go all these neat things and i've got my i got my bag and i have my i think for me to keep my head from falling cyclists in it and i also have my camera wish me so this me i'm ready to go so i would like to introduce laurel and he or she will tell us a little bit jealous about see your tourist high arm up you are all set art yeah yep all ready to go and what you don't have in the back i have ready for you on the couch i have your water i have your snack i have your goodies i have everything that you need and where all that good your goodies are always good ok now let's get down to the nitty gritty about these trips where do you pick people up well it depends what area of the city that you live in sr tours has the local pick ups all over that pittsburgh area we pick people up in all kinds of different places from monroeville to  the northern suburbs and in the south hell's our local pick up for a group of seniors from pierce township would be right here in peter's township but we also have a pick up at the meadowlands for instance at greentree at the holiday inn we have a number of them well in order to have a pick up in a certain place you have to have certain number of people to be there to pick them up or yes yes usually usually ten people you know ten people ok now what type do weeklong tours we do several week long tours we travel all over the country and that's just our motor coach tours ok so you just answered the types of tours and so  you have to be a senior to do your tours now our name is senior tourist but if you wanted to bring your grandchildren you'd be welcome to do that well i know one time we went to toronto and i did bring my grandchildren and they really enjoyed it room which is only included in the price of your tours well we always serve snacks and beverages typically on a typical tour you would get picked up some time in the morning and we would always  have great sea legs but we do serve snacks and beverages for you so we always have water we always have all of those kinds of things all of that is included in the price of your tour typically every venue that we would go to if we would go someplace for lunch that's included your ticket price is included in the price of the tour the tour itself is all covered and usually tips any tipping is usually also covered in the price of the tour as well of as the cost of the motor coach  that's great how can someone who is interested in traveling but does not have a group or partners you travel get more information on your tours well if you just call us at eight hundred eight nine one four four one fo we can send you out a brochure that shows you what all of our tours are and it's a great way to meet new people so if you're a senior and you're traveling alone you don't have a partner to go with you just let us know that oh we're travelling alone and then we take care of you we make sure that you're not left behind or left out and we include you in the group with our games and the other activities that we do on the bus as we travel you get to know other people that you're traveling with and a lot of people have made great friends taking t other other incentives for groups to travel with you well there are we do we have a lot of different kinds of groups that go with us and typically if you want to organize a group to go sometimes groups use it as a fundraiser they really well yes they'll film they'll do that they will decide they want to go on a certain tour and they'll decide that they want to set the price and it may be over a little bit over what we would have to charge and they will they will advertise that trip as a fundraiser and then use part of those monies for their organization so sometimes that happens with groups doing ok no these are something more that you can expand on something about some tours that you know coming and something like the energy you want to wait oh well you know i love to travel and there is there is nothing more happy for me than to be on the road i was out yesterday on a on yesterday was finnegans farewell we were we were having an old irish wake yesterday complete with green beer and and everyone had just a fabulous time yesterday at finnegan's wake with all of the actors and actresses it was just a really a really happy event we have trips coming up to the new casino as well at presque isle scene oh and a lot of people are interested in going there it's an eerie and our next trip to prescott casino is april sixteenth so if anyone's interested in going to the other any leader on the road yes there's one every month there's one on may fourteenth and april sixteenth and then there's one every month after that so if anyone's interested in going to see check out the new casino i've done most of your showed trips and i haven't done any of the casino trips as of yet but one of the tour think is going to be a real highlight for this year for seniors and for everyone and and a great trip to take your grandchildren on as well would be to lancaster to see the beginning in the beginning you're right i'm going on there are you going i'm out on araa a number of people are going on that one april nineteenth and twentieth and we do have a tour to lancaster as well every month this year because in the beginning is such a popular play they do plays in lancaster like nowhere else they are fabulous you've seen them that theater is oh my god it's beautiful it's amazing the staging is incredible and the live animals that come right down the aisle and it's just really an experience and i know that my children have enjoyed going there and i think it's a wonderful thing to take your grandchildren to if you are looking for that and they can come right along on the bus for about two hundred dollars a person and maybe less for a child you can have a great experience a great overnight experience in lancaster so i know it's just like being there i know you know we have a limited space available on that trip april nineteenth tape the twenty eighth we have a few more tickets but it the theater is sold out own theater is still in theater is sold out so of organizations choosing your tours well we have our groups we have senior centers we have churches we have red hat groups we have all kinds of different organizations all kinds of different kinds of clubs and organizations travel with senior tours they just call us and say would like to do something fun we send them out of flyer and maybe they'll find a trip that they would like to do but it's not on a date that's good for them and that in that case we will pick a date that is convenient for that group and we or range the tour for that group you know if that happens  and you don't get enough people right then you have to cancel the trip well thing you know we you do we try to have if you think that your group is only going to have a minimum number we can base the price on that number to begin with so that your trip can go or we can advertise that trip if you're open to having other people go other than your group we can advertise it in our advertising to pick up other groups or other people that might like to travel it's not a did you get a smaller bus or anything we can get a smaller bus talent sometimes seniors really like having that bathroom on the back of the bus that it's just that it's not a bus is done to them and the smaller buses don't have the bathroom if it's just a short trip sometimes they don't mind going without a bathroom but we like to provide you can book going to trip two maybe we should talk about this a little later as or something you want to add to what you've already said well i do think that especially for seniors to travel by motor coach is a great advantage because you're with another group of seniors there someone who comes along an escort who comes along to make sure that the trip runs smoothly so you can travel worry free you don't have to worry about the traffic you don't have to worry about where you're going or when you have to be there in fact when i go along i tell everyone i'm your worry godmothers you don't have to worry at all i'll do all the worrying for you to ensure that you have a great time i know one of the trips i took when i got home my son said well what route did you take where did you go where did you turn off i said i don't know i was just sitting there and they were doing the driving that's right that's right so you don't have to worry about the snow or the rain or anything would you go to the end of your driveway would you cross the street would you cross  would you go if you could use your knowledge to teach someone and in the process maybe learn something yourself  is how you're feeling inside keeping you from going outside if chronic diarrhea severe abdominal pain or rectal bleeding or timing you to the bathroom maybe it's serious like crohn's disease or all sort of climates see a gastro ist early diagnosis can make treatment easier get on with your 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that's kind of new for us just in the past few years we do corporate travel if you had a golf group that wanted to go because the weather is kind of lousy around here and you wanted to get away and golf but we do golf trips we do airline reservations we do cruises cruises are a fabulous way to vacation we have a cruise coming up in fact a bahama cruise august twentieth and that is five nights for just four hundred dollars for an outside cabin so outside if you have an outside you have been four hundred dollars for five nights includes all of your transfers it includes everything including all of your meals you're going to go to key west and you're going to go to the bahamas it doesn't include your fare to key west well you don't need airfare you're on a cruise ship  board the cruise ship in jacksonville and it doesn't include your transportation to jacksonville many of the people who are going are going to go by car to jacksonville but if it be something that a group of people would be interested in doing we would be able to book them and we could even arrange for transportation to jacksonville by motor coach if there was a large group of people that wanted to go oh yeah we do all kinds of travel if you have a need for corporate travel we can do that because when i went going down a lot of people think crew thing is really expensive but senior tours have great buys on cruises so it even if one person was considering going on a cruise because we're a full service agency we can book that cruise for you  which is nice you don't have to worry about going from one hotel to another when you're going that's right everything's right there i have a friend right now who's on a world cruise he is literally traveling the world on a cruise ship and sending home her journals by e mail so it's a cruising is a wonderful way to have a safe secure place to dock from and yet see the sights you will say want to go to world chris with me or what sure  you will you did say something about your corporate travel yes doing expand on them a little bit well if if anyone has a need for and agent to do their corporate travel we're ready and available to do that we do some corporate travel already and would be been a number of motor coach touring companies in the area who have closed recently so we're ready poised and ready to take ever betty on trips do you use just one best company or do you use other  communion well i do get competitive bids for my motor coaches but i do have a standard that i like to keep to i like the really nice buses i like the really nice luxury coaches and i like the best drivers so coaches anderson better coaches which are big black motor coaches with an orange and yellow stripes and red and then i also use from time to time i will use meyers motor coaches or mccarter but i  i primarily use anderson motor coaches and they are fully equipped with bathrooms and reclining comfortable seats and video equipment and we always show movies on the motorcoach play music and all sorts of fun games just to make that being ok ok where are we here ok you want to tell us something that we need to know for this year well i think that you should consider taking a trip to canada this year because this year you still don't need a passport eventually you're going to need a passport to get into canada but through two thousand and seven you're going to be ok going to canada without a passport so if you've been wanting to go to niagara falls to niagara on the lake to casino windsor or to do a trip in canada do it now before you need a cab passport you know i heard that it was coming up it's coming soon but not not for this year for this year your good if you're planning on traveling to canada you're still good you need a birth certificate you need to bring along a birth certificate or a copy of that and your driver's license but you're good at that you have to going in and coming you know it's good to have it going in and coming out yeah so that's kind of important information for you to know and they've tightened security because of nine eleven but it makes us all feel a little safer right yeah do you get do you get many people going on trips we do sometimes the trips will be so full we'll need to add a second coach and we do that pretty frequently a lot of a lot of our trips are quite full you know i mentioned it when lancaster didn't use it is another one that's very popular for this year is for white christmas at the carousel dinner theater it is already sold out and we do have several dates available for that trip and i think that's one of the ones you're going to do with an interim and redoing it when in november i believe yes you know i can't believe it's you know the reserve it is incredible but frequently when you're doing a trip where a show is involved the purchase of the tickets has to happen way in advance in canada at the shaw festival theatre their seats for the summer practically sold out on most of their place already so it's just important when you're going to see a play to think in advance and book ahead yeah i don't know if you want to get into this or not but what if you make your reservations and something happens but you can't go oh well we do provide we do have an option for you to take travel protection travel insurance and well how that works is when we get closer to the trip we send you a brochure about the travel insurance and about what your cost would be for that travel and charan's when you take out that travel insurance it's an additional fee to your tour but it covers one hundred fifty percent of the cost of your tour it covers your baggage it  covers all kinds of medical expenses it's it's real insurance so it covers all even a little bit more than just the protection for covering the cost of your tour well you know you should take i think you should take that in consideration when you have to schedule so far in advance i mean yes you seniors well a day trip insurance for a day trip is ten dollars so buying purchasing insurance for ten dollars ensures that if if you have to cancel your trip could be paid for day for a longer trip than that you'll want to take care and take the c s a travel protection that was a good question i didn't mean to throw that into you and read you're up on all this seniors are always thinking about things like that that's right ok now let's get something about some of your things now what was your favorite trip time i think probably my favorite trips far i went to mackinaw island and i don't know if you've ever gone to mackinaw island it is just off the coach coast of michigan you know i have lived there it is just it is just beautiful it is just beautiful you there are no cars allowed on the island so you have to travel around by horse and buggy horse drawn that's so interesting and or bicycle it is just i don't know if there was ever a minute movie film there someplace in time and it was just the most wonderful wonderful trip but there are so many every time i go on another trip i think oh this is my favorite because it was there oh it's my favorite job ever oh my do you really like what you're doing i do i do my mind  you do that through just a variety of means and that's the part i enjoy the mess i enjoy going and getting to meet new people and getting to know them and getting to see them again that's really the art that i enjoy the most yesterday we had st patrick's day festivities on the bus we had irish jokes and limericks and we had irish word search puzzles and we had trivia and i was giving away scratch off lottery tickets as prizes sometimes we do gift like to see i have had i have had a i had an occasion to celebrate an anniversary on the on the bus and we found out it was this couple's anniversary and i said to my driver find me a wal mart and he found me a wal mart and i went in and bought yards of tool lace and a bunch of flowers and cookies and we we had the bride the groom come forward we had the driver had been a minister so he did a little renewal of the house we had a celebration complete with romantic piano music and a reception with cookies no time that couple would ever married on the bus but we had a bad bulis time so it's wonderful we just like to take the group that's there and bring that bring out the best in bring  i'm looking for i'm what i'm looking forward to lots of travel this year i really am looking forward to lots of travel i haven't gotten to see in the beginning yet i'm looking forward to that we have a trip coming up to the king tut exhibit in philadelphia heard about a lot of people haven't seen that yet and would like to see it will be staying in atlantic city so you get a bit a little bit of atlantic city and get to go to philadelphia and see the king tut exhibit i'm looking forward to that so you know what i have a couple of trips coming up and every place that you stop they put something in your brown bag so you're going to the boy or candy factory the malak to get malakhov and you're going to get a slinky on that trip because that's where they make all of these places where you'll be visiting or in altoona and you'll everywhere you stop they'll put something in your brown bag it is a bundle of fun on that trip like it so ok are we already going to trip let's go let's go army where do you want to go next