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Enjoy the true delights of the season!
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| Groundhog Day Celebration, 1-2 Days, Punxsutawney
Come and join the fun and see of the groundhog sees his shadow!
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Experience the fun and excitement of the day with thousands of other fans! There's nothing else like it! Activities include:
* Available February 2.
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| Holiday Festivals, 1 Day, Lewisburg & Wellsboro areas
Get in the holiday spirit.
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n Mifflinburg’s Christkindl Market follows a 700-year-old German tradition including outdoor huts with unique handmade crafts, traditional food and entertainment.
* Available the second weekend of December.
n Wellsboro's Dickens of a Christmas offers strolling entertainers and vendors dressed in Victorian attire, food & crafts holiday theatre & Santa train.
* Available December 3, 2011.
Combine one of these with our Susquehanna Valley Stocking Stuffer Sensation Tour for a festive overnight adventure.
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| Dickens of a Christmas & Corning Sparkle Festival Overnight
Experience the magic of the holidays.
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n This affordable holiday overnight tour includes Dickens Festival and theatre during the day then Corning's Sparkle Festival in the evening featuring outdoor food and craft vendors, musicians, carolers, and more.
n To round out the tour consider visiting the Corning Museum of Glass and wineries in New York's Finger Lake region to the north, or head south for options including great shopping at Country Cupboard, visit to an artisan soap maker's shoppe with demo, Victorian mansion tour, winery, and more.
* Available December 3-4, 2011.
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Holiday Know How Tour, 2 Days, Lewisburg area
Learn holiday tips from our professionals!
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Houses of Harrisburg Holiday Tour, 1Day, Harrisburg
Memories of the holidays of yesteryear plus some new ones!
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n Visit to the PA Governor's Residence decorated for the season.
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Harrisburg Holiday Happenings, 2 Days, Harrisburg/York area
Dinner theatre, holiday shopping and more!
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n Tour of the magnificent PA State Capitol Building whose Italian marble staircase is modeled after the Paris Opera House.
n Visit the Shoppes at the Susquehanna Marketplace for holiday browsing. Featuring J. Jill, Coldwater Creek, Chico's, Jos. A. Bank, Ann Taylor Loft, William-Sonoma and more!
n Enjoy a delicious dinner buffet and holiday theatre performance at the Allenberry Playhouse in Boiling Springs.
n Tour plus browsing at Wolfgang Candy Company in York. Also included is a special candy treat to take home.
n Enjoy a hot served luncheon at San Carlo's Restaurant in York partially housed in a centeries-old bank barn.
n Browse at Ashcombe Gardens home and garden retail store in Mechanicsburg and as a special gift, we'll give everyone a small poinsettia to take home!
* Tour designed for November/ December travel and will be customized to meet client's needs.
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Christmas Unwrapped, 1 Day, Milton/ Catawissa
A peek at pre-season holiday preparations!
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Santa’s Helper Tour, 1 Day, York
Popcorn to string on a tree, ginger snaps & wine to take home!
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n Everyone gets a bag or holiday stocking to collect gifts as Santa’s helper, our own special guide, leads the way! Tour Martin’s Chips where you’ll see how chips and popcorn are made and take home popcorn to string on your tree, dine at San Carlo’s Restaurant for tasty holiday fare and receive a York Peppermint Pattie as a special memento, visit Stauffer’s Cookies for ginger snaps and enjoy a tasting plus split of wine at Naylor’s Winery for a seasonal glow.
* Available Tuesdays in early November but not in December. Great as a Christmas in July Tour! For expanded availability options, consider including a tour of the Haines Shoe House in Hellam which is like giant doll house shaped like a shoe! We'll give everyone shoelace licorice as a special treat when visiting!
If you'd like we can turn this into an overnight tour including holiday theatre at the Allenberry Playhouse!
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Home Spun Holiday Overnight, 2 Days, Lewisburg/Mifflinburg Area
Make a wreath or holiday swag & learn how to mull wine!
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n Our one-day tour includes an authentic outdoor German Christkindl Market with over 75 vendors and entertainment, as well as your choice of other sites such as Slifer House Museum for a holiday exhibit, tour and tasting at Shade Mountain Winery with mulled wine, Colonial Candlecrafters' tour, browsing among dozens of decorated trees at a holiday shop, Victorian mansion tour highlighting holiday traditions of the time, a Christmas tree farm for wreaths, and more.
n Overnight options may include all of the above options plus a holiday theatre production and themed holiday meal at The Victoria House Mansion with a reading of A Cup of Christmas Tea.
* To visit the Christkindl Market visit the second weekend in December. For greater availability skip Christkindl and focus on other holiday sites.
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Holiday-Themed Goodie Bag Tours, 1- 3 Days, North, South & Central PA
Handmade goodies and workshop tours!
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PA is filled with wonderful artisans and factories that offer tours of their sites and shoppes for our groups plus offer Goodie Bag Tours on which everyone receives a goodie bag that can be themed for any holiday for collecting gifts from sites during the tour. We can usually include three of these great sites on a day trip. Available sites include:
n Candy factories and outlet with delicious treats.
n Plus much more!
* Available year round.
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Red Hattitude Holiday Tour, 2 Days, Central PA
Two days filled with red & purple, and highlighted with holiday merriment.
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n Visit Victoria House Restaurant for a colorful meal including lavender chicken, purple rice, red velvet sponge cake and more!
n Take home a red or purple poinsettia from a local site that is a winter wonderland full of decorated holiday trees, wreaths, swags and decorations. Midweek tours have an option of a special holiday presentation to help you add a bit of holiday flare to your home or learn about the symbolism and uses of lavender keeping with the purple theme.
n Enjoy a tour and demo at Colonial Candlecrafters and perhaps a get a head start on holiday shopping.
n Visit a German-inspired Christlkindl Market complete with artisan vendors holiday music, and delicious foods or enjoy a holiday theatre presentation or our own heritage entertainer bringing to life music from the region's 19th century heyday including holiday favorites.
n Be treated like a Queen during a tour of Williamsport's Millionaires' Row including appetizers in one mansion and a gourmet meal in another!
* Tour designed for November/ December travel and will be customized to meet client's needs. Christkindl Market is the second weekend in December.
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Mother's Day Tour, 1 Day, Lewisburg
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n Enjoy wine tasting and delicious meal overlooking a beautiful vineyard. For other tours available in May that would be great to take Mom on as a special Mother's Day gift we suggest clicking on our Girlfriend Getaways link and our Central Valleys of the Susquehanna one-day and multi-day tour for great adventures including our Sensational Sweets, Soaps, Scents & Savories and Herbal Lotions & Potions. For a weekend trip consider our Sublime & Soothing Weekend Getaway.
n Also included is visit to a Victorian mansion museum where you'll learn about another May tradition, May Day, shopping and more.
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Summer Sizzle in York, 1 Day, York/Stewartstown
From Big band and jazz to 50's rock & roll.
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n We’ll include lunch with a psychic in a haunted house, train ride plus dinner and show at the Allenberry Playhouse on Thursday, then on Friday, a tour of the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Plant and a chocolate factory, a bit of shopping and an evening of music from the 50s and 60s at Naylor’s Winery in Stewartstown.
n On Saturday you’ll take it easy with a visit to Stauffer’s Cookie Outlet, time for lunch on own in the historic downtown market house with option for a walking tour of the city’s mural project, plus a tour of the Haines Shoe House where you’ll enjoy root beer floats as a delicious treat before you head home.
* Available mid-June to August.
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