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Introduction

What a great trip! The best of New York City and the best of New England combined! The Big Apple is like no other city on earth. Whether you’ve visited once or 50 times, there’s always new things to see and do. It’s the most culturally, economically and geographically diverse city in the United States. If the five boroughs were not located next to one another, they would be five distinct cities with no relationship. Beyond the famous landmarks, you can find foods of all nations, shopping that outclasses any other location and world class performances and theatre.

Next stop Boston, the birthplace of Independence. It’s a quite charming town and very different from New York with narrow streets, dense history and quaint neighborhoods. From there, you’ll be driving a classic New England route with time to explore the beautiful coastlines of Maine, Rhode Island and world famous Cape Cod, along with the stunning mountain scenery of New Hampshire and Vermont.

This tour is very much for all seasons, the coastlines of New England are great places to be during the summer, Cape Cod for many years has been a traditional summer retreat. In the fall months of September and October, New England glows with the world famous fall foliage coat of many colours and in winter many areas take on a new appearance blanketed with a magic carpet of white snow.

We are supremely confident this tour will provide you with memories to last a lifetime!

Itinerary Summary New York NY 3 nights - New York Helmsley Boston, MA 2 nights - Omni Parker House Kennebunkport, ME 1 night – Kennebunkport Inn (Main Inn) Bar Harbor, ME 2 nights - Bar Harbor Hotel/Bluenose Inn Jackson, NH 1 night - The Wentworth (Superior room) Stowe, VT 1 night– Green Mountain Inn Manchester, VT 1 night - Inn at Manchester Newport, RI 1 night - Hotel Viking (Historic Wing) Yarmouth Port, Cape Cod, MA 2 nights - Inn at Cape Cod Total 14 nights Note: Kennebunkport Inn – Continental breakfast included Wentworth Hotel – Full breakfast included Green Mountain Inn – Full breakfast included Inn at Manchester – Full breakfast included Inn at Cape Cod – Full breakfast included

Flights
We are very proud to work with British Airways and have negotiated special inclusive tour rates exclusive for this itinerary giving you a great deal on non-stop flights with one of the finest carriers in the world. Should you be interested we can also extend special reduced travel rates in British Airways World Traveller Plus, Club World and FIRST.

Accommodation
Particularly appealing with this itinerary is the mix of historic city hotels and world famous New England Inns, offering quite delightful hospitality and capturing the true essence of New England. We have sought to strike a happy medium between the standard of property and prices with convenient locations being a high priority. With a number of people having lived in New England we can offer superb advice on the many different choices available to you with accommodation in the North East so feel free to call us today.

Financial Protection
By booking this complete package with Complete North America you benefit from reduced rates on flights, accommodation and car rental along with complete financial protection. We are fully bonded with the Civil Aviation Authority and this package is ATOL protected under ATOL No.5368.

Preparation
Your package includes a comprehensive travel portfolio which acts as a tour guide during your driving holiday, comprising a detailed itinerary, direction, maps and guide information. We will also supply you with the tickets and documentation you need for a smooth travel experience from start to finish. Our agent in America is available 24/7 should you need to call during your tour.

Arrive New York

Depart London Heathrow – 10:25
Arrive New York JFK – 12:55
Journey time – 7hrs 35mins

There are flights throughout the day to New York and domestic add-on services to suit all needs, please ask for details on other flights if required.

After taking a taxi (your approx fare will be $45 - this is not included in your prepaid holiday cost) to your hotel today, get ready for an adventure. New York City is home to America’s famous landmarks — the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center with it’s Top of the Rock Observation Deck, Central Park, Madison Avenue, the Miracle Mile of Museums and more. In order to maximise your time in the city, you may want to purchase a 3 Day New York Explorer Pass that provides discounts for 16 major New York attractions. The choices include a City Lights Evening Cruise, a Hop-On Hop-off Double Decker Downtown Bus Tour, an NBC studio tour, as well as other major attractions.

Overnight – New York Helmsley Hotel
Your hotel for the first three nights of your trip is the ‘New York Helmsley Hotel’ nestled in the heart of Midtown Manhattan, within walking distance of Times Square, Grand Central Station and the United Nations, as well as the Theatre District and Rockefeller Centre.

Explore New York

Today art lovers can risk sensory overload at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with 2 million works of art from around the world and the Museum of Modern Art, dedicated exclusively to contemporary art. History buffs should be sure to tour the American Museum of Natural History where there is always something new to see. The Ellis Island Immigration Museum holds another fascinating story. Travelers who have visited New York before can get off the beaten path. We can fill your Personal Travel Portfolio with wonderful, but little known attractions like the Cloisters, the medieval collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and some wonderful gardens. In fact, there are enough great gardens to spend your entire visit in New York outdoors.
Overnight – New York Helmsley Hotel

Beyond the top attractions, the city itself is something to behold. Take the free Staten Island ferry for a stunning view of Manhattan. And don’t forget about Broadway and Lincoln Center for evening entertainment.
Overnight - New York Helmsley Hotel

New York to Boston - by train (215 miles)

This morning take a short taxi ride (taxi not included in prepaid cost) from your midtown hotel to New York Penn Station where we have seats booked for you with Amtrak Rail to take you from the heart of Manhattan to the historic city of Boston. Sit back and relax as you are whisked north to the starting point of your New England adventure.

In a city filled with many interesting things to see and do, the Freedom Trail is the highlight of Boston for visitors. The 2.5 mile red brick walking trail leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an authentic American treasure. Preserved and dedicated by the citizens of Boston in 1958, when the wrecking ball threatened several important places, the Freedom Trail today is a unique collection of museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution.

You can take a self-guided tour or one of the many tours available through the National Park Service. Tours begin every half hour from the park visitor center at 15 State Street opposite the Old State House. If you prefer to ride, you can take a trolley tour, which is an unofficial guided tour, but does include many of the most important sites along the Trail including Old Ironsides, the Paul Revere House and the Old North Church. Plan to stop and eat at Faneuil Hall, once the primary meeting place for America’s revolutionaries. It is now a bustling market of restaurants and shops.

Overnight – Omni Parker House
Stay right on the Freedom Trail at the Omni Parker House, the longest continuously operated hotel in America that has become an internationally renowned classic. The rooftop ballroom showcases spectacular views of the city skyline.

Explore Boston

If you were able to experience a portion of the Freedom Trail yesterday, you can complete that journey today and delve into the myriad of other possibilities for exploring. There are always a variety of exhibits at the Boston Museum of Science. Cheers, of the famous television show of the same name, is located on Beacon Hill. The Sam Adams Brewery is a recent addition, founded in 1984. The Boston Museum of Arts, founded in 1876, has an outstanding, world-renowned collection that includes some 450,000 items. The New England Aquarium offers special whale watching trips until October. There’s also the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Newberry Street, with some of the best antiquing in America, and Cambridge, MA, home of Harvard University, right across the river.
Overnight – Omni Parker House

Boston to Kennebunkport, ME (via Salem, MA) 85 miles

A scenic drive on the Essex National Heritage Area Scenic Byways takes you north through Salem, site of the famous witch trials in 1694, Marblehead, Ipswich, and Newburyport. From there, you’ll be traveling the Coastal Byway to Hampton Beach and Portsmouth on your way to Kennebunkport. The Kennebunks are very old coastal towns, settled in 1620. Maine remained a part of the Colony of Massachusetts and Kennebunk did not become a city until 1820. If you’re up for a short walk at this point, the Kennebunk National Register Historic District Village walk begins at the Brick Store Museum and continues on Main Street. If there’s time, the Kennebunkport History Center is located at 125 North Street. Five buildings, including a shipwright’s office, comprise the history center campus and present a good perspective of seafaring life in the Massachusetts colony.

Overnight – Kennebunkport Inn (room in Main Inn)
In the picturesque coastal village of Kennebunkport you will find your lodging for this evening - the charming Kennebunkport Inn superbly located in Dock Square – here you’re just steps away from shops and dining and a myriad of activities: art galleries, museums, fishing, sailing, whale watching, swimming, golf and biking. Begin the morning with a deluxe continental breakfast featuring signature house specialties.

Kennebunkport to Bar Harbor 200 miles

Today, you can spend the entire day meandering up the rugged and beautiful Maine Coast or take the inland route to arrive much faster. Bar Harbor is one of America’s quintessential destinations, where the Maine coast and Acadia National Park are absolutely integral to the town. Since you will be here today and tomorrow, today may be a good day to drive the Mt. Desert Island portion of the Acadia National Scenic Byway.

The Maine coast was actually discovered by European explorer Giovanni da Verrazano. He named the region L’Acadia. French explorer Samuel Champlain christened the main island of Acadia National Park, known today as Mount Desert Island, l’Isles des Monts-deserts in 1604. The island was later settled by Massachusetts colonists branching out, with most engaged in farming, fishing, lumbering and shipbuilding in the 1820s. It was not until later that the Rockefellers, Morgans, Fords, Astors and Vanderbilts began summering in Bar Harbor. A public land trust was created in 1901 to save the island and area from increasing development.

Overnight – Bar Harbor Hotel – Blue Nose Inn

Acadia National Park

There are three parts to Acadia National Park: Mount Desert Island, the Schoodic Peninsula and Isle au Haut. Even though buses run from place to place on the drive, you can do the scenic drives of both the Mount Desert and Schoodic portions yourself. There are three visitors center and an additional museum on Little Cranberry Island which is only reached by a ferry from Northeast Harbor or Southwest Harbor.

Isle au Haut is only available by boat and it is not a car ferry. Once there, it is a working village. You can check into it and determine whether or not it will be worth the time it takes to get there and back, and whether there would be anything of interest for you to do there.

Perhaps you will also want to have a carriage ride on one of the cobblestone Carriage Roads that John D. Rockefeller built in the area, but are no longer accessible to automobiles.

Enjoy this beautiful park which is wonderful at any time of the year to visit. If the entrances to Acadia National Park and other roadways are crowded, take the Island Explorer bus to the various park destinations and local communities.
Overnight – Bar Harbor Hotel – Blue Nose Inn

Bar Harbor to Jackson, NH

After a very restful evening on the serene Maine coast, another series of scenic roads will take you to New Hampshire’s White Mountains. It’s everything you’d expect in quintessential New England. Cold, clear rushing streams reflect the deep lush greens of summer and the blazing colors that set the hillsides on fire in fall. Towering granite cliffs and soaring mountains hug both sides of the road as you make your way along age old winding, scenic routes, the woods that poet Robert Frost called, “lovely, dark and deep.”

You can come here to escape all of mankind, which most of the residents do. Locals will assure you that you can have a vacation away from the “citied” world in a place that has not changed much in centuries. Many of the charming villages still look as they did when writer Nathaniel Hawthorne and painter Thomas Cole lived here in the 18th century. And that’s the way they like it, slow, easy and simple, leaving time to appreciate the astounding scenic beauty all around.

Overnight – The Wentworth Hotel (Superior room – Main Inn)
For those looking to get away from it all it doesn’t get much better than the charming accommodations at the Wentworth Hotel, nestled deep in the heart of the New Hampshire White Mountains in the picturesque village of Jackson. To see the sun setting in these marvellous surroundings is a real treat. The food, accommodations and hospitality are spot on at this lovely property and it really does feel that all is being done to make you feel as comfortable, and at home, as possible. Full breakfast is included.

Jackson to Stowe, VT

Today we recommend an early start, so enjoy breakfast and then head for the hills… Mount Washington to be precise. Whilst in this spectacular area you must take time out to visit the grand & glorious ‘Mount Washington Hotel’. Wander through the recently restored public areas in and out where presidents, poets & celebrities have enjoyed over the years. Then it’s back on the road, off along more beautiful scenic byways as you head to the Vermont Green Mountains. Nearly 70 years after the von Trapp family resettled from Austria, “the hills are still alive with the sound of music!” On your way there, you’ll enjoy the classic New England landscape and architecture - a mountain ridgeline, a winding river, hillside farms, covered bridges, and quaint villages bathed in bright sunshine and set up against mountains as old as time. And, of course, there’s Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory. The countryside hasn’t changed much here in the 230 years since the Green Mountain Boys declared Vermont an independent republic. A mountain pass in Vermont is called a “notch” and mountains here have interesting names like Camels Hump and Crouching Lion. New England at its finest! Enjoy your drive.

Arriving into strikingly beautiful Stowe you’ll soon discover why this is a village that travellers want to return to again and again. Known as a fabulous ski resort, Stowe is much more than that – with its picture postcard New England landscape, the Village of Stowe features many unique shops and a variety of dining venues. Located in the center of town, the Green Mountain Inn, your lodging for this evening, is the focal point of historic Stowe Village.

Overnight – Green Mountain Inn
Location, location, location. The Green Mountain Inn has occupied the best place in Stowe, Vermont since 1833. A massive restoration was undertaken in 1983 by the Gameroff Trust to honor the 150th birthday of the building. Since then the building has been lovingly maintained and upgraded.

Stowe to Manchester, VT

Leaving Stowe today, you’ll be travelling south on scenic Vermont State Road 100. Since it’s only 110 miles between Stowe and Manchester, there will likely be time to travel additional scenic Vermont roads today…

The scenic driving loop that takes you to South to Bennington and East to Brattleboro and back to Manchester again is only 113 miles long:

You’ll find Bennington County, Vermont as quintessential New England as there is. There are two historic walking tours in Bennington. One includes the original structures remaining from settlement and the “Old First Church” behind which poet Robert Frost is buried. Another driving tour takes you under five covered bridges and to the Vermont Covered Bridge Museum. Be sure not to miss the Apple Barn and Country Bake Shop, as well as Bennington Potters, world famous for their stoneware pottery.
Between Bennington and Brattleboro, take the Molly Stark Trail National Scenic Byway through the southern Green Mountains. It is named after the wife of New Hampshire General John Stark who was the victor in the 1777 Battle of Bennington. The road is the route that the General and his troops marched home after their triumph over the forces of King George III. Enjoy the three state overlook from the top of Hog Mountain. Brattleboro is a college town and completely different than Bennington. The downtown is filled with art galleries, craftspeople, artists, boutiques, shops and restaurants. From there it’s a short drive back to you accommodations in Manchester.

Overnight – Inn at Manchester
You’re sure to receive a warm welcome from your friendly hosts Frank & Julie at your home from home - the Inn at Manchester – a quaint and relaxing, historic Inn which has a country atmosphere with in-town convenience (great shopping & dining are just a short walk away). The Inn at Manchester enjoys rave reviews from past guests. A full hearty breakfast is included.

New York And The Best Of New England - Photo Album

We are pleased to be able to display a selection of photographs from this Flydrive

Prices (in Pounds Sterling)

The prices shown below are 'per person'.

Cost Includes ....

• Roundtrip non-stop scheduled flights with British Airways
• UK Airport Taxes
• 14 nights accommodation as stipulated including tax. (Breakfast for 2 people included at the Kennebunkport Inn, The Wentworth Hotel, The Green Mountain Inn, The Inn at Manchester and The Inn at Cape Cod’).
• One way Amtrak rail travel between New York and Boston.
• 10 days Compact car rental on Alamo ’Gold Rate’. (Intermediate for Triple/Quad Rates). Click here for details.
• Exclusive travel documentation package including personalised maps, itinerary and driver directions along with all applicable tickets and vouchers
• Due to the varying and frequently changing fuel surcharges imposed by all carriers from time to time the costs above do not include these charges. Any applicable charge will be confirmed to you at the time of enquiry or booking.

Weather
In the North Eastern region the climate is similar to the UK, however the summers tend to be a little warmer and you should also allow for rapidly changing conditions in the mountain regions. For this reason we recommend a layered clothing approach so that you can quickly adapt to the conditions. In the winter months, snowfall and sub-zero temperatures are common place in most of the region.

Hotel Availability
Sometimes the hotels named in this itinerary are not available at the time of booking. Under these circumstances Complete North America will book alternative accommodation of a similar standard. Such changes will be confirmed in writing to you at the time of booking confirmation. If you are not completely happy with the alternative hotel we will happily discuss other possibilities with you in the same location.

Hotel Upgrades
The accommodation used on this itinerary varies quite dramatically in style but consistent throughout is a good standard of cleanliness and a location that would be considered to be generally safe and easy for sightseeing of the particular area you are visiting. If you feel you would like to consider some of our luxury collection of hotels then please call and speak to a member of our team, there are too many luxury hotels to mention in New York and Boston but other favourites of ours in New England are the Inn at Thorn Hill in New Hampshire and the Captain Farris House on Cape Cod.

Best days to travel, seat assignments, special requests and flight upgrades

• British Airways operate non-stop flights daily so subject to availability you can select the travel date that best suits you. Should you wish to fly with an alternative carrier we would also be happy to prepare a quote for you.
• Where available we will be delighted to take care of any special meal requests on your flights (vegetarian, child meals etc) – please discuss with us at the time of booking.
• We have exceptional deals on upgrades with British Airways to World Traveller Plus, Club World and FIRST.
• We have discounted prices for British Airways regional flights to Heathrow, please ask for details and if you are flying from Northern Ireland or Republic of Ireland? Read about special deals for connecting flights here.

Car Rental in America

The car rental included in this package is based on the Alamo 'Gold' rate which represents the mose inclusive rate you can buy. For a full breakdown of just exactly what this rate includes, a full explanation of all inclusions and information on cars please visit our car rental section by clicking on the link below.

As part of our agreement with Alamo we are able to offer you GPS Satellite Navigation as an optional extra that must be pre-booked. For more information on this click the link below.

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Travel Insurance
Whilst it is not compulsory to take our travel insurance, it's imperative that you do not travel without comprehensive travel insurance. Our adult premium is £49 per person for 2 weeks (Age restrictions do apply), however we do have rates for family policies and annual travel insurance, please call for details. In all cases taking our travel insurance will require acceptance of the medical health declaration and all pre-existing conditions should be declared to the insurance company.

All travellers must hold a full 10 year machine readable British Passport and have no criminal convictions to travel to the United States without the need for a visa. For more details on passport requirements please visit www.usembassy.org.uk

Ready to book?

Call our booking line on 0845 263 7100

(Mon-Fri. 09.00-18.00 or Sat 10.00-17.00)

A member of our team will be happy to answer any questions you have before processing your booking and the initial non-refundable deposit payment of £150.00 per person. We will endeavour to secure your flights and take care of any special meal requests during this call. The remaining components of your holiday will be put in place and a written 'Confirmation/Invoice' detailing everything we have confirmed on your behalf will be sent by regular mail along with a receipt for the deposit to your nominated contact address. We try to complete this whole process within 7- 10 working days of accepting your order and deposit, however meeting this target is very much dependant on the speed of response from our hotel and tour partners in North America.

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