Southern Charm & Hospitality:

Charleston, South Carolina, Jekyll Island & Savannah, Georgia

April 20 - 27, 2008

As of 11/15/07: This tour is filled to capacity. We will accept names for a waiting list by email.

Spring blossoms, southern charm and hospitality await you when you arrive in Charleston, South Carolina, one of America's most beautiful cities.

You'll stroll its historic area during a guided Walking Tour and visit to Edmondston-Alston House; tour Fort Sumter National Monument where the first shot of the Civil War was fired; enjoy traditional Low-Country lunch and house tour at Middleton Place Plantation & Gardens; and the unique Gullah culture tour of descendants of Africa slaves including noted Blacksmith Phillip Simmons and Catfish Row, inspirational setting for George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess.

3-night stay at Mills House Hotel with dinner at their famous Barbadoes Restaurant the first night and Breakfast each morning.

Journey to lush and lovely Jekyll Island, one of Georgia's Golden Isles, for dinner at Jekyll Island Club Hotel and 2 overnights with full breakfast each morning. Enjoy an entire day in this oceanside resort to do what you like: take a tram tour of the island, walk or shuttle to the beach, play tennis, golf, shop the boutiques, ride bikes, arrange for a massage, or relax poolside.

Transfer to Savannah for 2 nights at the Holiday Inn Express opening in Fall of 2007 in the Historic Area close to restaurants and shops along the Riverfront. On the trolley tour of Old Savannah you'll see places made famous in Forrest Gump, Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil, the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts. Enjoy leisure time for a Garden Walk, or a Ghost Tour. Celebrate Savannah's charm and hospitality with some great down-home Southern cuisine at our farewell dinner at Paul Deen's Lady & Sons Restaurant.

Trip Price: $1,898 per person in double room. (Single: $749 additional)

Includes: airport transfers, 7 overnight hotel accommodations and porterage for one suitcase per person, 11 meals (7 breakfasts, 1 lunch, 3 dinners), Charleston walking tour with guide & admission to the Edmondtson-Alston House, Alphonso Brown's private Gullah tour, admission to Middleton Plantation & Gardens House tour, Harbour Cruise & Fort Sumter tour, private transportation, trolley tour of Savannah, resort fees for Jekyll Island, taxes & gratuities for hotels, group meals, and driver & guides. Tour services by Charlene & Oswald Lettrari of Sunflower Journeys, providing tours for Alverno College Telesis since 1997.

As of 11/15/07: This tour is filled to capacity. We will accept names for a waiting list by email.