Evening star., 1935-07-28
HOURS Of big American cities,
with hotel accommodations and
sightseeing trips arranged in


sightseeing trips arranged in
u advance for a specific price.
is an idea in the vacation-travel field
that is being expanded. Arrangements
announced this week by the American
Express Co. raised to 13 the number
of cities in which the plan is avail
able-Atlantic City, Boston, Montreal,
New York, Philadelphia. Washington,
Chicago, Seattle, Portland, Salt Lake
City, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
San Diego. Others are to be added.
The budgeted visit plan permits
fairly wide cost range, in that stays
may run from two TO six days, and
three or more price groups OF hotels
are listed from which to choose. AL
give the visitor the same side trips
and amusements for the same length
of stay. Latitude in the choice Of
location and preference as to type Of
hotel is permitted, in that there are
listed in each group from two to a
dozen. In New York, for instance.
one may choose from more than q
score-seven in group A. which in
cludes the Waldorf Astoria, the Bilt-
more and the Plazo: 10 in group B, in
Guiding the Astor, Commodore. Penn
C, which includes the McAlpin and
the President, and nine in group D.
including the Dixie, Prince George.
Taft and Wellington.
THE attractive side trips arranged
for the two-day visitor increase
with the leisure time added in a four
to-six-day stay. Let's illustrate with
Boston. The minimum visit gives a
sightseeing tour of the old and modern
sections of the city. Bunker Hill Mon
ument and the Charleston Navy Yard.
and a 31s-hour tour to Lexington and
Concord. The four-day rates add an
educational tour to Brook1ine, Cam
bridge and Harvard University and o
four-hour tour Of Salem, Marblehead,
the North Shore, and its beaches.
In Atlantic City, the two-day visi-
tor sees everything the four-day visi-
tor sees, but only once. The vacation
ist who stays longer gets more rides
along the boardwalk in a wheel chair
and more tickets to the Steel Pier.
The plan for Atlantic City varies from
the general scheme for other cities in
that rates at the various hotels are
quoted with meals as well as without
In Montreal, as in New York, the pro-
gram includes supper and entertain
ment at famous night club as well
as other features; the Philadelphia
visitor is taken on q four -and-a half
hour trip to Valley Forge, with stops at
Washington's headquarters, Mount Joy
Observatory and Valley Forge Museum.
From Philadelphia, the five and six
day visitor may run over to Atlantic
City on ticket included in the rate,
the six-day visitor being allowed to
stay overnight without extra cost at
one Of the seashore playground hotels.
A DETAILED inspection of one Of
HOllyw0Od'S famous movie studios
is one of the outstanding features for
the long stay visitor in Los Angeles,
and in San Francisco three-hour trip
to Golden Gate Park, the Preside,
places is provided visitors Of two days
or more. Chinatown after dark Is
added to extended stays.
If one remains five days or more in
Portland he Is entitled to two-day
trip to Cloud Gap Inn, at the foot Of
Elliot Glacier on Mount Hood. Hotel
accommodations at the inn overnight,
with meals, are included. The Seattle
visitor may plan his trip to take in
an excursion along the shores of Lake
Washington and Lake Union by
steamer and through the Great Locks
to Puget Sound. A ride along beau
tiful Lake Washington Drive and Sky
line Boulevard is included in all the
budgets.
Two or more tickets to the exposi-
ton are included In the San Diego
trip, and the vacationist who stays
three days of more sees Auga Caliente,
Mexico; the Silver Strand and Coron-
ado.
'HESE are just the nlgnngntS OF the
budgeted visit plans for the va
rious cities. Conventional sightseeing
trips about New York City and Radio
City are included in the Manhattan
price, the Chicago trip pays cab
transportation between hotel and sta
ton, Seattle upper-bracket visits toss
in three-hour marine and industrial
tour, and Los Angeles visitors may
ride up Mount Lowe on an electric
railway.
Not to be classed as ordinary, how
ever, is the all-day motor coach trip
from Montreal through the Laurentian
Mountains to Ste. Agathe. The
Laurentians are noted for their
beauty and more Americans are learn
ing of their impressive charm.
SCRIBBLINGs: The next genera
ton may not see the 60-odd gla-
ciers that give Glacier National Park,
Mont, its name. Studies by DR..
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