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Sakura-con and Puget Sound Easter-2012
Holiwood Nights & More-2012
Wow Week at the Beach-2012
Summer
Fun-2012
Summer Fun II-2012
Future Trips:
Ireland and the U.K. with a Spot of France-2013
Paris and London Special-2013
British French Invasion-2010
Friends:
Puget Sound Adventure-2012
Ocean, Sand and Sun-2012 Revised
Christmas with Mickey-2013
Twilight in
Forks-2011
Optional Trips:
Long Trips:
Big Mountain/ Glacier National Park
Ireland
Maui
and Kauai
Oregon
Coast-a-Thon
Oregon Coast Websites for Vacation Rentals
Yellowstone National Park-Long Trip
Yellowstone-Teton Adventure-2011
Short Trips:
Glacier in a Weekend
Yellowstone
National
Park-
Short Trip
Puget
Sound Adventure
| Day 1 | June 1st | Friday | |
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6:25 a.m. |
Depart: |
Spokane | |
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Do: |
Frontier Airlines | ||
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3:50 p.m. |
Arrive: |
Louisville, KY | |
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Do: |
Rent Car | ||
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5:00 p.m. |
Depart: |
Louisville | |
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6:30 p.m. |
Arrive: |
Santa Claus, IN |
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7:15 p.m. |
Enter Holiday World A) HoliWood Nights (above schedule) $47.95 ($62.95 on site) B) HoliWood Nights (above schedule + add all-day Friday) $67.95 ($82.95 on site) C) HoliWood Nights (w/season pass) $27.95 ($42.95 on site) D) HoliWood Nights shirt (any size) $16.00 No tickets or confirmation will be mailed. Simply check in at Group Sales with your valid coaster club membership card and photo i.d. when you arrive. |
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8:00 p.m. |
ERT on 3 woodies plus additional ERT on Turkey Whirl and Sparkler | ||
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8:30 p.m.- |
Pizza, chips, veggies and fudge | ||
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11:00 p.m. |
ERT ends | ||
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11:15 p.m. |
Depart: |
Holiday World | |
| Day 2 | June 2nd | Saturday | |
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8:15 a.m. |
Do: |
Breakfast and Wildebeest/Mammoth ERT in Splashin’ Safari |
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3:00 p.m. |
Raven/Legend photo/video walkback | ||
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4:00 p.m. |
Voyage photo/video walkback | ||
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8:00 p.m.- |
Buffet meal in Good Old Days Picnic Grove | ||
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9:00 p.m. |
ERT on all three woodies; Additional ERT sessions on Hallow Springs and Scarecrow Scrambler | ||
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12:00 a.m. |
ERT ends. Put away your Proton Pack |
| Day 3 | June 3rd | Sunday | |
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9:00 a.m. |
Depart: |
Santa Claus | |
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10:00 a.m. |
Arrive: |
Owensboro |
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11:30 a.m. |
Arrive: |
Bowling Green |
71 |
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Do: |
Beech Bend Bash (11-7) $29.99 Free soft drinks, sunscreen, parking, mats and tubes |
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7:15 p.m. |
Depart: |
Beech Bend | |
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Do: |
Ryans 1920 Mel Browning St Bowling Green, KY 42104 |
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Lodge: |
| Day 5 | June 4th | Monday | |
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9:00 a.m. |
Depart: |
Bowling Green | |
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9:45 a.m. |
Arrive: |
Mammoth Cave National Park |
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| Visitor Center (8:45-5:10) | |||
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Do: |
Mammoth Passage Tour: Follow your guide to the Historic Entrance where the cave was first discovered more than 4,000 years ago. Entering the cave, imagine early visitors as they walked through these "Mammoth Passages". Visit one of the largest rooms in the cave and see remains of an early mining operation. This is an easy introductory tour to Mammoth Cave. •1¼ hours, ¾ mile. Tour limit: 40. Total stairs: 160. Elevation change: 160’. •Includes parts of the Historic and all of the Discovery tour routes.Not available by reservation. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Easy. 9:45 $5.00 | ||
| Frozen Niagara Tour: Depart by bus and journey over the top of the cave to the Frozen Niagara Entrance. The entrance, created in 1924, makes it possible to see this decorative area of the cave. Walk through a fairyland of formations to learn how travertine is formed. Pass through Rainbow Dome, then see Crystal Lake, Moonlight Dome and Onyx Collonade before arriving at the Frozen Niagara flowstone. Descend steps under the Frozen Niagara formation to visit the Drapery Room before returning to the surface. This easy trip is ideal for people who want a short introduction to Mammoth Cave. •1¼ hours, ¼ mile. Tour limit: 36. Total stairs: 12, plus an optional 98. Elevation change: 40’. •Includes parts of the New Entrance and Grand Avenue tour routes. Not available by reservation. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Easy. 9:30, 3:45 $10.00 No Reservations-First Come, First Serve | |||
| Historic Tour: Entering the cave through the Historic Entrance, you will feel the excitement that intrigued the earliest explorers and visitors. Experience the history and the role Mammoth Cave played during the War of 1812. Large passages invite you to imagine what it would have been like for prehistoric discoverers who walked these passages more than 2,000 years ago. Descend into the lower levels of the cave and follow in the footsteps of the first explorers who crossed the Bottomless Pit. Squeeze through Fat Man’s Misery. Climb 155 stairs up Mammoth Dome and exit through the Historic Entrance. •2 hours, 2 miles. Tour limit: 120. Total stairs: 440, including 155 at Mammoth Dome. Elevation change: 300’. •Limited areas of the Mammoth Cave Discovery, Mammoth Passage, Star Chamber, River Styx and Violet City Lantern Tours are visited on this route. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Moderate. 11:00, 1:00, 3:00 $12.00 | |||
| New Entrance Tour: A bus ride carries you to the New Entrance—opened in the 1920s, it provided a whole new way to see Mammoth Cave. Impressive pits, domes, and a few narrow openings soon give way to large passages and underground hills. Follow your guide to the Frozen Niagara formation, discovered in 1923. From Frozen Niagara to the cave exit you will pass through one of the most decorative and photographed areas of Mammoth Cave. •2 hours, ¾ mile. Tour limit: 114. Total stairs: 500, including 280 on initial descent. Elevation change: 250’. •Includes the complete Frozen Niagara Tour route and a portion of the Grand Avenue Tour route. If you have weak knees, think twice about taking this tour. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Moderate. 10:00, 12:00, 2:00 $12.00- 2 hours | |||
| Grand Avenue Tour: This physically demanding trip unveils the size and complexity of the Mammoth Cave system. Learn the interwoven natural and cultural history of the cave as you journey through some of the cave’s most dramatic passages. Discover gypsum-encrusted halls, twisting canyons, underground hills, vast chambers, and tapestries of dripstone. Enter through Carmichael Entrance to visit Cleaveland Avenue, the Snowball Room, Boone Avenue, Thorpe’s Pit, Mt. McKinley, Grand Canyon, Aerobridge Canyon, the Hippodrome, Grand Central Station, and exit through the beautiful Frozen Niagara section. This tour has no shortage of hills and stairs! •4½ hours, 4 miles. Tour limit: 78. Age limit: 6 and older. Total stairs: 670. Elevation change: 280’, with hills more than 60’ in some places’. •The Snowball and Frozen Niagara Tour routes, and portions of the New Entrance tour route, are seen on this tour. This tour is not recommended for visitors who have heart or respiratory illnesses, diabetes or walking difficulty. Food is available at the Snowball Room. Box lunch costs $7.50 (cash only). Visitors may opt to carry their own picnic lunch into the cave, but must pack it in a clear, see-through backpack or large ziplock bags. Food is allowed only at Snowball Room. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Strenuous. 10:30 $24.00 | |||
| Snowball Tour: Walk through some of the largest passages in the cave by lantern light as guides recreate the experience of the first visitors in the 1800’s. Become part of the tradition of visiting one of the oldest tourist attractions in the country. Relive the stories and illusions witnessed by Ralph Waldo Emerson and others of his day. See evidence of saltpetre production, an underground hospital and prehistoric mining of cave minerals. Enter through the Natural Entrance and visit the Narrows, the Rotunda, Broadway Avenue, Giant’s Coffin, Star Chamber, Wright’s Rotunda, the Cataracts, Chief City, Mummy Ledge, Elisabeth’s Dome, and exit by way of the Violet City Entrance. •3 hours, 3 miles. Tour limit: 38. Age limit: 6 and older. Total stairs: 160, and numerous hills without handrails. Elevation change: 160’. •Includes parts of the Historic, Discovery, Star Chamber, and Mammoth Passage Tour routes. Lanterns may cause some discomfort for visitors with respiratory illnesses. Only adults may carry lanterns.Only adults may carry the provided lanterns. No flash photography or flashlights permitted. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Strenuous. 10:15 $14.00- 3 hours | |||
| River Styx Cave Tour: Trace the stages of cave development from solid layers of limestone to the world’s longest known cave system. Hike from ridge top to underground river and witness the persistent power of the water that created this geologic marvel. Experience some of the largest continuous canyon passages on the planet, smooth elliptical tubes and beautifully sculpted shafts. At the cave’s lowest level, peer into the cold waters of the Dead Sea, River Styx and Lake Lethe, still working to lengthen the cave system. •2½ hours, 2½ miles. Tour limit: 40. Total stairs: 500 including 155 at Mammoth Dome. Elevation change: 360’. •This tour covers the entire Historic Tour route. Limited sections of the Star Chamber, Mammoth Passage and Mammoth Cave Discovery Tours are also seen. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Moderate. 3:30, $13.00 | |||
| Star Chamber Tour: See the cave as it was seen by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jenny Lind and other nineteenth-century notables. Leave waning sunshine behind as you enter Mammoth Cave‘s Historic Entrance by lantern light. Follow the paths taken daily by Dr. John Croghan as he tended consumptive patients in his “hospital" 160 feet underground. Gaze upward at rock layers in a room called “Star Chamber." Follow your guide as you retrace the oldest tour trails and exit the cave into another Star Chamber above the nocturnal Kentucky landscape. •2 1/4 hours, 1½ miles. Tour limit: 40. Age limit: 6 and older. Total stairs: 200. Elevation change: 160’. •Includes parts of the Gothic, Historic, Discovery, Violet City Lantern, and Mammoth Passage Tour routes. Lanterns may cause some discomfort for visitors with respiratory illnesses.Only adults may carry the provided lanterns. No flash photography or flashlight use on this tour. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Moderate. 6:30 $12.00 | |||
| Gothic Avenue: This tour begins at the Visitor Center and
enters that now famous entrance, as the ranger interprets areas
including the Rotunda, the Church, Giant's Coffin, and the TB Huts. The
tour backtracks Broadway Avenue and enters Gothic Avenue, one of the
most historically significant passageways in the cave. This area
showcases hundreds of examples of nineteenth-century candle-written
signatures and monuments left behind by visitors nearly 200 years ago.
Gothic Avenue is also included in the Star Chamber Tour that is offered
during spring, summer and fall. 2 hours, 1 mile 9:15 $11.00- 2 hrs and 40 minutes |
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| Wild Cave Tour: Meet Mammoth Cave on its own terms as you and a small group of adventurers don helmets, headlamps, boots and kneepads and venture into miles of undeveloped passageways. Climb, crawl and canyonwalk your way through passageways no other tour sees. On the way, your guides will share their knowledge of the history and geology of places like Cleaveland’s Cabinet, Thorpe’s Pit, and Cathedral Domes. You must be prepared for free-climbing cave walls; lengthy crawls through areas as tight as 9 inches high; walking in a crouched position; hand and knee crawls over jagged rocks and dirt; crawling through wet areas; twisting into and out of tight crawlway openings. •6-6½ hours, 5 miles. Tour limit: 14. Age limit: 16+; proof of age may be requested. Total stairs: . Elevation change: 300’. •An adult must accompany visitors under age 18. Chest or hip measurement must not exceed 42 inches; if you are larger, you cannot physically pass through the crawlspaces. High-top, over-the-ankle lace-up boots, with lug or deeply treaded soles, are required. No low-cut hiking or athletic shoes allowed. You will not be allowed to participate in the tour if you are not wearing proper footwear—No exceptions. Gym shorts and t-shirts are recommended for wear under coveralls. Please bring extra pair of tennis shoes or sandals for use during boot decontamination at the end of the tour. All equipment and outerwear provided; no personal caving equipment allowed. Food is available at the Snowball Room. A box lunch can be purchased for $7.50 (cash only). Visitors may bring a lunch and/or water bottle-a small fanny pack will be provided. Bring no cameras—there will be no opportunity to use them on this activity. Requires at least 2 participants. Reserved tickets not claimed 30 minutes prior to tour departure may be re-sold. •Meets at the Visitor Center. Difficulty: Very Strenuous. 10:00 $48.00 | |||
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Depart: |
Mammoth Caves | ||
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Arrive: |
Elizabethtown | ||
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Do: |
Ryans 1034 Executive Dr Elizabethtown, KY 42701 (270) 766-1058 |
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Arrive: |
Louisville |
90 |
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Lodge: |
| Day 6 | June 5th | Tuesday | |
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Do: |
Fly Home |
Costs:
Airline Ticket
$300.00
Holiwood Nights
$ 47. 95
Shirt
$ 16.00
Beech Bend Bash
$ 29.99
Mammoth Caves Tour
$ 24.00
Hotels
$160.00
Rental Car
$ 50.00
Gas
$
Total $627.94 (Bring $700)
Meals:
Lunch at Holiday World
Lunch at Beech Bend
Lunch at Mammoth Caves in Cave
Dinner at Ryans