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DT 2025T Beautiful Maine (October)
Oct 3, 2025 to Oct 13, 2025
Beautiful Maine
- Motorcoach Transportation
- 10 nights lodging including 4 consecutive nights in Maine
- 18 meals: 10 Breakfasts and 8 Dinners
- Guided Tour of Portland, Maine's largest city-by-the-sea
- Guided Tour of quaint Kennebunk and Kennebunkport
- Tour of historic Victoria Mansion
- Visit to the Maine Maritime Museum & Tour of Percy & Small Shipyard
- Visit to Boothbay Railway Villiage, including a vintage train ride
- Visit to the Seashore Trolley Museum and countryside trolley ride
- Day 1
- Depart your group's location in a spacious, video and restroom-equipped motorcoach and set off on your exciting trip! Tonight, settle into a comfortable en-route hotel for a good night's rest.
- Day 2
- After enjoying a Continental Breakfast, you will depart for the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville, TN. Later in the day, enjoy Dinner and check into your en-route hotel.
- Day 3
- Enjoy a Continental Breakfast before leaving for the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum Dulles in Chantilly, VA. Later that day, after a relaxing Dinner, you'll check into your en-route hotel.
- Day 4
- Today after enjoying a Continental Breakfast, depart for beautiful Maine! Later that day, enjoy a relaxing Dinner and check into your accommodations in Maine for a four-night stay.
- Day 5
- After a Continental Breakfast, take a Guided Tour of the seaside city of Portland. View Longfellow's boyhood home and sea captains' houses, and stop at Portland Head Lighthouse, the most photographed lighthouse in America. Enjoy free time at the historic Portland waterfront, home to unique shops and eateries. Next, tour Victoria Mansion, an elegant historic home featuring spectacular architecture, stunning interiors, and exquisite, original furnishings. This evening, enjoy Dinner with entertainment.
- Day 6
- Enjoy a Continental Breakfast before departing for a visit to the Maine Maritime Museum, located on a 20-acre campus on the banks of the Kennebec River in “The City of Ships,” Bath, Maine. The museum connects people to the past, present, and future of Maine’s waterways and their global reach. Your visit also includes a tour of the Percy & Small Shipyard, America’s only surviving shipyard site where large wooden sailing vessels were once built. Next, explore Boothbay Railway Village, featuring 28 historic structures. You can take a ride aboard the Narrow Gauge Steam Train, marvel at the antique auto exhibit, see an immense model railroad exhibit, authentic boxcars, and much more! Then continue on to Dinner.
- Day 7
- Today, after a Continental Breakfast, enjoy a Guided Tour of the Maine coastal villages of Kennebunk and Kennebunkport. See Dock Square in Kennebunkport, and follow Ocean Avenue along the Atlantic Ocean. Drive by the estate of President George H.W. Bush at Walker's Point, and see the coastline comparisons of Kennebunk beaches. Explore the gardens and shrines of the Franciscan Monastery. During your free time, visit the quaint shops and eateries in downtown Kennebunkport. Next, visit the Seashore Trolley Museum, where you can enjoy a trolley ride on an authentically restored streetcar through the Maine countryside. Later, enjoy a Lobster Dinner, and then visit the L.L. Bean flagship store.
- Day 8
- Enjoy a Continental Breakfast before leaving for the Boott Cotton Mills Museum in Lowell, MA. Later that day, after a relaxing Dinner, you'll check into your en-route hotel.
- Day 9
- Enjoy a Continental Breakfast at your hotel before leaving for the National Harbor, a unique waterfront wonderland of shopping, dining, and more. That night, enjoy Dinner and check into your en-route hotel.
- Day 10
- Today you will have a Continental Breakfast and then go to the William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, VA. Tonight, rest in your en-route hotel.
- Day 11
- Today, after enjoying a Continental Breakfast, you depart for home... a perfect time to chat with your friends about all the fun things you've done, the great sights you've seen, and where your next group trip will take you!
East Tennessee History Museum
Learn about the people, places, and events that have shaped East Tennessee at the East Tennessee History Museum as part of this group motorcoach vacation package. Located at the East Tennessee History Center, a multi-faceted facility that consists of the East Tennessee Historical Society, the East Tennessee History Museum, the Knox County Archives, and the Calvin M. McClung Historical Collection, in the heart of downtown Knoxville. Opening the doors to its current location in 2008, the East Tennessee History Museum connects the region and its history through preserving, promoting, and interpreting the history of Tennessee with a focus on East Tennessee.
Be sure to stop by the Museum Shop. A large selection of gift and history-related items including regional crafts, jewelry, logo, and children’s items as well as a variety of books on East Tennessee and state history are available to purchase. Additionally, you will find information on historical sites, museums, and historical and genealogical organizations across the region. The East Tennessee History Museum is ADA Compliant.
Enjoy your guided tour of one of the oldest and most history-soaked American cities, Portland, Maine. Known for maritime commerce, this metropolitan area is situated on the Gulf of Maine off the Atlantic Ocean and was initially settled by English colonists in 1623, who referred to it as Casco. Upon enduring three separate wars, the peninsula fishing community was renamed Portland in 1786 and has since adopted the motto of Resurgam, Latin for "I will rise again." Nowadays, Portlanders are known for bridging their long and storied seaport history on Casco Bay, including centuries-old architecture and lighthouses, with a bustling downtown and port area. Comprised of twenty-one separate neighborhoods, Portland is one of the few US cities where you can take a step back in time, meander along the brick-paved sea-side sidewalks, coffee in hand, and watch the vessels embark on their journeys.
Joining both old and new, the downtown Portland waterfront offers an eclectic mix of restaurants, museums, boutiques, and cafes cozied around centuries-old architecture and history. Continually earning national honors for food and culture, downtown offers a multitude of distinctively New England fare. Grab a steaming bowl of fresh New England clam chowder at one of the highly-regarded restaurants, stroll down the brick-paved sidewalks, and watch the Atlantic waves splash away the day.
An eclectic mix of boutiques, cafés, galleries, and fishermen make Portland’s waterfront, or Old Port neighborhood, a truly unique locale. Historically a strictly commercial shipping port, downtown now thrives on the service and tourism industry. If high-end, award-winning restaurants are what you fancy, you’re in the right spot. On the other hand, if you want to devour a tried and true easygoing New England classic like clam chowder or lobster roll while watching the ships come and go? Pick your dockside diner. Fresh-off-the-boat dining is, obviously, Old Port’s specialty. If indulging in a trendy café or restaurant just a few steps off the waterfront isn’t fresh enough for you, then stroll down to one of the seaside fish markets where you can have your Atlantic catch sent anywhere in the country. Old Port is sure to answer all of your desires from farm-to-table dining to funky boutiques to cobblestone walkways. If your artistic side needs itching, check out Congress Street in the East End Arts District, only a few blocks off the waterfront. The downtown area has done a magnificent job of marrying numerous nineteenth-century architectural gems with fresh, chic development. Whatever your desire, downtown Portland covers the field. It is a rare gem to find a working commercial fishing port chock full of world-class chefs nestled up amongst an up-and-coming art scene. With the sea as a perfect framework, Old Port will leave you gasping for more. With old and new intertwined throughout downtown Portland, the area delights in creativity and perseverance. Having survived four separate fires, Portland lives up to its motto, Resurgam, Latin for "I will rise again". You will walk away with scrapbooks upon scrapbooks of memories.
Slightly off the wharf-lined Commercial Street farther into downtown, you’ll find a plethora of artistic and shopping distractions. The Portland Museum of Art is always sure to please with its abundant assortment of American, European, and Contemporary art. Peppered with galleries throughout the neighborhood, downtown Portland has emerged as a small-city contender in the East Coast art scene. Be sure to browse through the kitschy boutiques and shops to find that perfect New England treasure. Many of the stores are settled into former shipping warehouses, complete with original architectural features. Ogle the late 1800s exposed brick walls and gasp at the beams towering above the funky mix of Portland trade. While downtown, take a stroll down memory lane in one of the old-time candy shops or ice cream parlors. Enjoy a chocolate-covered whoopie pie while people-watching at Boothby Square or revel in an old-fashioned ice cream cone as you watch the hardworking deckhands slog through their catch, priming the night’s feast.
Also known as the Morse-Libby House, Victoria Mansion was built between 1858 and 1860 as a summer home for two people, Ruggles Sylvester Morse and his wife Olive. Though both were from Maine originally, the Morses made their home in New Orleans, Louisiana. Ruggles Morse made his fortune operating luxury hotels, although he also invested in many side businesses, as well as being an active participant in the slave economy that was so pervasive in New Orleans. This spectacular summer home was designed by the architect Henry Austin of New Haven, CT, and is widely considered one of the finest examples of the Italian Villa style in America. Strategically located near the city’s earliest gas and sewer lines, the house was a model of elegance and convenience with hot and cold running water, flush toilets, central heating, gas lights, a servant call-bell system, wall-to-wall carpeting, and a 25-foot-long stained glass skylight.
Boothbay Railway Village
Take a step back in time to see Maine life from 1850 to 1950. View the Rural Village life, vintage automobiles, and the narrow gauge steam railroad. Learn about living in Maine through an interactive Living History journey spanning 10 acres of land.
Seashore Trolley Museum
The Seashore Trolley Museum is the largest and oldest museum of mass transit vehicles. In 1939, the Biddeford and Saco Railroad began purchasing motor buses to replace their trolley cars, and the formation of the museum was born. Led by Harvard Graduate Theodore Santarelli, a group of railfans purchased a single trolley to preserve for posterity for $150.00 and it was moved to Log Cabin Road in Kennebunkport, ME. The group merged with another group of railfans who purchased a trolley from the Manchester and Nashua Street Railway. During World War II the museum was temporarily put on hold due to many of its members enlisting and the conversion of trolleys to buses stalled. After the war, the conversion to buses resumed causing a mass influx of trolleys for the museum’s collection. As of 2010, the museum houses over 260 vehicles from all over the United States as well as trolleys from as far away as Japan and Australia. The collection has expanded to include locomotives, buses, and even state-of-the-art rapid transit railcars.
Whether you are a history buff, or you just want to enjoy a leisurely trolley ride in the beautiful Maine countryside, the Seashore Trolley Museum is a “must-see” destination.
LL Bean
After inventing the Maine Hunting Shoe, also known as the “Bean Boot”, avid outdoorsman, Leon Loenwood Bean, founded his company in 1912 as a retailer of quality outdoor gear. Occupying the same location for more than 100 years, the LL Bean Flagship Store is the largest and first LL Bean store. Bean was the first retailer to implement the “100% satisfaction guarantee” which remains in effect to this day. While LL Bean is most famous for its outdoor gear such as camping equipment, fishing gear, casual sportswear, and of course, their world-renowned shoes and boots, there is truly something for everyone at the Flagship Store. Here, you can also purchase souvenirs, gifts, scented pillows, pure maple syrup, cookbooks, and much, much more.
Boott Cotton Mills Museum
Step into Lowell’s past at the Boott Cotton Mill Museum. Rich in industrial history, Lowell is known as one of the “first successfully planned industrial cities” in the United States. Only 50 percent of original buildings that echo the history of Lowell’s industrial past remain in Lowell including the Boott Cotton Mill. Office space, apartments, condominiums, and the mill yard now occupy much of the massive complex and have been restored to appear as they did in the 1900s. The Boott Cotton Mills Museum, owned and operated by the National Park Service, is also part of the complex and aims to preserve and interpret the national significance of the historic site.
The Visitor Center and Boott Cotton Mills Museum are ADA-compliant. If time permits, explore the grounds that surround the Boott Cotton Mills Museum. Not far from the museum is a walkway along the Merrimack River. Park employees who work in the Weave Room demonstrate loom operation and offer brief talks on the workings of the machinery throughout the day.
William King Museum of Art
Visit the William King Museum of Art, one of Southwest Virginia’s premier visual art museums. Founded in 1989, the William King Museum of Art is housed in an old 1913 school and has played a vital role in the cultural fabric of Southwest Virginia throughout its time. Through its innovative programming, today the art museum engages, educates, and enriches the quality of life of the people of Abingdon, Virginia through the arts.
he William King Museum of Art is ADA-compliant. Complimentary wheelchairs are available for use throughout the art museum. You can inquire about the use of a wheelchair at the information desk on the second level of the museum. The use of cameras and video recorders is not permitted throughout the William King Museum of Art.