Realizing Your International Travel Dreams —
Your journey begins in the immense sky.
Over the vast ocean, you sleep
high above the storm.
SIX STEPS TO MAKING YOUR DREAM TRIP COME TRUE —
1. DREAM
Do you dream of international travel?
• Maybe stories you have read or movies you have seen have inspired you.
• Maybe tracing family roots is your ambition.
• Maybe music, theater, or sports are your focused goals.
Whatever your reasons to travel overseas, your international travel dreams can come true. This is where the travel experts at Home At First come in.
2. dESIGN
Tell us your travel dreams. We design a free trip proposal for you, with all the right flights, lodgings, & ground transport you need to turn your international travel dreams into realities, efficiently and economically. Only when you accept your personalized trip design is your deposit payment due. Once your deposit is received, we put in place all the arrangements to make your dream trip come to life.
3. dAYDREAM
Read & daydream about your trip! Before your trip begins you receive a comprehensive guidebook keyed for your destinations. Thirty days prior to your departure you receive all necessary trip documents (tickets, vouchers, passes) plus detailed arrival information, including your overseas addresses, contact information for your lodgings and your hosts, and specific meeting plans for arrival day.
4. dEPART
Departure Day. Check-in and Security and two hours of Waiting-to-Board (sorry). Then the big bird soars. The wise flier snores. Too soon breakfast interrupts rudely, signifying the approaching landing. Terra Incognita appears out the cabin window. A new world appears as if out of your airplane slumber. Dreams begin to transform into first impressions, not hardened enough at first to be considered realities.
5. dECOMPRESS
Arrival Day. In some prearranged way — train, bus, taxi, rental car — you find your foggy way to your first night’s lodging. Bed’s invitation wrestles with your curiosity to explore. Bed mostly wins, at least for a couple of hours. You wake in a new place where you barely remember arriving. Time seems as fuzzy as your mind is groggy. You are hungry. Your first meal will help reestablish order. Relaxation begins. Peace happens.
6. dISCOVER
Your International Travel Dream Begins. A new morning — the first day of your new life. Take a walk. Eat a fresh pastry with a reassuring coffee or a change-up tea. Watch closely. Listen even more closely. Hear strange language: familiar words now sound foreign. Observe all around you. Dare to speak, to order, to shop. Can you find your way home? Home. Your new home. Comfortable. Roomy. You’re Home At First.
FIND YOUR DREAM TRIP HERE:
Home At First Destinations
around the World
Featuring Quality Hosted Lodgings
The UK requires Testing & Quarantine for American & Canadian visitors.
LONDON
SUPERBLY LOCATED CENTRAL LONDON APARTMENTS:
• Tower Bridge North
near historic Tower of London & Tower Hill tube.
• Tower Bridge South
in fashionable riverside Bermondsey.
• London Bridge North
near Monument tube station.
• London Bridge South
near London Bridge station.
The UK requires Testing & Quarantine for American & Canadian visitors.
COTTAGES IN FOUR
ENGLISH REGIONS
Heart of England
The West Country
Northwest England
North Yorkshire
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Cambridge • Oxford
• Cheshire & Shropshire
• The Midlands
Central England
The UK requires Testing & Quarantine for American & Canadian visitors.
LODGINGS IN THREE SCOTTISH REGIONS:
Scotland’s Heartland
Scotland’s Historic Capital
The Northern Highlands
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Glasgow
• The Borders
• Isle of Skye
• Mull & Iona
• Outer Hebrides
• Orkney & Shetland
The UK requires Testing & Quarantine for American & Canadian visitors.
COTTAGES IN TWO
NATIONAL PARK REGIONS OF WALES
Brecon Beacons Nat’l. Park
Snowdonia Nat’l. Park
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Southwest Wales
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
Irish Republic open to vaccinated North Americans without tests or quarantine.
COTTAGES & APARTMENTS IN FIVE IRISH REGIONS:
Tipperary & Clare
Cork & Kerry
Donegal & Sligo
Antrim & Londonderry
Dublin
France open to vaccinated North Americans. Negative test required.
LEFT & RIGHT BANK
PARIS APARTMENT LOCATIONS:
Central Paris
Apartments
in safe, attractive, desirable neighborhoods near attractions, the Métro, restaurants, and services:
Arrondissements 1-8, 11, & 18.
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Provence
• Normandy
• Alsace
Open to certified vaccinated or recovered Americans & Canadians.
ROME, TUSCANY, & 5 SPECIAL REQUEST REGIONS:
• Central Rome Apts.
• Tuscany: Siena Estate
• Tuscany: Hill Country
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Amalfi Coast
• Cinque Terre
• Florence
• Venice
• Sicily
Switzerland open to certified vaccinated Americans & Canadians.
APTS. & CHALETS ACROSS THE SWISS ALPS:
Locarno & its neighbors
The Matterhorn & Zermatt
& by SPECIAL REQUEST:
• Eastern Switzerland:
Pontresina, the Bernina Alps, & the Upper Engadine
Open for Vaccinated or Formerly Infected International Visitors.
CIRCLING ICELAND:
THE RING ROAD TRIP
Boutique Hotels, Inns,
& Apartments around
Iceland’s Ring Road
including Reykjavik,
volcanoes & glaciers.
Independent discovery set itineraries of 3, 7, & 10 day lengths, or custom-made for your budget, interests, and time constraints.
Iceland is combinable with most European destinations.
OPEN: Denmark welcomes vaccinated North Americans.
LODGINGS IN THREE DANISH REGIONS:
• Zealand: Copenhagen & Roskilde
• Odense & Funen
• Aarhus, Aalborg, & Jutland
Classic lodging locations in Copenhagen & Roskilde. Special request locations throughout Denmark.
OPEN to EU & UK visitors. Opening to more countries over the coming weeks.
OSLO, BERGEN, &
THE FJORDS
Plus Stavanger, Kristiansand, Lillehammer, Ålesund, Trondheim, Lofoten, & Tromsø
Lodgings at 8 classic & 5 special request Norwegian locations including the World Heritage Site fjords.
OPEN to American visitors. Covid test required if coming direct from the USA.
LODGINGS IN FIVE CLASSIC REGIONS:
• Stockholm
• Uppsala
• Gothenburg
• Lakeland
• West Coast
Boutique Hotels, Inns, & Apartments at 5 classic & 4 special request locations across Sweden.
BORDERS CLOSED to North American Tourists indefinitely.
NORTH & SOUTH ISLANDS — A ROAD TRIP OF DISCOVERY:
Individually planned itineraries using boutique lodgings with outstanding hosting in:
• 7 North Island regions
• 7 South Island regions
US, UK, & Canadian Visitors Welcome with strict protocols.
BETWEEN BRITAIN &
THE CARIBBEAN:
Bermuda offers much
more than its famed pink sand beaches. We offer cottages & inns across the island.
OPEN to vaccinated Americans: Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, & Switzerland.
COUNTRIES WE CUSTOM-PLAN DREAM TRIPS TO:
• Britain • Ireland
• Finland • Iceland
• Germany • Holland
• Greece • Italy
• Portugal • Spain
• France • Switzerland
• Denmark • Norway • Sweden
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We’ll send you breaking news of special bargains for international travel to your favorite Home At First destinations — like the ones in the right-hand column. Notices come as we discover them — approximately monthly — and typically offer savings of 17-30% off full-packages with flights, lodgings, & land transportation.
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Current Travel
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EXPLORE
SPRING-SUMMER-FALL 2021 SALE
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• TRAVEL 30JUL21 – 22OCT21
7-Day Full-Package
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Flights + Lodgings + Transport
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PER PERSON DOUBLE OCCUPANCY
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A Letter from Home…
If you are like us, you have been waiting for this moment to come. The great re-opening of international travel is underway. We expect the re-opening to accelerate throughout the summer. It’s not about the weather. It’s all about the near-miracle of the vaccinations scientists have developed during the last year. The vaccinated are able to safely resume lifestyles that would have been life-threatening over the last 19 months. Vaccinated travelers are becoming welcome in countries around the world. The vaccinated will jumpstart the economic recovery. The vaccinated will lead us into the future, a future with less fear, less disease and death. That future is emerging now. Revitalized international travel is one of its first achievements.
— Ron Fahnestock
Editor
HOW TO BUILD, PRICE, AND BOOK YOUR TRIP —
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