Stratosphere Tower and Rides

EXEMPTIONS The following groups are eligible for free access to the Grands Appartements tour, on presentation of the relevant ID : - under 18s ;  - long-term EU residents of any nationality, aged 18 to 25 ;  - registered disabled persons or war veterans (plus personal assistant) ;  - those receiving minimum pension payments, single parent benefit, unemployment allowance or similar welfare payments ;  - Pass Education holders ;  - university and art school students ;  - public museum conservation and research staff, Ministry of Culture and INHA (Institut national d’histoire de l’art) staff ;  - journalists with a valid press pass ;  - conference speakers and tour guides ;  - ICOM and ICOMOS members ;  - bus drivers accompanying groups ;  - school tour guides/assistants (limited to one per seven students)  - members of the Société des amis et mécènes du château de Fontainebleau (SAMCF).

This is the text for the Frequently Asked Questions that applies to this specific tour. (Q) Do tours run all year round? (A) Yes, from November to March we will run tours on a reduced schedule at 11am from Thursdays to Mondays, inclusive. Please see the tour page for full details. (Q) Where is the meeting point for the tour? (A) Directly outside Queensway tube station, which is on the central line (the red line cutting across the map from east to west). 15 minutes before the start of the tour, one of our guides will be standing by the red phone boxes holding a Fat Tyre sign. (Q) Is the tour difficult? (A) No. Most of the time is spent on bike lanes within the Royal Parks. There is a bit of road riding and a few crossings so a basic level of cycling proficiency is required. (Q) What happens if it rains? (A) We run tours rain or shine and have plenty of rain ponchos. We find tours in the rain to be a different kind of fun and an even more fun memory! If you have a reservation and the weather is really bad, you are welcome to reschedule the tour for any other day for up to year. (Q) Do we stop for lunch? (A) Yes. We usually stop near Trafalgar Square where there are plenty of options for lunch including to join your guide at a traditional English pub. Otherwise, we may stop in St James park next to a cafe. (Q) Where does the tour end? (A) Both tours finish at the same place they start. (Q) Do we go inside the sites? (A) No, the bike tours are an overview of the sites and more about getting a feel for the city. However, on private tours you can arrange to take extra time at the sites if you'd like to go inside. (Q) Will we be able to take photos? (A) Yes. There will be a chance to take many photos at the designated stops. (Q)Is there a space to store bags or luggage? (A)Yes. You are welcome to leave bags, luggage or unwanted family members in our garages. Someone is usually in the office and it will be locked up if they have to leave. While we have never had a single case of theft or loss of items, you do leave them at your own risk. (Q) Do you provide the bikes? (A) Absolutely. (Q) Can I supply my own bike? (A) You are welcome to bring your own bicycle. Our insurance only covers the theft of our own bicycles, so please do bring your own lock for the lunch stop. (Q) Can an adult ride on the tandem? (A) No. Our tandems are known as tag-alongs which attach to adult bikes and are designed for children up to about the age of five years old.. (Q) Are helmets provided? (A) Yes. You are not compelled by law to wear helmets in the UK, but we have more than enough for everyone so the choice is entirely yours.

La Mezquita de El Cristo de la Luz, la antigua Mezquita Bib-al-Mardum, o Mezquita de Valmardón, la vida de este edificio como mezquita finalizó en 1186, auténtico reflejo de la arquitectura califal. El tour continúa con la visita al interior de la Catedral. Su arquitectura muestra todas las etapas del gótico español y su interior alberga un gran número de obras de arte (vidrieras, el coro, el altar mayor, diversas capillas, cuadros de El Greco, etc). Continuamos con la Iglesia de Santo Tomé, que es el hogar de la obra maestra de El Greco, El entierro del Señor de Orgaz. A continuación visitaremos la Sinagoga de Santa María la Blanca. Finalizaremos nuestro recorrido por Toledo asistiendo a una demostración de la milenaria técnica del Damasquinado (incrustación de metales preciosos en piezas de acero) y realizando una visita panorámica de Toledo, disfrutando de sus inolvidables vistas desde el Mirador. Después de pasar la mañana en Toledo, sobre las 14:30 emprenderemos camino a Madrid, haciendo parada en Bargas, donde se ubica la Finca Loranque, donde visitaremos sus bodegas y al finalizar la visita tendremos la posibilidad de catar algunos de sus vinos.
         Almuerzo Turístico      Almuerzo Gastronómico                 Almuerzo Vegetariano                Menú Infantil

                Entrante       Crema de Verduras      Estofado a la Riojana         Sopa Castellana      Ensalada Mediterránea                (verano) Salmorejo con jamón crujiente                (verano)                 ~ ~ ~             Plato principal       Ternera a la jardinera     Cola de toro guisada con          patatas panadera    Paella Valenciana de pollo               y verduras                ~ ~ ~           Postre y bebida       Helado de la casa con         ensalada de frutas       Agua mineral incluida

                 Entrante            Sopa de Tomate               Salmorejo                (verano)        Croquetas Caseras       Tartaleta de Ratatouille        Tortilla de Espárragos         Champiñones al ajo          Queso Manchego                   ~ ~ ~             Plato principal Cordero Asado con Manzana y           Patata Horneadas Cochinillo Asado con Manzana                y Patata Bacalao a la plancha con patata                 ~ ~ ~           Postre y bebidas             Pastel Casero        Agua mineral incluida              Vino y café
                          Entrante                    Crema de Verduras                 Ensalada Mediterránea                      Sopa Castellana             Salmorejo con huevo cocido                             (verano)                               ~ ~ ~                      Plato principal Tapas vegetales: tortilla, espárragos triguero, champiñones y queso manchego                     Lasaña vegetal                      Paella vegetal                              ~ ~ ~                     Postre y bebida                Helado de la casa con                  ensalada de frutas                Agua mineral incluida

                  Entrante       Espaguetis a la napolitana            Arroz a la cubana                    ~ ~ ~              Plato principal Tapas infantiles: croqueta, tortilla, mini-pizza                   ~ ~ ~            Postre y bebida         Pastel de chocolate                  Refresco

Skydeck Chicago At 1,353 feet and 110 stories above the streets of downtown Chicago, The Ledge at the Willis Tower (formerly known as Sears Tower) Skydeck will transform any visitor's--or local's for that matter--experience with the Windy City. In January 2009, Willis Tower owners began a major renovation of the beloved Skydeck, which originally opened in 1974, and served as a premier tourist attraction throughout the skyscraper's tenure as the Sears Tower. When ownership changed hands, the fresh blood added a fresh look--and adrenaline rush--to the 103rd floor in the form of retractable glass balconies extending about 4 feet over Wacker Drive and the Chicago River below. Still the 8th tallest building in the world, and the absolute tallest in the Western Hemisphere, Willis Tower's Skydeck draws 1.5 million people a year who are eager to ascend the 110-story, 1,454 foot (443 meter) building for awesome panoramic views of the city and surrounding countryside. Your journey to the top of the Willis Tower starts with a walk through an airport-style metal detector, followed by a slow elevator ride down to the waiting area where visitors queue for tickets. A sign will tell you how long you'll have to wait to get up high; this is a good time to confirm the visibility. Even days that seem sunny can have upper-level haze that limits the view. On good days, however, you can see for 40 to 50 miles (64 to 80 kilometers), as far as the states of Indiana, Michigan. Iowa, and Wisconsin. While you wait, you can watch a film about Willis Tower factoids. Then you'll wait a little longer before the ear-popping, 70 second elevator ride up to the 103rd floor deck. From here, the entire city stretches below, and you can see exactly how Chicago is laid out. Willis Tower, Skydeck, and The Ledge Fast Facts The hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind each week on Skydeck windows served as this inspiration for The Ledge. The Ledge boxes can each bear about 4-1/2 metric tons of weight, and adventurers who trust that statistic enough to prove it can often be found jumping and bounding around the entirely translucent enclosures as Chicago's heavy traffic and infrastructure bustle below. The Ledge’s glass panels weight 1,500 pounds apiece, and each box is comprised of three layers of half-inch thick glass laminated into one seamless unit. In addition to serving 1.3 million tourists per year in its 4.5+ million square feet of space, Willis Tower is home to more than 100 companies, including prominent law, insurance, transportation, and financial services. The Ledge's glass boxes retract into the Skydeck main floor for easy maintenance, probably mostly cleaning off the 974 dead birds that must fly into them every month. The Moonwalk is the most popular dance performed on The Ledge, followed closely by the Running Man. Riverdance clocks in at a distant third. Bringing people who are afraid of heights to The Ledge is not recommended, unless you are mean-spirited or really don't like them. In which case, you should probably just take them here. Willis Tower was known as Sears Tower for decades, until the 30th anniversary of Diff'rent Strokes, at which point it was rightfully renamed   SHEDD AQUARIUM EXHIBITS UNDERWATER BEAUTY – A SPECIAL EXHIBIT Our living world is full of wonder. Celebrate with us the unbelievable beauty living in our oceans, lakes and rivers in a new special exhibit at Shedd Aquarium: Underwater Beauty. Get a glimpse of the grandeur beneath the waves as 100 species from around the world come together in an evocative new space. What is beauty? Spark your curiosity as you see all the ways beauty moves and coexists. Watch sea jellies pulse, eels ribbon and a rainbow come alive with reef fishes. Feel the rhythms, embrace the colors and savor the patterns found only underwater. Experience a world worth celebrating – and saving. AMPHIBIANS! Get ready for a toadally ribbiting experience! ​In Amphibians, you’ll meet 40 species of frogs, salamanders and rarely seen caecilians. Learn how amphibians’ lives are full of change, from their life cycles to their adaptations to live in nearly every environment on Earth. Find out how too much change can spell trouble for amphibians — and how you can help them cope with big changes in our world today! Waters of the World Travel the world in 80 habitats. Dive into Oceans, from coastal kelp forests to the seafloor. Explore the self-contained ecosystems of Islands and Lakes. Visit Rivers—big and small—and learn more about our local waters in the new At Home on the Great Lakes exhibit. Meet hundreds of amazing animals, from tiny mantella frogsto a a giant octopus, from a Grand Cayman blue iguana to Nile knifefish, and from moon jellies to sea stars. We even have map turtles, in case you get lost. Caribbean Reef Take a 360-degree tour of an underwater reef community. Follow a green sea turtle. Peek at a moray eel in a rocky crevice. Watch regal rays glide by. Get eye-to-eye with parrot fish and sharks. Visit Caribbean Reef, Shedd’s award-winning 90,000-gallon circular habitat in the grand rotunda. Amazon Rising Take an exotic journey in the Amazon, home to one-third of all living things. Watch out for anacondas and piranhas, spiders, rays and a camouflaged caiman. In churning river channels, still lakes and even flooded treetops look for tetras, turtles and fruit-eating fish called tambaqui. See how the region’s animals, plants and people adapt to the water’s dramatic annual rise and fall. Abbott Oceanarium The Abbott Oceanarium immerses you in the vibrant coastal ecosystem of beluga whales, Pacific white-sided dolphins, sea otters and sea lions. You’ll also find a host of fishes and invertebrates that make their homes where freshwater flows into the ocean or where tides turn seascapes to landscapes and back again each day. Use our self-guided map to discover how animals are linked to each other, their homes and you. Polar Play Zone Kids have a place at Shedd that they can call their own—Polar Play Zone. It’s cool as ice and twice as nice! The penguins think so, too. Play! Splash! Pretend! What would you like to be? A sleek sliding penguin? A deep-sea explorer? How about both? In Polar Play Zone, you can slip into a penguin suit and try being a bird in the Icy South play area. From there, head to the Icy North to explore the belugas’ Arctic waters in a kid-sized submarine. Don’t forget to shake hands—or is it arms?—with colorful sea stars in the touch pools. In Polar Play Zone, you’ll learn about polar opposites—big and small, fast and slow, shallow and deep, even north and south—while you play. The Oceanarium Aquatic Presentation​ is included however based on available seating and remaining show times at the time of guest arrival. (2018 Aquatic Presentation Schedule) Stingray Touch (seasonal experience) is included. Open late May through October. 4D Experience is not included however the 4D experience tickets may be purchased at the theatre for $3.00 per -person

Crazy Horse Paris presents its anti-crisis, anti-blues, anti-gloom remedy: its new show Totally Crazy ! Beginning April 2017, Crazy Horse Paris invites Parisians and lovers of Paris to escape their everyday worries in order to freely immerse themselves in 65 years of dazzling creation and “crazyness” packed into 90 enchanting minutes of its new show Totally Crazy. Under the artistic direction of Andrée Deissenberg, Chief Creative Officer of Crazy Horse Paris, and directed by Stéphane Jarny ("The Voice", "Saturday Night Fever"), Totally Crazy unites in one dazzling show the most iconic acts of the famous Parisian cabaret, tweaked with a dash of impertinence, with must-see performances by the legendary creators that have revolutionized the world-renown Parisian stage over these past ten years. Totally Crazy includes a selection of magnificent acts created by Philippe Decouflé, Christian Louboutin, Chantal Thomass, Dita Von Teese & Ali Mahdavi, Stéphane Lucas. Crazy Horse Paris’ aficionados will be delighted to rediscover timeless Crazy Horse Paris classics, gleefully twisted for the occasion. It is with passion, daring, sensuality and humor that the legendary cast of the Crazy Girls, "the most beautiful girls in the world", perform this festive show, dressed and enhanced by the subtle lighting effects, the artistic signature of Crazy Horse Paris since over 65 years. Adding to this pulsing and fantastically colorful parade is the seductive presence of George Bangable and Lolly Wish, an exquisite Belgian duo, who accompanies the audience throughout the evening.

Orlando Eat & Play Card: Despite being vast geographically, most people on vacation in Orlando tend to eat, play, shop and stay in four key areas. For your convenience, you will find most Eat and Play Card participating merchants in these same areas: - International Drive - Kissimmee - Disney/Lake Buena Vista - Universal Studios/CityWalk Orlando has scores of terrific restaurants to match every taste and budget. Eat and Play Card participating restaurants are located right where you are – so there’s no need to go looking and you’ll never have to drive very far. For instance: - For tasty and wildly popular American food, nothing compares to TGIFriday's - Meat lovers can savor the tender ribs at Tony Roma's or succulent chicken at Buffalo Wild Wings - Refuel fast at the world's largest entertainment McDonald's and playplace or grab the "world's greatest hamburger at Fuddruckers - If Italian food is your thing, try the culinary delights of Ciao Italia or Pacino's - Start your day right, with a hardy breakfast at Denny's or Shoney’s AND MANY MORE... While many visitors start their trip at Disney, Universal or SeaWorld, there’s so much more to see and do. For instance, you can: - Get up close and personal with a giant white alligator at Gatorland, the "alligator capital of the world" - See all of Orlando, spend a day on the beaches of Cocoa Beach or Miami or visit Kennedy Space Center on a bus tour with Gray Line Tours. If your timing is right, you may see even a Spacecraft launch! - Play the biggest and wildest mini-golf courses you've ever seen at Hawaiian Rumble - but watch out for the exploding volcanoes! - Visit crazy and fun attractions like WonderWorks or Ripley's Believe it or Not! - Zip past wild gators in the Everglades on an airboat with Ultimate Airboat Tours - Parasail, wakeboard, go tubing and more at Sammy Duvall's Watersport Center AND MANY MORE... Don’t forget about shopping! Orlando was recently named America’s #4 shopping destination and with so many outlet malls, it’s no wonder. Eat and Play Card makes shopping more fun and affordable than ever with great discounts at major retailers like: - Macy's - Reebok Outlet Stores - Neiman Marcus Last Call Orlando is a golfer’s paradise with one of the country’s highest per capita number of golf courses. And for people looking to sneak in a round or two, Eat and Play Card has you covered. While many courses are a fair distance from most of Orlando’s hotels, we’ve chosen two of the best for quality and convenience. - Celebration Golf Course, ranked amongst the country’s top 25 public courses - Falcon's Fire Golf Course, awarded four stars by Golf Digest See all of our currently participating partners   Scenic Airboat Tour: Over the past two years, the 32 acre Southport Park has undergone a $1 million renovation that includes a complete facility facelift, including newly built and remodeled structures and a landscape overhaul. The exteriors of the buildings are now made of Cypress, cut and milled by Native Americans. Invasive, non-native plants and trees were removed to make way for a wide range of newly planted vegetation native to the area. All changes were made with great care to further restore the park to its indigenous landscape. Native American Village Towering Chickee Huts cover genuine artifacts and hand-made creations of Little Big Mountain and his wife Laura, as they are immersed in the daily workings of the Native American Village. Deeply rooted appreciation for Native American heritage is brought to life by the Big Mountain family for guests through the traditional stories and techniques of their culture that once thrived in Central Florida. Various presentations of the primitive way of living on the southern plains, including demonstrations using “man’s first cooking technique” are shared with the audience for a captivating display of the indigenous lifestyle exclusive to the Native Experience at Boggy Creek! Swamp Shack The Swamp Shack is stocked with the latest of “Old Florida Outdoor Wear” from camo to overalls to help guests be picture perfect ready for a Florida memory! Pose and model the outdoor fashion in front of our cracker style shack while sitting on an airboat. Say cheese, take a selfie! Gator Pond Get an up-close and personal view of Florida’s most famous reptile, the Alligator! The brand-new gator pond and viewing area houses alligators in a natural oasis. Visitors will also hear an educational presentation with baby alligators and answer any curious questions guests may have. Airboat Tours Boggy Creek’s fleet of airboats can be seen continuously docking and setting out again on exhilarating tours conducted by friendly, informative captains - day and night. Discover territory that remains unaltered in the wilderness of the Central Florida Everglades. Our captains take you into the breathtaking beauty of nature, including wetlands and wildlife. See alligators, turtles, birds and more in their natural environment. Each safe and educational airboat tour is a unique experience and never the same. You’ll feel like you’re flying through the wetlands as you enjoy the best Everglades experience in Central Florida. The night time one hour tour takes guests on a quest to find the red glowing eyes of the alligators as they come out to feed. Especially during the summer, this is the best time to see many alligators and have an experience that cannot be beat! Tours offered include half hour daytime, 1 hour daytime, 45-minute daytime, 1 hour sunset and a 1 hour night tour. Tours begin as low as $27.95. Romp in the Swamp: The VIP experience of “Learn to drive an airboat” is up and running! NEW! Gem Mining Station Be sure to check out the Gem Mining Station at Boggy Creek Airboats Adventures! Guests can purchase a range of bags and buckets filled with treasures that are native to Florida and take to the mining station. While mining, they will discover various gems, alligator teeth, shark teeth, rocks, and other treasures! Boggy Bottom BBQ Sit down inside the brand new full service restaurant now open at Southport Park or dine outside for an unforgettable lake view. Serving true Florida style bbq and all the fixins’ made from recipes handed down from generations of Floridians. Also on the menu are Florida favorites such as gator tail, catfish and the “you can’t get this back home” swamp cabbage stew. Enjoy the restaurant 7 days a week from 10:00am-10:00pm.