Day 3: Own arrangements to visit sites. Overnight in London.

Day 4: Own arrangements to visit sites. Overnight in London.

Day 5: Our own coach for the full day from London to Bath including a stop at Windsor Palace, a stop at Runnemede, where King John signed the Magna Carta, and the Memorial to John F. Kennedy. Overnight in Bath. 

Day 6: Full day from Bath to Oxford including a stop at Stonehenge, Avesbury, and Salisbury. Overnight in Oxford.

Day 7: Full day from Oxford to Stratford-upon-Avon and then to London. Overnight in London.

Day 8: Own arrangements to visit sites in London. Overnight in London  

March 23 - Day 9: Departure transfer from hotel to Gatwick Airport. Same day arrival in Cincinnati.

Payment Plan and other financial details: A deposit of $300 dollars per person is required as soon as possible in order to secure your place. Please bring your deposit checks to Profs. Hadjiyannis or Graziani or to Sandi Delabar, Secretary of Social Sciences Department, or mail them to our SSU address or put in an envelope and push under our offices' door. Make check payable to “Shawnee State University.” If a participant can pay for the entire cost of the trip in one payment it is recommended that they should do so at this stage.

When you give us your deposit please indicate to us if you:

ü      Will be taking the tour as a student

ü      Wish double or triple occupancy (if triple is possible)

 If you are traveling alone we will find same gender roommates for you. 

When you give us your deposit please provide us with your

Ø     Current e-mail address

Ø     Home address

Ø     Phone number

As soon as enough participants to make the trip a go have turned in their checks you will be notified by e-mail that your deposits are about to be cashed. If you decide to cancel on the trip your check will be returned to you.  Otherwise, I will give the checks to SSU's business office so that they can be cashed. SSU will then wire the money to the travel agency in Britain for our land package and to the airlines as deposits in reserving our tour. Once your check has been cashed and advance payments have been made you can still cancel but there will a cancellation penalty imposed by the agent.

Please note: You can pay in installments providing that complete payment is made by three months prior to departure. The payment plan contains a certain degree of flexibility but please try to be prompt.  Please let me know as soon as problems with your payments develop. All payments will be made to the same name, i.e. "Shawnee State University" 

All participants will need a valid passport.  For non-US passport holders please check with your country’s consulate or with the British consulate/embassy on the Internet. If you do not already have a passport you need to apply for one ASAP. Currently the estimated time to receive a passport is 10 weeks. The total cost for a passport is $97. This includes the application fee $67, and the execution fee $30. If you are applying for a passport for the first time, you must apply in person. However, you can download the form that you need. Go on-line at www.travel.state.gov and download a copy of the DS 11 passport form. You can apply for your passport by going to the Scioto County Clerk of Courts, 602 7^th Street (355-8226) or Portsmouth Main Post Office 610 Gay St. (353-7579).  When applying, you must bring a valid driver's license and an original birth certificate or a certified copy of it. You must also bring 2 official passport photographs. You can get those at Wal-Mart or at the local AAA office. For more information visit http://www.travel.state.gov/passport/get/first/first_830.html. If you don’t order your passport ahead of time, you can expedite the process and receive your passport in 2 weeks. You will need to pay an additional service fee of $60, plus $27 the cost of overnight delivery services; the cost of this service will add $87 to the total cost for the passport, total cost $184.

For all participants (US or non-US): The complete name you will give us in order for us to make the airline reservations and have the ticket issued in your name must be identical to the name in your passport.

Please note: Priority for participation is for those who take the tour as students. You will need to register for either one or both classes, as you do with your other classes, when spring semester registration begins.  

If less than 25 students are enrolled there will be space for “community members” to join the group. “Community members” are defined as any person willing to participate. Priority will be given to relatives/significant others/friends of enrolled students. You are welcome to submit their names (and deposit money). They will be accepted on a first signed up basis.

There will be 3 to 4 pre-trip orientation group meetings. Participants will be notified accordingly and in a timely manner when those will occur. All participants are required to attend these. Many aspects of the trip and travel advisories will be discussed. The “omicron” Internet site listed above contains a wealth of info in this regard. Please consult it often. There will also be a series of meetings of an academic nature. All enrolled students are required to attend. Non-student participants may attend if they so wish.

Finally, we look forward to being your professors and guides in a great study tour such as this if past trips are an indication of their worth. Please see us for any questions not discussed here or elsewhere in this site and keep revisiting this site for updates

Summary of Important points:

In making a deposit to ensure your reservation and participation, indicate whether you will be taking the tour as an enrolled student, give us your name as it will appear in your passport, provide us with a valid e-mail address, indicate your rooming preferences, obtain a passport, observe the payment deadlines, attend the meetings, inform us of changes in your plans, enroll in the course, promote the tour to other students and community members, peruse the web site for this trip, and be prepared to have a great educational and fun experience.