World Youth Day 2008 - Sydney WYD 2011 - Madrid Program Details for Leaders of Groups of Ten or More Participants Available Hotels Unitours WYD Updates
 
 
 

From $2,299 per person - The basic eight night package for your WYD Madrid experience is the basic transportation and hotel package for World Youth Day. Here is what is included:

 

HOTELS: 

Eight nights hotel in specially selected five and four stars hotels. Locations of all Unitours' selected hotels are centrally located and within reasonable proximity to the WYD provided public transportation. The basic hotel package accommodates three persons to a room with two or three beds. All hotels have been personally inspected; all are air-conditioned with color TV and direct dial phones and in comfortable and convenient areas of the City. 

MEALS :

Daily full buffet breakfast is included: (NOT Continental breakfast!)  Typical menu: Orange juice, scrambled eggs, hash brown potatoes, bacon, croissant, butter & preserves, Coffee, tea, or milk.  Typically, the WYD admission package includes dinner beginning Tuesday evening through the closing Mass. Many high quality exotic and familiar fast food restaurants are in the vicinity of all Unitours' WYD hotels.

UNITOURS CITY HOST/HOSTESSES: 

Professional Unitours' tour managers will be assigned to each Unitours' hotel. In addition, local professionals will meet your group on arrival in Madrid, escort you during your orientation tour and be available in the lobby of your hotel each morning to assist you in making your plans, finding your catecatical sites and using the Madrid public transportation system.

 

All costs are quoted in U.S. Dollars and are based on airfare, land rates and rates of exchange in effect November 13, 2008 plus a good faith estimate of projected increases for 2011.

 
DAILY ITINERARY

 

Sunday, August 14
Day 1 - DEPART -
Depart via best connections for our overnight flight with dinner arriving the next day. We enjoy in-flight movies, dinner and breakfast aloft.

Monday, August 15  
Day 2 – WYD WELCOMING

Arrive Madrid and depending upon arrival time, enjoy a bus orientation tour of the city.  Check-in and later today attend welcoming festivities throughout the city.  Dinner on your own.

Tuesday, August 16
Days 3 – WYD OPENING
After breakfast this morning we join the WYD Opening and Mass in Cybeles Square.

Wednesday, August 17-19
Days 4-6 – MADRID WORLD YOUTH DAY
Depending upon final World Youth Day Programs following full American breakfast at our hotel, we participate each day in appropriate activities and return to the hotel.  Dinners on our own or with WYD registration.

Saturday, August 20
Day 7 –MADRID WORLD YOUTH DAY AND VIGIL
Following the World Youth Day activities of today, we return to the hotel.  We then make our way to the site of the World Youth Day Vigil and Closing Mass officiated by His Holiness, Pope Benedict XVI.  We spend the night at the Vigil site.

Sunday, August 21
Day 8 – WORLD YOUTH DAY CLOSING
Our World Youth Day celebration comes to a close today with the Holy Father’s Mass.  At the conclusion of the event, we return to the hotel for free time.  Overnight at our hotel and dinner is on our own.

Monday, August 22
Day 9 - FREE DAY WITH OPTIONS
Today is free for shopping, personal adventure or optional excursions including Avila, Toledo or L’Escorial. Overnight at our hotel and dinner is on our own.

Tuesday, August 23
Day 10 – RETURN
This morning following breakfast, we transfer to the airport for our return flight to our home city arriving later today with memories of a lifetime.


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