2025
Oct. 5 - 9, 2025 Connecticut River Valley $200 deposit pp with reservation
Join us for this 5-day, 4-night trip to the Connecticut River Valley. We'll spend our first night at a Hampton Inn in Parsippany, NJ enjoying a $20 gift card for dinner a Cracker-Barrel Old Country Store for dinner. The next day after breakfast we depart to Olde Mistick Village - outdoor venue with shops, boutiques, eateries in a throwback village setting. Visit Mystic Seaport Museum where you can visit exhibits and historic vessels known for its notable collection of sailing ships and boats of the 19th-century seafaring village. On day three, visit the Connecticut River Museum. After lunch, we will proceed to the 1891 Essex Station for the Essex Steam Train & Riverboat. We will take a journey on the train through the Connecticut River Valley designated by the Nature Conservancy as "one of the last great places on earth." The steam locomotive pulls the vintage coaches through the quintessential New England towns of Deep River and Chester. At Deep River Landing we will be escorted onto the Becky Thatcher Riverboat for a cruise along the Connecticut River passing historic sites including Gillette Castle, Goodspeed Opera House, and the Haddam Swing Bridge. Your cruise will return to Deep River Landing where we will board the steam train for the return trip back to Essex Station. After breakfast on day four, we depart to Old Lyme, CT for admission to the Florence Griswold Museum once a boardinghouse run for impressionist artists who often painted on the walls and doors of the house. That afternoon, we return to the Hampton Inn in Parsippany, NJ. After breakfast the next morning we depart for home with a stop on State College, home of the Pennsylvania State University.
The cost is $1,015 p/p double occupancy, $1,340 single
Nov 17-20 "A Biltmore Christmas" $200 deposit pp with reservation
This four-day holiday trip features three nights at the Hilton Biltmore Park, 3 dinners, candlelight Biltmore House Tour, Antler Village & Historic Lexington Park Shopping District. Includes deluxe motorcoach.
The cost is $1,065 p/p double occupancy, $1,375 single