Student Tour of Virginia Beach, Busch Gardens and Water Country USA
Three Days/Two Nights
Day 1
12:00pm Meet your Colonial Connections Escort upon arrival at Water Country USA
12:00pm-4:00pm Water Country USA(lunch on own) Plunge into outrageous fun at the mid-Atlantic’s largest water play park. Featuring a 1950s and ‘60s surf-theme, Water Country USA offers tons of summertime fun with more than 30 slides, water rides and super soakin’ thrills. Hubba Hubba Highway is Water Country USA’s radical river adventure. Guests can “cruise” down this free-floating expedition through drenching coconuts and cool geysers. Cool cats and groovy gals are invited to gear up for high-speed toboggan racing aboard Meltdown. Or, racers can take a break and just soak up the sun relaxing in one of nearly 2,000 lounge chairs.
4:30pm Check into your Williamsburg hotel All properties used by Colonial Connections have an indoor pool and interior corridors for added security.
5:30pm-6:30pm Italian Buffet Dinner at Mirabella's or Doraldo's
6:45pm Return to your hotel
7:00pm-8:00pm Early American Medical Program at your Williamsburg hotel This program focuses on the practices of medicine in the 18th century when the treatment was oftentimes worse than the illness or injury. Examine and compare the contents of a practicing physician's bag with that of the modern-day doctor, participate in a mock amputation and dental extraction, review the theories, treatments, medicines, nursing methodologies, and scientific studies of the times.
10:00pm-4:00am Hotel security provided. Colonial Connections Escort goes off duty.
Day 2
8:00am Deluxe Continental breakfast at your Williamsburg hotel 8:45am Depart with your Colonial Connection Escort for a day in Virginia Beach 8:30am-10:00am Travel to Virginia Beach 10:00am-12:30pm Visit the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Explore more than 800,000 gallons of aquariums and take a journey of water through Virginia. Stroll through the indoor Coastal River Room where birds and turtles roam free, marvel at a 50,000 gallon aquarium with the largest collection of Chesapeake Bay fish in the world and touch gentle stingrays, horseshoe crabs and other marine life. The aquarium also has more than 300 interactive exhibits, 1/2-acre aviary, and "larger than life" movies on an IMAX 3D movie screen. Seasonal boat trips for dolphin watching, whale watching and ocean collections are also available. 1:00pm-4:00pm Enjoy Virginia Beach (lunch on own) Stretching along the Atlantic Ocean, Virginia Beach is where the action is. Sunbathers and swimmers come for the wide sandy beaches, surfers come for the waves and everyone comes for the people watching. Along the three-mile beach boardwalk you will find live music, street performers, outdoor cafes, hot dog and snow cone vendors and plenty of shopping. 4:00pm-6:00pm Return to your Williamsburg hotel to change for dinner 7;00pm-8:00pm Buffet Dinner
8:30-9:30pm The Hauntings of WilliamsburgCandlelight Walking Tour When darkness falls another side of Williamsburg emerges... it's a different place after sunset - full of mystery and intrigue. Journey by candlelight through the streets of Colonial Williamsburg, listening to eerie tales of Williamsburg's only witch trial, Black Beard and his crew, the "Wagon of Death," which can still be heard bringing prisoners to the gallows, and accounts - told centuries apart - of ghostly parties at Raleigh Tavern. Based on stories from Jackie Eileen Behrend's award-winning book, The Hauntings of Williamsburg, Yorktown and Jamestown. Some stories last more than a lifetime!
9:45pm Return to your Williamsburg hotel
10:00pm-4:00am Hotel security provided. Colonial Connections Escort goes off duty.
Day 3
8:00am Deluxe Continental breakfast at your Williamsburg hotel 9:00am Check out and depart for Busch Gardens 9:30am-5:00pm Visit Busch Gardens (meals on own) Busch Gardens Europe is a European-themed park bursting with adventure at every turn and 17th-century charm is combined with 21st-century technology to create the ultimate adventure park experience. Situated on 100 action-packed acres, Busch Gardens Europe boasts more than 50 thrilling rides and attractions, 10 main stage shows, a wide variety of award-winning cuisine and world-class shops. Opened in May 2007, Griffon carries riders up 205 feet, then hurtles them 90 degrees straight down at 70 mph. And that's just the beginning!
5:15pm Depart for home
$195 per person quad occupancy, based on 10 or more occupied rooms.
Note: Price does not include ground transportation.
Busch Gardens Europe is a European-themed park bursting with adventure at every turn and 17th-century charm is combined with 21st-century technology to create the ultimate adventure park experience. Situated on 100 action-packed acres, Busch Gardens Europe boasts more than 50 thrilling rides and attractions, 10 main stage shows, a wide variety of award-winning cuisine and world-class shops. Opened in May 2007, Griffon carries riders up 205 feet, then hurtles them 90 degrees straight down at 70 mph. And that's just the beginning! $195 per person quad occupancy, based on 10 or more occupied rooms.
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