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September 2010

USA & Canada | Southern Treasures

Choo Choo, Gardens, & Battles

Celebrate 100 years at the Choo Choo

Custom Group Tour

3 days

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Tour Description/Daily Itinerary:

Make a trip “truly Chattanooga” showcasing the Civil War battlefields, staying where the historic railroad terminal station & visiting such nationally known places like Rock City Gardens

Day 1:
Arrive at Chattanooga Choo Choo-Holiday Inn with staff greeting & luggage handling (Chattanooga Choo Choo celebrating its 100th anniversary). Enjoy The Station House with entertainment inside the hotel this evening. (D)

Day 2:
Experience Ruby Falls (America’s highest & most visit underground waterfall in an underground cavern), a one-way ride on the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway (world’s steepest passenger railway up historic Lookout Mountain; known as “America’s most amazing mile”); Battles for Chattanooga Electric Map (3-dimensional presentation of Chattanooga’s Civil War history from 1863); and Rock City Gardens (14-acre natural, scenic & historic attraction with a 4,100-foot trail featuring unique rock formations and gardens showcasing all of its native mountain area wildflowers & plants). Also enjoy admission to Gordon-Lee Mansion for guided tour of this home located amidst the Chickamauga National Battlefield. (B, D)

Day 3:
Check-out & depart Chattanooga for home. (B)


Price Per Person: From $343.00 (USD) Double Occupancy

Additional Pricing/Tour Includes:

PRICE PER PERSON:
Double: $343

Tour Highlights:
• 2 nights lodging at the Chattanooga Choo Choo Holiday Inn
• Staff greeting upon arrival to hotel
• ADMISSIONS:
o Ruby Falls
o Lookout Mountain Incline Railway
o Battles for Chattanooga Electric Map
o Rock City Gardens, Gordon-Lee Mansion
o The Chattanooga Choo Choo Model Railroad Museum pass (at the hotel)
• MEALS: 2 Breakfasts, 2 Dinners
• Roundtrip Luggage Handling
• Taxes and gratuities (excluding tips for step-on guide)

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When most college students were concerned with when the next party was, Richard Durgan was already figuring out how to successfully sell travel as a campus rep, selling Spring Break tours. Richard hasn’t stopped since. First creating The Durgan Affiliated Group at Crimson Travel, then later Thomas Cook, Richard seized the opportunity to sell affordable, inclusive group travel in New England. In the mid-1990’s, after spinning off into his own Durgan Travel Service entity in Stoneham, Massachusetts, Richard took a chance on promoting an obscure Sicily trip, and that exploded into a whole new European market for Durgan Travel. Now, Durgan Travel is an award-winning tour operator to Italy, and one of the biggest customers out of the Boston gateway for several European airlines. Richard will celebrate 40 years in the travel industry in 2009.

Richard lives in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, with his wife Cheryl and son Jared. He can be reached at (781) 438-2224, extension 101, or rdurgan@durgantravel.com

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