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Overview

When

Departure: Sunday, April 19, 2020

Return: Sunday, April 26, 2020

Pricing & Inclusions

INCLUSIONS Evening in Las Vegas | Route 66 Museum & Grand Canyon Cavern | Grand Canyon Railway | Narrated Freedom Rim Tour | Explore Navajo Museum | Monument Valley Jeep Tour | Visit to Seven Parks (Grand Canyon National Park | Arches National Park | Capitol Reef National Park | Dead Horse State Park | Anasazi State Park | Bryce Canyon National Park | Zion National Park | Earth Spirit Theatre & John Wayne Movie | Edge of the Cedar Museum & Ruins | Free Time in Moab | Sunset Jet Boat Tour | Cowboy Dinner & Lights Show | Ebenezer Dinner Show | First Class Lodging for Seven Nights | 7 Breakfasts | 2 Lunches | 6 Dinners | Motor coach Transportation for Eight Days | Driver's Room & Gratuity | All Taxes and Tips on above services | Luggage Handling (one bag per person)

DEPOSIT $500 Per Person due with Reservation

FINAL PAYMENT February 19, 2020

CANCELLATION POLICY First Cancellation Penalty: On February 19, 2020, $150 per person is non-refundable | Second Cancellation Penalty: On March 20, 2020, 50% per person is required an non-refundable | Third & Final Cancellation Penalty: On April 10, 2020, 100% per person is required an non-refundable.

TRAVEL INSURANCE Optional Trip Insurance through Travel Insured International. To purchase, call our offices.

Sunday, April 19, 2020

AIRPORT SHUTTLE TO HOTEL Upon arrival at McCarran Airport you will need to collect your luggage and check-in at a Bell Trans booth located outside the baggage claim. You will then be transported to your hotel for check in.

PARIS LAS VEGAS Experience everything you love about Paris, in the heart of the Las Vegas Strip. At Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino, you are transported to the City of Lights with all the same passion, excitement, and ambiance of Europe's most romantic city, with all the excitement of the entertainment capital of the world.

MOTOR COACH TRANSPORTATION Your 56-passenger coach will meet your group at the hotel for transportation to dinner followed by a Vegas After Dark Tour.

DINNER AT THERAPY LAS VEGAS Enjoy dinner tonight on Fremont Street. Therapy Las Vegas offers shareable family style meals at your dining tables with full artistically presented shareable food plates. This type of service allows you to try more than one appetizer, entree, and dessert selection. Enjoy!! (D) (25 miles)

Monday, April 20, 2020

BREAKFAST AT THE HOTEL Enjoy breakfast at your leisure at the hotel's Le Village Buffet. Service begins at 7:00am.

VISIT THE ARIZONA ROUTE 66 MUSEUM Today, stop in Kingsman, AZ and visit the the Arizona Route 66 Museum located in Kingman’s Historic Powerhouse and depicts the historical evolution of travel along the 35th parallel that became Route 66.

Brilliant murals, photos and life-size dioramas capture each of the groups that have traveled what came to be known as the Mother Road. Follow the paths of the Native American trade routes and the U. S. Army led survey expeditions. Travel along with the settlers on their migration west over the nation’s first federally funded wagon roads. Feel the hardship and despair of the dust bowl refugees as they journeyed along the Mother Road to a better life. Visit Main Street America as the 50’s usher in fun and excitement for Route 66 travelers.

GRAND CANYON CAVERNS & LUNCH Located along historic Route 66, enjoy Arizona’s newest dining experiences that takes you 21 stories beneath the Earth’s surface. Enjoy lunch at one of the most amazing dining experiences possible!

After lunch, tour the caverns, the largest dry caverns in the United States, located 200 to 300 feet below the surface, and accessible by an exploration elevator. Because the caverns are so deep underground, the temperature is always constant, a mild 56 degrees, and there is zero humidity. The caverns offer a number of unique geological formations that can be viewed from a smoothly paved walking trail.

DELUXE ROOMS AT GRAND CANYON RAILWAY HOTEL Then check into the Grand Canyon Railway Hotel for an overnight stay. This modern hotel is located in the center of town, along historic Highway 66, and conveniently beside the Grand Canyon Railway Train Depot.

DINNER AT GRAND DEPOT CAFÉ Dinner this evening will be at the Grand Depot Café. (B,L,D) (275 miles)

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

GRAND CANYON TRAIN EXCURSION (FIRST CLASS) ONE WAY Ride the Grand Canyon Railway from Williams. On the 65 mile ride from Williams to the Canyon you will pass through 6,000 foot high forest and mountain desert. Attendants will offer refreshments and snacks, and there is a full bar onboard.

NARRATED FREEDOM RIM TOUR OF GRAND CANYON PARK Arriving in Grand Canyon National Park you are greeted with the sight of one of three log-cabin-style train stations left in America. From the station your luggage is moved to your hotel and you’ll find a tour bus waiting for an afternoon sightseeing tour. In a few minutes you will be walking along the pine-forested ledges of your first Grand Canyon viewpoint. Here you’ll send a few minutes just trying to process the sight in front of you as your guide points out a few of the distant features, and geological details. Then you will learn about the trees, shrubs, wildflowers, and wildlife of the Canyon.

OVERNIGHT AT THE MASWIK LODGE Travel to the Grand Canyon. Check into the Maswik Lodge, for an overnight stay, nestled in the Ponderosa Pine Forest. It is located just a short quarter-mile walk from the canyon’s edge. Dinner is on your own this evening. (65 miles)

Wednesday, April 22, 2020

BREAKFAST AT THE GRAND DEPOT CAFÉ You may wish to begin your day early to see the sunrise at the Grand Canyon. Breakfast is included this morning at the hotel before check out.

EXPLORE NAVAJO MUSEUM Visit each quadrant where you are introduced to the land, language, history, culture and ceremonial life of the Navajo. At over 7,000 sq. feet, the museum features a traditional Navajo Hogan (home) and Navajo stories of creation. Your Navajo escort will help you understand the exhibits of Navajo culture, traditions, family systems and more.

MONUMENT VALLEY JEEP TOUR Take a jeep tour through Monument Valley. Journey through the restricted region of Lower Monument Valley discovering for yourself the untouched splendor of Navajo Land. Traverse the desert landscape visiting the world's largest Elephant Butte, and the Three Sisters spires at John Ford's Point. Later, divert into the backcountry and see up close the valley's famous Big Chief Monument, and Sleeping Dragon

Rock. Further into the restricted area venture underneath Sun's Eye arch, the valley's second largest arch and find some of the valley's oldest Anasazi ruins, petroglyphs, and pictographs. Hike the sand dunes at Ear of the Wind arch and walk inside the Big Hogan; Monument Valley's largest amphitheatre.

OVERNIGHT IN A MONUMENT VALLEY VILLA Overnight in Monument Valley, Utah at Gouldings Inn. Your stand alone villa offers a private patio featuring an outdoor sitting area with views of Monument Valley.

DINNER & A MOVIE Enjoy dinner nestled in the hillside above the lodge, the Stagecoach Restaurant offers panoramic views of the surrounding cliffs, mesas and teetering structures of Monument Valley. After dinner, enjoy a famous John Wayne feature film in the Earth Spirit Theatre. (B,D) (200 miles)

Thursday, April 23, 2020

EDGE OF THE CEDARS MUSEUM View the largest collection of Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) pottery on display in the Four Corners Regions and explore an authentic Puebloan village behind the museum.

FREE TIME IN MOAB Next, make your way to the town of Moab, also known as the "Adventure Capitol of Utah". Here you will have free time for shopping and lunch on your own.

SOUND AND LIGHT SHOW JET BOAT Late this afternoon you will be served a cowboy-style Dutch oven dinner in a dining room overlooking the Colorado River. After dinner, board a flat-bottomed boat as you head up river with a knowledgeable and entertaining guide who will point out things of interest and ignite your imagination.

Once darkness settles in, the formal part of the evening begins with 40,000 watts of natural light illuminating the canyon wall. Lights, shadows, music, and narration make the stories of the canyon’s formation, creation, and history come to life on the walls above the river.

GUIDED TOUR OF ARCHES NATIONAL PARK Known as the site of more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, such as the massive, red-hued Delicate Arch in the east. Long, thin Landscape Arch stands in Devils Garden to the north. Other geological formations include Balanced Rock, towering over the desert landscape in the middle of the park. Your guide will take you on an informative tour of the area.

OVERNIGHT IN MOAB, UTAH Your overnight accommodations are at Aarchway Inn located on the edge of town between the picturesque red rock and the buttes of the Colorado River, and just minutes from Arches National Park. (B,D) (145 miles)

Friday, April 24, 2020

VISIT DEAD HORSE POINT STATE PARK Visit Dead Horse Point State Park, one of Utah's most spectacular state parks. Towering 2,000 feet above the Colorado River, the overlook provides a breathtaking panorama of Canyonlands' sculpted pinnacles and buttes. Millions of years of geologic activity created the spectacular views from Dead Horse Point State Park. Deposition of sediments by ancient oceans, freshwater lakes, streams and wind blown sand dunes created the rock layers of canyon country.

TOUR CAPITOL REEF NATIONAL PARK Next, tour Capitol Reef National Park. Located in south-central Utah in the heart of red rock country, Capitol Reef National Park is a hidden treasure filled with cliffs, canyons, domes and bridges in the Waterpocket Fold, a geologic monocline (a wrinkle on the earth) extending almost 100 miles. Enjoy a picnic lunch while in the park.

ANASAZI STATE PARK Explore an Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) village that was likely occupied from A.D. 1050 to 1200, and one of the largest communities west of the Colorado River. Outside the museum, tour a life-sized, six-room replica of an ancient dwelling and view a portion of the original site. Inside, view artifacts excavated from this site and learn the life of these people.

OVERNIGHT AT RUBY'S INN Spend the night in a rustic lodge-style hotel just outside the entrance to Bryce Canyon National Park.

EBENEZER'S DINNER SHOW Ebenezer's Barn and Grill is a dinner show venue. Enjoy a western style buffet while being entertained by a live country music show. Playing nightly at Ebenezer's are the Bryce Canyon Wranglers. They are a group of musicians assembled from Nashville, Tennessee bringing their own rendition of country western hits, both traditional and new, as well as some of their own original material. (B,L,D) (323 miles)

Saturday, April 25, 2020

BRYCE CANYON NATIONAL PARK Today take a guided tour of Bryce Canyon, famous for its worldly unique geology, consists of a series of horseshoe-shaped amphitheaters carved from the eastern edge of the Paunsaugunt Plateau. The erosional force of frost-wedging and the dissolving power of rainwater have shaped the colorful limestone rock of the Claron Formation into bizarre shapes, including slot canyons, windows, fins, and spires called "hoodoos".

TOUR OF ZION NATIONAL PARK Next, travel to Zion National Park. Gaze up at massive sandstone cliffs of cream, pink, and red that soar into a brilliant blue sky. Challenge your courage in a narrow slot canyon. Zion’s unique array of plants and animals will enchant you as you absorb the rich history of the past and enjoy the excitement of present day adventures.

OVERNIGHT IN SAINT GEORGE, UT After your visit to two National Parks today, check in to the Best Western Plus Abbey Inn, one of the foremost hotels located in St. George, Utah. A delicious dinner awaits. (B,D) (175 miles)

Sunday, April 26, 2020

DEPART FOR HOME After breakfast at the hotel, check out and travel to Las Vegas where you meet your afternoon flight home. (B) (121 miles)