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America’s Heritage of the East featuring Washington, DC, Williamsburg and New York City

Departure Date: May 20, 2022 America’s Heritage of the East

Tour Gettysburg National Military Park Museum National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center

DAY 1 Arrive in Washington, DC: Your tour begins with an independence. Colonial Williamsburg is the largest living included transfer from Washington Reagan National Airport. history museum in the country and one of America’s most Tonight, meet your tour manager at 6:00 p.m. for a welcome popular attractions. Stroll streets dating back to the 1700s. dinner followed by and illumination tour of DC to see the Converse with residents playing the roles of their ancestors as memorials and monuments bathed in light. Meal: D they go about their daily activities exactly as they did more than 200 years ago. It’s an exciting glimpse into the early days of DAY 2 Washington, DC Memorials and Mount Vernon: A our nation. A traditional Colonial tavern dinner sets the mood local guide joins you for a narrated tour of Washington, DC’s for our stay in historic Williamsburg. Meals: B, D National Mall where you’ll see the FDR, Vietnam and Lincoln Memorials. You’ll also make a stop at the National WWII DAY 5 Edgar Alan Poe, Michie Tavern and Monticello: Begin Memorial, the first national memorial dedicated to all who with a stop at the Edgar Alan Poe Museum in Richmond which served during World War II. No tour of colonial America is houses the world’s largest collection of Poe memorabilia. Then, complete without a stop at Mount Vernon, the expansive estate stop for lunch at historic Michie Tavern which has welcomed of George and Martha Washington. Visit the Ford Orientation travelers for more than 200 years. Crossing the threshold you Center and the Donald W. Reynolds Museum and explore the enter another time as the costumed hostess welcomes you mansion filled with 18th-century treasures. Stroll the gardens of into the past as a “stranger,” an early 18th-century term for a this 45-acre estate and take in the views of the Potomac River traveler. Carry on to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, the from the mansion’s piazza. Meal: B author of the Declaration of Independence. You’ll tour the home and experience a “Day in the Life” of Jefferson through artifacts, DAY 3 Arlington National Cemetery and Jamestown: Begin personal possessions and “mechanical inventions” found the day with a visit to Arlington National Cemetery* and the throughout the home. Meals: B, L John F. Kennedy Memorial. View the Changing of the Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the Women in Military DAY 6 Shenandoah and Harpers Ferry Service Memorial. Depart DC and arrive at Jamestown, the National Historic Park: This morning travel a section of site of America’s first permanent English colony. Explore life at the scenic through Shenandoah National the dawn of the 17th-century inside the palisade of a re-created Park (weather permitting) along the crest of the Blue Ridge colonial fort and discover the world of Pocahontas in the Mountains. At Harpers Ferry National Historic Park board a Powhatan Indian Village. Meal: B shuttle bus to this historic community located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. These picturesque DAY 4 Yorktown and Colonial Williamsburg: Start the streets with quaint shops were the sites of the Gettysburg day at Yorktown and the American Revolution Museum. Here, Campaign and Birth of West in 1863. Later, arrive in the story of the nation’s founding from the colonial period to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, site of the Union victory which many the dawn of the Constitution is told. At Yorktown Battlefield believe to have been the turning point in the U.S. Civil War. learn how George Washington’s forces besieged the British Meal: B army thus ending the Revolutionary War and ensuring 1 Hotel Overnights

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VIRGINIA 2 Yorktown illiamsburg DAY 7 Gettysburg National Military Park: At the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center you begin with the Morgan Freeman-narrated feature film A New Birth Tour Highlights of Freedom. Also, see the restored Cyclorama painting, the ...... Battle of Gettysburg, the largest painting in the country. Then, a licensed Gettysburg guide leads you on an in-depth look at • 14 Meals: 9 breakfasts, 2 lunches and 3 dinners this historic three-day battle. Learn about the “Peach Orchard” • Round trip airport transfers and “Roundtop” while passing through the hallowed ground of • Washington, DC touring including the National WWII, what became the major turning point of the war. Lunch is at the FDR, Vietnam and Lincoln Memorials Dobbin House Tavern, the oldest building in Gettysburg, which • Visit George Washington’s Mount Vernon estate features historic furnishings and costumed wait staff. Later, • Arlington National Cemetery and Changing of the Guard visit the Eisenhower National Historic Site, home of the 34th at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, which welcomed dignitaries • from all over the world. Meals: B, L Visit Jamestown Settlement, Powhatan Indian Village, Yorktown and the Museum of the American Revolution DAY 8 National Constitution Center and Philadelphia: Depart • Experience Colonial Williamsburg and enjoy a Gettysburg for Philadelphia, home to the greatest concentration traditional Tavern dinner of American history in the country. A local guide joins in for a • Visit the Edgar Alan Poe Museum in Richmond tour of the city including Independence National Historical Park • Tour Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello and have lunch at where you will see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall. Michie Tavern Later, you continue to “The Big Apple,” New York City. Meal: B • Travel a portion of scenic Skyline Drive through Shenandoah National Park New York City Touring and Broadway Show: A local DAY 9 • Visit Harpers Ferry National Historic Park guide will lead a panoramic tour covering New York’s uptown • Tour Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and and downtown sites including Central Park, Wall Street, Visitor Center along with the battlefield Chinatown, Broadway, Battery Park and much more. This • afternoon, you pay a stirring visit to the National September 11 Included lunch a Dobbin House Tavern Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center. Here, tribute • Narrated tour of Philadelphia including Independence is paid to those who lost their lives and to those whose heroics Hall and the Liberty Bell brought the nation together. After your farewell dinner, take • Spend two nights in New York City and see your seat at one of Broadway’s top smash-hit shows. Meals: B, D Central Park and Wall Street • Reserved seats to a smash Broadway show Home: Your adventure ends with a group transfer to DAY 10 • $50 in Mayflower Money New York La Guardia Airport for flights out after 12:00 p.m. Meal: B America’s Heritage of the East

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HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS Travelers Protection Plan (TPP) – $200 per person INCLUDED This nonrefundable fee waives all cancellation fees when we are notified of cancellation one day before Days 1 and 2 – Sheraton Pentagon City, Arlington, Virginia the tour departs. If you must leave the tour early due to personal illness, illness or death of a member of your immediate family, TPP guarantees full refund for any unused services after the departure of the tour. Days 3 and 4 – Woodlands Inn, Williamsburg, Virginia Other benefits include medical expenses for illness and injury, emergency transportation, 24 hour hot line, and lost or stolen baggage assistance. Return air transportation is included ONLY if your air tickets were Day 5 – Hampton Inn, Charlottesville, Virginia provided by Mayflower Cruises & Tours. If you purchase the optional Travelers Protection Plan (TPP), you will be refunded all payments, including deposit amount, less the TPP premium amount. Days 6 and 7 – Courtyard by Marriott, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Cancellation Charges Without Traveler’s Protection Plan (TPP) Days 8 and 9 – The Row, New York, New York • 91 days or more Deposit Amount • 90 to 45 days prior 20% of tour cost *Valid U.S. state or federal government-issued photo identification • 44 to 15 day prior 30% of tour cost required for entry to Arlington National Cemetery. • 14 to 1 day prior 40% of tour cost • Day 1 of departure 100% of tour cost or early departure from tour • No refund on unused portions of the tour Per person twin Single based on double room Exclusions: Mayflower Cruises & Tours reserves the right to alter its refund and cancellation policy when 2022 Departure occupancy add a substantial amount of cancellation or postponement of travel is attributable to: conditions resulting from an act of God, natural or man-made disaster, fire, government action, civil disorder, war, hostilities May 20 $4,699 $1,499 between nations, or unavailability of transportation through no of Mayflower Cruises & Tours.

Pricing includes round trip BIS or FAR air, on tour FOR RESERVATIONS OR INFORMATION CONTACT: baggage handling, transfers, Travel Protection Plan and professional tour manager

Rooms for the night before and after the tour are available. Cost for a Jack Jensen room in Arlington is $289 and in New York City is $459, tax included. (701) 880-2273 cell Real ID or passport required to fly within the United States beginning (800) 261-6674 office October 1, 2021. For more details contact a travel specialist.

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