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2018 Tours by QUALITY Tour Transport 2018 tours BY QUALITY will depart Manassas at 6:15 a.m. and Woodbridge at 7:00 tour transport a.m. Return time is approximately QUALITY TOUR TRANSPORT’S IN-HOUSE TRIPS DO NOT The Itinerary FOLLOW THE SAME POLICIES & PROCEDURES AS THE SEPTEMBER 30 - Day 1: NEW YORK CITY BLUEBIRD PROGRAM. CONTACT QUALITY ONLY FOR ANY We will be departing Manassas at 6:15 a.m. Please arrive CONCERNS YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT COMPANY POLICIES. at the Manassas Sr. Center in the lower parking lot of the ONE DAY Excursions Police Station that is nearest the Center. If you park at the PLEASE NOTE THAT REBATES ARE Center you will risk towing of your car. Please arrive 15 SUBJECT TO CHANGES BY THE CASINOS minutes prior to departure so you can park your car and OVERWHICH QUALITY HAS NO CONTROL secure it and have your bags outside, ready to load when 05/04; 07/13, 09/21 the bus arrives. We will be departing Woodbridge at 7:00 HOLLYWOOD CASINO a.m. from the Ferlazzo Building. You will receive a special notice to post in the front window of your car to prevent Charles Town, WV towing. Also be prepared to have your car parked and Cost: $35 pp secured and your b xg outside your car ready to load as soon as the coach arrives. We will be making a From Charles Town Slots to BROADWAY CASINO, 5,032 combination rest stop and an opportunity to purchase a breakfast snack to eat aboard the coach. By Noon we will gaming machines are featured along with 112 table and arrive in New York City to enjoy lunch and a Harlem poker games. There are six restaurants and a food court. You will have four hours and a rebate of $20 to test your Gospel show at BB KING’S. From here we will proceed to luck. Lunch is on your own. We will depart Woodbridge at Pier 83 to board the Circle Line Cruises to a narrated 8:45 a.m. and Manassas at 9:30 a.m. Return time is landmark cruise along the Hudson River. Next stop is dinner at the DALLAS BBQ for a combination chicken and approximately 4:00 p.m. rib dinner with all the trimmings. Our last stop will be in Lyndhurst, NJ and overnight at the QUALITY INN (201) 05/18; 06/15; 08/17 933-9800. NOTE: We will not unpack the bus. Make MD LIVE CASINO sure you leave on your seat a tote bag with your Arundel, MD overnight needs along with a change of clothes. This Cost: $35 pp bag must have a baggage tag attached. You will take these bags/ to the bus and return it to the bus. Located at Arundel Mills Mall, this casino spans twelve acres and includes 4,750 slot machines and electronic OCTOBER 1 -Day 2: MONTREAL table games, acclaimed restaurants, and of course, the Bring your tote with you as you proceed to the Breakfast mall for first class shopping. It is one of the largest gaming, area off the lobby. Be aboard the coach with your tagged retail and entertainment destinations in the country. Come totes ready to depart at 7:00 a.m. for PENN STATION to along to enjoy so much at one destination. You will have BOARD AMTRAK’S ADIRONDACK train for a beautiful four hours and a rebate of $20 to test your luck. We will journey along the Hudson River and upstate New York. depart Manassas at 8:00 a.m. and Woodbridge at 8:45 Our destination is MONTREAL in the Province of Quebec. a.m. Return time is approximately 3:00 p.m. There will be a snack car for lunch on your own. The train is due in Montreal at 7:11 p.m. Our bus will be waiting to take us first to dinner is at the Vieux-Port Steakhouse. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBR 30-- From here we will continue to our overnight lodging at the WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10 TRAVELODGE +1 (514) 874-9090. Your tote as well as BY BUS, BY TRAIN & BY BOAT your bag will be in your room. Keys will either be FRENCH CANADIAN handed out on the bus or in the lobby. DISCOVERY OCTOBER 2 -Day 3: QUBEC CITY MONTREAL-QUEBEC CITY & Breakfast is in the area off the lobby. Leave your bag THE GASPE PENINSULA outside the door for pickup. At 8:30 a.m. be in the lobby to Cost: $2854 Single & $2293 Twin pp greet your guide and depart on a tour of Montreal. We Reservations Open: May 9 will then continue to QUEBEC CITY making a fast food lunch stop at the escort and driver’s discretion. Upon Discover the Fabulous Gaspe Peninsula. Explore arrival we will greet our guide at our hotel to proceed on a Picturesque Quebec City and enjoy the history and tour of Quebec City. Our bags will be dropped off to go to ambiance of Montreal of the French Providence of Quebec. your rooms. At the conclusion of the tour we will return to We begin with an afternoon in New York City to catch a the HOTEL HILTON QUEBEC (1+418-648-6492) to check Broadway play and ends with a night at West Point, but it is in our rooms and proceed to dinner in the hotel dining what is sandwiched between these two events that will room. provide lasting memories. Tour includes 10 breakfast, 3 lunches and 10 dinners as well as all admissions described and all taxes and gratuities including all private guides. We OCTOBER 3 -Day 4: TADOUSSAC OCTOBER 7 - Day 8: RIMOUSKI Buffet breakfast at hotel. Be sure to place your bag outside Breakfast is at the hotel. Be sure to place your bag outside your door before you go down for breakfast. This morning your door before you go down for breakfast. After we will motor to BAIE STE-CATHERINE to board AML breakfast we depart this historic area and follow the south WHALE WATCHING CRUISE. Box lunches will be shore of the peninsula to the community of CARLETON in provided to enjoy during the cruise. Have your camera time for lunch included in the GARDENS OF REDFORD ready to catch one of the giant mammals leaping out of the in the town of GRAND METIS. Designed to harmonize with icy waters and slapping their tails as they come down. Our the gentle hills, these exquisite gardens offer an cruise will terminate in TADOUSSAS where our bus will be exceptional view at every turn. Paths lead you through waiting for us to transport us to the historic HOTEL continuous flower gardens exhibiting over 1000 exotic TADOUSSAC. NOTE: This hotel has no king-bed species. We have a private guided tour scheduled rooms. There are limited rooms with two beds which following lunch. Time will be allowed to visit the gift will be assigned on a first-come, first-serve basis to shop before departing for RIMOUSKI and overnight at the ladies traveling together. Everyone else will be in a HOTEL RIMOUSKI (+1 418-725-5000). Dinner will be at room with one queen-bed in a room. Check in your the hotel. rooms and enjoy dinner at the hotel OCTOBER 8 - Day 9: MONTREAL OCTOBER 4 - Day 5: MATANE Breakfast is at the hotel. Be sure to place your bag outside Breakfast is at the hotel. Be sure to place your bag outside your door before going down to breakfast. After breakfast your door before you go down for breakfast. This morning we depart Rimouski to continue our journey along the we make our way to Saint Siméon where we board a ferry south shore of the St. Lawrence River. We stop in SAINT that will take us across the St. Lawrence River to Rivière- JEAN PORT-JOLI, a small town made famous for its wood du-Loup. Lunch is on your own aboard ferry. We carvers. You have the opportunity to see carvings created continue east entering the breathtaking Gaspé Peninsula by past and present carvers as we tour the MUSEE DES Region. Along this scenic drive you will witness an array of ANCIENS CANADIANS. After lunch (on your own) we unique characteristics found nowhere else in Quebec. Our continue our scenic drive through the St. Lawrence Valley overnight accommodations are in Matane set on the shore to MONTREAL and overnight at the TRAVELODGE for of the majestic St. Lawrence River. Lodging and dinner the night (+1 (514) 874-9090). Dinner is at the Vieux- will be at the RIOTEL HOTEL (+1-418-566-4344). Port Steakhouse. NOTE: We will not unpack the bus tomorrow night. Make sure tomorrow you leave on OCTOBER 5 - Day 6: PERCE your seat a tote bag with your overnight needs along Breakfast is at the hotel. Be sure to place your bag outside with a change of clothes. This bag must have a your door before you go down for breakfast. This morning baggage tag attached. You will take these bags to the we travel Highway 132, one of Canada’s most scenic trails. bus and leave your tote on your bus seat. We’ll follow around the peninsula called “Gaspé” or “Lands End” by the natives and on through the rugged scenery of OCTOBER 9 - Day 9: NEW YORK CITY Forillon National Park where we will stop for the scenery Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before departing the motel for and lunch on your own at the snack bars in the park . As the train Station to board the 10:20 a.m.
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