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Votre visite privée des sites de la Seconde Guerre mondiale commence par le transfert depuis votre hôtel au centre de Bruxelles. Votre guide passionné partagera avec vous d'innombrables faits et anecdotes intéressants concernant la Bataille des Ardennes et pourrez personnaliser votre itinéraire en fonction de vos intérêts.

Voyagez en véhicule privé de luxe jusqu'au cimetière américain d'Henri-Chapelle, où presque 8 000 soldats sont enterrés. Les alignements de pierres tombales solennelles constituent un point de vue saisissant. Votre prochain arrêt est un mémorial entre Butgenbach et Bullingen et qui est consacré aux soldats américains de la 1re Division d'Infanterie -- la plus ancienne division de l'US Army -- qui y ont combattu vaillamment contre l'attaquant allemand. La division est surnommé The Big Red One en raison de la chiffre 1 de couleur rouge sur leur épaulettes.

Continuez vers le site massacre de Malmedy, où 84 prisonniers de guerre américains ont été sauvagement tués par les SS. Pendant le déjeuner (à vos frais) dans la petite ville de Stavelot, n'hésitez pas à poser des questions à votre guide. Après le déjeuner, vous verrez un ancien char allemand Tiger II à La Gleize, un petit village qui avait une toute allure pendant la Bataille des Ardennes.

Ensuite traversez la frontière à Hamm vers le Luxembourg et visitez le cimetière et mémorial américain du Luxembourg. Vous verrez l'endroit où reposent le général George Patton et 5 076 militaires américains.

De là, continuez jusqu'au cimetière de guerre allemand de Recogne, où presque 7 000 soldats sont enterrés. Lors de votre passage à Foy, ouvrez bien vos yeux pour apercevoir quelques tranchées au bord des bois. Votre prochaine halte est l'une des plus émouvantes de votre voyage : le mémorial du Mardasson près de Bastogne. Cet immense Memorial rend hommage à la mémoire des presque 77 000 soldats américains tués ou blessés pendant la Bataille des Ardennes.

Si vous le désirez pour en savoir plus sur la Bataille des Ardennes, explorez les expositions interactives au Musée de la Guerre de Bastogne (à vos frais). À Bastogne, vous verrez également un des chars Sherman les mieux conservé et des monuments dédié à deux célèbres généraux américains -- le Général McAuliffe et le Général Patton.

Quittez Bastogne roulez à travers la pittoresque vallée de la Meuse et le long de l'autoroute du retour vers Bruxelles. Votre mémorable visite privée de 12 heures sur les sites historiques de la Bataille des Ardennes se termine à votre hôtel de Bruxelles vers 20:00.

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Inclus

Service de ramassage et dépôt à l'hôtel
Transport en véhicule privé
Guide professionnel

Non inclus

Entrée au musée de la Guerre de Bastogne (environ 12 EUR)
Repas et boissons
Pourboires (facultatifs)

Autres informations

Vous recevrez une confirmation dans un délai de 48 heures à compter de votre réservation, sous réserve de disponibilité.
Le Musée de la guerre de Bastogne est ouvert du mardi au dimanche (tous les jours en juillet et août)

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Commentaires

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Emily L

5 | 2019-07-15

Jean and his wife Linda were amazing tour guides and we learned so much about the Battle of the Bulge. He has a standard tour route but does tailor it to what you would like to see - including Spa's F1 racetrack for my husband. We saw more than I ever thought we would in one day. Worth every penny. He is retiring after this year, so be sure to book this tour before he does! He also does WWI and Waterloo tours.

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Twylah B

5 | 2019-07-03

Jean was very knowledgeable and flexible with his itinerary. We got to see items off the normal path. It was humbling to walk through the woods and see foxholes still exist from the 101st Airborne group outside of Bastogne. I highly recommend it!

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Johanna V

5 | 2017-11-12

We were fortunate to have Jean and his wife Linda as our guides on this tour. It was a full day that was well organized to ensure that we were able to really experience the history of the area. Jean was very knowledgeable, experienced and organized in his approach to the trip. We covered a lot of territory and enjoyed the excursion.

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James M

4 | 2017-09-20

We thoroughly enjoyed this tour. Our guide was a very lovely man and went out of his way to take us to all that was important on this tour. The only thing we were a bit disappointed in was his English was a bit hard to understand at times. But apart from that a very good tour.

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William D

5 | 2016-08-30

Jean deserves a 6 or even a 10 rating on this tour!! He was everything I had read about and that much more. My Father was in the 101st Airborne at Bastogne when the famous Nuts response was uttered Jean was aware that our interests were to follow the path of my Father and he did an outstanding job making it happen. He was also great with his sense of direction to get us to the nearest pharmacy so I could buy some gauze to bandage my arm when I accidentally stepped off a curb. Through all of this, he was able to cover all the critical elements of the tour in a timely fashion. Thank you Jean for an outstanding job.

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Susan K

1 | 2015-08-12

We travel often and have taken lots of tours, both private and group. This was, without a doubt, the WORST tour we have ever had. If you are thinking of booking this tour, SAVE YOUR MONEY! This was more of a really expensive taxi service than a tour. His lack of knowledge and history regarding World War II made us speculate if he had just decided he could make money doing this tour, so went to the museum to pick up a couple of quotes that he could just parrot over and over, thus qualifying himself as a tour guide. His lack of real knowledge on the subject was breathtaking, He was like a museum audio tour and just kept repeating the same short factoids over and over, no matter what you asked. The day pretty much went along with him telling us a very brief and obvious anecdote about where we were going, then driving the rest of the way mostly in silence, then pulling up to the site, him pointing to it and saying, there it is, then driving on to the next place. Half the time we didn't even get out of the car, and these sites were sometimes an hour apart. It was a lot of silence, unless he was talking about himself. If this is the only tour you can find, you are better off just finding a ride to the World War II Museum. It is a truly great and well done museum, and only about 5 minutes from Jack's Woods if you want to go see the foxholes. Our guide almost made us miss the Museum too. He was uninformed about the last entry time as well as how long it should take someone with any real interest in the subject to go through it. We were so disgusted with his tour that we requested he take us to the museum about two hours earlier than he was going to. We actually got there about 15 minutes before the last entry, and whereas he had originally planned on us being there about thirty minutes, it realistically takes about two hours to do the different exhibits and displays. If you are looking for a Battle of the Bulge tour, you can certainly do better than this one.

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Brian L

4 | 2014-07-27

The tour guide was excellent. We had the choice to vary the tour and agreed to visit the Luxemburg cemetery to visit General Patton's grave. The tour guide also showed us around Luxemburg City, which was a bonus. I would recommend this tour.

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