Holland Tulip Festival 5 Nights / 6 Days

Day One - Arrive to Detroit & Welcome Dinner the beautiful perennial gardens through mid-October. Veldheers is a Arrive to Detroit and meet your motor coach arranged by MARS. must visit for garden and floral enthusiasts! Free evening and dinner Check-in to your local area hotel. Enjoy a welcome dinner at the hotel on own. (Meals: B, L) this evening. (Meals: D) Day Four - Trolley Tour & Horse-Drawn Carriage Ride Day Two - Henry Ford Museum & Dutch Cuisine Dinner Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to checking out. Enjoy free time and Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning prior to checking out. Spend lunch on own in Mackinaw City, a village on the northern tip of the morning at the Henry Ford! With a rich and diverse offering of Michigan’s Lower Peninsula, where the Great Lakes Huron and exhibits, demonstrations, programs and reenactments, The Henry Michigan meet. Mackinac Bridge crosses the Straits of Mackinac to the Ford celebrates yesterday’s traditions as well as today’s innovations. Upper Peninsula. Colonial Michilimackinac is a reconstructed 18th- Five distinct attractions at The Henry Ford captivate and inspire century fort and fur-trading post. Founded in 1889, Old Mackinac visitors of all ages. Spread over more than 90-acres, Greenfield Point Lighthouse has restored quarters and views from the top. Village comes alive with the unforgettable sights, sounds and settings Wilderness State Park includes stretches of Lake Michigan shoreline, of America’s past. Housing one of the largest collections of its kind trails, and campsites. Depart on a Trolley Tour of Mackinaw City. ever assembled, Henry Ford Museum showcases the people and ideas Take the Ferry to Mackinac Island. The five-mile ride across the that have fired our imaginations and changed our lives. At the site Straits of Mackinac takes around 15-20 minutes. As a crossroads where automobile manufacturing as we know it came of age — and between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, the Straits of Mackinac continues to define the state-of-the-art today — the Ford Rouge was once of great strategic importance for the French, British Factory Tour is a firsthand journey into the genius of American and American forces that fought in the Midwest during the 18th manufacturing. Behind the scenes, the Benson Ford Research Center and 19th centuries. Fort Mackinac, located on Mackinac Island, was uses the one-of-a-kind artifacts and resources of The Henry Ford to a stronghold for both the British and Americans, while Fort deepen our understanding of American people, places, and things. Michilimackinac in Mackinaw City was first a French trading post, and And on the bigger-than-big screen, The Henry Ford Giant Screen then a British fort. Both forts are now operated as museums open to Experience presents traditional documentary films. Enjoy lunch on the public. A third fort, Fort Holmes, was built by the British during own at the Henry Ford Museum or at Greenfield Village. Depart for the War of 1812 at the highest point on the island (just one mile north Holland, MI. Check-in to your hotel and enjoy dinner included. Dinner of Main Street). Upon arrival, meet Horse-drawn Carriages to Mission this evening is a Twist on Tradition, a four-course meal putting a spin Point Resort. Check-in to your resort and enjoy free time and dinner on Dutch Cuisine. Each course will be presented by your host offering on own this evening. (Meals: B) insight into their twist on the traditional recipe. (Meals: B, D) Day Five - Carriage Tour of Mackinac Island Day Three - Holland and the Tulip Festival Enjoy breakfast at your leisure, buffet or off the menu at the hotel. Enjoy breakfast at the hotel this morning. Depart and enjoy an inside Enjoy a Narrated Carriage Tour of Mackinac Island. Experience the look at Holland and the Tulip Festival. For over 90 years, millions of history and charm of Mackinac in the most enjoyable and authentic people have gathered to participate in Holland’s Tulip Time Festival. way. Your tour includes the following stops: Surry Hills Carriage Drawing more than 500,000 people annually, Tulip Time offers a nine- Museum, Wings of Mackinac Butterfly Conservatory where you can day experience of our town and its traditions. With over 5 million stroll among hundreds of butterflies dancing and chasing each other tulips blooming throughout the city and hundreds of klompen in this climate-controlled conservatory filled with lush flowers, and dancers, Tulip Time has been heralded as the nation’s Best Flower Arch Rock, view the beautiful natural limestone formation which is Festival, America’s Best Small-Town Festival and even the 2017 – 2018 one of the most photographed spots on the Island, with breathtaking Tulip Festival of the Year! We invite you to join as we embrace views of Lake Huron. Return to the resort and enjoy lunch on own heritage and our town’s unique dance. Enjoy a luncheon show here or we suggest to take a carriage taxi (2 tickets per person featuring the Tulip festival! Depart and explore Dutch Marktplaats included) into town for a delightful afternoon of shopping at quaint then visit Veldheer –Deklomp Farm. It all had begun in 1950 when shops and boutiques and enjoying lunch in one of the many delicious Vern Veldheer planted a couple hundred tulip bulbs as a hobby. Now, offerings located there. Enjoy a farewell dinner included at the hotel. Veldheer's plants around 5 million tulip bulbs each year! In addition (Meals: B, D) to tulips, there are several other imported flowers and perennials for you to enjoy and even purchase for your own garden. Several varieties Day Six - Breakfast & Depart for Home of lilies bloom throughout the spring and summer, and you can enjoy Enjoy breakfast at the hotel prior to checking out. Depart to Detroit airport. (Meals: B)

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