Day 1 Schaumburg, IL

You will be warmly welcomed by your tour director and driver as you board our deluxe motor coach. They will remain with you throughout the tour and do their best to make your trip to New York City and Niagara Falls a memorable one. Our overnight accommodations will be in Schaumburg, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago.

Hotel: Hilton Garden Inn

Day 2 Youngstown, OH

This morning travel resumes across Indiana into Ohio to the Cherry City Honey Farm. Here we will meet the bee keeper and learn about the sacred duties of his or her job. Afterwards, we’ll get a hands on experience Candle Rolling where you will have the chance to create and take home your own beautifully rolled beeswax candle. Then we’ll head to Youngstown, Ohio for our overnight stay. (B)

Hotel: Hampton Inn & Suites

Day 3 Paramus, NJ

We depart Ohio and make our way across Pennsylvania making our usual stops along the way. (B)

Hotel: Hyatt Place

Day 4 Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

Today we will travel into busy New York City! Upon arrival, we will board a ferry which takes us to the famous point of embarkation for so many immigrants, Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty to see the “lady” herself. This evening we will experience Manhattan from the water with panoramic views of the city at night. Sail beneath the Statue of Liberty and under the Brooklyn Bridge all while enjoying an included dinner and dancing aboard a cruise on New York City’s Harbor. (B, D)

Hotel: Holiday Inn

Day 5 Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

We’ll travel back into the bustling city this morning to meet a local guide for a tour of New York City. Among the sites we will see today are Fifth Avenue, Trump Tower, United Nations Headquarters, Grand Central Station, Chrysler Building, Rockefeller Center, Central Park, Harlem, Apollo Theater, Grant’s Tomb and the Cathedral of St. John the Divine & more! Tonight we head back to spend the evening in the “Big Apple” where we will attend a Broadway play in Times Square after an included dinner. (B, D)

Day 6 Hasbrouck Heights, NJ

Our local guide will join us again this morning and we’ll see more of fabulous New York City, including Battery Park, Wall Street, New York Stock Exchange, World Financial Center, Lower Manhattan, Trinity Church, Federal Hall, Lower East Side Immigrant, Chinatown, Mott Street, Little Italy, Greenwich Village, Washington Square and SoHo and the 9/11 Museum and Memorial. (B)

Day 7 Painted Post, NY

Experience the dramatic history of West Point, the U.S. Military Academy. We will meet our step-on guide for a tour of West Point and learn about it’s history from it’s role in the American Revolution to present day. Tonight, we will overnight in Corning, New York. (B)

Hotel: Fairfield Inn

Day 8 Niagara Falls, ON

We will start out this morning traveling north to Niagara Falls, Ontario. Upon arrival, a local guide will join us for a tour of Niagara Falls, Ontario. Next, we get a close up and personal look of the falls on Hornblower boat ride to the base of the falls. This evening we will enjoy an included dinner at Skylon Tower Revolving Restaurant. Enjoy award-winning continental cuisine 775 feet above the Falls while revolving silently 360 degrees once each hour. We’ll have views of the magic of the Falls illumination and dazzling city lights below. (B, D)

Hotel: Holiday Inn by the Falls

Day 9 Ludington, MI

We travel through Ontario, Canada this morning and enter Michigan. After our border crossing we will make our way to Ludington, Michigan which we will be our home for the evening. (B)

Hotel: Holiday Inn Express

Day 10 Home

This morning we’ll board the SS Badger to ferry to Manitowoc, WI. Sit back, relax and enjoy the ride as we travel across Lake Michigan. We travel back across Wisconsin and into Minnesota to our homes. (B)