LAUREL HIGHLANDS!

May 6 (Sunday) - 8 (Tuesday), 2012

Event Price:

Single occupancy: $689.00pp

Double occupancy: $579.00pp

Triple occupancy: $559.00pp

Event Includes:         

* Round-trip motorcoach transportation

* Two Nights Hotel Accommodations in the Laurel Highlands at a four-diamond Resort.

* A Lakeland Tour Director to accompany the group.

* Baggage Handling at your hotel

* Two Dinners at the Nemacolin Resort (tax and gratuity included)

* Three Breakfasts (tax and gratuity included)

* Johnstown Incline Plane

* National Railroaders Museum

* Horseshoe Curve

* Admission to Compass Inn Museum

* Admission to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob

* Admission to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

* Flight 93 Memorial

Clothing/Weather:

Casual and comfortable for your touring pleasure. The average daily high temperature in the Laurel Highlands during May is approximately 70; the average daily low is high-40s. Your hotel contains a swimming pool and hot tub.

Hotels:      

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmingdale, PA. Two nights. Situated on 2,000 acres, the resort features 327 luxurious guestrooms, an impressive collection of restaurants and lounges, Woodlands Spa, two championship golf courses, Nemacolin Field Club, 14 specialty shops in Heritage Court and throughout the Resort, and the Wildlife Academy, home of black bears, zebra, buffalo, tigers, hyenas dozens more animals that currently call Nemacolin home. Culture is also an experience at Nemacolin.  Enjoy daily art tours of the multi-million dollar Hardy Family Art Collection or Cooking Classes and Wine Tastings in the state-of-the-art Académie du Vin.

MEALS:                                

Two Dinners

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmingdale, PA. Two nights. Menu TBA.

Three Full Breakfasts

Hilton Garden Inn Rockaway. A breakfast buffet is included the morning of departure.

Nemacolin Woodlands Resort, Farmingdale, PA. A breakfast buffet is included each morning of our stay here.

ATTRACTIONS:

Johnstown Incline Plane, Johnstown, PA. Built after the Johnstown flood of 1889, the Inclined Plane's original purpose was to connect downtown with the higher grounds of Westmont Borough in order to develop that area residentially. During Johnstown's two other floods in 1936 and 1977, the Incline became a lifesaver, helping people to escape downtown as well as to ship supplies into the valley. In its heyday, the Incline carried approximately 1,000,000 passengers a year to and from the downtown area. This was largely due to the steel mills that were in operation. Today the Incline welcomes visitors and locals alike, carrying approximately 100,000 passengers a year. The Johnstown Inclined Plane is the steepest vehicular incline in the world, meaning its 30' cars, which are large enough to hold 65 people, 6 motorcycles, or a vehicle, travel at the steepest grade for cars their size.

National Railroaders Museum, Altoona, PA. The National Railroaders Museum is dedicated to commemorating and celebrating the significant contributions of railroaders and their families to American life and industry. For more than a century Altoona was one of the most important rail facilities in the United States. The city was home to the Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad's repair and maintenance shops, its locomotive construction facility, and its test department. Altoona's location at the foot of the Allegheny front and its proximity to the Horseshoe Curve route over the mountains made the city a key location in the Altoona Pennsylvania Railroad's operations.

Horseshoe Curve, Altoona, PA. The Horseshoe Curve is a famous railroad horseshoe curve in central Pennsylvania, and was called an "engineering marvel", when it was completed in 1854 by the Pennsylvania Railroad.

Admission to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob – Just a few miles southwest of Fallingwater and high atop a bluff overlooking the Youghiogheny River Gorge, stands another Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece, the House on Kentuck Knob. A great believer in the beauty of natural materials, Wright combined the native fieldstone with red cypress to create a chorus of color and texture that replicates the surrounding landscape.

Kentuck Knob is privately owned by Lord and Lady Peter Palumbo of London, England who have graciously opened their home to your visit.

Admission to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater - Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for the Kaufmann Family in 1935, the house is dramatically cantilevered over a waterfall. It was named one of "50 places of a lifetime" by National Geographic Traveler, and the only major Wright work to come into the public domain with its site, furnishings and art collection intact.

Admission to Compass Inn Museum - Guided tour of an authentically restored 1799 stagecoach stop. Includes the Inn, cookhouse featuring a beehive oven, blacksmith shop with a working forge, Carpenter shop with a hand-cranked fly-wheel for lathe operation and barn that houses an 1880 Studebaker wagon, stagecoach and Conestoga wagon, complete with a six horse hitch.There is some walking involved between the outbuildings, as well as up to the 2nd floor of the main inn.

Flight 93 Memorial - On September 11, 2001, the passengers and crew of Flight 93 courageously gave their lives thwarting a planned attack on our Nation's Capital. Flight 93 National Memorial will be a permanent memorial to the heroes on that plane.

Itinerary:                   

Day 1 – May 6, 2012 – Sunday (B & D)

Breakfast buffet at the Hilton Garden Inn Rockaway Mall

Depart Hilton Garden Inn Rockaway Mall (departure time is 7:00am)

Johnstown Incline Plane

National Railroaders Museum

Horseshoe Curve

Hotel check-in at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort for two nights

Dinner (included) at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Day 2 – May 7, 2012 - Monday (CB & D)

Breakfast (included) at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kentuck Knob

Dinner (included) at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Day 3 – May 8, 2012 - Tuesday (B)

Breakfast (included) at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

Admission to the Compass Inn

Lunch (not included)

Flight 93 Memorial

Return to Hilton Garden Inn Rockaway Mall (approximate return time is 9:30pm)

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Please contact a tour representative for more information and/or reservations at (973) 366-0600 ext. 602.