After having become famous in Liverpool and the rest of the UK, their first visit abroad was to Hamburg in Germany.
They came ashore in Hoek van Holland on August 16th 1960 and travelled all the way through to The Netherlands,
stopped in Oosterbeek and Arnhem before they crossed the border to Germany.
We will visit the sites where they were, sorry to have to mention that the music shop in Arnhem isn't there anymore.
In June 1964 they came back with Jimmie Nicol as their drummer, we all know where Ringo was at the time.
On Friday June 5th they arrived at Schiphol
Airport at 1 pm, did a press conference,
went to their hotel and straight from there
to television studio Treslong for a
TV performance, playbacking 6 songs
with one microphone left open.
The next morning they boarded for a canal trip through Amsterdam with thousands of people wastching, some even couldn't resist diving into the dirty water and swimming to the boat the Beatles were on, the only event the Beatles themselves would ever remember the rest of their lives.
Later that afternoon they were driven to a place called Blokker (now Oosterblokker) where they performed twice, late afternoon and late that evening, both as packages with many artists as 'support acts'.
Nobody had seen them afterwards or knew where they were (back to their hotel and enjoying the Amsterdam night life).
Early next morning they were gone, in all quietness,
in a plane on their way to Asia.
If you book 2 nights in a hotel in Amsterdam, you'll start there the first day and do your own thing, like visiting the Anne Frank House, the hotel the Beatles stayed in in 1964, or the Hilton suite no.702 where John and Yoko spend a couple of days in bed (when vacant, maybe you might have a look inside if you ask at the reception), and the Concertgebouw, where Paul McCartney played in his Wings Tour 1972. (and that became famous in his song 'Rockshow' "at the Concertgebow".
On day 2 Beatles International will take you to Blokker and (if you like) to all former Beatles sites outside of Amsterdam. We might even have time to visit both 'Bridges Too Far', the real one in Arnhem, and the bridge that was used in the movie. But that's going to make it a long day, starting at 09 am when we pick you up at your hotel for a ± 400 miles journey. And it could be 7 pm before you will be back. Just in time for dinner.
We can only take 2 people in our car so it's quite a 'private tour' for you.
The price will be 200 euros for 1, 300 euros for 2 persons, drinks (in the car) and a small lunch included.