on the Somme. In addition students can walk in the surviving WW1 trenches and visit the numerous British, Commonwealth and German cemeteries. Experienced WW1 guides are available if required (extra).
2 Day School Trip to Ypres from £99
Please note these school trips are on a
Full Board basis
- Day 1
- Travel early morning via Calais direct to Ypres in Belgium. Visit Sanctuary Wood* and the Hill 62 Museum* and the excellent Flanders Field Museum*. Later we will check into our hotel near Ypres for dinner before attending the Menin Gate last post ceremony.
- Day 2
- We first visit the Essex Farm Field Dressing station and its concrete dug outs. It was here that John McRae, a Canadian Medical Officer wrote the now famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. We can spend the morning at the cemetery at Langemarck and Vancouver Corner. Then we can visit the Tyne Cot Cemetery (the largest British War Cemetery in the world) at Passendale. After a picnic lunch return home via Calais.
3 Day School Trip to Ypres and the Somme Battlefields from £159
- Day 1
- Travel early morning via Calais direct to Ypres in Belgium. Visit Sanctuary Wood* and the Hill 62 Museum* and the excellent Flanders Field Museum*. Later we will check into our hotel near Ypres for dinner before attending the Menin Gate last post ceremony.
- Day 2
- We first visit the Essex Farm Field Dressing station and its concrete dug outs. It was here that John McRae, a Canadian Medical Officer wrote the now famous poem ‘In Flanders Fields’. We can spend the morning at the cemetery at Langemarck and Vancouver Corner. Then we can visit the Tyne Cot Cemetery (the largest British War Cemetery in the world) at Passendale.
After a picnic lunch we then travel to Albert in the Somme. We stop en route at the Canadian Memorial at Vimy Ridge before continuing to Albert. Vimy Ridge was the strongest defensive position in north-west France and the memorial is a stunning sight with its twin stone towers. Free guided visits of the underground tunnel complex can be prebooked (subject to availability). - Day 3
- Visit to the underground Somme 1916 Museum* in Albert followed by the Thiepval Memorial – the largest British War Memorial in the World. Other visits include Delville Wood, the Newfoundland Park memorial at Beaumont-Hamel and the Lochnagar Crater, created by the detonation of mines under the German lines. Visit to Arras to see the underground tunnels and hospital. Return to Calais.
Accommodation in Albert is at a brand new School Hotel designed to accommodate up to 3 coaches/schools, each in their own separate area.
Accommodation – 1 or 2 star hotels or School Hotel.
Ypres / Somme: students share multi-bedded rooms on a Full Board basis.
* Extra charge.