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Our 3rd Annual New York City Weekend “The Passion Play at Oberammergau” Date: Friday, April 13-15, 2018 $499 p/p do Features: Two nights’ accommodations at the Cambria Hotel. Everyone will be provided with maps and guide books for a fun-filled weekend in the city! If you would like theater tickets we can get those as well BOOK OUR RETAIL TOUR FOR AUGUST just call for pricing OR Tribute to the Divine Miss M” (Bette Midler) GROUPS CAN CHOOSE THE DATE AND Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 $116* PACKAGE THAT WORKS BEST FOR YOUR GROUP! Features: We’re headed to the beautiful Aqua Turf! Kathy Thompson has been singing the hits of Better Midler for more than twenty years on stages around the world. Bette’s Repertoire has something for everyone: Big Band, Swing, Hip-Hop, Country, Ballads, Blues, Munich, Salzburg & Vienna with Oberammergau Dance and “Sophie” jokes for good belly laughs! You’ll be dancing 8 Day Tour from Munich to Vienna-(August 2020) in your seats (just not the aisles)! Lunch include!
With castles, palaces, beautiful scenery, historical sights, and cultural treats, this New York City Have It Your Way Munich, Salzburg and Vienna tour—with Oberammergau—is sure to delight all of your Date: Saturday, April 21, 2018 $60 senses! You'll overnight in Munich, Oberammergau, Salzburg, and Vienna, and you'll Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a museum, also spend time in Innsbruck and Mondsee. enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get great If you love castles and palaces, you’ll enjoy visiting Neuschwanstein Castle in tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice just call for Germany. Built by King Ludwig II, this fairytale castle offers magnificent views of the pricing! Alps and was the inspiration for Walt Disney. Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna offers another treat and glimpse into the life of royalty. Modeled after France's Palace of Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Versailles, you'll receive a private visit and stand in awe as you witness the splendor Date: Saturday, April 28, 2018 $89A/$84C and hear the stories highlighting the lifestyle of the Habsburgs, the royal family who Features: Ferry tickets to Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty. Many ruled Vienna for centuries. Also enjoy a special treat—dinner and a classical music cherish these two institutions as America’s most enduring symbols concert here. of freedom. Tour the Ellis Island Immigration Museum where many of our ancestors first set foot on their new homeland You’ll also enjoy time in Munich, Germany's "Secret Capital," where you'll visit the lively followed by a visit to Lady Liberty, standing tall over New York Marienplatz. Here, observe the famous glockenspiel, which re-creates a 16th-century Harbor since 1886. We will be arriving at approximately 11:00 wedding. In Salzburg, your walking tour includes the magnificent Residenz Square, to Liberty Park, NJ where you will have to go thru security before where some scenes from the Sound of Music movie were filmed, and a visit to Mozart's boarding the ferry. The ferry will first take you to Ellis Island, birthplace, where you’ll see mementos owned by him, such as his childhood violin. where you can enjoy as much time as you like before transferring over to The Statue of Liberty. But that's not all...on this Munich, Salzburg and Vienna tour, Globus has arranged some Please note: THIS TICKET DOES NOT ALLOW ACCESS TO out-of-the-ordinary experiences for you. You’ll cruise along the most scenic section of THE CROWN. the Danube River, and during the cruise, you’ll savor Kaffee und Kuchen (coffee and cake). In the charming, Bavarian village of Oberammergau, enjoy first-class seats to Oberammergau’s famous Passion Play, held every 10 years. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime MAY 2018 experience! NASCAR WEEKEND AT DOVER INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY- All you have to do is grab your camera and get ready for a wonderful vacation! This Date: Friday, May 5-7, 2018 (4 Days/3 Nights) $635 p/p do* vacation, will include tickets for the world-famous Oberammergau Passion Play! Features: Three exciting races and loads of fun on this 4-day Spring NASCAR Monster Mile Weekend! Package includes Many other packages to choose from! motorcoach, lodging, and race tickets! Call Cheryl at 800-730-9091 or email [email protected] Spring is here... "Let’s Travel and enjoy some adventures together! " www.fctours.com Slice of Brooklyn Pizza Tour and more! * Christmas in the Smokies* Date: Saturday, May 5, 2018 $149* Features: We are headed to Brooklyn for a 4 1/2 hour tour that covers pizza and Brooklyn...from one end to the other. Enjoy Pigeon Forge, The Biltmore Mansion, The Billy Graham Library award-winning Neapolitan-style pizza from famous Grimaldi’s and much more! under the Brooklyn Bridge to legendary Sicilian-style pizza at L&B Spumoni Gardens in Bensonhurst. This fun tour includes a 7 Days/6 Nights - December 2019 multimedia sightseeing tour that highlights Brooklyn’s famous neighborhoods, parks, landmarks and famous movie locations (Motorcoach package) from Saturday Night Fever, Goodfellas, The French Connection and more! There is also a stop at Coney Island! This is one tour Day 1—Travel towards Pigeon Forge with an overnight enroute in Maryland… that you will never forget! Day 2—Breakfast included and continue to Pigeon Forge. Upon arrival, check-in New York City Have It Your Way and freshen up for tonight’s dinner and a show. There is no place like the Smoky Date: Saturday, May 12, 2018 $60 Mountains for the holidays, and Country Tonite is sure to create an inspirational Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a holiday experience for all! After the show we continue through Pigeon Forge to see museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit the beautiful Christmas decorations! famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. Call for Day 3 – Enjoy an included breakfast at the hotel prior to departure. Enjoy some pricing! You can also visit the Met or the Museum of Natural free time in Pigeon Forge before Lunch at the Old Mill. After lunch we continue our History! Call our office for details! Christmas adventure for Asheville, NC. Upon arrival, check-in to the hotel, freshen up before tonight’s included dinner at the Deerpark Restaurant on the grounds of Cape May, New Jersey the Biltmore Mansion. At the Deerpark Restaurant you will savor mouth-watering Date: Monday, May 14-17, 2018 $799 p/p do* southern cuisine served buffet-style! This peaceful, natural setting has plenty of Features: Join us for an unforgettable trip to Cape May! For generations rustic charm and sweeping views! Now it’s time to tour the Biltmore Estate that has people have enjoyed the pleasures found only on the Jersey been decorated for Christmas. The house tour take a warm glow during Candlelight Cape, making Cape May County one of the best vacation Christmas Evenings, all while creating a unique holiday experience for all. Enjoy destinations on the east coast. Tour includes luxury hotel the sounds of music as Choirs and Ensembles perform throughout the house. See accommodations, breakfast each morning, 2 dinners, Guided the 55-foot Norway Spruce decorated with 45,000 lights and about 300 luminaries. Tour, 19th-century Physick Estate, Atlantic City Fun, Renault See many Christmas trees, one thousand or point poinsettias, miles and miles of Winery for dinner and tasting, free time at the Washington lights and garland during this holiday inspirational demonstration! Pedestrian Mall. Washington Mall is a lovely shaded outdoor pedestrian mall. It covers three blocks from end to end with Day 4 – Enjoy a wonderful breakfast at the hotel before another visit to the many shops and boutiques of all kinds. It also has many beautiful Biltmore Estate! Have your cameras ready, you will want to take many restaurants and eateries to tempt everyone's palate and pictures today! Today you get to visit the shops, enjoy an included lunch at the pocketbook. Also included on this tour is a wonderful cruise! Village and visit the winery for a complimentary wine tasting! Don’t forget to stroll through the historic cellars. In the afternoon, enjoy a little free time in downtown The Ottawa Tulip Festival! Asheville before continuing with our Christmas Adventure to Charlotte for an Date: Friday, May 18-21, 2018 (4 Days) $759 p/p do* overnight stay! Features: Join us on a wonderful trip to celebrate Springtime in Ottawa on the 151st Birthday of the world’s largest tulip collection. We have Day 5 – Enjoy a wonderful breakfast this morning before departing for the Billy included many other things during our 4 Day Journey. Graham Library and childhood home! The Billy Graham Library is a must see! This Guided Tour including the Royal Canadian Mounted Police 40,000 square-foot experience allows you to discover the life and legacy of Stables, and much more! We have also included a day for you America’s Pastor. It’s designed to reflect Billy Graham’s journey from a humble to explore on your own! Our hotel is in the perfect location farm boy to an ambassador of God’s love! Once done with the tour (tour is at your to enjoy the many museums that Ottawa has to offer, Tour of the leisure), enjoy lunch on your own at the Graham Brothers Dairy Bar featuring Parliament Building, an Ottawa River Cruise, Canada’s oldest mother Graham’s chicken salad, and much more! After lunch we head and largest public market The ByWard Market home to over 600 unique shops, restaurants, and much more all in the heart of Day 6 - After a wonderful breakfast at the hotel and we head towards home with Ottawa – the perfect walking city! Optional evening at the casino! wonderful memories! We will overnight in the DC area.
Passport or Pass Card required. Day 7 - Breakfast included at the hotel, morning activity TBD and early evening arrival back home!
This will truly be a wonderful holiday journey! Immerse yourself in the best of Alaska with Princess Cruise Lines! . Bronx Zoo Date: Saturday, May 19, 2018 $92A/$88C Denali Explorer Cruisetour Features: Join us for a fun wildlife adventure to the Bronx Zoo. Your total zoo experience ticket includes general admission, zoo July 13-July 24, 2019 shuttle one-way, Bengali Express Monorail, Congo World, 11 days/5 ports of call/4 nights on land and more. This is a fun day for the entire family!
Explore the true heart of Alaska on our most popular cruisetour. . NY Botanical Garden Marvel at glaciers, forested islets and diverse marine life on a 7-day Voyage of Date: Saturday, May 19, 2018 $94A/$84C the Glaciers cruise. Venture to the Denali-area via exclusive Features: Join us for a enchanting journey to the Bronx to visit Direct-to-the-Wilderness® rail service and then revel in multiple nights on land at Prin- the 250-acre New York Botanical Garden for a showplace of cess wilderness lodges located near top attractions like breathtaking Denali National Park. Discover the Great Land, from its towering nature for every season! Here you will discover 50 breathtaking mountains and winding rivers to abundant wildlife in all its glory. gardens, native forest, waterfalls, a river, an indoor rain forests See the very best of Alaska with Princess. and so much more!
This includes the cruise, port charges, the taxes and basic trip cancellation insurance. Springtime in Boston! Inside cabins- $3,024.14 per person, double occupancy Dates: Sunday, May 20, 2018 Outside cabins- $3,842.69 per person, double occupancy Features: Enjoy a full day in Boston and choose your itinerary from a Balcony cabins- $4,163.69 per person, double occupancy variety of options! You can start the day off with a visit to the *the above is subject to change/based on cabin availability The above cruise prices do NOT include airfare- this will be additional. New England Aquarium. Enjoy the four-story Giant Ocean Tank, Transportation to/from the airport may be provided at an additional cost. with hundreds of Caribbean reef animals including sea turtles, stingrays, eels and fishes. Don’t miss the northern fur seals and Cruise payment schedule: California sea lions. The aquarium is both fun and educational. 1st deposit of $500 per person deposit is due at time of reservation Next, we’re off to famous Quincy Market. This area is known for 2nd deposit of$500 per person is due by January 10, 2019 its street vendors, street performers, restaurants, unique stores Balance is due by March 10, 2019 and much more! There is something for everyone in this lively Airfare costs will be available by August 2018. We will arrange those for you. marketplace! Finish off the day with a ride on the ducks! They’ll There is a pre-paid meal packages available for your land portion for an additional cost of take you on an informative, historical journey that includes the $309 per person (which includes 4 breakfasts, 1 lunch and 3 dinners). Freedom Trail and ends with a plunge into the Charles River! Fun for everyone! July 13- Fairbanks: Alaska's "Golden Heart City" of Fairbanks is a great introduction to the heart of this unique state. Check in to your hotel and get ready for your adventure. NE Aquarium, Quincy Market & Boston Duck Tour July 14- Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge- A cruise along the Chena River on a Sternwheeler Riverboat is about as authentic as it gets. Later, you'll head for Denali $129A/$124C National Park via a scenic motorcoach trip for your arrival at the first of your two destinations at Denali, the Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge Quincy Market & Boston Duck Tour July 15- Denali Princess Wilderness Lodge -You have a full day to get out into one of $98A/C$91 America's best national parks. This afternoon, a Natural History Tour serves as a wonderful introduction to the animals, plants and geological features found there. New England Aquarium & Quincy Market July 16- Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge (Talkeetna)- The views along the route from $92A/$82C the Denali lodge to our Mt. McKinley Princess Wilderness Lodge aboard our motorcoach are truly sensational. But the main attraction is the 20,310-foot mountain itself, visi-
ble from nearly anywhere on the lodge's property. Quincy Market and Boston Have It Your Way July 17- Whittier- After a morning enjoying the vistas, you'll transfer to the historic town of Tal- $59 keetna to board the exclusive Direct-to-the-Wilderness Rail for the journey to Whittier where your ship the Coral Princess will be waiting! Montreal Holiday Weekend Board the Coral Princess: Dates: Saturday, May 26-28, 2018 (3 Days) $499 p/p do* July 17- Anchorage (Whittier) Alaska Features: Join us for a wonderful, fun trip to Montreal. Enjoy free time to July 18- Hubbard Glacier, Alaska (Scenic Cruising) discover the French inspired culture of Quebec’s cosmopolitan city! July 19- Glacier National Park, Alaska (Scenic Cruising) Notre Dame Basilica, stop at the famous underground city for a little July 20- Skagway, Alaska shopping and browsing, visit Saint Catherine Street, stroll Old July 21- Juneau. Alaska Montreal, perhaps test your luck at the Casino, and much more! July 22- Ketchikan, Alaska This will be our 3rd Annual Trip! Passport or Pass Card required. July 23- At Sea July 24- Vancouver, British Columbia
Call Cheryl at 800-730-9091 or email [email protected] JUNE 2018 Mackinac Island and The Holland Tulip Festival The Beauty of Maine Date: Saturday, June 2, 2018 $149* Features: Join us for a wonderful adventure to Maine. Feast on what Maine is 8 Days/11 meals –May 2019 best known for…Lobster! The Clambake Seafood Restaurant in (Air package) Scarborough sits on Maine’s largest salt water marsh right near Old Orchard Beach so we have allotted time for you to take a stroll after Experience the unique Tulip Festival of Holland, Michigan with stops at the your bountiful lunch. Next, sit back, relax as we head to the quaint Veldheer and Windmill Island Gardens town of Kennebunkport for a guided tour of the town’s history. See
the summer home of George and Barbara Bush, the lovely gardens What is it about an island and vacations? It’s a natural fit on Mackinac Island. and shrines of the Franciscan Monastery, and enjoy free time to You have an Island where the automobile never replaced the horse and browse and shop along the quaint main street ! carriage. You have lodging properties where corporations never replaced family ownership. You have a Revolutionary era Fort where the British couldn’t The Big Apple Zoo Safari permanently replace Americans. You have Fudge Stores where box recipes Dates: Saturday, June 2-3, 2018 $289 p/p do* never replaced our 19th Century recipes. You have a place to leave your routine, Features: BRAND NEW TOUR! Join us for a fun-filled 2 Day trip to see 4 discover the rhythm of waves and horse-clops and a place that getting to is different zoos in New York City! Our 1st stop will be at the Bronx Zoo half the fun. Come alive on this journey through the Great Lakes and Mackinac where you will be surrounded by woods, amazing animals, and Island. The timeless elegance and pioneering spirit of the Midwest. atmosphere that will make you forget you are in the Bronx! Next, we head to the Central Park Zoo where you will have a wild time right in This wonderful trip includes the must see’s of the Henry Ford Museum, the heart of New York City! Overnight accommodations and dinner on explore the Greenfield Village, climb aboard your horse-drawn carriage for an own in New Jersey! Day 2 starts off with a wonderful breakfast island tour, explore quaint Frankenmuth, filled with unique German included at the hotel Then we’re off for an outdoor adventure at the shops. Spend 2 nights at the glorious Victorian-Era resort, The Grand Queens Zoo. 18-acres celebrating amazing animals of the Americas Hotel. Enjoy a guided tour of Chicago’s unique and remarkable landmarks. in their wild habitats and naturalistic settings. Discover Andean bears, Visit a vineyard and sample some local wines near Traverse City and see the bald eagles, bison, puma, parrots, sea lions and more! Our final stop charming Charlevoix “mushroom houses”. will be the Prospect Park Zoo in Brooklyn! This zoo gives you an up-close and personal experience with wildlife! Visit with owls, meet Itinerary and cost will be available soon! Call Cheryl at 800-730-9091 prairie dogs nose-to-nose, otters, wander past deer, dingoes and more!
Yankee Clipper Cruise and Luncheon Newburyport Date: Saturday, June 9, 2018 $159* Features: Join us for a wonderful trip to beautiful Newburyport! Board the Yankee Clipper for a fun cruise experience down the Merrimack River and Newburyport Harbor. The Newburyport Harbor and Great Salt Marsh Ecotours bring 15,000 years of natural history to life, spanning the end of the last ice age to the 21st century. Enjoy lunch at Michael’s Harborside! Lake George Wishing Well Restaurant and Mini Ha Ha Cruise Date: Sunday, June 10, 2018 $119* Features: This wonderful summer day away takes us to beautiful Lake River Cruise- Magical Rhine & Moselle - Amedeus Silver III George! Located a few miles north of the historic Saratoga Springs Race Course, the celebrated Wishing Well Restaurant of Saratoga 10 Days/22 Meals -September 2019 has been home to friends and guests since 1936. With fresh, innovative and a diverse selection of fine wines available by the (Air and Cruise package) glass, The Wishing Well is an elegant, charming place to dine! Next, you will have a little free time before sailing away and traveling back Begins in Amsterdam, Netherlands and sailing through Cologne, Germany , Moselle in time on the Mini HaHa! On this one-hour captain narrated cruise, River, Cochem, Koblenz, Rudesheim, Manneheim, Speyer, Strasbourg, France you will be sailing the crystal clear waters of Lake George, exploring You will disembark in Basel, Switzerland, departing from Zurich. the southern half where historic mansions line the shores below scenic mountains! Itinerary & cost will be available soon! Call Cheryl at 800-730-9091 SPECIALS FOR 2019 and 2020 Vanderbilt Mansion, Luncheon and Benmarl Winery Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018 $139* Tropical Costa Rica Features: We’re headed to the beautiful area of Hyde Park! Our first stop January 26 to February 3, 2019 will be at the Vanderbilt Mansion and Grounds overlooking the Hudson River. Next, we’re off to The Shadows on the Hudson for a 9 days/13 meals (w/Collette)- Call for a complete Itinerary wonderful Luncheon. Shadows on the Hudson is an award-winning waterfront restaurant located in Poughkeepsie, NY perched on a cliff $2999 p/p double occupancy! 40 feet above the Hudson River and just 50 feet from its eastern Special—Book by July 25, 2018 and receive $100 off per person! bank. This prime location with truly grand views of the Mid-Hudson Bridge to the north and miles of open river to the south. Next, we Includes airfare from Bradley! depart for the lush green hills of Marlboro to visit Benmarl Winery overlooking the historic Hudson River Valley. This 37-acre estate lays Highlights to include: claim to the oldest vineyard in America and holds New York Farm San Jose, Coffee Plantation, Guanacaste, Monteverde Cloud Forest, Winery license no.1. Choice of Hanging Bridges, or Zip Lining, Arenal Volcano, Lake Arenal Cruise, Cano Negro Refuge, Zarcero New York City Have It Your Way Date: Saturday, June 16, 2018 $60 Discover the history of coffee in Costa Rica during your visit to the coffee plantation. Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a Enjoy the breathtaking scenery of Arenal Volcano. Spot indigenous wildlife while on a museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit Cano Negro sightseeing cruise. Learn about Costa Rica’s vegetation on a guided walk famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get in the Cloud Forest. Discover the charming town of Zarcero and it’s whimsical topiary great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. garden.
Optional: 3-night Jungle Adventure Post Tour Extension ! Atlantic City Resorts Hotel and Casino Date: Sunday, June 17-20, 2018 (4 Days) $409 p/p do* Features: Join your friends at First Choice Tours for their annual trip to Royal Caribbean 12 Night Southern Caribbean Cruise the Resorts Hotel & Casino for 4 Days/3 Nights! This fun-filled “Anthem of the Seas” trip to Atlantic city is perfect in June. Enjoy the sandy beach, stroll the beautiful boardwalk, shop at the outlets, visit the many Departing from Cape Liberty, NJ casinos, take the jitney out to the marina, and so much more! The bonus is $35 slot play, 3 -$30 Food credit coupons, and 1 show. Feb 3-Feb 15, 2019
Jesus at the Sight & Sound Theatre –Penn Dutch Country Inside- $1,173.04 per person, double occupancy Dates: Friday, June 22-24, 2018 (4 Days) $599 p/p do* Outside- $1,338.04 per person, double occupancy Features: Join us for an unforgettable journey to Pennsylvania Dutch country to Balcony- $1,814.04 per person, double occupancy see the moving and inspirational production of “Jesus” at the Sight (Prices include cruise, taxes, port charges and basic insurance) and Sound Millennium Theatre. We’ll also spend some time at the
American Treasure Tour, a great destination for anyone with a sense Feb 3-Departs Cape Liberty Feb 4-Cruising of fun and a love of Americana! On this tour you will see a collection Feb 5-Cruising of miniature circuses, classic cars, hundreds of automatic music Feb 6- San Juan, Puerto Rico machines (nickelodeons and band organs), as well as hobbyist-built Feb 7- Phillipsburg, St. Maarten model and much more! This tour includes hotel accommodations, Feb 8- St. Johns, Antigua breakfast each morning, dinner each evening, guided tour of the Feb 9- Castries, St. Lucia Amish Farmlands, Soft Pretzel and beverage at Eli’s, Country Feb 10- Bridgetown, Barbados Surprise, Kitchen Kettle Village and the Americana Tour! Feb 11- Basseterre, St. Kitts & Nevis Feb 12- Cruising Feb 13- Cursing “All journeys have secret destinations of which the Feb 14- Cruising Feb 15- Cape Liberty, NJ traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
Will offer transfer R/T transfer to Cape Liberty with 20 or more booked at an additional cost! Otesaga Resort lunch, Erie Canal Cruise, & more! . New York City Have It Your Way Date: Saturday, June 23, 2018 $139* Date: Saturday, December 15, 2018 $60 Features: This popular 2017 tour has returned! Join us for a trip through history Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a on the calm water of the Erie Canal. Enjoy spectacular scenery museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit of New York’s beautiful Mohawk Valley aboard the Lil’ Diamond famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. for a 90-minute captain-narrated cruise of the canal. The tour passes Another Option: Whether you would like to see fireworks, falling through massive guard gates, and past Historic Fort Herkmer snow, and the Rockettes, or a wonderful Broadway Show, we are Church which is one of the oldest surviving churches in New York here for you! We can purchase individual tickets to the biggest State. A common sight along the Plantation Island Wildlife event of the holiday season for you! Whether you need one ticket, Management area are birds such as green and blue herons and the or many tickets, we’re your agent for the best shows on Broadway occasional bald eagle. After this, the Lil’ Diamond will enter Lock #18 and Radio City! $Call at Jacksonburg, one of the last remaining locks operating with all original, 100-year-old equipment. We’ll also stop along the banks of Fly Creek. View the historic water-powered cider mill that has been A Christmas Carol the Musical and Luncheon an iconic attraction for over 150 years. You will taste your way Date: Sunday, December 16, 2018 $169* through the store with samples of cider, apple salsa, homemade Features: New England’s brightest holiday tradition! An original adaptation fudge, and plenty of other goodies. Lunch is included at the beautiful based on Charles Dickens’ classic novella, A CHRISTMAS Otesaga Resort in Cooperstown! CAROL is a musical ghost story following the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge through a series of strange and magical journeys, where Beautiful Gardens of PA & Delaware he ultimately discovers the true spirit of the holiday season. Dates: Friday, June 29-July 1, 2018 (3 Days/2 Nights) $479 p/p do* Featuring dazzling special effects and traditional songs like “God Features: Join us on a delightful trip to the Brandywine Valley of Pennsylvania Rest Ye Merry Gentleman,” “The Boars Head Carol,” and “We with its lush countryside and rambling hills. Our first visit is at a Wish You A Merry Christmas,” this award-winning production was gem - Chanticleer Gardens - to enjoy the views and aromas of created specifically for North Shore Music Theatre and has been a variety of plants. Next we arrive at the hotel located in King of seen by more than one million people since its debut in 1989. Prussia, and just steps from The King of Prussia Mall. Dinner is Lunch is included prior to the show at the Tuscan Kitchen. included tonight. Day 2 we depart for Mt. Cuba, a beautiful botanical garden featuring a 630-acre center in the rolling hills of northern New Year’s Eve Celebration $639 p/p do * Delaware, where you will be delighted with the variety of colors and Dates: Monday, December 31-January 2, 2019 (3 Days) scents. The grounds are the former estate of Mr. & Mrs. Lammot du Features: Many have asked for a New Year’s Eve Package, and we Point Copeland. We have included a wonderful box lunch at Mt. listened! We’re headed to Gettysburg for a fun 3 Days! We have Cuba. Our next visit for the day is at one of the world’s premier included Gettysburg National Battlefield Visitor Center, High Tea horticultural attractions, Longwood Gardens. It’s easy to imagine with General & Mrs. Grant, hors d’oeuvres, dinner buffet, dancing you’re at a giant, royal garden in Europe. Stroll along the many paths and a champagne toast and the view of Gettysburg from the patio through acres of exquisitely maintained gardens featuring 11,000 at the Wyndham Hotel. After an extended breakfast buffet brunch different types of plants. Don’t forget the Conservatory with a lush at the hotel we’re off with our licensed Battlefield Guide for a tour world of exotic flowers, cacti, bromeliads, ferns, bonsai and much of Gettysburg. In the afternoon we’ll visit the Gettysburg Heritage more. Tonight dinner has been included at Longwood Gardens before Museum, before a wonderful dinner with “Abe Lincoln” as our after the Illuminated Fountain Show. After breakfast on Day 3 we depart dinner speaker. On day 3 we will visit the Gettysburg National for New York City, where we will visit the High Line! The High Line is Battlefield Visitor Center for the movie, cyclorama. The Visitor a public park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above the center experience includes an introductory film, the Cyclorama streets on Manhattan’s West Side. It runs from Gansevoort Street in attraction, and the Gettysburg museum. Throughout the 11 the Meatpacking District to West 34th Street, between 10th and 12th exhibit galleries visitors will encounter some of the popular items Avenues. Lunch on own at Chelsea Market, which is an enclosed from the collection (weaponry and uniforms, for example) along urban food court, shopping mall, office building and television with a great deal more. We will head for home with a great start production facility located in the Chelsea neighborhood of the to 2019, and wonderful memories of this New Year’s Eve Party borough of Manhattan! Package!
Boston Red Sox vs. The New York Yankees Dates: Saturday, June 30, 2018 $229* Features: We’re headed to Yankee Stadium for a fun game! This wonderful day at the ballpark includes: Frank’s RedHot Terrace Private Space for our group, 90 minutes of food, draft beer and nonalcoholic beverages starting when gates open. The menu includes Nathan’s hot dogs, burgers, garden salad, inclusive draft beer and Pepsi products! Our seats are located in section 233B. 7:35 pm Game River Grill and River Rose Cruise DECEMBER 2018 Date: Saturday, June 30, 2018 $139* Features: Join us for a wonderful summer trip to the Hudson River. Enjoy a New York City Have It Your Way delicious lunch at the River Grill followed by a 2-hour cruise aboard Date: Saturday, December 1, 2018 $60 the Mississippi-style paddle wheeler, The River Rose where we’ll Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a head south from Newburgh, with a narrated tour highlighting museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit historically significant sites such as Bannerman’s Island, the Catskill famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. Water Aqueduct, the Village of Cold Spring, World’s End and our Another Option: Whether you would like to see fireworks, falling great military academy at West Point. In addition, you will learn snow, and the Rockettes, or a wonderful Broadway Show, fascinating historical information about the many cities and towns on we are here for you! We can purchase individual tickets to both banks of the Hudson and how they participated in the glorious the biggest event of the holiday season for you! Whether you history of the Hudson Valley and our great Nation. need one ticket, or many tickets, we’re your agent for the best shows on Broadway and Radio City! $Call JULY 2018 Boston’s Architecture Cruise, Cheesecake Factory Luncheon Newport Playhouse Buffet Luncheon and Shows and more! $139* Date: Sunday, December 2, 2018 $139* Date: Saturday, July 7, 2018 Features: A Doublewide Texas Christmas In this outrageously funny Features: Join us for a fun summer day in Cambridge. The day starts with a comedy, it’s Christmastime in the newest—and tiniest—town in wonderful luncheon at the Cheesecake factory where you get to Texas. And it’s beginning to look a lot like trouble in Doublewide. choose your entrée and dessert when seated! Next, it’s time for the Not only are the trailer park residents dealing with the stress of the 90-minute cruise offering spectacular views of historic and holiday season, but they’ve just discovered that Doublewide is contemporary architecture along Boston Harbor, the Charles River being doubled-crossed by the County. A fun show in Newport! Locks, and the Charles River basin. Your guide from Boston By Foot will be on the cruise with you and will narrate the landmarks you will Radio City Christmas Spectacular be seeing. You will see and hear about the Marriott’s Custom House, Date: Friday, December 7, 2018 $Call the Prudential Building, and the Hancock Tower, as well as Features: The holidays are always magical when you include The Radio City cutting-edge contemporary design by today’s top architects. These Christmas Spectacular. Once again your friends from First are simply the best waterfront views of Boston and Cambridge! Enjoy Choice Tours are headed to NYC to experience the Radio City a little free time to enjoy Cambridge and the Cambridge Galleria! Christmas Spectacular. This one-of-a-kind celebration is a great way to share some quality time with friends and family. The Newport Playhouse Lobsterfest beautiful Radio City Music Hall will be all decked out, and the Date: Monday, July 9, 2018 $141* Rockettes will shine like never before! Watch the snow fall, fire Features: Attend a performance of “No Tell Motel” – Brandon & Sarah plan a works light up the stage! Showtime TBD. NY HIYW $60 quick, sexy rendezvous at the Bird of Paradise Motel and discover getting what you want isn’t always what you want! A meddling motel New York City Have It Your Way manager with issues, a roll-away cot, guilt and an inconvenient Date: Saturday, December 8, 2018 $60 husband somehow combine for a happy ending! Buffet luncheon Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a (and Lobster!) included ! museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. Winery and Brewery Finger Lakes Another Option: Whether you would like to see fireworks, falling Date: Saturday, July 14-15, 2018 (2 Days) $379 p/p do* snow, and the Rockettes, or a wonderful Broadway Show, Features: Join us for summertime fun in the Finger Lakes! This two-day tour we are here for you! We can purchase individual tickets to features award-winning wines and much more! The Finger Lakes the biggest event of the holiday season for you! Whether you Region in New York encompasses over 9,000 square miles, including need one ticket, or many tickets, we’re your agent for the best the 11 Finger Lakes, part of Lake Ontario and a section of the Erie shows on Broadway and Radio City! Canal. Glaciers carved out the Finger Lakes themselves as well as some of the most beautiful surrounding landscapes, gorges and “Holiday Winter Wishes featuring the Times Square Band waterfalls can be found throughout the region. Our first stop will be Date: Tuesday, December 11, 2018 $116* the Long Point Winery for a tasting of fine wines overlooking the Features: Come spend the day with us as we journey to the beautiful beautiful Cayuga Lake. Next we head to the Hopshire Farm & Aqua Turf in Connecticut and enjoy a plentiful meal in an elegant Brewery to sample some beers from the farm, not a factory. We will atmosphere, then dance or tap your feet to a fabulous band, overnight at the Country Inn & Suites. After breakfast at the hotel, we playing songs with both you and the holidays in mind. will be visiting the Ithaca Farmers Market before heading to the Meal is served family style -Salad, Pasta, Sliced Roast Beef, Lucas Vineyards which is the oldest winery on the Cayuga Trail. Our Sliced Roast Turkey, Potato, Vegetable, Dessert, Coffee, last stop will be at the Knapp Winery and Vineyard where you be able Tea and complimentary glass of beer or wine! to sample 6 wines. We promise this tour will be loads of fun! New York City Have It Your Way “Tribute To America’s Vietnam Veterans” Date: Saturday, July 14, 2018 $60 Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a Date: Monday, November 12, 2018 $116* museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit Features: Bob hope’s life in comedy comes to life once again at the Aqua famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get Turf with this Bob Hope’s comedy comes to life once again with great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. this look-alike & sound-alike tribute to the legendary comedian. Bill Johnson has performed his tribute to the troops as the late, Gloucester Lobster Luncheon Cruise great Bob Hope across the US and South Pacific to Rave Reviews! Dancing in your seats only! Date: Saturday, July 21, 2018 $139* Features: Sail away with us to Gloucester for the luxurious Beauport Radio City Christmas Spectacular Princess Lobster Luncheon Cruise. Gloucester Harbor is Date: Friday, November 16, 2018 $184* breathtaking and the large windows on the cruise are great for Features: This is a spectacular day in the big city! Fireworks, falling viewing the sights along the way. During this brunch cruise, snow, and the Rocketts! 2:00 pm Showtime! We have your jazz music will be playing for your enjoyment or you can enjoy the ticket to the biggest event of the year! We can’t wait to share in the magic of the season with you! A wonderful luncheon is salty sea on the outdoor deck! After the cruise, enjoy some free included at Bubba Gump Shrimp Company prior to the show! time in nearby Rockport!
Hampton Beach or Kittery Outlets New York City Have It Your Way Date: Saturday, July 28, 2018 $62 Date: Saturday, November 17, 2018 $60 We’re headed to New Hampshire for a fun day at the Beach! Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit You can spend the day relaxing, or perhaps shop at the Kittery famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. Outlets. The choice is yours! Radio City Christmas Spectacular or Broadway Show Lighthouse Cruise and DiMillo’s Floating Restaurant Date: Saturday, November 17, 2018 $Call Date: Saturday, July 28, 2018 $139* Features: This is a spectacular day in the big city! Whether you would like Features: Sit back and relax on the luxury coach as you travel to the to see fireworks, falling snow, and the Rockettes, or a wonderful beautiful state of Maine. The first stop is DiMillo’s Floating Broadway Show, we are here for you! We can purchase Restaurant on the waterfront in Portland. Next, we head out for a individual tickets to the biggest event of the holiday season wonderful 90-minute narrated Lighthouse Cruise through busy for you! Whether you need one ticket, or many tickets, we’re your Casco Bay and its innermost island. We’ll see lighthouses, forts, agent for the best shows on Broadway and at Radio City! lobster boats, seals, seabird, and more! Enjoy a little free time to browse downtown Portland before heading home with wonderful Turning Stone Casino $339 p/p do* memories! Don’t forget your camera! Dates: Sunday, November 25-27, 2018 (3 Days/2 Nights) Features: Join us for a fun-filled action-packed trip to Turning Stone Resort Casino! This is a world-class destination featuring a AUGUST 2018 full service resort and casino. It showcases fabulous food, Howe Caverns and Secret Caverns luxurious accommodations, live entertainment, spa services, and Date: Saturday, August 4, 2018 $119 gaming. This fun playground offers round-the-clock gaming Features: Join us for a fun trip to upstate New York to visit two great excitement! Great Bonus: Call for details. Caverns. Our first stop is at Secret Caverns for an informative Penn Dutch Holiday Tour $519 p/p do* guided tour that will take us through this underground haven. You Dates: Friday, November 30-December 2, 2018 (3 Days/2 Nights) will also see the amazing 100-foot underground waterfalls! Next, Features: Join us for our 3rd Annual MAGICAL HOLIDAY experience we’re off to enjoy Grapevine Farms Country Shop, Greenhouse, in Amish Country. This is the perfect tour for repeat travelers Bistro and Wine Cellar. Here you can enjoy a nice lunch on your and first time travelers alike. We have had so much fun the past own. Our final stop will be at Howe Caverns. This journey winds two years and we’re looking forward to another great year in you through limestone corridors, cavernous galleries, under Lancaster! During the holiday season Amish Country is shining massive boulders, to a subterranean riverbed carved over with heartwarming theater productions and you will enjoy two countless millennia. shows. 4nd Street at the Fulton Theatre and The First Noel at Please note: Bring a light jacket and walking shoes – those the American Music Theatre. We have also included a stop at the Pennsylvania Christmas & Gift Show, or Hershey Chocolate caverns are chilly! World, and 2 dinners, and much more! Our hotel accommodations are at the same hotel, a favorite for everyone and steps away from Kitchen Kettle Village! Saratoga Race Track Atlantic City Resorts Hotel and Casino Date: Sunday, August 5, 2018 $84 Date: Sunday October 21-24, 2018 (4 Days) $399 p/p do* Features: The place to be in August is Saratoga Racetrack! This 350-acre Features: Feeling Lucky? Join your friends at First Choice Tours for course is home to the oldest continuous thoroughbred meet in their annual trip to the Resorts Hotel & Casino for 4 Days/3 Nights! This fun-filled trip to Atlantic city is perfect in June. America, and we want to spend the day there with you! You will Enjoy the sandy beach, stroll the beautiful boardwalk, shop at be surrounded by the splendor of a by-gone era! Included is the outlets, visit the many casinos, take the jitney out to luxurious round trip transportation, general admission into the the marina, and so much more! The bonus is $35 slot play, park, and reserved grandstand seating! This is an annual trip 3 -$30 Food credit coupons, and 1 show. and is always fun! Boston Red Sox vs. Toronto Blue Jays Fly to Las Vegas Date: Wednesday, August 8-10, 2018 (3 Days) $599 p/p do* Date: October Date TBD $TBD Features: Let us take you out to the Ballpark! We’re headed to Toronto to see Features: Our Annual Trip to Las Vegas is always exciting! Direct flight from the Red Sox take on the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. This tour to Bradley International Airport on Southwest, hotel accommodations Canada includes overnight accommodations, Breakfast each at the Flamingo Hotel, and hotel and airport transfers in Las Vegas! morning, tickets for Wednesday night and Thursday night’s Date will be available in April! games! You will have plenty of time to enjoy the city of Toronto as well! Passport or Pass Card required. Shop ‘Til You Drop and more! $239 p/p do* Date: Saturday, October 27-28, 2018 (2 Days/1 Night) Lake Sunapee Luncheon Cruise and Fells Estate Features: We’re headed to the King of Prussia Mall in King of Prussia, PA. Date: Saturday, August 11, 2018 $149* The King of Prussia Mall is the largest retail mall on the East Coast Features: Join us for a fun, scenic excursion on the MV Kearsarge Restaurant and features a diverse mix of over 400 stores under one Ship. Come aboard, relax, enjoy the wonderful New Hampshire roof, including Macy’s, Lord & Taylor, and a collection of many of scenery while enjoying a lunch buffet. Settle into your deck chair or the stores you have come to love! The King of Prussia Mall is one ease back at your table and listen as the Captain narrates the of the most iconic malls in the nation. We will offer an optional trip history, lore and points of interest of this beautiful pristine mountain to the Valley Forge Casino Resort in the evening and on Sunday, lake. The MV Kearsarge Restaurant Ship has been sailing the an optional trip to Longwood Gardens with 10 or more! Our hotel waters of Lake Sunapee for over 30 years and is a replica of the accommodations are steps away from the Mall and features an original MV Kearsarge Steamship. deck. Next, we head over to the indoor pool, lounge and restaurant! Fells Estate, listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a preservation project of The Garden Conservancy. NOVEMBER 2018 Boston Christmas Festival Cirque du Soleil “LUZIA“ Date: Saturday, November 3, 2018 $89 Date: Sunday, August 12, 2018 $168 Features: Join us for a wonderful trip to Boston! A festival that features over Feature Join us for a wonderful trip to Boston for “LUCIA” at Suffolk Down in 300 of America’s finest craft artists at the Seaport World Boston! LUZIA takes you to an imaginary Mexico, like a waking Trade Center. Marvel at holiday decorations, a Gingerbread dream, where light quenches the spirit and rain soothes the soul House competition, handcrafted gifts, jewelry and so much with surrealistic series of grand visual surprises and breathtaking more! Enjoy the festival, or Boston at your leisure. The Choice acrobatic performances, LUZIA cleverly brings to the stage multiple is yours! Boston Have It Your Way $59 places, faces and sounds of Mexico taken from both tradition and modernity! Free time at Assembly Row for lunch on own! New York City Have It Your Way Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018 $60 NASCAR TOUR TO MICHIGAN INTERNATION SPEEDWAY Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a Date: Friday, August 10-13, 2018 (4 Days/3 Nights) $720 p/p do* museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit Features: NASCAR visits the Irish Hills of Michigan for an exciting race famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get weekend in August. Package includes motorcoach, lodging, great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. and 2 races. Ask about the optional Pit & Paddock Pass!
Radio City Christmas Spectacular or Broadway Show Little Bit Country/Little Bit Rock n’ Roll with Jimmy Mazz Date: Saturday, November 10, 2018 $Call Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2018 $116* Features: This is a spectacular day in the big city! Whether you would like Features: Jimmy Mazz takes you back to visit great classics by Patsy Cline, to see fireworks, falling snow, and the Rockettes, or a wonderful Hank Williams and Johnny Cash but quickly crosses over into the Broadway Show, we are here for you! We can purchase Rock-N-Roll World of Bobby Darin, Neil Diamond and Billy Joel at individual tickets to the biggest event of the holiday season The Aqua Turf. The impressions of these great performers are a for you! Whether you need one ticket, or many tickets, we’re your tribute to the look, personality and the voices of these great artists! A agent for the best shows on Broadway and at Radio City! delicious luncheon included and yes, you can dance ! Newport Luncheon Train and The Elms Mansion White Mountain Fall Foliage Tour Date: Saturday, August 18, 2018 $149 * Date: Sunday, October 7, 2018 $153* Features: Join us for a fun excursion to Newport, RI! Upon arrival, board Features: Spend an unforgettable day with First Choice Tours as we head the scenic dining car for a scenic luncheon train along the into the magnificent White Mountains for an autumn foliage tour. beautiful Narragansett Bay! Delight in your choice of entrée, Enjoy a fabulous brunch at the beautiful and popular White soup or salad, seasonal side, fresh bread, dessert and more! Mountain Hotel & Resort. Following brunch we’re off for a train ride Next we visit the beautiful Elms Mansion prior to free time at the on the Conway Scenic Railroad. The 21-mile, almost 2-hour Brick Marketplace featuring a variety of boutiques and roundtrip Bartlett Excursion offers a longer and more relaxing train restaurants! A Summer outing to Newport will delight all! ride that takes you over the river and through the woods. Enjoy the passing scenery as you travel through field and woodland, crossing National 9/11 Memorial & Museum, and More the East Branch Saco and Ellis Rivers on the way to Bartlett. After Date: Saturday, August 18, 2018 $159* the ride enjoy time exploring the many shops in the quaint village of Features: Join us for a trip to the National 9/11 Museum. The museum is an North Conway. Our journey home will be over the famed 35-mile Kancamangus Highway, one of New England’s most scenic foliage educational and historical institution honoring the victims of 9/11 trails! Don’t forget your camera! and its continued global significance. The museum displays artifacts associated with the events of 9/11, while presenting stories of loss and recovery. Please note: Security screening prior . Kancamangus Scenic By-Way and Luncheon to entry. This tour includes a professional NYC licensed guide for Date: Thursday, October 11, 2018 $139* a tour of Lower Manhattan, and timed tickets for the National 9/11 Features: Join us for a colorful tour to New Hampshire's Kancamangus Museum. Lunch is included in Lower Manhattan. Scenic Byway, a 34.5-mile section of Route 112 running through Please note: There is walking on this tour. the White Mountain National Forest. Our day will begin with a Add the One World Observatory: $37A/$31C (6-12) wonderful lunch at the Woodstock Inn and Brewery located in West New York City Have It You Way $60 Woodstock, NH. Housed in an original train station, the Woodstock Inn has been voted the best of the White Mountain for the past 8 Thimble Islands Cruise and Chowder Pot Luncheon years! Next, we take off for a beautiful drive along the Date: Friday, August 24, 2018 $152* Kancamangus with narration with a local guide, and stopping along the way to take in the views! Features: Join us for an exciting trip to Connecticut to see the “Thimbles”. Often described as ‘a piece of Maine’s coast that Beauport Princess Jazz Brunch Cruise & Rockport drifted into the Long Island Sound’. Twenty-three of the islands Date: Sunday, October 14, 2018 $139* are large enough to be inhabited, and you will see some of these Features: Journey to the historic Gloucester Harbor with your friends at islands while on your 45-minute cruise. We’ll enjoy lunch at the First Choice Tours! Enjoy extraordinary views of the city’s U.S.S. Chowder Pot III Restaurant prior to the cruise, and stop at Downtown, Rocky Neck, Eastern Point, Ten-Pound Island, Bishop’s Orchard & Farm Market for fresh fruit, and perhaps Stage Fort Park and Hammond Castle. No trip to Gloucester some apple cider donuts! Don’t forget your camera! Is complete without a view from the deck of our elegant ship. It’s a perfect way to enjoy a lazy Sunday! Enjoy the live Jazz Fenway Park Tour, Quincy Market & Duck Tour music from the delightful Jane Potter Trio, while you dine on an Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018 $129A/$119C endless Brunch Buffet of Carved Ham, Eggs Benedict, Virgilio’s Features: Join us for a fun tour to Beantown! Upon arrival, our first stop is Bread, French Toast, Baked Haddock and so much more. A quiet where dreams are made and traditions are celebrated at the Harbor Cruise around Historic Gloucester Harbor makes for a beloved ballpark nestled in the city of Boston, Fenway Park for a wonderful day! After the cruise enjoy free time in Rockport! guided tour! Next, we head over to Quincy Market for lunch and browsing on own! This fantastic day will conclude with a fun and New York City Have It Your Way informative ride on the Boston Ducks! Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018 $60 Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a Chris Stapleton Concert museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit Date: Saturday, August 25, 2018 $169 famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get Features: Join us as we journey to the Meadowbrook Pavilion in beautiful great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. Call for Gilford, NH to see an amazing American singer-songwriter and pricing! guitarist, Chris Stapleton! Born and raised in Kentucky, Chris moved to Nashville to pursue his career as a songwriter, and after Salem Spooktacular that a singer! His music style includes country, southern rock and Date: Saturday, October 20, 2018 $98 bluegrass! Join us for a fantastic night of music from this recipient Features: Join us for a Spooktacular trip to Salem! Two admissions of five Grammy Awards, five Academy of Country Music Awards, Included: The House of Seven Gablea and Cry Innocent! and seven Country Music Association Awards! We have great Don’t worry, we have allowed plenty of free time for your seats in the Pink 3D, Rows 9, 10 and 11 for the 7:00 pm concert. enjoyment, and lunch on own! This tour sells out every year! Salem Have It Your Way available! $79 Bar Harbor and Boothbay Harbor Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island Dates: Sunday, August 26-30, 2018 (5 Days) $1139 p/p do* Date: Sunday, September 23, 2018 $89A$84C Features: Join us as we head to Maine where we’ll learn exactly why it’s Features: Ferry tickets to Ellis Island and The Statue of Liberty. Many known to many as Vacationland! We’ll enjoy Cabbage Island cherish these two institutions as America’s most enduring Clambake with boat transportation, Maine Maritime Museum and symbols of freedom. The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, Kennebec River Cruise, Guided tour of Boothbay Harbor, dinner where many of our ancestors first set foot on their new presentation with Lady in the Red Cloak, Pemaquid Lighthouse homeland, and The Statue of Liberty, standing tall over New and Fisherman’s Museum, The Belfast-Moosehead Railway Train York harbor since 1886. We will be arriving at approximately Ride, Guided Tour of Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor Lobstering 11:00am to Liberty Park, NJ, where you will have to go thru Cruise, guided tour of Pineland Farms and so much more. This security before boarding the ferry. The ferry will first take you to unbelievable journey includes 4 breakfasts and 2 dinners. Ellis Island, where you can enjoy as much time as you would like, before transferring over to The Statue of Liberty. Please note: THIS TICKET DOES NOT ALLOW ACCESS TO SEPTEMBER 2018 THE CROWN! Sugarland Concert Date: Saturday, September 1, 2018 $179 Lake Winnipesaukee Foliage Luncheon Train Features: Calling all Sugarland fans… it’s time to gear up to see one of the Date: Saturday, September 29, 2018 $158* favorites in concert his year! Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush Features: THIS TOUR SELLS OUT EVERY YEAR! This special round-trip have just announced the “Still The Same 2018 Tour”, and we want train starts in Meredith and heads north towards the White to take you there! We have great seats in the Pink 3E Rows, 6, 7 Mountains for the nearly 4-hour ride. This route is only traveled and 8 in the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion at Meadowbrook during the fall foliage season, so sit back in your comfy coach which is an 8,000-seat amphitheater on the shores of beautiful seats and enjoy the fall scenery. We’ll pass Lake Waukewan Lake Winnipesaukee in Gilford, New Hampshire. 7:00 pm Concert and Lake Winona, follow along and over the Pemigewasset River, from Ashland to Plymouth, with station stops along the way! A Steven Martin and Martin Short stop will be made at the Common Man Inn in Plymouth where we Date: Sunday, September 2, 2018 $179 will be served a nice buffet luncheon! On the return a stop is made Features: We’re headed to Tanglewood to see comedy legends Steve at Ashland Station at the gateway to Squam Lake, better known Martin & Martin Short. They have joined forces for their hit show as On Golden Pond. Please note: This tour is not wheelchair “An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life”, Martin & accessible and there is some walking and getting on and off the Short will be joined by Grammy Award winning bluegrass band train on several occasions . Steep Canyon Rangers. Audiences can expect an evening of non-stop laughs as the duo recall their iconic careers, creative OCTOBER 2018 influences and most memorable encounters uniquely presented through a blend of stand-up, musical numbers and conversations . German Octoberfest Luncheon Cruise about their lives in show business! Seats in Section 9 in the Date: Saturday, October 6, 2018 $137* Shed . Features: Journey today with your friends at First Choice Tours to beautiful Lake George. Enjoy a cruise on the Lac Du Saint Sacrement with Hyannis and Martha’s Vineyard authentic German fare and music while taking in the beauty of the Date: Friday, September 7-9, 2018 $589 p/p do* Fall scenic mountains! Enjoy a little free time in downtown Features: Join us for a wonderful journey to the shores of Cape Cod! What a Saratoga! great way to close out your summer than a trip to the Cape. This trip includes a Guided Tour of Hyannis, admission into the John F. . Mt. Washington Cog Train Ride and luncheon Kennedy Museum, a visit to the Whydah Pirate Museum, round Date: Saturday, October 6, 2018 $159* trip high-speed ferry and Guide Escort to the island of Martha’s Features: Journey today with us to the heart of the White Mountains! Our Vineyard and a Sightseeing Tour of Martha’s Vineyard with a local first stop will be the Mountain View Grand Resort for a lunch bus, Guided Tours of Sandwich and Plymouth and a Lobster buffet. Located in the heart of the White Mountains, Mountain Tales Cruise. We’ll overnight for 2 nights at the All Seasons View Grand Resort & Spa is one of America’s truly grand Resort in South Yarmouth. 2 continental breakfasts and 2 dinners hotels. After lunch we’ll head over to board the Cog Railroad! are also included. This scenic train ride to the summit of Mt. Washington, the Northeast’s Highest Peak is sure to leave you with lasting Hampton Beach Seafood Festival memories! On this 3-hour round trip to the top of Mt. Washington, Date: Saturday, September 8, 2018 $82 you will experience a sense of adventure and history. This scenic Features: Join your friends for our annual and “yummy fun day” at the ride allows visitors to take in the spectacular panoramic view, Hampton Beach Seafood Festival! Enjoy fresh, succulent spanning the White Mountains of New Hampshire and beyond! seafood, as well as other local favorite foods! Festivities Don’t forget your camera! include over 50 of the area's top restaurants, 80 arts & crafts vendors, entertainment, activities for kids, and so much more! Lake Placid and Beyond! “Broadway Comes to Connecticut” Date: Monday, September 10-12, 2018 (3 Days/2 Nights) $679 p/p do* Date: Tuesday, September 11, 2018 $116* Features: Well, with the 2018 Winter Olympics just ending in February what Features: The Aqua Turf Club will be filled with the sounds of “The Great better year than this to head to Lake Placid? The first stop will be White Way” as talented performers from CT and NY Theatre at Ausable Chasm – The Grand Canyon of the Adirondacks. scene present an afternoon of Broadway show tunes from both Experience one of the oldest natural attractions in the United classic and current musicals. This wonderful show also includes a States (Est. 1870). Immerse yourself in a primeval Adirondack delightful luncheon! Dancing in your seats only! forest as you stroll past Rainbow Falls, Elephant's Head, Column Rock, Hyde's Cave and the eerie quiet of Mystic Gorge. Descend Boston Red Sox vs. The New York Mets hundreds of feet to walk on natural stone pathways and gaze Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 $139 upon eons of geologic history etched in stone. Next we’re off to Features: Join us for a wonderful afternoon game at Fenway Park to see the High Falls Gorge - The Adirondacks' most breathtaking 30-minute Boston Red Sox vs. New York Mets! Grandstand Section 11 walk! This 22-acre nature park provides safe trail access for all ages, with four splendid Adirondack waterfalls cascading over New York City Have It Your Way rocks into a deep crevice carved out a billion years ago. Our two Date: Saturday, September 15, 2018 $60 night stay is at the Crowne Plaza Resort, Lake Placid, and is Features: Spend the day in the Big Apple at your leisure. Take in a adjacent to the Olympic Center in the heart of the world-famous museum, enjoy lunch at one of the many fine NYC eateries, visit Olympic Village! From the hotel’s vantage point, above the quaint famous landmarks, shop, or see a Broadway Show. We can get international shops and restaurants on Main Street, the views of great tickets for you to a Broadway Show of your choice. Lake Placid’s lakes, Whiteface Mountain, and the High Peaks are breathtaking! After breakfast on Day 2 our local guide will . Bronx Zoo meet us for a full day of Adirondack Mountain touring! We will Date: Sunday, September 16, 2018 $92A/$88C drive past pristine lakes and soaring mountains as we make our Features: Join us for a fun wildlife adventure to the Bronx Zoo. Your way to Blue Mountain Lake and arrive at the Adirondack Museum, total zoo experience ticket includes general admission, zoo with its vast campus featuring displays of 22 modern exhibition shuttle one-way, Bengali Express Monorail, Congo World, galleries and historic buildings! The exhibition tells the unique and more. This is a fun day for the entire family! story of the Adirondacks and its people! Enjoy lush grounds and . NY Botanical Garden sweeping views! Next, and just 20 minutes down the road, is Date: Sunday, September 16, 2018 $94A/$84C Raquette Lake - boasting 99 miles of shoreline and making it the Features: Join us for a enchanting journey to the Bronx to visit largest natural lake in the Adirondacks! Using accolades like the 250-acre New York Botanical Garden for a showplace of “pristine” are not an overstatement. Enjoy lunch on the SS Durant, nature for every season! Here you will discover 50 breathtaking marveling at the gorgeous lake and the mountains that surround gardens, native forest, waterfalls, a river, an indoor rain forests and feed it! Later we will be visiting Great Camp Sagamore, and so much more! which is an extraordinary and historic icon of American Adirondack style. Celebrities, politicians, and world leaders have Cape Anne gathered to dream big, connect with others, and allow ides to take Date: Saturday, September 22, 2018 $129* root. Sagamore is a National Historic Landmark, celebrating the Features: Together we will discover the history of America’s Oldest Seaport work of architect/developer William West Durant. It’s a wilderness while passing by sites of award winning movies like the Perfect estate that was the Adirondack home of the Vanderbilt family from Storm and Manchester-By-The-Sea. Our local expert tour guide 1901-1954. Late afternoon back to Lake Placid, enjoy dinner on will tell us stories highlighted by historical homes, the fishing own! There are many wonderful eateries in the bucolic village! industries oldest landmarks and sites that have inspired some of We get ready to continue touring as we head towards home on the world’s best-known poets, writers and painters! We will Day 3! Lake Placid has hosted two winter Olympics, and is a journey to the Village Green Restaurant as the guide continues magnificent year-round destination. Our first stop will be at the sharing insight about Essex River, antiques, art and ship building Olympic Center! This is where the dramatic 1980 USA Hockey as we travel to downtown Gloucester, threading our way down team's miracle win over Russia played out, and where Eric Hayden historic Prospect Street, then past City Hall and the Cape Ann set 4 Olympic records and 1 world record. Next is the Olympic Ski Museum, then down Main Street, to the Boulevard and up to Jump. You’ve watched them fly and soar, but do you know what it Stage Fort Park, stopping at the Fisherman’s Memorial. After a looks like from the top? You will have a new appreciation of just how 10-minute stop, we will head past Saint Peter’s Square to the amazing these athletes are - and the views from the top are equally Harbor Loop, pausing near the Fitz Henry Lane House and amazing! As we depart, the coach will makes its way to Lake Maritime Gloucester. Later we will pass the entrance to Rocky George. One famous chef grew up here and still calls it home is - Neck, Niles Beach and Eastern Point as we travel the backshore Rachel Ray! You will hear about her life and stop at on our way to Rockport. The guide will leave us in downtown Oscar’s Adirondack Smokehouse – a shop she refers to often on her Rockport, for some leisure time ! show, and where she still shops. You’ll have a tasting and listen to some fun facts about Rachel, and this beautiful area!