EARLY BOOKING/ EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNT PROGRAM

We are happy to continue our Early Booking Discount policy whereas Valor Tours, Ltd. Will discount the main tour cost by 5% if application and required deposit is received six months or more before commencement of tour.

In addition, Valor Tours announces a new 10% discount off the main tour cost if full payment of the tour, less 10%, is received with application. Fully refundable should you change your mind up to 60 days before tour departs.

* Not available on cruises, Holts Battlefield Tours, Normandy Independent packages or tours in cooperation with MHT or Stephen Ambrose Tours.

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FALL OF CORREGIDOR 70TH ANNIVERSARY - April 28 - May 8, 2012
Escorted by Steve Kwiecinski. Cost $3,295 per person, twin share; single supplement $500. (Cost subject to change.)
Visit MacArthur Suite and Intramuros, the old walled city, and Fort Santiago; Cabanatuan POW Camp Memorial, Capas Train Station, Battling Bastards of Bataan Memorial and Camp O’Donnell/Capas National Shrine, Fort Stotsenberg, Clark AFB and Museum, Bamban Museum, Subic Bay, Hellships Memorial, Jungle Survival Training, Olongapo Museum, Kamana Sanctuary Resort, Mt. Samat, Death March Route to KM Zero marker at Mariveles, Corregidor, and more.

MILITARY HISTORY TOUR TO RUSSIA - May 3-12, 2012
St. Petersburg, Volgograd, Moscow with optional extension to Kursk. Escorted by Bill Altaffer.

BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL TOUR TO ENGLAND
June 20 - 29, 2012
Dedication of long overdue Bomber Command Memorial at Westminster and also visits to Fighter Command RAF Uxbridge, American Air Museum at Duxford, air show, RAF Museum Hendon, Eagle Pub at Cambridge, RAF Brize Norton, St. Paul's Cathedral American Section, Battle of Britain memorial, London. Bob Reynolds (RAF) expected to attend.

THE GREAT WAR EXPERIENCE IV TOUR TO BELGIUM AND FRANCE
May 20 - 28, 2012
Opening battles of 1914; Verdun 1916, the 300-day battle; exploring the Vosgues Mountains, the Great War in Alsace-Lorraine; U.S. Marines on the Western Front. Escorted by Michael Hanlon.
Cost $3,250.00 per person, twin share, land only.

AWON MEMORIAL DAY TOUR TO THE PHILIPPINES - May 24-June 2, 2012
Escorted by Steve Kwiecinski. Manila, Corregidor, Bataan, Subic, Clark AFB and Cabanatuan with optional extension to Leyte.

SICILY, ANZIO, SALERNO, MONTE CASSINO, ROME - May 2-15, 2012
Escorted by Steve Hamilton and Frank de Planta

RETURN TO MIDWAY 70TH ANNIVERSARY - June 3 - 5, 2012
In cooperation with Military Historical Tours
$1595 per person, twin share, or $1695 single occupancy
Two nights in Honolulu and one day charter tour to Midway.

D-DAY NORMANDY INVASION - June 2-8, 2012
Land only from/to Paris – Tour director/historian Henry Bodden. Tour cost land only $1,995 per person, twin share. Single supplement $400 extra.
Includes two nights accommodations in Paris and four nights at a hotel in Normandy, near Omaha Beach; welcome dinner in Paris; breakfast daily; lunch on June 6th; local taxes; private coach transportation from June 3 through 7; services of Tour Director/historian; travel insurance; entrance fee to Caen Memorial and Peace Museum on June 3; map of Normandy; local taxes. Subject to change and currency fluctuations and a minimum of 10 passengers traveling together – maximum 45 passengers. Recommend early booking to reserve your place.

BATTLE OF THE BULGE/EAGLE'S NEST - June 8-17,2012
Escorted by author/historian Henry Bodden.
Paris – Chateau Thierry – Reims - Bastogne - Luxembourg – Metz - Maginot Line - Strasbourg – Berchtesgaden – Dachau - Munich
We ran this tour for the first time in 2006so successfully that we have repeated it every year since. This tour is a potpourri of historic sites on a leisurely drive by private motor coach from Paris to the Eagle's Nest at Berchtesgaden. It follows our D-Day Normandy tour and both tourscan be taken back to back. We will enlist the services of local historian guides at each stop giving us a more in-depth study of the regions and their history.

BATTLE FOR OKINAWA/67TH ANNIVERSARY - June 15-22, 2012
Escorted by Glen Williford.
Departs from San Francisco non-stop to Taipei, then to Okinawa. The U.S. Army 10th Support Group Commander, Torii Station will host our group for the Army’s Birthday Ball during our visit to Okinawa. Tour points of interest, attend joint ceremonies with local dignitaries, tour battlefields.
Cost $3,500 per person, twin share/ single occupancy $300 extra.

RETURN TO GUADALCANAL 70TH ANNIVERSARY - July 29 to August 7, 2012
Escorted by John Innes and John Shively.
Cost $3,450 per person, twin share. Single supplement, $400 extra. Includes round trip economy class via Air Pacific from Los Angeles; seven nights in andard rooms at Mendana Hotel with private bathroom facilities and air conditioning; transportation, box lunch on August 6, etc. Based on a minimum of 10 persons traveling together.
Optional extensions include Tarawa, August 7-14 and Nadi, Fiji Islands.

500 YEARS OF WARFARE - August 4 to 12, 2012
Inspired by distinguished historian John Keegan's two classics, The Face of Battle and Six Armies in Normandy, this tour presents an overview of over 500 years of warfare. Brussels, Waterloo, the Somme, Agincourt, Vimy Ridge, Dieppe, Normandy. Escorted by Mike Hanlon of the Great War Society.
Cost $3,250 per person, twin share.

POLAND:THE TURBULENT HISTORY OF WWII - September 2-11, 2012
Escorted by historian Phil Peterson. From Warsaw to Krakow, Auschwitz & Birkenau, Wroclaw, Gdansk, Gierloz, and Treblinka.
Tour cost $3,395 per person, twin share. Single supplement $775. Land only – begins and ends in Warsaw, Poland.
Take Poland and Crossing the Rhine back to back and travel on our private coach from Warsaw to Frankfurt by way of Berlin with transport, hotel and tour of Berlin free of charge.

CROSSING THE RHINE/OPERATION MARKET GARDEN - September 13 - 22, 2012
From Frankfurt to Amsterdam - tour cost, land only, $3395 per person, twin share. Single supplement $600 extra.
Includes nine nights hotel accommodations at three star or better hotels; welcome and farewell dinners; breakfast daily; private coach transportation; services of tour leader/historian; emergency travel insurance; local historian/guides where necessary; entrance fees to museums indicated; local taxes; Tour Briefing Book. Subject to change and currency fluctuations, and a minimum of 10 passengers traveling together – maximum 45 passengers.

Take Poland and Crossing the Rhine tours back to back and take our coach transport from Warsaw to Frankfurt with two nights and a tour of Berlin free of charge.

OPERATION DRAGOON - From the Mediterranean to the Rhine river - October 5 - 17, 2012
Jointly operated with Stephen Ambrose Tours, we will follow the route of the 7th Army from the South of France to Strasbourg, ending in Frankfurt. Itinerary available. Brochure in November.

EL ALAMEIN 70th ANNIVERSARY - October 16-25, 2012
Fly from London to Cairo to explore cultural and historical sites with Steve Hamilton.
Cost from London $2,990.

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