Maine Coastal 8 Day Package

Price Per person double occupancy

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Price Includes: Deluxe motorcoach transportation, 5 nights lodging in first class accommodations including tax and luggage handling, 5 breakfasts, 5 dinners (1 lobster bake with lobster choice), admissions to attractions as listed, guide service for sightseeing & guide gratuities, Maritime Mystery Cruise, meal taxes & gratuities, Pilgrim Tours escort.

Not Included: Airfare, gratuities to driver, lunches.

Airport transfers are included only when airfare is purchased from Pilgrim Tours. Taxi service is available for those purchasing their airfare elsewhere.

Deposit Required: $300 per person will reserve your place. A $100 service fee will be charged for cancellation at any time in addition to our normal payment and cancellation policy.

Day 1: Maine Bound

Early afternoon arrivals at the Portland Jetport will be met by guide and deluxe motorcoach. We transfer to Maine's south coast where we have our first dinner along the coast. (Please indicate your entrée choice with your reservation: Beef Kabob, Grilled Chicken, Broiled Scallops). After dinner, we set sail on a special two hour Maritime Mysteries Theater Cruise to enjoy seafaring legends, ghostly haunts, New England folklore and stories of the Seven Seas. After our cruise, we travel to our hotel in Ogunquit, a typical Maine coast town.

Day 2: Southcoast Touring

Our busy day will start with a hearty continental breakfast before meeting our guide for a tour of Kennebunkport. As the summer home to the George Bush family, Kennebunkport also appeals to visitors from around the world. We'll pass by Walkers Point, fine summer homes, and sea captains' mansions. The rockbound coast, beaches, Franciscan Monastery, and the Wedding Cake House are a few highlights of our narrated tour. We have some free time to enjoy the shops and restaurants in Dock Square before we head north up the coast. This afternoon we'll visit the Maine Maritime Museum, which depicts Maine's shipbuilding industry from the 1600's to the present. Numerous hands-on exhibits, boat building demonstrations and a lobstering exhibit are here for us to see. Later we continue on to explore the village of Boothbay Harbor, known as Maine's boating capital, so be sure to have your camera ready! Relax and enjoy dinner at our waterfront hotel tonight, complete with piano entertainment. (Please indicate entrée choice with your reservation: Prime Rib, Chicken, Fish).

Day 3: Midcoast Maine

After a full breakfast at our hotel, we meet our guide today for a narrated tour of mid-coast Maine. Mid- Coast Maine has quaint, quiet, out-of-the-way villages, the spray of ocean surf crashing upon the rocks and the smell of the sea. The sights and sounds of Maine fishermen bringing in their daily catch, and the unique aroma of freshly cooked Maine lobsters are a part of daily life. See clapboard homes, barns and the kaleidoscope of colors along country lanes curving in and out of rocky valleys. We'll learn about the maritime history of the seaside villages of Boothbay, Rockland, Rockport, and Camden. We can stretch our legs on a stroll along the breakwater to the Rockland Lighthouse and take advantage of a photo stop at the summit of Mount Battie, offering a spectacular view over the rocky coast. Lunch will be on our own in Camden - the village where the mountains meet the sea. We continue north this afternoon, arriving at Mt. Desert Island, the jut of land which is the home to Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. After some free time to explore the quaint shops of downtown Bar Harbor, we travel a bit further on Mt. Desert Island to our waterfront hotel in Northeast Harbor, our home for the next two nights. An authentic Maine lobster bake dinner with all the fixins' is featured tonight! (Please indicate entrée choice with reservation: New York Sirloin or 1 ¼ boiled lobster with clams & mussels).

Day 4: Bar Harbor & Acadia National Park

Breakfast is included this morning before our full day on Mt. Desert Island. Our guide meets us for a breathtaking tour of Maine's most visited playground of the rich and famous. The tour will take us through Acadia national Park with spectacular views from the top of Cadillac Mountain, the highest point on the east coast, and if we are lucky, booming waves at Thunder Hole. Lunch and browsing time will be on our own in Bar Harbor before our afternoon visit to the Bar Harbor Oceanarium, including the Lobster Hatchery and Museum, and even a marsh walk. We stop at the Butterfly Garden before returning to our hotel to freshen up before dinner at a local seafood restaurant. (Please indicate entrée choice with reservation: 1. Lobster, 2. baked stuffed Haddock, 3. baked stuffed Chicken, 4. Broiled Scallops, 5. Sirloin Steak).

Day 5: Portland

Another breakfast fuels our day before we head south again to Portland. En route, we stop at the Maine State Prison Store for some unusual and economical hand-made Maine souvenirs. We will have free time in Freeport for lunch and shopping on our own where the famous L.L. Bean sporting goods mecca is centrally located among numerous factory outlet stores. We continue on to Portland where we meet our guide for a Portland View Tour. Portland is Maine's largest city, Longfellow's "city by the sea." Our guide will regale us with history and anecdotes from the famous poet's boyhood home and statue to the Civil War fortifications of Casco Bay. We make a stop at the famous Portland Head Lighthouse, one of the most-photographed lighthouses on the Maine coast. We check into our hotel in Portland before our farewell dinner at a hideaway spot, complete with entertainment provided by a Maine storyteller. (Please indicate entrée choice with reservation: 1. Grilled Salmon, 2. Seafood Lasagna, 3. Chicken Marsala, 4. Veal Parmesan).

Day 6: Farewell Maine

We enjoy a Maine breakfast buffet this morning before free time to explore the art galleries and boutiques that line the wharves and cobblestone streets of Portland's historic waterfront district of The Old Port Exchange. Transfer back to the airport is early afternoon.