WELCOME ABOUT EDUCATIONAL DESTINATIONS

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2 WELCOME Whether you are a first-timer or a veteran Educational Destinations traveler, your tour is our top priority. We demonstrate this in several ways. The professionalism of our employees is well above accepted industry standards. To provide your parents with peace of mind, our company adheres to a strict code of ethics. The hospitality we lavish on each group is the result of our caring people working towards a common goal. As an organization, we continue to address today s business and educational challenges with the integrity of yesteryear. Our experience and expertise win us clients, and it is our clients who are instrumental to our success. That s why Educational Destinations has designed trips that meet and support classroom academic standards. Our hallmark is creating travel experiences in which students lives are touched in extraordinary ways. Creating bonds, learning essentials, and having fun are familiar activities on our educational tours. These moments are generated by our custom-designed tours and enriched by educators who insist on the very best from their students. I welcome you and your students to enjoy the adventure upon which you are about to embark, and I extend to you our gratitude for giving Educational Destinations this opportunity to earn your future business. Sincerely, Mark A. Harting President, Educational Destinations a division of Music Travel Consultants ABOUT EDUCATIONAL DESTINATIONS Educational Destinations specializes exclusively in travel arrangements for students of all ages, offering you and your organization unparalleled opportunities and access. Our staff makes every effort to understand your group s needs and concerns. Educational Travel is OUR business. We know Groups... we ve focused exclusively on group tours since Day One. Our staff has extensive travel knowledge born of experience: we ve visited every corner of the globe and every popular group destination. Educational Destinations is very proud of its unrivaled success in planning travel for students all over the world. More than 1,000 groups have chosen us to provide high quality travel programs throughout the United States, Canada, The Caribbean, Asia and Europe. Educational Destinations handles all trip planning so that you, the group leader, have no worries whatsoever.

3 PRE-ARRANGED TRIPS Although Educational Destinations excels in designing specialized student group programs that are customdesigned for a group s particular needs, sometimes a simpler, pre-arranged trip is more appropriate. Now Educational Destinations has created a set of pre-arranged trips around the country designed to maximize educational value. If you are searching for a Day Trip to Chicago or a 3 Night Trip to Washington, D.C., you re in luck - - start here! As always, Educational Destinations will take care of everything so you may focus on the educational aspects of your trip. Notes: One complimentary trip is included for every 10 paying passengers. Transportation is not included in trip prices. DESTINATIONS Boston...1 Chicago...2 Cincinnati...3 Cleveland...4 Detroit-Grand Rapids...5 Indianapolis...6 Louisville...7 Nashville...8 New York...9 Orlando-Disney Orlando-Universal St. Louis Washington, D.C Williamsburg Green Indiana Cars & Caverns Space Camp History with Chocolate

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5 Boston 2 or 3 Nights Boston Duck Tour John F. Kennedy Museum Freedom Trail U.S.S. Constitution Museum of Fine Arts New England Aquarium Cambridge Galleria Plimoth Plantation Plymouth Rock Mayflower II Fenway Park Tour Skywalk Observatory Hard Rock Café Patuxet Café Prudential Center Faneuil Hall Marketplace Boston Pops Broadway Musical Boston Museum of Science Mapparium Boston Ballet Boston Children s Museum Blue Man Group BOSTON Starting at: $257 per person 1

6 Chicago CHICAGO Day Trip, 1 or 2 Nights Museum of Science & Industry Millennium Park - The Bean Architecture River Cruise Navy Pier Skydeck Chicago Lincoln Park Zoo Shedd Aquarium Field Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture Tour Adler Planetarium Magnificent Mile The Art Institute of Chicago Chicago Cultural Center John Hancock Observatory Rainforest Café Hard Rock Café Broadway Musical Chicago Symphony Blue Man Group Chicago Cubs Game Chicago White Sox Game Wrigley Field Tour Chicago Children s Museum Soldier Field Tour Lake Michigan Dinner Cruise House of Blues Ed Debevic s Six Flags Medieval Times Starting at: $38 per person 2

7 Cincinnati Day Trip,1 Night Freedom Center Newport Aquarium Newport On The Levee Duke Energy Children s Museum Great American Ballpark Tour Reds Hall of Fame Museum Cincinnati Zoo Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati Observatory American Sign Museum Cincinnati Museum Center Dave & Buster s Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Riverboat Dinner Cruise Broadway Musical Buca di Beppo Cincinnati Reds Game Cincinnati Art Museum Paul Brown Stadium Tour President Taft Historic Site & Museum Kings Island Cincinnati Dinner Train Cincinnati Ballet CINCINNATI Starting at: $58 per person 3

8 Cleveland CLEVELAND Day Trip Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Great Lakes Science Center Museum of Natural History Cleveland Zoo U.S.S. Cod Submarine Hard Rock Café Cleveland Symphony Broadway Musical Progressive Field Tour Cleveland Indians Game Harbor Dinner Cruise Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland Botanical Gardens Cleveland Museum of Natural History Steamship William G. Mather Children s Museum of Cleveland Christmas Story House Dave and Buster s Starting at: $62 per person 4

9 Detroit-Grand Rapids Day Trip, 1 Night Motown Historical Museum Fox Theater Tour Henry Ford Museum Greenfield Village Ford Presidential Library Grand Rapids Children s Museum Detroit Science Center Detroit Historical Society Model T Heritage Complex The National Museum of the Tuskegee Airmen Bell Isle Zoo Detroit Institute of Arts Comerica Park Tour Detroit Tigers Game Detroit Symphony Broadway Musical Ford Field Tour Charles Wright Museum of African American History Frederik Meijer Gardens (Grand Rapids) Art Prize (Exhibition) (Grand Rapids) DETROIT-GR AND R APIDS Starting at: $53 per person 5

10 Indianapolis INDIANAPOLIS Day Trip, 1 Night Children s Museum Indiana State Museum President Harrison Home Indy Speedway Track & Museum Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis Zoo NCAA Hall of Champions Scottish Rite Cathedral Indiana War Memorial Soldiers and Sailors Monument Eiteljorg Museum Conner Prairie Crown Hill Cemetery Buca di Beppo Hard Rock Café Duck Pin Bowling Indianapolis Symphony Broadway Musical Lucas Oil Stadium Tour Indiana Repertory Theater Old Spaghetti Factory Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre Starting at: $43 per person 6

11 Louisville Day Trip, 1 Night Louisville Science Center Louisville Slugger Museum Kentucky Derby Museum Louisville Mega Cavern Louisville Zoo The Speed Art Museum Muhammad Ali Center Churchill Downs Belle of Louisville Dinner Cruise Hard Rock Café Buca di Beppo Falls of the Ohio State Park Louisville Slugger Field YUM Center Tour Lynn s Paradise Café LOUISVILLE Starting at: $89 per person 7

12 Nashville NASHVILLE Day Trip, 1 Night Country Music Hall of Fame Adventure Science Center The Parthenon The Hermitage Grand Ole Opry Stones River Battlefield Nashville Zoo Belle Meade Plantation Bicentennial Mall State Park Tennessee State Museum Tennessee Railway Museum Rainforest Café General Jackson Showboat Hard Rock Café Broadway Musical Opryland Hotel Nashville Symphony Belmont Mansion Wildhorse Saloon Nashville Shores Chaffin s Barn Dinner Theater Starting at: $77 per person 8

13 New York 1 or 2 Nights Central Park Museum of Natural History Statue of Liberty Ellis Island Empire State Building Metropolitan Museum of Art Top of the Rock 9/11 Memorial Museum of Modern Art Radio City Hall Tour Madame Tussauds Wax Museum Harbor Sightseeing Cruise Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum NBC Studios Tour Grant s Tomb Spirit Dinner Cruise Broadway Musical NY Philharmonic Hard Rock Café Planet Hollywood Chinatown & Little Italy Times Square Cathedral of St. John the Divine St. Patrick s Cathedral Dinner at SPQR Blue Man Group Guggenheim Museum NEW YORK Starting at: $144 per person 9

14 Orlando-Disney ORLANDO-DISNEY 2, 3, or 4 Nights Walt Disney World Resort Disney s Youth Education Series Magic Kingdom Epcot Hollywood Studios Animal Kingdom DisneyQuest Typhoon Lagoon Blizzard Beach Downtown Disney Rainforest Café Planet Hollywood T-Rex Café Cirque du Soleil Universal Studios Sea World Busch Gardens Wet n Wild Aquatica Orlando Science Center Boggy Creek Airboat Ride Blue Man Group Hard Rock Café Gatorland Ripley s Believe It or Not Starting at: $305 per person 10

15 Orlando-Universal 2 or 3 Nights Universal Studios Islands of Adventure Universal s Ride Design Universal s Marketing and Sales Universal s Behind the Adventure Universal s Special FX Universal s School of Rock Universal s Culinary Arts Universal s Weather Blue Man Group Wet n Wild Boggy Creek Airboat Ride Universal s City Walk Hard Rock Café Cirque du Soleil Walt Disney World Resort Gatorland Aquatica Orlando Science Center Planet Hollywood T-Rex Café Busch Gardens Sea World Rainforest Café ORLANDO-UNIVERSAL Starting at: $292 per person 11

16 St. Louis ST. LOUIS Day Trip, 1 or 2 Nights Gateway Arch Museum of Westward Expansion Lewis and Clark Movie Sightseeing River Cruise City Museum St. Science Center and Omnimax St. Louis Zoo Grant s Farm Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis Missouri Botanical Gardens Busch Stadium Tour St. Louis Art Museum Frank Lloyd Wright Home Ulysses S. Grant National Historic Site St. Louis Symphony Old Spaghetti Factory Hard Rock Café Broadway Musical St. Louis Cardinals Game Union Station Six Flags Demolition Ball Starting at: $81 per person 12

17 Washington, D.C. 2 or 3 Nights U.S. Capitol Tour Smithsonian Museums Mount Vernon Ford s Theatre Arlington National Cemetery National Archives International Spy Museum U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Newseum Illuminated Monument Tour Washington National Cathedral The White House Tour U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Mount Vernon Library of Congress Starting at: $194 per person National Symphony Orchestra Broadway Musical Hard Rock Café Armand s Pizza Buca di Beppo Spirit Dinner Cruise Kennedy Center Tour Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception U.S. Botanic Garden National Postal Museum Union Station Supreme Court National Zoo U.S. National Arboretum National Museum of Crime and Punishment WASHINGTON, D.C. 13

18 Williamsburg WILLIAMSBURG 1 or 2 Nights Colonial Williamsburg Jamestown Settlement Yorktown Victory Center Virginia War Museum Nauticus Museum of Contemporary Art Virginia Living Museum Busch Gardens Great Wolf Lodge Christiana Campbell s Tavern King s Arms Tavern Shields Tavern Starting at: $163 per person 14

19 Green Indiana Day Trip Subaru Plant Tour Purdue University Green Organization Indiana Wind Farm Tour GREEN INDIANA Starting at: $22 per person 15

20 Cars & Caverns CARS & CAVERNS Day Trip National Corvette Museum Corvette Assembly Tour (subject to availability) Mammoth Cave Onyx Cave Starting at: $47 per person 16

21 Space Camp Day Trip or 1 Night U.S. Space and Rocket Center New Horizons Program SPACE CAMP Starting at: $53 per person 17

22 History With Chocolate HISTORY WITH CHOCOLATE 18 1 or 2 Nights Gettysburg Battlefield Tour Electric Map Cyclorama Historic Philadelphia Tour U.S. Mint Independence Hall Christ Church Liberty Bell National Constitution Center Hershey s Chocolate Tour Really Big 3D Show Hershey s Chocolate Tasting Philadelphia Museum of Art Betsy Ross House Starting at: $147 per person Hard Rock Café Spaghetti Warehouse Spirit Dinner Cruise Hershey Park Zoo America Philadelphia Zoo Philadelphia Phillies Game Buca di Beppo

23 When searching for a TOur company, please use these STAndards as your benchmarks Sales people, all of whom are student educators or advocates Each member of our sales team has unique insight into the needs and demands of traveling student groups. Tour Escort with the group throughout each tour (Optional) For group organizers, just knowing that an experienced, with-you-all-the-way ED Escort is there and empowered to immediately fix problems gives peace of mind beyond compare. Numerous companies provide only meet & greet personnel, who say hello once, and then disappear. Carefully screened suppliers for every part of the tour package ED chooses its vendors by strict criteria, especially in regards to safety, reputation, financial soundness and willingness to serve student groups. In most cases, standards are ensured by personal visits to suppliers. One simple example: ED s hotel s are consistently of better quality and location than others. References of ALL clients provided on request Most companies provide only a hand-picked list. Ability to directly issue air tickets ED, through its parent company, is one of the few student tour companies with ARC and IATAN appointments. This cuts out the middle man between most operators and the airlines, which invariably increases costs and removes purchaser control. Dedicated student travel operations staff Some firms use travel people with other responsibilities to operate group programs in their spare time. Educational Destination s dedicated operations team does nothing but student group travel. It is proud of its more than 100 years of experience. Manager on Duty, 24/7 Someone parents and students can call, any time when traveling. In addition, each ED Tour Escort may be reached through his or her cell phone, practically everywhere. Truly Inclusive Pricing Are there hidden costs awaiting you at the last minute? Taxes, meal charges, facility rentals, tips never included in your tour price? Absolutely not, is the right answer. With Educational Destinations, the price quoted is the inclusive price paid, period.

24 ED Online is Educational Destinations web-based program, designed by Teachers to provide parents, students and teachers a complete trip resource service center. Teachers never have to collect money or registration forms. Parents can access the secure ED website to sign-up for your trip and make online payments right there! MasterCard, Visa, Discover, American Express and electronic checks are accepted. It takes fewer than 5 minutes to register and pay, and, best of all, there are no fees or additional charges for the speed or convenience...all complimentary with every Educational Destinations trip. With ED Online, you don t have to type rooming lists, coach lists, air manifests or assign chaperones to each student. Just click your mouse online and, voila!, you ve just created your lists. Print or save them in real time, or follow the financial progress of each trip participant. All of your trip documents - itinerary, tour conditions and updates - are just a click away. ED Online payments are secured using thawte SSL Web Server Certificates to offer secure communications by encrypting all data to and from our site. thawte is the strongest identity authentication standard today. Educational Destinations 7920 Georgetown Road, Suite 700 Indianapolis, Indiana Toll-Free: