May 2016 Ň Volume 26, No. 5

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*THIS MONTH ONLY - We have tickets on hold exclusively for Concierge Stanton Welch, Artistic Director Connection customers for both of these dates/times in sections 107, 118 and 325. Serenade We are working to get holds in sections Choreography by: George Balanchine 210 and 217 as well. All will be sold as Music by: Peter I. Tchaikovsky first-come, first served. 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A full-service 50% Off: May 26, 28, 2016 at 7:30pm; August 18-21 restaurant, featuring a chef-inspired menu June 3 and June 4, 2016 at 7:30pm; Ticket locations and prices will be available of modern American classics, stocked bar May 29 and June 5, 2016 at 2pm later this month. and craft cocktails is also located within the venue. www.PINSTACKBOWL.com Giselle One hour before the show begins, at the All Music: Adolphe Adam, Choreography By: Access Pre-Show, Children Of All Ages are Concierge Ticket Package - $25 (a $46 Stanton Welch. Capping the 15-16 Season invited to join performers on the show floor! value and is not available online or on is a lavish new production of Giselle, Clown around with the world-renowned location). staged by Stanton Welch, which will be the Ringling Bros. Clown Alley, learn circus • 1 Hour of Bowling and Shoe Rental company’s first new production of this great skills and get autographs from extraordinary • 2 Hours Unlimited Attractions** Includes work in over three decades. circus stars! Rock Climbing, Laser Tag, Bumper Cars, High Ropes Course & Laser Maze. 50% Off Special for June 18th only at IMPORTANT NOTES: Tickets are pulled • 2 Hours Unlimited Non-Prize Video 1:30pm or 25% off: June 9, 11, 17, 18, from the best available seats at the time Games* 2016 at 7:30pm, June 12, 19 at 2pm. of purchase. Deadline to order for AA • 20 Points to Use Toward Video Games For more information, visit Center is (July 25) and FW is (Aug 3). and/or Ticket/Prize Games www.houstonballet.org or for discounted Children 2 and older must have a ticket. Note: These Tickets Cannot Be Used tickets call Pam Perry at 713-535-3258. A $1 service charge will apply to all orders. Toward Birthday or Group Packages. DART around Dallas on D-Link You’ve probably seen the bright magenta- and-yellow buses making their way around Downtown Dallas. Known as D-Link, DART Route 722 connects people to arts, fun, culture and dining, as well as residential and employment destinations. D-Link is Through May 30; 10am - 7pm free, thanks to a partnership between Saturdays, Sundays & Memorial Day Monday DART, the city of Dallas and Downtown Scarborough Renaissance Festival® is 8 weekends of interactive fun for everyone, 16th- Dallas, Inc. century-style set in the days of King Henry VIII! Enjoy full combat armored jousts, Birds of Prey exhibitions, Renaissance entertainment on 21 stages, Mermaid Lagoon, Renaissance The circulator links such downtown rides, games of skill, exquisite crafts, 200 shoppes, artisan destinations as the American Airlines demonstrations, 9 pubs and taverns, and food fit for a King. Center, Klyde Warren Park, Perot Museum of Nature and Science, The Sixth Floor The festival, one of the largest and most popular Renaissance Museum, Dallas Arts District, Main Street festivals in the country, began in 1981 and is located at 2511 hotels and restaurants, Omni Dallas Hotel FM 66 (just off I-35E) in Waxahachie, 30 minutes south of and Kay Bailey Hutchison Convention Dallas/Fort Worth. The “village” of Scarborough is 35 acres Center. set within a 167 acre site and offers one of the largest outdoor “juried” craft shows in the country. Oak Cliff points of interest include the shops and restaurants of the Bishop Contact your concierge for discount admission tickets. Arts District and the Kessler and Texas Adults tickets are only $19 (25% off of gate price) and child tickets are $9 (10% off of gate price), 4 and under are theaters. After 6pm, the route extends FREE. from Convention Center Station to Cedars Station to serve the entertainment district around Gilley's Dallas and South Side on Lamar. AT&T Byron Nelson Championship The entire Four Seasons Resort & Club (4150 N. MacArthur Blvd, Irving, TX) route takes May 15 - 22 approximately The AT&T Byron Nelson celebrates the life and legacy of Mr. Nelson, the tournament 45 minutes. namesake and friend, who passed away in 2006, but has been a part of the tournament While D-Link since it began in 1968. In 1945, Mr. Nelson accomplished an incredible winning streak is undoubtedly that has not been challenged to this day and will likely stand forever. He finished that a tourist and year with 18 victories, including 11 straight, and established a record for the lowest convention scoring average (68.33), which remained untouched for 55 years. During his relatively brief professional career, Mr. Nelson had 54 career victories, including the 1939 U.S. visitor resource, the frequency and route Open, the 1937 and 1942 Masters, and the 1940 and 1945 PGA Championships. also gives employees and residents more options for lunch and after-hours dining. Your concierge is now taking orders for discounted tickets to the 2016 Byron Nelson Classic. Daily grounds tickets give patrons access to tournament grounds, Champion’s See the best of Dallas without traffic or way and the Pavilion. Tickets are $35 (reg. $45). Admission is complimentary for parking hassles. With the free D-link children 13 years and younger. Deadline to order is 5pm on Wednesday, May 11 and shuttle, many of Dallas' hottest destinations tickets will be delivered to your building no later than noon on Friday, May 13. Tickets and entertainment districts are joined are limited and all sales are final. together. D-Link runs from 11am until 11:30pm, Monday through Saturday. Learn Parking: Complimentary parking is located at 3400 N Walton Walker Blvd., Irving, more at DART.org/DLink. TX 75062 (formerly the Red Lot parking for Texas Stadium). Complimentary shuttle service (no ticket required) will transport you to the main entrance of the Championship (Champions Way) and back to the parking lot. Shuttles run continuously from 6:30am Discount Ticket Listing until approximately 90 minutes after the conclusion of play on Thursday and Sunday. We offer discounts to many theater, sporting events, theme parks, and Shuttles will have extended service until 10pm on Friday attractions; however, due to space and Saturday to accommodate those patrons whom will be limitations in our monthly newsletter, we attending the Pavilion After Dark events. There is no shuttle cannot list all of them. You will find an service Monday and Tuesday. Spectators are encouraged to updated discount listing posted to our park at Bryon Nelson Way (Lot 1). website each month. Simply log onto www.texasconciergeconnection.com Public Transportation: Ride DART Orange Line to North and click on the “newsletter” tab at the Lake College Station and a shuttle will take you to the main top of the page. Then scroll down to the entrance of the tournament. hyperlink titled “Discount Tickets” to obtain a copy. Waterpark Season is Here!

Slide the City a cast of friends will take over the park’s facilities. Check Slide the City is a family friendly slip-and-slide promotion duties. NRH20 will create a out the all new water party event. There will be live music, storyline that introduces a new generation of Wet'n'Wild food, drinks, water, and of course the biggest characters, which will be centered on Texas SplashTown slip and slide ever to hit asphalt. lakes and rivers. when it opens on May 7! Conveniently located less than 30 minutes from Slide the City is scheduled to return to Dallas Bounder—Dr. Frogstein’s son—will be the Downtown Houston on IH-45. Contact your this year on June 25. Sliding starts at 9am park’s new hero. He has a pal, Chipper, a concierge for discount tickets, and visit at 3480 Sylvan Avenue, Dallas, 75212 and beaver. They and other characters must wetnwildsplashtown.com. tickets are already on sale for this location contend with Dr. Unfun’s mischievous niece at http://www.slidethecity.com/location/ and nephew, Eb and Flo. Sharkey’s—the Hurricane Harbor dallas/#318. Single Slider Pricing is $13 if name for the concession area—will go away Hurricane Harbor, opening you register online by 5/20, then $15 until to make way for a new proprietor, Al Gator. May 7, is the perfect place 6/17, $18 until 6/24, and $20 day of event to make a splash and cool on 6/25. There are options to add additional Visitors will likely see the rebranding evolve off from the summer sun. passes for a Triple Slider or Ultimate Slider. this summer and in future years with a redesigned entrance, new store signs and Enjoy calm areas where the whole family can splash and This giant waterslide made characters pointing the way to rides. Contact relax together, like the Lazy a big splash in Fort Worth your concierge for discount tickets, and for River—where you can take a leisurely float last summer and will return park info, visit nrh2o.com. along a river that cruises at 3 mph or take again this year as well for another river cruise with a bit more adventure two days at a new location, – Raging Rapids. the Clearfork bridge Schlitterbahn Waterpark & between Hulen Street and Resort Other thrills include speeding down slippery Bryant Irvin Road on July 23-24. The slide will The 2016 Schlitterbahn slides like the totally-enclosed Black Hole be open 9am-7pm both days and will be a bit summer season is or free-falling six stories down Geronimo. smaller this time too, about 1,000 feet. Keep now open and ends on Another top pick for our adventurous guests checking the website for early bird pricing to September 18. Explore is The Tornado, a 60-foot-tall slippery water appear sometime in May as well as regular over seventy acres of funnel with unexpected turns. Contact your pricing for this event. shared family fun, thrilling concierge for discount tickets, and visit adventure, and relaxation! sixflags.com/hurricaneharbortexas. With your ticket purchase you’ll get an entry wristband, a drawstring bag, and a mouth Schlitterbahn Waterpark New Braunfels, guard. All participants are required to slide voted world’s best waterpark 18 years in a Hawaiian Falls with an inflatable tube. They will have some row, is nestled along the beautiful banks of Whether you have family sweet ones for sale in case you forget to the Comal River and features world-famous and friends visiting bring one. When purchasing your ticket you attractions, epic river adventures, kid’s water Texas or live right here will select a 2-hour wave time during which playgrounds, and beautiful spots to relax in the Lone Star State, you can get your slide. and share a picnic – there is truly something Hawaiian Falls is the place to be. With for everyone! Contact your concierge for multiple Dallas and Fort Worth water park NRH20 Family Water Park to discount tickets to this location as well as locations including Garland, The Colony, other Schlitterbahn Waterpark locations. Mansfield, Roanoke, and the newest park get Makeover this Summer White Settlement, there’s a location near you NRH20 Family Water Park Stay the night at Schlitterbahn Resort New no matter what part of North Texas you’re in. in North Richland Hills will Braunfels! Find the perfect River Bend Cabin, be transformed into more Treehaus Suite, Schlitterstein Studio Loft, Just 25 minutes outside of Austin, Hawaiian of a theme park beginning vacation home or hotel room just steps away Falls Pflugerville is a water park-adventure this summer, with colorful from all the fun at Schlitterbahn Waterpark. park combo that offers thrills that just can’t be characters designed to help schlitterbahn.com missed. South of DFW, Hawaiian Falls Waco create a cohesive focus at one of Tarrant caters to central Texans throughout Hillsboro, County’s oldest water parks. Temple, Killeen, and more. Hawaiian Falls Wet’n’Wild Splashtown Waco park is also just minutes from the Current characters Professor Frogstein and Parkwide Multi Million Dollar Transformation popular Magnolia Market at The Silos in his nemesis, Dr. Unfun, will “retire.” New – 80 acres of fun, new look, 3 major new Waco, Texas! Contact your concierge for characters Bounder, twins Eb and Flo, and attractions, more amenities and updated discount tickets, and visit hfalls.com.

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