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The Paddy Power Dennis Rodman Basketball

 

Join Dennis Rodman in Pyongyang and see Basketball engagement at first hand at the only match of its kind ever to take place in North Korea

Koryo Tours is proud to bring an exclusive offer to a small group of visitors who will travel to North Korea in January next year for one of the biggest media events of the year – the Paddy Power Dennis Rodman Basketball Invitational Event, taking place on the auspicious date of January 8th (DPRK Leader Kim Jong Un’s birthday). This event will be talked about for years and be the centre of a lot of international media coverage. Few people, however, will have the opportnuity to witness the event with their own eyes. This is your chance!

Koryo Tours has an exclusive partnership with the organisers of the event which enables us to offer a limited amount of spaces to our travellers to fly into Pyongyang with the invitational NBA all-stars team that Dennis Rodman is taking with him (the names will be announced soon).

 

This tour is operated entirely by Koryo Tours, It is not a commercial venture by Paddy Power

We’ll have as much contact with the team as possible during the trip and will fly in and out of the country with them as well as staying in the same hotel (Pyongyang’s deluxe Koryo Hotel)

We’ll attend the main event; the match with the DPRK national basketball team. Along with some very senior North Korean politics, people that regular tourists never see. We can’t mention names at this time but we do expect people from the very top to be there, a rare occasion indeed)

This unique tour is open for booking now (see http://koryogroup.com/travel_bookingATour.php for details on how to get yourself on this trip.)

We have a very short time in which to accept applications - The final deadline for completed and confirmed application is Saturday 28th December. Any application made after that date, or any incomplete application, cannot be sent to Pyongyang. Apologies to be so rigid on this date. Space is limited, we have just 12 spots available on this tour that we can offer to our travellers, so if you would like to be there for the most unusual and unique sports event of the year then sign up now!

 

Tour Itinerary

Monday 6th January 13:00 Beijing to Pyongyang flight (90 mins)Thursday 9th January 10:30 Pyongyang to Beijing (90 mins)

 

Tour highlights:

 

  1. Paddy Power Dennis Rodman Basketball Invitational match – this is the main reason for the trip; the once in a lifetime chance to be there when history is made and Rodman’s US team take to the court against the DPRK national team. Also in attendance with us will be an invited audience of Pyongyang’s most senior VIPs, including some (no names mentioned!) so senior that photography will not be permitted at the match (we will have an authorised photographer with us though to take pictures for us that we will distribute afterwards). There has never been an event like this before and will never be something so ground-breaking again. This match will be screened on national North Korean television, making it one of the largest engagement projects ever undertaken in North Korea - and you have the chance to be one of the very few who will always be able to say that you were there!
  2. Interaction with the Basketball team – we will fly in and out of the DPRK with the NBA all-stars team (the names of the players will be released soon) and will stay in the same hotel. While we will not travel around Pyongyang with them some occasions of interaction have been arranged, you’ll have the chance to meet and mingle with the players taking part in this ground-breaking trip! And the organisers are working on opportunities for even more interaction and special opportunities

  3. A percentage of the tour fee will go towards funding theDeafKidsHouse to be built in Pyongyang. It is planned along with a Kindergarten for deaf children, consulting for hearing parents of deaf children, a meeting place for the young deaf community and for learning sign language. This foreign-funded initiative is taking the lead in changing perceptions of these differently abled youth and we are proud to be helping them move forwards in their difficult and responsible work. 

  4. We’ll see some of the highlights of Pyongyang as well, including the newly opened War Museum, a panoramic view over the city from the Juche Tower, the longest journey possible with locals on the Pyongyang Metro, we’ll visit leisure facilities such as the newly opened Munsu Waterpark, a bowling centre and shooting range, we’ll meet the most famous artists in North Korea at the Mansudae Art studio and see how they work, we will eat in the most interesting and famous restaurants in the city too
  5. The tour will be fully guided by the best guides that our local partners have; people we know very well and have developed a great relationship over the years. Koryo Tours staff will also be along on the trip to provide expert information on all aspects of visiting North Korea and to make sure everything goes as planned
  6. There will never be another trip quite like this one; anyone coming along with us will have a story to tell forever more. Not just a basketball match with some famous and senior people in attendance, you will witness history in the making and forever be a part of a small and elite number of people who really were there to see it with their bare eyes

 

 

Basic details of this exclusive experience:

Dates: Monday January 6th – Thursday January 9th

Cost: 6500 EUR per person all inclusive cost

 

This package includes:

  1. Return flights with Air Koryo (economy class) from Beijing to Pyongyang and from Pyongyang to Beijing
  2. The North Korean visa needed for entering and exiting the country, this will be issued by us in Beijing before you arrive to begin the journey
  3. Hotel accommodation in single rooms (no need to share) in Pyongyang’s best hotel, the Koryo Hotel (also where the Basketball team will be staying) – if you travel as a couple then we will discount 200 EUR from each person’s tour fee
  4. Accompaniment on the tour by an experienced Koryo Tours Manager, as well as local Korean Guides (fluent in English)
  5. Transportation within Pyongyang and a dedicated driver for the group
  6. All meals on the tour, drinks with the meals as well
  7. All entry fees to basketball events and sites to be visited along the way
  8. Medical Insurance for the trip
  9. DVD of the trip, still photos from the basketball event, commemorative items unavailable elsewhere
  10. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY this package includes the trip of a lifetime, something you cannot get anywhere else or from anyone else – something to tell the grandkids about when they ask what the most amazing spectacle you have ever witnessed is!

 

Please see our terms and conditions page at http://koryogroup.com/travel_terms.php

 

Please note that the order of events may change at any time and that Koryo Tours cannot offer a guarantee of any events taking place in the DPRK. Everything is advertised according to agreements we have made but the nature of travelling to the DPRK is that last-minute alterations are a possibility. Koryo Tours accepts no liability for any alterations made to any tour program that we offer. Koryo Tours also reserves the right to cancel any person’s participation in this tour at any time

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