Virgin Launches California Showcase Collection

Virgin Holidays is launching three highly personalised tours throughout California, encouraging British holiday-makers to spend more time exploring the West Coast.

Billed as “The Showcase Collection” these three launch tours will test the appeal for greater escorted itineraries, with the tour operator prepared to roll out more Showcase tours across the USA and Canada over the next 18 months. Each tour is a one-off, unique itinerary, exploring the breadth and diversity of the Californian state and targeted at three distinct travellers – families, empty nesters and the luxury market.

CALIFORNIAN FAMILY ADVENTURE

Guide price 14-day tour, mixed board, from £4,769pp excl. flights

If California is America’s amusement park, consider this your AAA, jump-the-queues ticket to an unforgettable family adventure – with visits to Anaheim, Palm Springs, Los Angeles and Huntington Beach. Featuring 14 expertly curated days that blend fun, exclusive thrills, memorable meals, profound relaxation and spectacular sights into a limited-edition plus-plus-plus holiday you’ll talk about for years to come.

VIRGIN VINES

Guide price 9-day tour, mixed board, from £2,686pp excl. flights

Stretching away into rolling hills north of San Francisco, the Napa Valley is this sophisticated city’s connoisseur backyard – with hundreds of hillside vineyards commanding breath-taking views and producing exemplary wines by the dozen. Exclusive to Virgin Holidays, our specially curated, single-departure tour of California’s Wine Country makes this extraordinary region your playground with eight days of private wine tastings, gourmet food and time to relax among vibrant vineyards and Giant Redwoods. Best of all, the tour has been designed in partnership with Virgin Wines – meaning there will be ‘Virgin’ touches from beginning to end.

CALIFORNIA DREAMING

Guide price 10-day tour, mixed board, from £5049pp excl. flights

Golden Gate to the City of Angels – 500 miles of pure Pacific-washed adventure. No coastline on Earth packs in more glamour, history and A-list excitement per square mile, so why not sit back on our exclusive ten-day California Dreaming tour from San Francisco to Los Angeles and let us bring the very best of the West Coast to you. With high-end wine tastings, Hollywood high-life and Instagrammable San Fran scenery this one-of-a-kind tour will make the holiday of a lifetime feel effortless. 

Angus Bond, Head of USA & Canada at Virgin Holidays, commented:  “We’re seeing increasing demand from customers for highly personalised, show-stopping, curated tours and the launch of our Showcase Collection delivers this in bucket-loads. We’re confident that by bringing British holiday-makers out of the usual Californian comfort-zone, they’ll have memories of a lifetime and spread the word about the breadth and beauty of America’s West Coast.”

The launch of these three new tours will support the two key West Coast gateways of LAX and SFO and are designed to encourage more British holiday-makers to venture outside of key cities.  All three tours will host between twenty and forty guests and will run in June, August and September 2019.

To book call Virgin Holidays on 0344 557 3859 or head into any of  its retail stores nationwide.