| Review our single day tour ideas. Mix and match tours to extend
your trip. Remember we customize each tour to meet your group’s needs.
CELEBRITY KITCHENS COOKING DEMO AND WINTERTHUR
Delaware
At Celebrity Kitchens you will enjoy a unique, fun and social
dining experience. A guest chef will cook tableside for you and with
you. The end result is a delicious lunch, complimentary glass of
wine and recipes to repeat the magic at home. It’s a meal and
a show combined !! You may even be called upon to assist the
chef in the preparation of the meal. While half the group is enjoying lunch
the other half will be at Winterthur Museum, America’s Premier Museum &
Garden. Then the groups will switch.
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Barrels, Robotics, Cows & A Lunch at Suicide Bridge
Embark on a tour to Cambridge, MD located on the Eastern Shore.
Meet your local guide for a narrated tour of this charming town.
Then watch the creation of wooden barrels from local pine logs during a
tour at Brooks Barrel Company, one of the last remaining slack cooperages
in the U.S.
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American Celebration on Parade & Shenandoah Jubilee
Lunch is included en-route at either the Hotel Strasburg or
Wayside Inn in Virginia. Continue onto Shenandoah Valley’s newest attraction
is American Celebration on Parade .
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A Duck Tour & High Tea
Baltimore, Maryland
Enjoy a scenic trolley ride through the Delaware Water Gap--in
the heart of the Pocono Mountains. Depart your area to arrive in
Delaware Water Gap between 10-10:30 a.m.
Enjoy a fully narrated historic sightseeing tour of the local area via
an authentically styled, all weather trolley. Return to the depot
and visit Cody’s Gift Shop where unique and reasonably priced souvenirs
and gifts are available.
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"Wildlife Safari, Cruise, Trolley & 3-D Fun"
Join your friends on a fun safari at the Lake Tobias Wildlife
Park in Halifax. Ride a specially designed “cruiser” across 200 acres of
rolling land where you see herds of wild and exotic animals from around
the world. You will be surprised at how close you come to these animals.
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"The Bizarre & Unusual in Philadelphia & Camden"
Begin with a visit to the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians
of Philadelphia. The Mutter Museum, the legacy of Thomas Dent Mutter, a
retired professor of surgery, is an awe-inspiring place. The Museum's collections
include over 20,000 objects, including fluid-preserved anatomical and pathological
specimens, medical instruments, anatomical and pathological models, items
of memorabilia of famous scientists and physicians, and medical illustrations.
Noteworthy displays include instruments carried in the 1853 Artic Expedition
of Dr. Elisha Kent Kane, a 1949 Emerson iron lung, the medicine chest of
Benjamin Rush, a jaw tumor removed from President Grover Cleveland in 1893,
a collection of 139 skulls, and a plaster cast of the bodies of Chang and
Eng, the original Siamese twins. For those faint of heart, the Museum also
features a medicinal plant garden which Dr. Benjamin Rush (in 1787) urged
the College members to maintain as a natural way to replenish supplies
for their medicine chests. Today, you are welcome to stroll through and
admire four formal beds consisting of herbs used in Rush’s time.
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"Christmas Charm in the Laurel Highlands"
Celebrate the holidays in the Laurel Highlands with your friends.
Upon arrival in southwestern Pennsylvania meet your local guide and enjoy
lunch at a charming country inn. Following lunch, tour the Compass Inn,
a restored 1799 stagecoach stop. Your overnight lodging is at the Mountain
View Inn, where the theme is “A Williamsburg Christmas” featuring live
trees decorated with natural trimmings and marvelous antiques throughout
the Inn. Dinner is included at the inn this evening. Following dinner depart
for Overly Country Christmas. Enjoy a guided driving tour through the lights
display and time to stroll around the grounds….see the nativity scene,
bonfire, hear the Christmas carols and enjoy the gift shop.
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“Secret Gardens & Historic Grounds”
Spring is in the air…and what better way to celebrate than
a walk through a “pleasure garden” designed to illustrate the beauty of
the art of horticulture. Chanticleer Gardens the 35 acre estate of the
late Adolph Rosengarten, Sr., once head of the chemical company Rosengarten
& Sons has left this beautiful estate to be enjoyed by the public.
You will enjoy thousands of bulbs, orchards of flowering trees, native
wildflowers blooming in the woods. A vegetable garden, a cut flower garden
accompanied by espaliered fruit trees.
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“Bundles of Fun”
This tour will enable you to visit local businesses and manufacturers
and sample their products or receive a remembrance gift. You arrive in
Bedford where you will meet your guide before beginning your touring at
Fisher’s Country Store a Mennonite-owned store, where you will be able
to purchase bulk packaged foods, candies and spices, you will receive a
treat before departing. Next you re-board the motor coach and travel to
Tyrone and visit Gardner’s Candy Factory “Home of the Peanut Butter Meltaway”
to receive a peanut butter meltaway as your treat. Your next stop will
be the Oak Spring Winery where “No Wine is Served Before its Time” Learn
about their award-winning wines and the wine making process. Samples will
be offered at the end of the tour and each guest receives a gift.
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Philadelphia: By Land and Sea
Come aboard the Spirit of Philadelphia for a cruise and enjoy
a breathtaking view of Philadelphia’s skyline from a fresh, new perspective.
Cruise past the city’s famous Walt Whitman Bridge and the Thomas H. Kean
New Jersey State Aquarium. Experience nautical history beside the WW II
submarine SS Becuna, the Great White Fleet’s Flagship Olympia, and the
Philadelphia Naval Base and Shipyard. Trace the path of history at Penn’s
Landing, where William Penn first anchored his ship on his voyage to the
New World. Enjoy a delicious freshly prepared buffet, a festive floor show
and music, all while cruising on the Delaware River.
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"Historic Bedford Dine Around"
Bedford County PA
Stimulate your appetite and expand your mind while visiting
Bedford County, PA… Your costumed guide will meet you upon arrival in Bedford
for a progressive “eating” tour that will include visits to several different
restaurants while learning and visiting fun and historic sites in the Bedford
area.
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"A Lighthouse, A Dam and Lunch on the Bay”
Port Deposit and Havre de Grace
Imagine one of the narrowest towns in the world. Come to Port
Deposit, Maryland, and we will show it to you. This unique town with its
distinctive Port Deposit Granite buildings is located between the Susquehanna
River and a 352-foot wall of solid granite—one street wide!
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A Literary Journey:
James A. Michener’s Chesapeake Tour
Meet your local guide in Cambridge, MD and then board the Cambridge
Lady for a narrated cruise based on Michener’s experiences while writing
his novel, Chesapeake.
Dock in Oxford and enjoy lunch at the historic Robert Morris Inn, dating
back to 1710 and one of the oldest historic inns in the United States.
Here author James Michener declared he had the “best crab cakes on the
Eastern Shore.”
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“A Day in the Country”
Enjoy a scenic trolley ride through the Delaware Water Gap--in
the heart of the Pocono Mountains. Depart your area to arrive in
Delaware Water Gap between 10-10:30 a.m.
Enjoy a fully narrated historic sightseeing tour of the local area via
an authentically styled, all weather trolley. Return to the depot
and visit Cody’s Gift Shop where unique and reasonably priced souvenirs
and gifts are available.
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“America’s Heroes”
Somerset County, PA
This moving tour to Somerset County will familiarize you with
the happenings in the news. Upon arrival in Somerset a local step-on
guide will board the coach for the day. The first stop will be the
Flight 93 site. You will view both the temporary Memorial near the crash
site and the Memorial Chapel. Each person on the tour will receive
a pin “Remember the Heroes of Flight 93”.
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“Flavors of Lancaster City”
A great tour with lots of goodies and surprises!
Works great as a “Mystery Tour”
Lancaster, PA
Embark on a culinary journey—all within the City limits—a journey
from Asia to Europe and back again. Savor ethnic and regional delicacies.
Enjoy a narrated driving tour...receive an orientation, a sample and a
tasty gift at an ethnic food market.
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“CROOKS & NOOKS”
LEWISBURG & WILLIAMSPORT, PA
This unique tour is where you will be at the mercy of a crook
dressed in stripes, dragging a ball and chain, who leads a crooked trail
through historic Williamsport & Lewisburg. Upon being “hijacked”
by a convict in Lewisburg, you travel to Williamsport for a driving tour
of Williamsport’s Millionaires’ Row. In the mid 1800’s, when Williamsport
was the lumbering capitol of the world, the city had more millionaires
per capita than any other city! It has been said that the sawmills
put the word “mill” in the word millionaire. The lumber barons built
their ornate Victorian mansions, churches with Tiffany glass works and
hotels along a ten-block area now known as Millionaires’ Row. Tour
one of these historic landmarks! More “convicts” await you
at the Old Jail Center for a unique luncheon tour. Tour the prison
museum and browse through specialty shops in this renovated 19th-century
jail.
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“Coal Cars & Trolley’s”
Scranton, PA
Go down in history! Take a ride in a Lackawanna Coal
Car where you will explore 300 feet beneath the earth as a miner leads
you through the winding caverns of the former Continental Mine’s # 190
Slope. Learn about life and hard coal in a city that once was the
Anthracite capital of the world.
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"Kegs, Corks & A Castle"
Join your friends as you embark on a unique day of touring.
This unforgettable tour will satisfy your palate and your desire to experience
something new!
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“Pubs, Prohibition & Piety”
Take a stroll with a Historic Lancaster Walking Tour guide
to revisit Lancaster at the time of the Prohibition and learn how prohibition
affected life in our fair city. Hear about the Lancaster breweries that
at one time gave Lancaster the title of “Munich of the West”.
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“Patchwork Design, Heritage & Sculpture”
Lancaster’s Heritage Through the Arts
Embark on a guided tour of historic downtown Lancaster to learn
about the history, heritage and the arts. Tour the historic Fulton
Opera House, the oldest continuously performing theater house in the United
States that continues to be Lancaster’s premier performing arts center.
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