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Depart Edinburgh at 09.30 and travel north to South Queensferry. The town is named after the 11th century Queen Margaret who dedicated her life to changing the social welfare of the people, particularly the church, earning her the title 'Saint Margaret of Scotland'. North of Edinburgh there were two very important churches - St Andrews and Dunfermline, but getting from Edinburgh across the wide Firth of Forth was difficult, so Queen Margaret provided a free ferry for pilgrims, hence 'Queen's Ferry'. The ferry remained in existence until the opening of the Forth Road Bridge in 1964 by the present Queen. From Queensferry we drive up and onto the Forth Road Bridge, giving us a great view across to one of Scotland's greatest man-made landmarks - the Forth Rail Bridge. At over a mile and a half (2300m) long, the bridge was completed in 1890, and until recently was the longest Cantilever bridge in the world. It is a true testament of Scottish engineering. Once over the bridge we enter the Kingdom of Fife. Bounded to the south by the wide Firth of Forth, to the north by the Firth of Tay and to the east by the North Sea the area was once a sub-kingdom of the old Pictish realm, a natural peninsula almost cut off from the rest of Scotland, and so remained semi-independent for longer than other parts. Central Fife used to be very poor, until the discovery of coal, while the towns and villages along its coastline were rich from all the trade across the North sea, causing King James VI to describe the area as a 'Beggar's mantle fringed with gold'. The golden fringe he referred to was the East Neuk (or nook, meaning corner), Fife's easternmost stretch of coastline and home to a string of picturesque villages each with its own distinctive character and charm. One of these, Lower Largo, is best known as the birthplace of Alexander Selkirk the real-life Robinson Crusoe and inspiration for Daniel Defoe's novel whilst neighbouring Earlsferry is said to be where MacDuff hid from Shakespeare's Macbeth. We stop in the traditional fishing village of Anstruther (known as 'Enster' locally) where you can check out its old cobbled streets and network of little alleyways and wynds or take a walk along the seafront to the harbour. From Anstruther we continue north to the medieval town of St Andrews. St Andrew is the patron Saint of Scotland, and according to legend his remains were washed up on the Fife coast. The shrine became a place of worship for Christian pilgrims from far and wide and the town developed into the religious capital of Scotland complete with a huge Norman Cathedral, the largest in all of Scotland. Founded in 1160 the Cathedral was devastated first by fire and later by zealous religious reformers but the ruins provide a fascinating insight into what it once must have been like. Today St Andrews attracts another type of pilgrim, being famous world-wide as the home of golf and the Mecca for all golfers - the 'Old Course'. The course, founded in 1754, is in beautiful condition and its emerald green grass contrasts with the golden sands of the beach nearby. St Andrews is also home to the oldest University in Scotland, at nearly 600 years old, and the third oldest in Britain behind Oxford and Cambridge. Also dating from this period is the town's once mighty castle which, perched on a rocky headland overhanging the sea, is a ruin with a violent and murderous past. Every street, every building is surrounded with history and we give you almost 3 hours to explore this amazing town. From St Andrews we take a pleasant drive through the rolling countryside of central Fife, with its small villages and patchwork of farms, to Falkland. Falkland Palace dominates this old village, and was one of the main residences of the old Royal family of Scotland, the Stewarts (Stuarts). Aside from the palace the village is simply one of the most beautiful in Scotland with an array of old cottages and narrow winding streets. You can take time to wander around the picturesque village or enjoy a drink in one of the village’s traditional pubs or tearooms. Leaving Falkland we cross the Lomond hills past Loch Leven, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned by her Protestant nobility. And then it is straight back to Edinburgh.
Duffy Square - Statue of Lt. Colonel Father Francis
Patrick Duffy
TKTS Discount Theater ticket kiosk
Statue of George M. Cohan
Times Square Alliance Information Center
Palace Theater
Marriott Marquis Hotel
Marquis Theatre
Bertelsmann Building
Planet Hollywood
MTV Studios
Minskoff Theater
Toys R Us
Hard Rock Cafe
One Times Square
NASDAQ Market Site
Thomson Reuters Building
New Amsterdam Theater
ESPN Zone
Conde Nast Building
Knickerbocker Hotel Building
Bank of America Building
Bryant Park
WR Grace Building
Bryant Park Hotel
Bryant Park Cafe
Chrysler Building
Library Lions - Patience & Fortitude
New York Public Library
Lord & Taylor
Empire State Building
Little Korea aka Korea Town
Madison Square
51 Madison Avenue - New York Life Insurance
Company Building
41 Madison Avenue - site of Jerome Mansion
Herald Square
Macy's
Haier Building - former Greenwich Savings Bank
Keen's Steakhouse
Bryant Park
Statue of Dr. Jose Bonifacio Andrada
Statue of Benito Juarez
Hippodrome Building
International Center for Photography
Clubhouse Row - Hotel Algonquin et al
NHL Store
William Jenkins Worth Cenotaph - obelisk
Madison Square Park
Metropolitan Life Insurance Tower
Shake Shack
William Seward Statue
Flatiron Building
Ladies Mile District
Parsons School of Design of the New
School University
Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University
Forbes Gallery
Forbes Magazine Headquarters
First Presbyterian Church
Church of the Ascension (Episcopal)
Washington Square Arch
University Place
Grace Episcopal Church
Astor Place
Bayard-Condict Building
Cable Building
The Wall by Forrest Meyers
Prada Flagship store designed by Rem Kohlhaas
Bloomingdales SoHo branch
Top Shop/Top Man store
Haughwout Building
International Culinary Academy/French
Culinary Institute with L'Ecole Restaurant
Canal Street
Chinatown Information Kiosk
Manhattan Bridge
Dumbo district
George Westinghouse Vocational High School
911 Headquarters
WNYE Radio & Television - New York City Department of
Education Radio & Television studios
New York Technical College of the City University of New York
Brooklyn General Post Office
Fox Cable News Building
Diamond District
McGraw Hill Building
1251 Sixth Avenue - former Exxon Building
Barclays Capital Building - formerly Lehman Brothers HQ
Colony Records
Brill Building
Ambassador Theater
Crowne Plaza Times Square Hotel
Hershey Store
M&M Store
Morgan Stanley HQ
W Times Square Hotel
Museum of Sex
Madison Square
Marble Collegiate Church
Church of the Transfiguration ("Little Church Around the Corner")
Theodore Roosevelt United States Federal Courthouse for the
Eastern District of New York
Cadman Plaza
Brooklyn War Memorial (World Wars I & II)
Old Fulton Street
Brooklyn Eagle Warehouse
Grimaldi's Pizzeria
Brooklyn Ice Cream Factory
River Cafe
Fulton Ferry Landing
Continental Army Evacuation (August 29, 1776) Marker
Fulton Ferry marker
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry railing inscription
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooklyn Heights Promenade
Brooklyn Queens Expressway
Atlantic Avenue
Sahadi Imports
Damascus Bakery
Former St. Vincent's Home for Boys
Brooklyn House of Detention
Society of Friends (Quaker) Meeting House
Kings County Supreme Court
Brooklyn Borough Hall
Brooklyn Bridge Marriott Hotel
New York Municipal Building
Woolworth Building
AIG (former Cities Service) Building
70 Pine Street
Thurgood Marshall United States Federal Courthouse for the
Southern District of New York Hong Kong Bank Building
10 Downing Street
Winston Churchill Square
Father Demo Square
Blue Note Jazz Club
3rd Street Basketball Courts
Golden Swan Gardens
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church
Jefferson Market Courthouse Library
New York Foundling Hospital
Siegel-Cooper Building - Bed, Bath & Beyond, TJ Maxx and
Filene's Basement
Grand Lodge of the Masons (71 West 23rd Street)
Manhattan Mall - former Gimbels Department Store site
Greeley Square
Horace Greeley statue
Herald Center
City University Graduate Center and Oxford
University Press (former B Altman Dept. Store)
At Comedy Cellar sit in the audience to witness some of comedy's biggest names in action in Las Vegas with the help of ShowTickets.com.
2 Hour Zip Line Eco Tour: You will travel close to three quarters of a mile over five consecutive zip lines at heights of 300 feet above the canyon floor at speeds pushing 45mph. Beginning at the Hog's Back gate, high in the hills near Avalon and descending through Descanso Canyon, you will pause at several eco-stations along the way before continuing on your journey. At each station, your hosts will give you a presentation on some of the unique and interesting aspects of Catalina Island, its wildlife, history, and the areas you are passing through. Eventually exiting at Descanso Beach, your journey will last approximately 2 hours and your memories will last a lifetime. Available from Anaheim Resort Hotels*, Beverly Hills, Long Beach and San Pedro Cruise Terminals, Redondo Beach, Manhattan Beach, Santa Monica, Venice Beach, LAX Hotels, Marina Del Rey, Huntington Beach, Hollywood, Universal, Downtown LA, Newport Beach *Anaheim Resort Hotels include: Anaheim, Garden Grove, Buena Park Hotels
What is Included: 3 hour Dolphin Sightseeing Cruise Lunch & Park entry fees Friendly & informative tour guide Dolphin + Seal Sightseeing cruise encompasses some of the Mornington Peninsula’s leading adventure activities. You will never forget these amazing encounters. See the stunning Point Nepean National Park, right at the tip of the Peninsula with its remarkable military history and spectacular views of Bass Strait. Next we head to Sorrento Pier to join your 3 hour cruise into the bay, hop on-board the purpose built luxury vessel and enjoy a light sandwich lunch after which we travel out into the sheltered shallows of Port Phillip Bay to embark on an exciting once in a life time adventure. Port Phillip Bay is a nursery for the wild bottlenose dolphins and their major birthing place is off Point Nepean. There are approximately 90 bottlenose dolphins living and breeding in Port Phillip Bay. Visit Chinaman’s Hat a local spot where the ever-curious Australian Fur Seals are waiting to share their underwater world with you. After the cruise your guide will meet you at Sorrento Pier to return back to Melbourne.
Chicago Trolley:
Technology
Bus Tracker
Guests can now head to http://chicagotrolley.com/gps/ to see when the next double decker or trolley is headed their way!
Language App
Chicago Trolley & Double Decker Company now has a FREE, foreign language app for both Android and iPhone!
This new, easy to use app provides a fully narrated tour in Chinese (Mandarin), German, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish. We're excited to offer this option to our international guests!
How to download? Easy as 1, 2, 3!
On the guest's phone, search and download "Chicago Trolley Tour" in the application store.
Once downloaded, open the app and the language options will appear. Choose the language needed and download.
There will be a prompt to enter a password. The password is Chicago (not case sensitive). Please provide password information only once ticket has been purchased. That's it!
So how does it work?
Headphones will be provided for any guest using the app.
Using GPS, the app follows the guests as they enjoy the views from our double deckers and trolleys. The narration is based on plotted points along our tour route. Guests can even click on each point to read the information.
Once downloaded, the app does not use data. Guests can turn cellular data OFF if they would like to. However, GPS accuracy IS improved when Cellular Data is left ON, even though no data is use.
Ticket Types
One-Day Adult Ticket
Two-Day Adult Ticket
Three-Day Adult Ticket
Kids Ticket
Valid for 24 hours after time of redemption.
Valid for 48 hours after time of redemption.
Valid for 72 hours after time of redemption.
Valid for up to 72 hours after time of redemption.
Includes access to the Downtown Tour, Night Tour, and Wrigley Field/Lincoln Park Zoo Route
Includes access to the Downtown Tour, Night Tour, and Wrigley Field/Lincoln Park Zoo Route
Includes access to the Downtown Tour, Night Tour, and Wrigley Field/Lincoln Park Zoo Route
Includes access to the Downtown Tour, Night Tour, and Wrigley Field/Lincoln Park Zoo Route
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! Shedd’s new special exhibit, Amphibians, included with admission.
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
Pets are not allowed in the aquarium