Michigan/Upper Peninsula
Ultimate Lighthouse Tour
Sept. 16-25 2005
Day One
7:30pm-Welcome reception
Hotel: Sheraton Four Points
Day Two(Escorted by GLLKA)
Saginaw-Alpena
Highlights include views of Saginaw River Rear Range Light. Tower access and picnic lunch at Tawas Point and Sturgeon Point Light. Group dinner @ CW Barbecue
Hotel: Holiday Inn Alpena
Alpena-Mackinaw City
Highlights of the day include views of Alpena Light, Cheboygan Crib Light and Poe Reef Lights, USCGC Mackinaw Icebreaker access to Old Presque Isle, Presque Isle, and 40-Mile Point Light, Cheboygan River Front Range-towers, museums, and gift shops.
Group dinner @ Audies
Hotel: Best Western Mackinaw City
Mackinaw City
Highlights include Mackinaw City tour, Old Machinack Point Lighthouse and lunch as we tour through Colonial Michilimackinac
Free evening
Hotel: Best Western Mackinaw City
Mackinaw City –Mackinaw Island
Highlights of the day include Shelper’s “Western” narrated Lighthouse Cruise on Lake Michigan. Lighthouses will include White Shoal, Waugoshance Light, Grays Reef, Old Mackinaw Point Light, St. Helena Island Light. We will have sometime to spend at the observation/photo area in Mackinaw City before we drive over the Mackinaw Bridge and head into St. Ignace, where we will be taking the ferry over to Mackinaw Island. We will be spending 2 nights at the Grand Hotel a National Historic Landmark. Also included is a 5-course dinner at your leisure.
Hotel: Grand Hotel
Mackinaw Island
Highlights to include Carriage Island tour including a Fort Mackinack tour, lunch buffet at the Grand Hotel. Afternoon and evening free to enjoy the island.
5 –course dinner is also provided at your leisure.
Hotel: Grand Hotel
Mackinaw Island –Upper Peninsula
Highlights of the day include access the towers, museums and gift shops of both Point Iroquois and Whitefish Point Lights before touring The Great Lakes Ship Wreck Museum. Tonight we dine at Abners Restaurant for our group dinner
Hotel:Ramada
Upper Peninsula-Sault. Ste. Marie
Highlights of the day include a narrated Soo Locks Lighthouse cruise. The cruise will include the following lighthouses-Cedar Point, Round Island, Point Iroquois, Pointe Aux Pins Range Lights, and Gros Cap Reefs Light. Tonight you will be on your own to enjoy Sault Ste. Marie.
Hotel: Ramada
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As we make our way back to Saginaw today we will be stopping for lunch at the Big Buck Brewery and make our way to Frankenmuth,"Michigan's Little Bavaria", will have time for a shopping at Bronners-Worlds Largest Christmas Store before ending the tour at famed Zehnders.
Hotel: Sheraton Four Points
Departures
Inclusions:
Tour based on a minimum of 20 pax. Prices include all motorcoach transportation, hotel and taxes, luggage handling, maids fees, admissions as indicated, 9 breakfasts, 7 lunches, 6 dinners, all meals include tax and gratuity and services of tour escort. For those driving, parking is also included at the Sheraton Four Points for duration of the tour.
Cost per person based on double occupancy- $2195.00