WW2 tours

[Btone]

I've always wanted to do a few tours of WW2 battle sites. D-Day and Market Garden being at the top of the list, but open to other tours as well

has anyone done any of these types of tours, and can you recommend any company's

this would be for 2026/27 years

 

[Feek]

I think @SexyGreyFox has done a few of these. Hopefully he'll see this.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I think @SexyGreyFox has done a few of these. Hopefully he'll see this.

I did the Ledgers All Quiet on the Western Front for my 60th and it was amazing but all about WW1.
Ledgers also do WWII tours which I haven't got round to.
The other war stuff is basically visiting places like Berlin, Warsaw, Prague etc also going to Austria and visiting the Eagles Nest and so on and doing my own thing usually on a Hop On Hop Off bus.

 

[Ninco!]

Same, I would be interested to hear peoples views.

Always wanted to go to Stalingrad (Volgograd) sadly, dont think it would be possible nowadays.

Not done any tours, last time was Berlin back in 2019, no tours, just a long weekend to take in the sights. Easy to find the site of Hitlers Bunker etc, also the massive AA towers etc.

I've been meaning to do a northern France and Belgium roadtrip to visit D-Day landings and WW1 battlefields.

 

[Vandle]

Also interested in peoples experiences of this. I visited the Normandy beaches, Pegasus bridge and a few other sites on a family holiday when I was a kid and far too young to realise or understand the significance of it all. Think I was around 10 years old so it completely passed me by. Would like to do it all again someday.

 

[Megahurtz400]

I cycled across The Netherlands a few years ago.

Got the ferry to Harwich, then across to Arnhem.

They've got a really cool museum at the church there, and they also have an Airborne museum in Oosterbeek with LOADS of artifacts such as weapons, uniforms etc. etc.

Airbornemuseum Hartenstein · Utrechtseweg 232, 6862 AZ Oosterbeek, Netherlands

★★★★★ · Museum

maps.app.goo.gl

Like most of that part of Europe, it's SO well connected by trains, if you're in NI you could easily fly into Schipol, get the train into Amsterdam, then work your way across on trains to the East of the country.

Or if the weathers nice cycle, bloody windy though, and when I went it was 33 degrees so not that fun

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Got the ferry to Harwich, then across to Arnhem.

I have a Great Uncle called Jack/John Baskeyfield who got a VC there.
I even got invited to the Premiere of a really bad film they made about him called Baskeyfield and it featured other family members falling over dead being shot.