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2019 ONE-DAY & MULTI-DAY TOURS MARTZTOURS.COM
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JANUARY
26 Broadway: “King Kong” 1-Day.............................................................3
FEBRUARY
16 Pittsburgh Penguins Weekend 2-Day.............................................27
MARCH
2 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
3 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
4 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
5 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
6 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
7 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
8 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
9 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
10 Philadelphia Flower Show 1-Day...................................................... 19
30 Broadway: “Come from Away” 1-Day................................................3
30 Broadway: “Head over Heels” 1-Day.................................................3
APRIL
6 Hollywood Casino & Tanger Outlets 1-Day.................................... 11
12 Washington, DC Cherry Blossom Festival 3-Day........................ 30
13 Sight & Sound Dinner Theatre (“Jesus”) 1-Day............................. 21
20 9/11 Memorial Museum & Circle Line Cruise, NYC 1-Day........... 15
MAY
4 Ellis Island & Liberty Island 1-Day.......................................................8
5 Connecticut Casino Fun 3-Day........................................................ 24
11 American Girl Place 1-Day.....................................................................1
11 Baltimore Inner Harbor & National Aquarium 1-Day.....................2
18 Cape May, NJ ‘Independent’ 1-Day...................................................4
18 Ithaca Wine & Waterfalls 1-Day......................................................... 12
18 Peddlers Village Strawberry Festival 1-Day................................... 18
25 Broadway: “Tootsie” 1-Day...................................................................3
25 Intrepid Museum & Fleet Week 1-Day.............................................. 11
JUNE
1 Adventure Aquarium & Children’s Garden 1-Day...........................1
1 Broadway: “Cher” 1-Day........................................................................3
1 Broadway: “King Kong” 1-Day.............................................................3
8 Catskills Dome Train & Tioga Downs Casino 1-Day......................4
15 Gulliver’s Gate, NYC 1-Day................................................................. 10
15 Washington, DC National Zoo 1-Day.............................................. 22
23 Cape Cod Cruising & Newport 4-Day............................................ 23
28 Mount Nittany Wine Trail 1-Day......................................................... 14
29 Dorflinger Glass & Stourbridge Train Ride 1- Day..........................8
29 PA Grand Canyon & “Hiawatha” River Cruise 1-Day....................17
29 Sight & Sound Dinner Theatre (“Jesus”) 1-Day............................. 21
JULY
6 Ellis Island & Liberty Island 1-Day.......................................................8
6 Thousand Islands & Singer Castle 1-Day....................................... 21
10 Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame 1-Day.....................................6
13 Coney Island 1-Day.................................................................................6
13 River, Rails and Trails 1-Day................................................................ 19
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13 9/11 Memorial Museum & Circle Line Cruise, NYC 1-Day........... 15
15 Rhode Island Food, Flavors & Fun 4-Day......................................27
17 Seaside Heights, NJ ‘Independent’ 1-Day.................................... 20
20 Baltimore Inner Harbor & National Aquarium 1-Day.....................2
20 Harrisburg Brewfest 1-Day................................................................. 10
27 Bronx Zoo 1-Day......................................................................................3
27 King of Prussia Mall 1-Day.................................................................. 12
AUGUST
3 Coney Island 1-Day.................................................................................6
10 9/11 Memorial Museum & Freedom Tower, NYC 1-Day............... 16
14 Ocean City, NJ ‘Independent’ 1-Day................................................ 16
16 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame “Woodstock” 3-Day............................. 28
17 Ellis Island & Liberty Island 1-Day.......................................................8
22 Norfolk Jazz Festival 3-Day.............................................................. 25
23 “Tall Ships Erie” Festival & “I Love Lucy” 3-Day.......................... 29
24 Bronx Zoo 1-Day......................................................................................3
24 New York State Fair 1-Day.................................................................. 15
26 Ocean City, MD ‘Independent’ 5-Day............................................ 26
31 Baltimore Inner Harbor ‘Independent’ 1-Day..................................2
SEPTEMBER
2 Virginia Beach ‘Independent’ 5-Day ............................................. 30
6 Hampton Beach, NH Seafood Festival 3-Day............................. 24
7 Catskills Dome Train & Tioga Downs Casino 1-Day......................4
7 Sight & Sound Dinner Theatre (“Jesus”) 1-Day............................. 21
8 Maine Moose, Lakes & Mountains 5-Day..................................... 25
14 Bronx Zoo 1-Day......................................................................................3
14 Corning Glass Center & Rockwell Museum 1-Day......................... 7
21 Baltimore Inner Harbor & National Aquarium 1-Day.....................2
21 Feast of San Gennaro, NYC 1-Day.....................................................9
28 Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament 1-Day................................ 13
28 Seneca Lake Wine Trail 1-Day.......................................................... 20
OCTOBER
5 PA Grand Canyon Fall Foliage 1-Day.............................................. 18
11 Salem & Providence 3-Day............................................................... 28
12 Catskills Dome Train & Oktoberfest 1-Day.......................................5
12 Peddlers Village OctoberFEAST 1-Day........................................... 18
19 Hollywood Casino & Tanger Outlets 1-Day.................................... 11
19 9/11 Memorial Museum & Circle Line Cruise, NYC 1-Day........... 15
26 Gettysburg Ghosts Tour 1-Day............................................................9
NOVEMBER
2 Peddlers Village Apple Festival 1-Day............................................ 18
9 Koziar’s Christmas Village 1-Day...................................................... 13
16 Sight & Sound Dinner Theatre (“Miracle of Christmas”) 1-Day...... 21
17 NYC Food, Flavors & Neighborhoods 2-Day............................... 26
23 King of Prussia Holiday Shopping 1-Day........................................ 12
28 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, NYC 1-Day.............................. 13
30 PA Christmas & Gift Show 1-Day........................................................17
DECEMBER
7 Dickens of a Christmas Festival – Wellsboro 1-Day...................... 7
13 Mifflinburg Christkindl Market 1-Day................................................ 14
30 Boston Pops New Year’s Eve Celebration 3-Day....................... 23
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THANK YOU!
Thank you for your patronage, and thanks for making the
Martz Sightseeing & Special Events tour program the success
that it is. We are grateful, too, for the feedback and the
suggestions we have received from so many of you. Your input
helps us to update and enhance our tour agenda according to
your wishes.
That’s why you’ll see many new 1-day and multi-day tours
in this booklet. We’ve added Gulliver’s Gate in New York
City, the Harrisburg Brewfest, Wine-Tasting and Waterfalls in
Ithaca, Seaside Heights in New Jersey, and the Washington
National Zoo to our day trips … and an expanded multi-day
vacation roster now includes two Virginia delights (one is the
Newport Jazz Festival), the Boston Pops for New Year’s Eve,
New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach Seafood Festival, Maine,
New York City’s ‘neighborhoods’, Cleveland’s Rock ‘N Roll Hall
of Fame to celebrate Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary, Rhode
Island, and Erie to see the Tall Ships!
The Martz Group, founded in 1908, is a 5th generation,
family-owned-and-operated transportation company with
headquarters in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The mission of
the Martz Group is to provide safe, reliable and courteous
service at an affordable price, and Martz has stayed true to
this mission, vision, and community for over a century. The
services offered have continuously evolved for the last 111
years, providing services in 7 states: Pennsylvania, New York,
New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, Washington D.C., and Florida.
Now, if you think that ours is a success story, please give the
credit to yourself and to the many generations of Northeast
Pennsylvanians who made that success possible. We do! We
shall never forget that we have traveled far because of the
faithful customers who have traveled near and far with us over
the years. We are on this wonderful ride together. We may do
the driving, but we are driven by our dedication to you and
your complete satisfaction.
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One-Day
Sightseeing
ADVENTURE AQUARIUM & CHILDREN’S GARDEN
June 1 ($87) Camden’s Adventure Aquarium is a lair
for the rare – like the blue oyster (only one in a million
American lobsters flashes a hue that is blue) and the Great
Hammerhead Shark (Adventure is the only U. S. aquarium
to feature this marine monster). There are many special
specimens among the 8500 aquatic and land species that
reside in Camden’s 2 million gallons of water and realistic
replications of natural habitats, and there are lots of
interactive opportunities to see them up close in Penguin
Park, Hippo Haven and other themed exhibits. This
year’s tour adds the pure delight of the 4-acre Camden
Children’s Garden, next to the Aquarium. The Garden
offers horticultural experiences, creative play, and unique
amusements for children of all ages. Includes Admission to
the Aquarium, a family film in the Aquarium’s 3D Theater,
and both the Arrow Train Ride and the Garden Carousel in
Children’s Garden.
AMERICAN GIRL PLACE
May 11 ($103) What matters
more to American Girl Place than
the dolls that dwell there? The
children who love and take care
of them. That’s why everything
there – the books, the interactive experiences, the studio
where children can develop their own designs, the
‘hospital’ for doll repairs, and, of course, the dolls and all
their accessories – is focused on the cultivation of a child’s
character. The books create characters who serve as
role models for meeting life’s challenges; the accessories
(hair styles, skin colors, apparel and even life-situation
requirements like hearing aids and crutches) help children
to reflect and respect their individuality; and the dolls
accentuate the kind of love that contributes to a healthy
mind-set and the bonds of affection between mother and
child. Bring your own doll, or adopt a new one at American
Girl Place in New York City’s Rockefeller Plaza. Includes
Lunch at American Girl Café.
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BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR
& NATIONAL AQUARIUM
May 11, July 20, Sept. 21 ($110) Baltimore Inner Harbor’s
National Aquarium is like a high-rise for animals. Only, the
‘apartments’ are huge, glass-enclosed natural habitats
for the flying, floating, crawling, slithering and swimming
inhabitants – almost 20,000 ‘tenants’ and more than
660 species in all! Some, like the simian residents, are
real ‘swingers’ – and others, like the giant tortoises, are
often too shy to come out of their shell. Some – like the
crocodiles, sharks, and piranha – are armed to the teeth
(and, of course, with their teeth). Others, like the denizens
of Dolphin Discovery, are engagingly gentle and cordial.
Some, like the birds of Amazon River Valley, are ‘frequent
flyers’ – and others, like the sloths of Tropical Rain Forest,
just like to ‘hang around’. Visit them for the time of your
life in 11 ecologically accurate themed environments.
Includes Aquarium Admission and free time to explore the
Inner Harbor.
BALTIMORE INNER HARBOR ‘INDEPENDENT’
Aug. 31 ($70) The British tried to invade Baltimore’s Inner
Harbor in 1812. If they had waited 207 years, there would
have been so much more to see! But an invasion doesn’t
have to be the occasion to sightsee in one of America’s
most historic and ‘happening’ harbors. This independent
excursion gives you the freedom to explore the Inner
Harbor on your own. There are ships to board, a lighthouse
to inspect, museums of history and art, and myriad shops
and restaurants in Harborplace and in the Gallery. You
can tour the National Aquarium, hug the skyline from the
Observation Deck of Baltimore’s World Trade Center, ride
a water taxi to Fort McHenry, or (believe it or not) suspend
all belief at Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Includes Round Trip
Transportation only.
BLOOMSBURG FAIR
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Date to be announced ($51) It’s back! Many of you asked
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us to put the Bloomsburg Fair on our travel schedule again
in 2019, and we have. Check with us a little later in the year
for the date, but rest assured that come September we’ll
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be ready to chauffeur you to this 164-year-old event. You’ll
be pleased to know that the Fair is bigger and better than
ever! Bloomsburg raises the ‘woof’ with dog shows, ‘horses
around’ with equestrian competition, and ‘steps on the gas’
with car races and tractor pulls. You can apprise home-made
pies, browse where antique plows and other old-fashioned
farm equipment provide a machine mural of rural life in the
old days, see the rafts of crafts in the Arts & Crafts Building,
and show up when the show’s on and the stars show off with
free entertainment on the bandshell. Thanks for the request!
Includes Round Trip Transportation only.
BROADWAY SHOWS
The Martz ‘Stage’ Coaches are revved up for a new
season of Broadway Matinee Excursions. These are the
same vehicles that our patrons have come to admire for
ultramodern comfort and safety, but when it comes to
Broadway the goal is the glow from each row of show
marquees in the Theatre District. Here’s what we have on
tap for 2019 as this book goes to press:
“King Kong” - Jan. 26 ($204), June 1 ($211}
“Come from Away” – March 30 ($154)
“Head over Heels” –March 30 ($154)
“Tootsie” - May 25, 2019 ($185)
“Cher” - June 1 ($155)
“Phantom of the Opera” – tba for October 2019
“Wicked” – Oct. 26 ($158)
We add more dates and new shows throughout the year.
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BRONX ZOO
July 27, Aug. 24, Sept. 14
($83) Tarzan would probably
feel at home here in the
265-acre parkland that
encompasses the Bronx
Zoo, America’s biggest zoo.
Granted, he and his family
aren’t city slickers, but the
Bronx Zoo is surrounded
by woods and meadows,
so much so that you could
easily forget you’re in a
borough of New York City! If
Tarzan were actually there,
you might find him and Jane in the African Plains or on
Tiger Mountain. Perhaps you would bump into Boy in the
Children’s Zoo … and Cheetah most likely would monkey
around in Congo Gorilla Forest or in Baboon Reserve.
There are birds, butterflies, elephants, red pandas, giraffes,
big bears, lions, and themed areas galore – and you don’t
have to swing on vines to see them. You can opt for, on
your own, an overhead or terrain transport to your favorite
wild habitats. Includes Zoo Admission.
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CAPE MAY, NJ ‘INDEPENDENT’
May 18 ($81) You are the king or queen of your castle when
you sculpt one in the sand of Victorian Cape May, New
Jersey’s exquisite seashore. You’re the monarch of the
excursion, too, because it’s an independent trip, and Your
Majesty is free to enjoy it any way you wish. You can reign
supreme with dream visits to lighthouses, bird sanctuaries
(Cape May is famous for migratory gatherings) … cruises to
where the whales spray and the dolphins play … a review
of your bestial subjects at the Cape May Zoo … or, to crown
your day, a shop-hop to the Washington Street Mall. You
might even be ‘throne’ a spooky surprise if you devise
a haunt-hunt at one of Cape May’s National Landmark
Victorian Mansions. The Cape May Trolley is the royal
carriage that can get you from place to place. Includes
Round Trip Transportation only.
CATSKILLS DOME TRAIN &
TIOGA DOWNS CASINO
June 8, Sept. 7 ($128) Rip Van Winkle would have a twinkle
in his eye if he could see the ‘new wrinkle’ in the Van
Winkle legacy. The Delaware & Ulster Railroad honored
Washington Irving’s Catskills character by naming their
domed streamliner after him. The Rip Van Winkle Flyer pays
tribute to the Catskills codger and entertains his fiction
followers with magnificent mountain meandering. You’ll
see a sylvan paradise in full ‘trek-nicolor’ – vast vistas that
fill the dome and the huge windows of the dining car as
you revel in the awesome ups and downs of the Catskills’
forested folds. Lunch is included on the train – and so is a
tremendous time at the new Tioga Downs Casino Resort.
This deluxe destination in Nichols, NY is so ahead of its
time in resort amenities that it’s a thrill just to be there. That
goes for the gaming, too, with 950 slots, 32 table games –
and some new ideas that would make even a gaming guru
grin with delight. All aboard for an old-fashioned train ride
and lots of new-fangled fun!
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CATSKILLS DOME TRAIN & OKTOBERFEST
Oct. 12 ($142) May we give you a lift? Hunter Mountain’s
lofty lift takes you to the hefty height of 3200 feet and
the soaring summit of the Catskills’ second-highest peak.
It’s called the Skylift – and with good reason, because it
takes you to a heavenly site from which you can see the
Berkshires of Massachusetts and the Green Mountains
of Vermont on a clear day! We head for Hunter when the
resort is home to what USA Today recently hailed as one
of the “10 Best Oktoberfests in the Nation.” There’s ‘oom-
pah’ entertainment all over the place, and lots of Bavarian
‘vittles’ that you’re free to devour on your own. The meal
that’s included is your luscious Lunch on the Catskills
Dome Train that wends its way through the Northern
Catskills to Hunter Mountain. This domed streamliner is
called the Rip Van Winkle Flyer – and that’s an especially-
apt appellation this year, because Washington Irving
introduced Van Winkle to American Literature exactly 200
years ago! Includes the train ride, lunch on the train, and
the Skyride.
CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR –
RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL
What’s new? Something that’s old! It’s
the annual Christmas Spectacular in
midtown Manhattan. Yes, it’s old, but
in the sense of tradition (it premiered
with the Rockettes in 1933). Yet, it’s always new in the way
it’s presented and in how it celebrates the yuletide season
at Radio City Music Hall Entertainment Center. The theme of
the show is new every year, along with new precision dance
routines featuring the fabulous Rockettes, new human and
animatronic performers in astounding musical vignettes –
and, especially this year, new state-of-the-art technology
that immerses the audience even more than before in
the spell-binding action that unfolds on the stage. Secular
and sacred scenes and storylines amaze with magnificent
choreography, stupendous sets, incredible costumes, and
unbelievably realistic special effects. Early reservations are
advised. Visit us online at www.martztours.com in July
for dates.
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CONEY ISLAND
July 13, Aug. 3 ($60) Part of Coney Island is literally ‘on
a roll’ – Nathan’s Hotdogs, still a Coney Island staple and
icon, and still in the same location where the wiener became
a winner back in 1916. There’s a lot of American tradition
like that in this Brooklyn playground – Luna Park and its
historic “Cyclone” roller coaster … Coney Island USA and its
innovative exhibitions and performances celebrating P. T.
Barnum, circus sideshows, vaudeville, and other luminaries
and legends from bygone eras … and, of course, the 3 miles
of sandy beach that made Coney Island the favorite resort
of New York City’s wealthy for much of the 19th Century.
There’s a lot more to experience here on your own, too:
arcades, thrilling and chilling rides and attractions, the New
York Aquarium, restaurants and food stands galore, and
shops for everything from mainline merchandise to unique
collectibles. Come along and embrace the traditions that still
sing of an earlier America at Coney Island today. Includes
Round Trip Transportation only.
COOPERSTOWN BASEBALL HALL OF FAME
July 10 ($86) If the fact-finding
Mills Commission was right
in 1907, Civil War General
Abner Doubleday founded
the game of baseball in 1839
in Cooperstown. Whether the
Commission’s conclusion was
correct or not, it was exactly
100 years later, in 1939, that the
Cooperstown Baseball Hall of Fame opened with its first
class of inductees – among them Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb and
Christy Mathewson. Now, exactly 180 years after General
Doubleday ‘stepped up to the plate,’ you can explore and
experience the entire history of baseball, including its
legends and traditions, in a museum complex that features
over 40,000 artifacts of the game and more than 250,000
photographs and images. Martz ‘covers all the bases’
with Admission to the Baseball Hall of Fame and (to make
this trip a ‘doubleheader’) a Bat-Making Demonstration at
the Cooperstown Bat Company. Lunch is on your own in
Cooperstown.
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ROCKWELL MUSEUM
Sept. 14 ($117) From molten gobs and glowing globs
comes an exquisite class of glittering glass. See how
the ‘gaffers’ (master glassmakers) do it in Hot Glass
Demonstrations at the Corning Glass Center’s Museum of
Glass. You might even shape your own silicate masterpiece
in the museum’s Studio. There are over 3500 years of
glass masterpieces in Corning’s Glass Collection Galleries!
Our focus on the Fine Arts turns to 19th Century American
paintings, historic bronzes, and Native American artifacts at
the Rockwell Museum, also in Corning and a distinguished
Affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The emphasis here
is on depictions of the Old West. Other works celebrate the
entire sweep of our nation’s history, culture, and character
– encompassing American classics from Frederick
Remington to Andy Warhol. Includes Admission to both
museums, a Hot Glass Gather Luncheon at the Glass
Museum, and time for shopping in the appropriately named
Gaffer District of Corning.
DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL –
WELLSBORO
Dec. 7 ($120) We feel that Charles Dickens would feel
quite at home if he could spend a ‘cool Yule’ in this
Victorian venue – the nostalgia-nook of Wellsboro.
You’re likely to agree when you see all that makes this
an invitingly vintage but vibrant Christmas Celebration:
an early Victorian Marketplace with almost 200 vendors
offering hand-crafted ornaments, unique gift items,
and gastronomical goodies galore on Main Street…and
performers in period costume singing, dancing and even
acting under the town’s authentic gas streetlamps. Our
Dickens ‘pickins’ include a Stage Presentation of Dickens’
“A Christmas Carol” and a scrumptious Dinner Buffet at the
outstanding Penn Wells Restaurant in Wellsboro.
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DORFLINGER GLASS &
STOURBRIDGE TRAIN RIDE
June 29 ($126) Christian Dorflinger was such a superb
craftsman that his elegant glass and crystal creations were
often in demand by White House staffs, dating back to
the Lincoln Administration. These precious pieces were
fine-cut, etched, engraved, gilded, and enameled in more
than one location, but the largest Dorflinger Glass Factory
was in White Mills, PA. That factory, with its beautiful
bluestone exterior and its chestnut and cherry woodwork
interior, was restored and transformed into a museum in
2016, with many of the original furnishings on the first floor
and a spectacular collection of Dorflinger masterworks on
the second floor. We’ll also visit a second building on the
site, the Cutting Shop, to see a detailed scale model of all
aspects of the glass-cutting and engraving process. Also
includes a scenic Train Ride from Honesdale to Hawley,
and back again, on the Stourbridge Line, famous for
operating the first commercial locomotive rail service in the
Western Hemisphere 190 years ago as part of the Gravity
Railroad … and a Lunch Buffet at the Settlers Inn in Hawley.
ELLIS ISLAND & LIBERTY ISLAND
May 4, July 6, Aug. 17 ($81) It’s a
moving story – the long history
of Ellis Island as a portal for 12
million people moving from their
home on another continent to
their haven in America. That
story got longer in 2015 when
Ellis Island’s Main Building,
the original processing center,
was expanded to explain with
dramatic displays and exciting
interactive audio-visual exhibits the Immigrant Experience
before Ellis Island was opened in 1892 and after it closed
in 1954. The struggle of the nation’s new citizens to adjust,
survive, and succeed in their adopted communities is told
in dynamic detail. Perhaps you’ll want to look for an early
family member’s photo or signature here, or learn how
to add a reminder of a past relative’s entry adventure to
the Museum’s American Flag of Faces or the American
Immigrant Wall of Honor. Includes Ferry Transportation to
both Ellis Island and Liberty Island (both comprise the same
National Park), but not admission to the Statue of Liberty.
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Sept. 21 ($60) Lower Manhattan’s annual Feast of San
Gennaro was a television star! New York’s longest-running
religious festival was a significant storyline in episodes of
“The Sopranos,” “Laverne and Shirley,” “The Golden Girls”
and even the animated series “Family Guy”. Little did the
early-20th Century Italian immigrants of New York City’s
Mulberry Street environs know that their celebration would
rise to such prominence when they held their first street
festival in San Gennaro’s honor in 1926. Admission is free,
Mulberry Street is closed to traffic, church charities still
benefit from the proceeds – and the more-than-a-million
people from around the world who partake of this great
outpouring of faith and fun continue to enjoy free musical
entertainment, carnival games, Italian food specialties,
colorful parades, and religious processions. Includes Round
Trip Transportation only.
GETTYSBURG GHOSTS TOUR
Oct. 26 ($125) The ghosts
of Gettysburg have
thousands of stories to
tell: noble narratives of
the cataclysmic clash that
marked the turning point
of the Civil War in 1863,
terrible tales of innocent
victims (like Jenny
Wade, the only civilian
casualty of the battle) and abused children (in the Haunted
Orphanage, whose brutal headmistress from 1866 to 1877
still haunts the grim basement), and anxious accounts
from Union and Confederate officers who used the Union
Theological Seminary ( now the Seminary Ridge Museum)
as a command center. Our Gettysburg Ghosts Experience
includes a Walking Tour of the town’s phantom-infested
5-block Historic District, a second Ghost Tour that features
the Jennie Wade House and the Haunted Orphanage,
a Visit to the Seminary Ridge Museum (20,000 square
feet of interactive exhibit galleries!), and a superb Dinner
Buffet with sumptuous homemade meal options at General
Pickett’s Buffet in Gettysburg.
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GULLIVER’S GATE, NYC
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June 15 ($85) Think shrink! And remember the song lyric
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“It’s a small world after all.” Thanks to Gulliver’s Gate, the
whole world is reduced to 50,000 square feet and a city
block in the heart of Times Square – the whole world
and its most iconic landmarks and locations, like the Taj
Mahal, China’s Great Wall, the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin,
Stonehenge, Niagara Falls, Big Ben, the Himalayas, and
Manhattan itself! Granted, they’ve been sized down a bit
to fit, but over 200 international master-craftsmen have
succeeded in replicating reality in the largest and most
interactive museum of miniatures ever and anywhere. Is
it moving? You bet! Incredible technology brings life and
motion to every structure and its environment – trains
crisscross mountainsides, planes soar off runways, ships
pass through the Panama Canal, cars traverse highways
and famous bridges, gondoliers navigate Venice’s Grand
Canal, and an ancient Egyptian Pharaoh is laid to rest along
the Nile River. Believe it or not, Gulliver’s Gate can even
make a miniature of you and make it part of the permanent
exhibit! Includes Admission to Gulliver’s Gate and free time
to enjoy New York City on your own.
HARRISBURG BREWFEST
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July 20 ($110) Something very
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special is brewing in Harrisburg’s
Fort Hunter Park. It’s the 8th
annual Brewfest, and the setting is
exquisite –the estate of the 1786
Fort Hunter Mansion overlooking
the Susquehanna River and the
graceful Blue Mountains beyond.
You’ll be free to choose your ‘brews
and chews’ on your own from over 50 craft beers and many
gourmet food options while listening to great music and
you’ll go home with a keepsake festival glass. You might want
to raise that glass in a toast to what opens the day – a visit
to Hershey’s AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America)
Museum. A Smithsonian Affiliate, the museum celebrates
motor vehicle history with vintage cars, motorcycles and
buses – even the world’s largest display of Tucker 1948
sedans (only 51 were made!). We’re somewhat partial
to something else you’ll find here – the Museum of Bus
Transportation – because it is home to the 1912 White Bus
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Martz, Sr., who founded the Frank Martz Coach Company
in 1908. This first Martz Motorcoach (he used a touring car
before that) is now the oldest antique bus in the country. Your
jubilant journey includes all your admissions.
HOLLYWOOD CASINO & TANGER OUTLETS
April 6, Oct. 19 ($56) ‘A penny for your thoughts’ could be
a penny for the slots if your thoughts turn to Hollywood
Casino in Grantville, PA. It makes ‘cents’, because many of
the almost-2400 reel, video slot, and video poker machines
at Hollywood let you play for just a penny. Of course, there
are higher stakes, too – and other gaming options: over
50 table games and 17 poker tables. You can count on
Hollywood for a betting setting that’s play-perfect. After
all, it’s owned and operated by Penn National Gaming,
the nation’s third-largest gaming company. Some of what
you spend at Hollywood might come from what you save
at the Tanger Outlets in Hershey. With 44 outlet stores in
22 states and Canada, Tanger knows how to offer a huge
selection of top-quality merchandise from distinguished
designer outlets. Put Tanger’s Best Price Promise to the
test: “an instant cash refund of the difference if you should
find an item purchased at Tanger advertised for less.”
Includes Hollywood Casino’s Rebate Package.
INTREPID MUSEUM & FLEET WEEK
May 25 ($87) The Memorial Day Weekend is a fabulous
time to visit the Sea, Air and Space Museum aboard the
now-docked aircraft carrier the USS Intrepid in New York
Harbor. That’s because we board this marvelous museum
on a key day of the nation’s week-long celebration of all
the sea services, Fleet Week. You’re bound to witness
some powerful and patriotic salutes to our ocean warriors!
‘On Deck’ for the museum is the out-of-this-world Space
Shuttle Pavilion. The Pavilion features Enterprise (the
first space shuttle) and current NASA International Space
Station exhibits, the world’s fastest jets, and a British
Airways Concorde that set the record for an Atlantic
crossing. The Intrepid Museum is also home to the Growler
(the only American guided missile submarine open to the
public) and scores of historic video footage and interactive
experiences. Includes Admission to the Museum but not
necessarily all the special attractions that comprise it.
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May 18 ($158) Gorge
yourself! That’s easy to
do in Ithaca, because
long-ago glaciers cut
gorges galore in this
‘gorge-ous’ locale on
the southern end of the
Finger Lakes’ Cayuga
Lake. There are over
150 waterfalls within
10 square miles, in
state parks that are so
beautifully forested
that they look pristine
and primeval. We’ll
visit two of those
waterfalls – Ithaca Falls
(175 feet wide, with a
150-foot cascading fall
to a plunge pool that’s
renowned for trout
and salmon fishing) … and Tughannock Falls (the tallest
single-drop waterfall east of the Rocky Mountains and 3
stories taller than Niagara Falls!). Their spill helps to fill
Cayuga Lake; so, it only seems proper to pamper you with
a Narrated Cruise on the longest liquid locus of the Finger
Lakes, and one of the deepest lakes in North America.
Cayuga Lake has a Wine Trail, too – and we won’t ignore
a sample-pour at the Americana Vineyards. Americana
doesn’t ‘fudge’ on the sweets, either: in addition to sampling
their wine, you might feel a nudge to try the fudge that’s
one of their specialties. Everything’s included, plus a Picnic
Lunch overlooking Tughannock Falls.
KING OF PRUSSIA MALL
July 27 ($49), Nov. 23 ($57) You ought to see what the
King of Prussia Mall has done to make itself even more
spiffy – and they did it in a jiffy, just since 2016. They built
a deluxe corridor to connect KOP’s Plaza with its Court,
enhanced its bright natural lighting with LED illumination,
upgraded the décor with new finishes and flooring, and
installed seating areas with charging stations for electronic
devices … and the makeover continues! You can really
breathe here – it’s sunny and spacious, incredibly clean,
remarkably quiet, and spectacularly modern. Almost 3
million square feet of gross leasable space and over 400
retail and food venues make KOP the largest shopping mall
in America, with scores of stores and upscale boutiques for
those who intend to spend on high-end merchandise, and
lots of spots with main-line discount shopping for those
who want to spend little and whittle their total outlay to
a marvelous minimum. Be sure to mark Nov 23 on your
calendar. It’s on Black Friday for Holiday Shopping. All
dates include Round Trip Transportation only.
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mammoth Christmas complex in a beautiful Berks County
valley. Over a million Christmas lights render their splendor
to the buildings, gift barns, walkways, trees, fences, and
reflective lake at Koziar’s Christmas Village! Exquisite
displays make what’s inside just as exciting as what’s
outside. Koziar’s has been recognized as the Best Outdoor
Christmas Display in the World by Display World Magazine,
and received an Award of Excellence as one of the Top 10
Travel Attractions in Pennsylvania by the PA Travel Council.
We include a delicious catered meal at the Carousel of
Pottstown (built in 1905, it’s the second oldest operating
Philadelphia Toboggan Company wooden carousel in the
nation) - and, in Boyertown, visits to the Boyertown Museum
of Historic Vehicles (even a 1921 Sun Oil Gas Station!) and
Dancing Tree Creations (2900 square feet of hand-made
crafts and gifts from over 200 local and national artisans).
MACY’S THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE
Nov. 28 ($56) It’s an inflation sensation! Macy’s Thanksgiving
Day Parade in New York City features so many balloons
that it takes 10 hours to inflate them all with helium. In fact,
Macy’s is said to be the second-largest consumer of helium,
second only to the United States Government! Macy’s
billowing ‘balloonery’ is joined by the bellowing buffoonery of
capering clowns and by marvelous musical notes from many
magnificent floats and marching bands. Over 8000 people
participate in the traditional Turkey Day Parade, all of them
(except for performing talent) Macy’s employees and their
families and friends, which makes it a family affair! And that
brings us to your family. We leave early enough that you can
experience the entire event and then return on time to feast
with your favorite folks for Thanksgiving Dinner. Includes
Round Trip Transportation only.
MEDIEVAL TIMES DINNER & TOURNAMENT
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give you a ‘Knight’ to remember. Our Day Time in the
‘Knight’ Time of the Middle Ages provides a mesmerizing
immersion in the medieval magic of
melodious minstrels, jocular jesters,
regal rulers, and helmeted heroes
on horseback lunging at each other
with lances to be the chivalrous
champion who defends an audience
member’s honor. These timeless
tournaments, ancient antics, and
kingdom courtesies (and curtsies!)
play out in the unique Dinner Theater experience called
Medieval Times in Lyndhurst, New Jersey. You’re treated like
a visiting dignitary, by the Knights who pledge their arms and
their charms to defend and commend you, and by the Royals
who regale you with an aristocratic Feast in their festive
Banquet Hall. Includes Admission to where the knights meet
to compete with each feat of derring-do, and a magnificent
meal for you!
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MIFFLINBURG CHRISTKINDL MARKET
Dec. 13 ($95) Mifflinburg’s insistence on the persistence of
tradition makes its Christkindlmarkt the oldest Christkindl
Market in the United States. True to a heritage that dates
back to as early as 1434, it features many Old World carved
wooden figures and other symbols of the season rarely
seen outside of Germany
and Austria – like Christmas
Pyramids, nutcrackers, and
candle arches. Over 100 ‘huts’
(huge tents) cover a 1-block
area of Market Street with
glassworks, pewter ornaments,
pottery, candles, clocks,
purses and handbags – and,
of course, authentic German food and drink. Also includes
Kohl’s Stony Hill Tree Farm in Milton, Pennsylvania’s largest
Christmas Shop (many thousands of trees and ornaments!)
… something sweet to eat at the Purity Candy Company in
Allenwood … and a delightful Dinner Buffet at the Country
Cupboard Restaurant in Lewisburg.
MOUNT NITTANY WINE TRAIL
June 28 ($128) We’re off to Penn State Country to see
who’s head of the class in what fills your glass at three
vineyards along the Mount Nittany Wine Trail. You’re bound
to agree that all three deserve an honorary degree in
the ‘Vine’ Arts for each example that you’ll sample of the
greatness and ‘grapeness’ of their expertise. Taste-test
the best at the Happy Valley Vineyard and Winery in State
College (give them an A-Plus for 6 different wine samples)
… Seven Mountains Wine Cellars in Spring Mills (it’s a
grand place to ‘take five’ – 5 wine samples, that is – and
a souvenir wine glass) … and Mount Nittany Vineyard and
Winery in Centre Hall (award them with an MBA – Master
of Bubbly Arts – for the 5 or 6 wines you’ll sample, and
take home a souvenir glass). Our Penn State ‘studies’
also include Tasting and a Tour of the production area at
Big Springs in Bellefonte, a distinguished distillery that
specializes in handcrafted spirits … a delicious Lunch Buffet
at the Nittany Lion Inn in State College … and a Visit to
the on-campus Penn State Berkey Creamery to enjoy its
enormously popular desserts on your own.
14 1-877-611-8649NEW YORK STATE FAIR
Aug. 24 ($58) There’s always something to crow about
at the nation’s oldest and first state fair (1841) in Syracuse.
The roosters know it, and they show it with rooster crowing
contests in which fairgoers are the judges! Over 10,000
fur-and-feather, farm-and-forest animals ‘fair thee well’
in entertaining competitions and exhibits. Speaking of
entertainment, human performers, not to be outdone by
their four-legged critter cohorts, dazzle Fair Fans with
star-studded shows in 6 music venues – and many of those
shows are free with Fair admission! Also free is some of
the Fair Fare – munchie morsels and sweet sips you may
be able to sample in at least one of the 110 special-theme
buildings and perhaps along the magnificent Midway. Be
sure to visit the Art & Home Center and the Horticulture
Building for their awesome arrays of flowers, crafts,
culinary concoctions, and fine arts. Includes Round Trip
Transportation only.
9/11 MEMORIAL MUSEUM &
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April 20, July 13, Oct. 19 ($159) We’re giving this trip
a “NEW” designation, because for the first time we’re
adding a Narrated Circle Line Landmarks Cruise in New
York Harbor and especially on both the Hudson and East
Rivers for breathtaking views of Midtown and Downtown
Manhattan, the bridges, and the Statue of Liberty. What’s
more, a meal is included on the cruise. What a wonderful
way to feel the spirit of this great city! That spirit is
powerfully evident in the 9/11 Museum. We give you plenty
of time to take your time in exploring the underground
repositories of the museum, where you can see “The Cross
at Ground Zero,” “The Survivors’ Staircase,” and interactive
exhibits and personal possessions that convey the human
drama and unforgettable tragedy of the terrorist attack on
New York City. You’ll also have time to absorb and reflect
on it all among the pools, fountains and white oaks in the
above-ground 9/11 Memorial. Includes Museum Admission,
and your Circle Line Cruise and the Meal onboard.
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9/11 MEMORIAL MUSEUM & FREEDOM TOWER
Aug. 10 ($130) Two pivotal dates in American history
merge at New York City’s Freedom Tower. One is 2001, the
year that the 9/11 attack brought down the Twin Towers.
The other is 1776, the year that our Founding Fathers
signed the Declaration of Independence. They intersect
in the design to raise the new One World Trade Center
(Freedom Tower) to 1776 feet as an icon for the nation’s
indomitable will. You’ll ascend 1250 of those 1776 feet by
“Skypod” to the Tower’s Observation Deck for the highest
panoramic views in the city – on a clear day you can see
as far as Philadelphia! We go up, but we also go down –
70 feet underground to the 9/11 Museum and its 23,000
images; 10,300 artifacts; 2000 oral histories; and over
500 hours of videos honoring the nearly 3000 victims and
the emergency responders of 9/11. Includes Admission to
Freedom Tower and the 9/11 Memorial Museum, and free
time at Westfield World Trade Center for the shops and
restaurants in New York City’s largest shopping mall.
OCEAN CITY, NJ ‘INDEPENDENT’
Aug. 14 ($79) Ocean
City, New Jersey must be
doing something right.
They have the awards to
prove it – like “Favorite
New Jersey Shopping
District” (South Jersey
Magazine), “Best Beach
In America” (Coastal
Living Magazine), and
“Among The World’s
Best Beach Towns”
(National Geographic Travel). Martz takes you right to the
Boardwalk and its bathing facilities, and from there you’re
free to enjoy a splash, save some cash, or make a dash.
You can save the cash in the incredible array of retail
establishments along the Boardwalk, and you can make a
dash to a number of family amusement parks and galleries
on and near the Boardwalk. Part of the fun is that when day
is done you can choose to snooze all the way home while
we do the driving. Includes Round-Trip Transportation only.
16 1-877-611-8649PA CHRISTMAS & GIFT SHOW
Nov. 30 ($69) Santa may do the bragging, but the credit
for bagging the gifts that are hard to find for the people
you have in mind should go to the Pennsylvania Christmas
& Gift Show in Harrisburg’s Farm Show Complex. The
presence of the presents you’re looking for is almost
guaranteed, thanks to the thousands of rare, one-of-a-
kind gift items in over-500 specialty shops – arts & crafts,
collectibles, toys and dolls, household accents, jewelry,
apparel, leather and wood goods, ornaments, and myriad
more. If you think the exclusive is elusive, you’ll be effusive
with praise for one of the largest holiday shows in the
country! It’s affordable (prices range from $2 to $700),
and festive (dance troupes and musical groups entertain
throughout the Complex), and you can feast on your own
in the 600-seat Cafeteria in the Banquet Hall upstairs or at
one of the concession stands on the main floor. Admission
is included.
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June 29 ($115)
Appropriately floral,
because of the
Laurel throughout
the Tioga State
Forest on this spry
spring sprint to the
PA Grand Canyon
Overlook and
Visitors Center near Wellsboro. What makes this such a
stately stop is that the Mountain Laurel is Pennsylvania’s
Official State Flower. We begin the day, though, with a
Narrated Susquehanna River Cruise from Williamsport
on the Hiawatha Paddlewheeler Riverboat. Much of our
journey along the lovely West Branch of the river reveals
sites of early Indian Lore and locales that were significant in
the success of the lumber companies that once prospered
in Lycoming County. This joyful June jaunt also includes
free time in Wellsboro and a heavenly Hot Served Lunch at
Wellsboro’s distinguished Penn Wells Restaurant.
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PA GRAND CANYON FALL FOLIAGE
Oct. 5 ($145) Palette and palate – we cater to both on this
lovely visit to Wellsboro and the gargantuan gorge nearby.
The palette belongs to Mother Nature, whose piquant
paints are just beginning to drip when this trip embarks on
a Horse-Drawn Covered Wagon Tour along the canyon-
canvas of her autumnal artistry. The wagon’s wide windows
and cushioned comfort make your ride along the canyon’s
upper trail a smooth delight! The palate belongs to you,
and we satisfy it with a banquet of a Hot Served Lunch at
Wellsboro’s Penn Wells Restaurant. Also includes Visits to
the PA Grand Canyon Overlook and the Visitors Center in
Ansonia and free time in Wellsboro.
PEDDLERS VILLAGE
May 18 - Strawberry Festival ($60) … Oct. 12 -
OctoberFEAST ($60) … Nov. 2 - Apple Festival ($60)
Willkommen! Peddlers Village is a welcoming place, a
vibrant village that hearkens back to “olden times” with a
nostalgic mix of specialty
‘shoppes’, neighborly
niceness, and family
festivals on the village’s
‘Greeting Green’. One of
those festivals is new to
our travel agenda – the
OctoberFEAST, a friendly
frolic that invites you to
enjoy, on your own, all
the live entertainment
and Bavarian treats in the Food, Beer, Wine & Spirits
Garden. May’s date features the Strawberry Festival, and
November’s event is the Apple Festival - both of which
offer fruit-full opportunities to choose some chews on your
own from orchard-fresh gems and homemade pies. Though
the setting is old-fashioned, you’ll find ‘new-fangled’
merchandise and saving promotions in over 60 stores
and boutiques, along with 5 fabulous family restaurants
for independent dining options. Includes Round Trip
Transportation only.
18 1-877-611-8649PHILADELPHIA FLOWER SHOW
Daily Trips March 2 thru 10 ($90) “Flower Power!” That was
a catch-phrase of Woodstock and an exclamation that was
emblematic of the spirit of the youth movement that marched
and sang for peace in the late sixties. The Pennsylvania
Horticultural Society observes the 50th Anniversary of
Woodstock and celebrates the contribution of flowers in our
lives and culture with a Philadelphia Flower Show theme –
“Flower Power” – that is literally peace-full (look for “Peace”
signs throughout the Pennsylvania Convention Center!). This
190th edition of what the International Festivals & Events
Association calls the “Best Event in the World” also plays
host to the Florists Transworld Delivery World Cup, a global
floral design competition whose contestants’ landscapes and
arrangements will all be on display at the Show. As always,
the Philadelphia Flower Show introduces the newest plant
varieties, garden concepts, information on organic practices,
and a mammoth indoor marketplace. Includes Admission.
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ways to travel! The Train is the Middletown &
Hummelstown Railroad, our comfy conveyance for an
11-mile round-trip train ride through the scenic Swatara
Creek Valley, following the towpath of the former Union
Canal (commissioned in 1791 to connect Harrisburg with
Philadelphia, it was the first canal ever surveyed in the
nation). You’ll see many remnants of the canal, including
its locks, from the train! The Boat is the Pride of the
Susquehanna, an authentic stern-driven paddlewheeler
riverboat that treats you to a cruise with views of the
Harrisburg skyline. The Trails are the trek-tracks that lead
you through the woodlands and to the meadows where
buffalo and other ruminants roam free at the Lake Tobias
Wildlife Park in Halifax – home to mammals, reptiles and
birds from the jungles and grasslands of 6 continents! Your
time here includes a Safari Tour aboard an open-topped
bus, and Admission to the Reptile Zoo and the Petting Zoo.
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SEASIDE HEIGHTS, NJ ‘INDEPENDENT’
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July 17 ($80) The Boardwalk competes with the ocean
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for your Atlantic attention on this new destination for
our New Jersey Shore beach excursions. The Boardwalk at
Seaside Heights is ‘wheely’ unique – not just because of
the fabulous rides and awesome amusements in Funtown
Pier and the Carousel Family Entertainment Center, but
also because of the gaming wheels and other casino-type
diversions in the Casino Pier Amusement Park and the
wheels of chance along the marvelous-mile expanse of the
Boardwalk. Speaking of wheels, you’ll feel like a ‘big wheel’
while the big wheels of our ultramodern motorcoaches turn
to return you home from your seashore shindig. Whether
you want to brave a wave or stick to each pick along the
Boardwalk, sample the sights at Seaside Heights!
SENECA LAKE WINE TRAIL
Sept. 28 ($158) Our Supreme Seneca Sampler features
the eastern shore of Seneca Lake, home to the Hazlitt
1852 Vineyards (6 generations of the Hazlitt Family have
been growing grapes and orchard fruits since 1852, so
they know what they’re doing when they’re brewing!) … the
Wagner Vineyards (over
30 award-winning wines
and 9 craft beers) … J. R.
Dill (don’t be surprised if
the owner of this family
‘fizzness’ business
does the pouring!) …
and Chateau Lafayette
Reneau (3 Governor’s
Cups, 5 Jefferson Cups).
Hazlitt has one of the Top 25 Tasting Rooms in the nation,
according to Wine Enthusiast Magazine … Wagner holds 2
Jefferson Cups and a Gold Medal from the Jefferson Cup
Invitational, honoring the best of the best among wineries
from all of America’s wine regions … J. R. Dill is known for
its small batch handcrafted wines … and Chateau Lafayette
Reneau is the recipient of awards from international
competition in France. Also includes Lunch in Wagner
Vineyards’ Ginny Lee Café.
20 1-877-611-8649SIGHT & SOUND DINNER THEATRE
April 13 - “Jesus” ($187)…June 29 – “Jesus” ($187)…Sept.
7 – “Jesus” ($187)…Nov. 16 – “Miracle of Christmas” ($187)
Bible stories leap from the page to the stage of Lancaster’s
Sight & Sound Theatre. That’s because Sight & Sound is
passionate about bringing the Bible to life! You can see,
hear, and feel that passion in all the elements that make
every production powerfully inspiring … a 300-ft. panoramic
stage that surrounds the audience on three sides, state-of-
the-art technology, intricately created sets and costumes,
original music scores composed and recorded utilizing
world-class orchestras from around the world, and superb
performers who deliver every line and lyric with divine
devotion. Live animals are part of the action, too, and both
the actors and the animals hold hypnotic sway – from the
stage and even out among the audience. All three dates
include Dinner at Hershey Farm Restaurant.
THOUSAND ISLANDS & SINGER CASTLE
July 6 ($165) You could
title this tour “The Bourne
Escape”! This Bourne,
though, was Frederick
Bourne (not Matt
Damon’s movie character
Jason Bourne), and his
“Escape” was Singer
Castle, named after
the company that he
served as President – the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
The retreat that this self-made millionaire built from 1903
to 1905 has all the trappings of a movie mystery: it looms
like a Gothic mansion with a 4-story tower, tunnels, turrets,
dungeons, and a St. Lawrence Seaway location whose
name a screenwriter would adore – Dark Island. Our tour
of Frederick Bourne’s “hunting lodge” takes you through
4 floors filled with furnishings and artifacts original to the
castle and on estate grounds that feature 3 boathouses
and even a 2-story icehouse. Also includes a Cruise on the
American side of the 1000 Islands and Dinner at Cavallario’s
Steak House in Alexandria Bay.
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U. S. TENNIS OPEN
(Date and Price To Be Announced)
You tennis fans probably know that
the big news for all the 2019 Grand
Slam Tournaments is that the seedings
(rosters and rankings for play line-ups)
will be reduced from 32 to 16 – the
format that was followed before 2001.
If you’re new to the game, that means
that more big-name pairings will occur
earlier in the game. With players who
‘raise a racket’ in late-tournament play usually receiving
most of the attention, having highly-ranked competitors face
each other in earlier contests almost guarantees dramatic
duels on the court regardless of when you’re there! The
139th edition of the U. S. Open, the fourth and final Grand
Slam event of the year, is set for the net at the United States
Tennis Association’s Billie Jean King National Tennis Center
in Flushing Meadows, New York. Visit us online at www.
martztours.com in April for the date and the price.
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June 15 ($80) Some of Washington’s most prominent
inhabitants have never walked the halls of Congress and
would start a riot if they did! Yet, they have all the support,
research resources, and globally-acclaimed conservation
work of the Smithsonian to sustain them and ensure the
survival of their species in freedom-fostering habitats that
mimic the environments they came from. Our 1-Day visit to
the Smithsonian’s National Zoo gives you plenty of time to
explore the pinnacle in worldwide animal and ecological
preservation programs – and the creatures that benefit from
those programs, like Giant Pandas, African Lions, Asian
Elephants, and Western Lowland Gorillas. Two thousand
animals, representing more than 435 species, thrive here,
in scientifically-designed themed exhibits, under the care
of the Smithsonian. Your Admission is free. Includes Round
Trip Transportation only.
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