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Now Featuring Our Great Train Escapes Rail Tours! All Aboard...For Rail Adventure! How You See the World Matters COMPACTNEW! SIZE Update SPRING SUMMER First-Class Tours and Cruises at Fabulous Prices! 97 SCENIC DEALS INSIDE Now featuring our Great Train Escapes Rail Tours! All Aboard...for Rail Adventure! How you see the world matters. For the past two decades our overriding mission has been to bring The Alki Tours Difference... joy to the lives of our customers. We have continued to expand and Alki vacations are highly inclusive–many travel expenses are covered in one upfront price. come up with more exciting trips including journeys by train, small ship river cruises and a partnership with Public Television. At-Home Pick-Up In this brochure we are including epic journeys from our sister company On tours with flights, we offer complimentary Great Train Escapes. I love the leisurely pace train travel provides. round trip shuttles from your home in the It is so awesome to experience scenery only accessible by train and to Seattle area to Sea Tac Airport. have the freedom to be as social or exclusive as you desire. On our trips, each new turn of the track brings another heartwarming story Fabulous Hotels Our hotels reflect the region we visit. Historic, or historical tidbit from your charming guides. luxurious, or charming, your accommodations You step into the open air vestibule to taste the sweet mountain air. Claire Nolan will be one of the highlights of your holiday. Before you know it, you’re wrapped in conversation with one, two... President of three new friends. On each of our Great Train adventures, you will Mouth-Watering Meals Alki Tours, GTE Savoring local cuisine is important, so we offer travel by train during the daylight hours. As the evening sun casts & lifelong many included meals as well as freedom to a golden glow on the landscape, you climb off the train–and into a comfy hotel bed. Ahhhh, the serenity. World Traveller discover local dishes on your own. At almost every destination, there’s an opportunity to experience Action-Packed Sightseeing Explore the key attractions, then go beyond to more. From trekking through ancient glaciers to helicopter tours, you’re cramming in more adventure than the Indiana Jones Trilogy. dine with native families, enjoy regional cook- ing classes, and other activities. Over the years, I’ve written lots of articles on “bucket list” trips. I know it’s an over-used term but I can’t help but gush about just Superb Tour Directors & Guides how incredible these trips are. Put them on your list and join us. Tour Directors help to ensure that your trip runs smoothly. Our English-speaking guides are destination residents. They’ll show you customs and hidden gems only a local would know. Claire Nolan Important Spontaneity–The Key to Your Journey We make sure that your travel experience is Message to seamlessly executed, but we’ll also take time to Our Great enjoy an unexpected wildlife sighting or a rare Train Escapes and beautiful sunset. Customers! Refund Guaranteed We offer a 100% refund if you cancel 76 days All included airfare prior to the departure. Good on all overnight pricing listed in tours except cruises and international travel. this brochure is for flights from Seattle Alki Tours is proud to be a partner with Public area. Please call Television and other community organizations! 800-895-2554 for We offer them very exclusive tours you will not find anywhere else–includ- airfare quotes from ing unique, private cruises and special-access events. Ask us about creating your city. a great vacation where a portion of the tour price goes to your group. 2 3 QUICK SEARCH Tour Pages Guide I am in love with cities I’ve never RAIL JOURNEYS OCEAN/RIVER CRUISES been to and people I’ve never met. Colorado Trains 6 Scandinavia 10 Glacier Park 7 Greek Islands 18 Author John Green Rail Canadian Rockies 8 Vietnam & Cambodia 32 Scandinavia 10 Alaska Inside Passage 42 New England Fall Foliage 16 Victoria to San Francisco 43 New Mexico Balloon Fiesta 19 Seattle to Vancouver 44 Smoky Mountains 20 Fly to Vegas/Cruise Home 50 Arizona Trains 21 Rail to Vancouver/Cruise home 51 Machu Picchu 22 Coast Starlight to LA/Cruise 52 Rail Canada 23 Portugal & Spain by Riverboat 53 Jasper, Banff & Lake Louise 30 Portland Rose Festival 34 Columbia Gorge 35 Switzerland 37 Crater Lake 41 Copper Canyon 46 Leavenworth Lighting Festival 48 Alaska Northern Lights & Denali 49 Rail to Vancouver/Cruise home 51 Coast Starlight to LA/Cruise 52 Rail to Chuckanut Manor 54 For more info. on any tour please call 800-895-2554 or visit alkitours.com 4 5 SUMMER 2 0 1 9 SUMMER 2 0 1 9 It’s included... It’s included... Trains across Colorado • Free at home shuttle from your Rail to Glacier Park • Transfers in the Seattle area Seattle area home to SeaTac Airport to King St. Station Fortune-seekers, loggers and dreamers The wheels turn and the train moves slowly • Round-trip air from Seattle to Denver • 2 nights Sleeper accommodations on streamed to Colorado after the discovery of forward as you wave goodbye and your Amtrak’s Empire Builder gold in 1859 and silver in the 1870s. Now you • 4 scenic train rides following historic wonderful rail journey begins. Explore one of can ride those historic routes of the Old West, routes of the Old West: Amtrak’s most legendary and scenic routes • 2 nights hotel accommodations in traveling on trains that remain 100 percent as we board the Empire Builder for our trip Glacier National Park – Royal Gorge Route Railway coal-fired, steam-operated and maintained in east through the soaring mountain ranges • 2 dinners and 2 breakfasts their original condition. – Cumbres & Toltec Scenic of the Big Sky Country. Enjoy dinner in the Railroad through the Rockies diner before nestling in for the night. See the • 1930s vintage jammer joy ride over Wind through breathtaking canyons and – Durango & Silverton Narrow feature film, “Glacier Park” in the lounge car the Going-to-the-Sun Highway remote wilderness in the San Juan National Gauge Railroad in anticipation of tomorrow’s adventure. As we Forest. Journey through the Rockies on the • Cruise on Swiftcurrent Lake leave Whitefish Montana, the train follows the railroad voted one of the “Top Ten Most Excit- – Georgetown Loop Railroad and Flathead River for eighty miles as it skirts the • Fully escorted and narrated so ing Train Journeys in the World” by the Society Devil’s Gate High Bridge southern boundary of Glacier National Park and you won’t miss a thing! of American Travel Writers. You’ll also visit a • Deluxe motorcoach transportation crosses the Continental Divide at Marias Pass, place called “Garden of the Gods” on this tour • Jeep ride up to Pike’s Peak the lowest rail crossing of the Divide in the Where you’ll stay... rich in geologic, American and transportation United States. history. • U.S. Air Force Academy 2 Nights Empire Builder Upon arrival at Glacier Park, our mode of 1 Night Many Glacier Lodge • Garden of the Gods Park Durango & Silverton RR transportation will change to a 1930s vintage 1 Night Glacier Park Lodge • Colorado Train Museum convertible touring bus to view the extraordi- • Denver city tour nary scenery offered on the Going-to-the-Sun The bottom line... Highway. The afternoon is exciting as we • 6 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 6 dinners DATES: July 17-21 OR ascend Logan Pass, surrounded by craggy July 24-28, 2019–5 days • Fully escorted and narrated mountains, glaciers, veil-like waterfalls, lush alpine meadows and wild life. Two nights are PRICE: Starting at $2199 pp/do spent in this glorious park before we board the SINGLE SUPPLEMENT: $625 Where you’ll stay... train to Seattle. 1 Night Denver Available Upgrades: Deluxe Amtrak HURRY! Limited to just 16 passengers! 1 Night Colorado Springs Sleeper with private bathroom–$550 1 Night Alamosa per person 1 Night Durango Prices include airfare from Seattle. 1 Night Grand Junction Please call for prices from your 2 Nights Denver home city. ONLY The bottom line... Starting at $2499 pp/do DATES: June 1-8 OR $2199 pp/do September 14-21, 2019–8 days PRICE: $2499 pp/do SINGLE SUPPLEMENT: $587 Prices include airfare from Seattle. Please call for prices from your home city. 6 7 SUMMER 2 0 1 9 SUMMER 2 0 1 9 It’s included... It’s included... Rail through the • Free at home shuttle from your The Big Apple– • Free round-trip shuttle from your Seattle area home to SeaTac Airport home (Seattle area) to SeaTac Airport Canadian Rockies, • Round-trip airfare New York City • Round trip airfare from Seattle Grizzlies, and sail the • Cruise on Alaska Marine Hwy “My kind’a town” to New York Inside Passage • 7 nights quality hotel Frank Sinatra himself claimed “If you can • 6 nights hotel accommodations to Alaska • Deluxe motorcoach transportation make it there, you’ll make it anywhere”–and • Fully escorted and narrated indeed New York lives up to all expectations. by a licensed NY guide • 6 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners From the moment you see the Manhattan A trip jam-packed with thrills rolls out like this... • Deluxe motorcoach transportation Fly to Calgary, Alberta and overnight. The next • Canadian Rockies including Calgary, Skyline silhouetted against the harbor–you’re day see the highlights of Banff National Park Banff and Jasper Snowcoach trip on hooked; an adrenaline junkie’s paradise. Join • 6 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 2 dinners the Athabasca Glacier Alki Tours on an exciting trip to New York before heading through the Icefields Parkway.
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