Spend a day as a guest of George and Edith Vanderbilt – after your comfortable motorcoach ride to Asheville, enjoy the morning with self-guided audio tour of the majestic Biltmore House, called “America’s Largest Home” set in 8,000 acres in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Inside the home, get a close look at original art by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Albrecht Durer, and John Singer Sargent, including Sargent’s portrait of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in Estate’s rhododendron gardens.  Don’t miss the Otis elevator, the indoor swimming pool or the massive library collection.

After time for lunch, shopping, and exploring the gardens – the roses are not to be missed – board the motorcoach to travel through the Estate to Amherst, for your visit to the Monet & Friends immersive exhibit.  An homage to Claude Monet and the Impressionist painters of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century, this experience explores not only the paintings themselves but the history of the Impressionist movement amid the social and political turbulence of the era. It transports you back to a time when European art was poised to change forever, and immerses you in the Impressionists’ masterworks as they come to life in a rich display of light, color, and sound. Breathtaking paintings are projected on an enormous scale with vivid detail to bring back the bold brushstrokes of Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, Cézanne, and more.