Student Tour of Williamsburg, Busch Gardens, and Virginia Beach
Three Days/Two Nights
Day 1
1:00pm Meet your Colonial Connections guideupon arrival at Colonial Williamsburg 1:00pm-4;30pm TourColonial Williamsburg's Historic Area. From 1699 to 1780, Williamsburg was the political and cultural center of Britain's largest colony in the New World. In the shops, taverns, government buildings, homes and streets George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, George Mason and other Virginia Patriots debated the ideas - liberty, independence, and personal freedoms - that led to the founding of American democracy and inspired generations of Americans and others from around the world. 5:00pm-6:00pm Italian Buffet Dinner. 6:30pm Check into your Williamsburg hotel. All properties used by Colonial Connections have an indoor pool and interior corridors for added security.
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.
Day 2
8:00am Continental breakfast at your Williamsburg hotel. 8:45am Depart with your Colonial Connection guide 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.
Day 3
8:00am Continental breakfast at your Williamsburg hotel. 9:00am Check out and depart for Busch Gardens Europe. 9:30am-5:00pm Visit Busch Gardens Europe (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.
$185 per person quad occupancy, based on 10 or more occupied rooms.
Note: Price does not include ground transportation.