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2011 Itinerary
8 Days FROM $2740 per person
single supplement available
Day 1 - Welcome to New England
Your New England vacation begins at 6:30 PM at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers. A transfer is included from Logan International Airport to the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, situated in the heart of Boston's picturesque Back Bay neighborhood. A welcome reception and dinner tonight gets your New England vacation off to a wonderful start!
Meals: Dinner
Lodging: Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston, MA
Day 2 - Plimoth heritage and Martha's Vineyard
From Boston, travel to Plymouth to step back in time at Plimoth Plantation, a re-created 17th-century village with costumed role players who bring the history of the Plimoth Colony to life; see Plymouth Rock, marking the Pilgrims' 1620 landing site. After some free time in Falmouth, a ferry ride from the mainland takes you to the island of Martha's Vineyard. Whether you call it chic, fashionable, posh, quaint, charming, or trendy, it is one of the hottest New England vacation destinations of the 21st century - and where you'll spend the next two nights of your New England vacation, in the former whaling center of Edgartown.
Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Lodging: Harbor View Hotel & Resort, Edgartown, MA
Day 3 - Explore 17th and 21st century Martha's Vineyard
You'll bridge the centuries by exploring the Vineyard today. Start your sightseeing by admiring the historic stately homes in Oak Bluffs and Vineyard Haven. Take in the salt marshes, long beaches, and picturesque yacht harbors, and the towns of West Tisbury and Aquinnah (once known as Gay Head). During an afternoon and evening spent as you please, you might want to bird watch at the bluffs, watch the lobstermen pull up their traps offshore, hang out at the fishing pier, or seek out what interests you most in this idyllic New England vacation spot.
Meals: Breakfast
Lodging: Harbor View Hotel & Resort, Edgartown, MA
Day 4 - Whaling days on Nantucket
Explore a different New England vacation island today when you take a flight from Martha's Vineyard to Nantucket, one of the country's most important whaling towns two centuries ago. Admire the Colonial architecture, winding cobbled streets, and historic taverns in the quaint harborside town, a National Historic Landmark District. See the coastal heathlands and long barrier beaches; approximately 40 percent of Nantucket is preserved as conservation land. Take a ferry to Hyannis and travel to seaside Brewster, for a two-night stay at an 1890s mansion-turned-resort on Cape Cod Bay.
Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Lodging: Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club, Brewster, MA
Day 5 - Whale-watching cruise and the seashore
Journey up along the outer Atlantic side of the Cape to visit Cape Cod National Seashore, with its massive sand dunes towering above crested seas. Arrive in Provincetown on the tip of the Cape; once a key whaling town, it has become world-renowned over the last century as an arts colony and a major summer resort. "P-town" is set near the summering grounds for a number of whale species; weather permitting, take a guided whale-watching cruise to see these amazing aquatic mammals roll, flip their tails, and blow through their blowholes - a true highlight of your New England vacation. Have dinner back in Brewster this evening.
Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Lodging: Ocean Edge Resort & Golf Club, Brewster, MA
Day 6 - Maritime lore in New Bedford and Newport
Leave the Cape and head west to New Bedford, a historic seaport on the Atlantic coast, where you'll visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum, the nation's largest museum devoted to the history of whaling. Continue on to Newport, Rhode Island, a long-time haven for yachting enthusiasts, former home of the America's Cup, and one of the great playgrounds of the rich in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Drive past some of the ostentatious mansions that served as summer houses for affluent socialites during the Gilded Age, and travel the celebrated Ten-Mile Drive.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch
Lodging: The Newport Marriott, Newport, RI
Day 7 - A New England vacation day in Newport
Your Tauck Director will invite you for a stroll along Newport's Cliff Walk, set between the sea and the mansions. See the opulence of the Gilded Age firsthand on a guided tour through The Breakers, a 70-room Italian Renaissance mansion inspired by the 16th-century palaces of Genoa and Turin. A "summer cottage" built by Cornelius Vanderbilt, this palatial estate is now a National Historic Landmark. After a delightful cruise through Newport Harbor and Narragansett Bay, spend the afternoon exploring more of Newport on your own. Cap a New England week well spent with our farewell cocktail reception and dinner tonight.
Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Lodging: The Newport Marriott, Newport, RI
Day 8 - New England vacation ends with a presidential legacy
En route to Boston and the conclusion of your memorable New England vacation, visit the Adams National Historical Park in Quincy, featuring the former homes of John Adams, the second U.S. president, and his son John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. president. Tauck's memorable New England vacation ends at Boston's Logan International Airport at 12:30 PM, or the Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers at 1:30 PM, traffic permitting. Airport transfers are included; allow two hours for flight check-in.
Meals: Breakfast
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