Additional Included Highlights

• From time to time, your Travel Director will delight you with an Insight Flourish, which is a local specialty representing the destination.
• Hotel and restaurant tips are included - you'll never have to worry about how much to give, nor search for foreign currency. We also include all taxes and porterage charges at hotels.
• We carry your bags for you and promptly deliver them to your hotel door.
• If your arrival and/or departure flights are as per the itinerary start and end dates, then transfers are available at scheduled times. If your flights are outside these times, or you have booked additional nights accommodation with Insight Vacations, you may purchase transfers or make your own way from/to the airport.
• Our highly-skilled Travel Director will ensure your journey is seamless, serving as your expert guide, consummate organiser, and friend overseas.
• Personal radio headsets give you the freedom to wander during visits to famous highlights, without missing any of your Local Expert's fascinating commentary.
• Stay connected with friends and family with our complimentary coach and hotel Wi-Fi (where available).

Choice Highlights

• Choose between two carefully selected activities
• : Visit the Norman Rockwell Museum, a wonderful snapshot of Americana, built to showcase the amazing artwork produced during his long career.
• : Take a guided tour of Chesterwood, the former summer home and studio of prominent 20th century public sculptor Daniel Chester French. Best known for his seated figure of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial, you'll get a glimpse at the life and work of this prolific artist.

Well-being

• : Enjoy the comfort of Insight's luxurious, air-conditioned, 40-seat coach with double the standard legroom and onboard washroom. Our customized luxury coaches are sanitized before the start of your tour and are maintained to very high standards. Physical distancing measures have been implemented on our customized luxury coaches.
• : Experience enhanced hygiene protocols to align with the latest guidance following COVID-19. All Travel Directors, Well-Being Directors and Drivers have completed training in enhanced well-being and hygiene protocols.
• : Our Well-Being Directors take a proactive approach to your welfare ensuring all well-being regulations are met (available on tours with 21 or more guests).
• : Hand sanitizer is freely available on board for you to use throughout the day.
• : We only work with establishments we are confident will consistently adhere to our high well-being standards, which include hotels, restaurants and sight-seeing venues.

Travel Director

• : "It’s magical to see how a group of guests come together over the course of our trip. I can always tell when that’s happening because they start planning their own ‘post-arrival’ activities before the travel day has finished."

Authentic Dining

• Boston: At 18:00, join your Travel Director for a Welcome Dinner with wine and an opportunity to mingle with fellow guests at your hotel.
• : At your Highlight Dinner, taste the creations of artisan brewers with Austrian-style lagers.
• : Enjoy an authentic Maine lobster dinner as you feast on the fresh and local delicacy known for its tender and rich flavour. Raise a glass as you mingle with new friends over this delectable Celebration Dinner.
• Dining Summary: 7 Breakfast (B), and 5 Dinner with Wine (DW)

Top Rated Highlights

• Boston: Join your Travel Director as they guide you along the Freedom Trail, a route that leads you through historically significant sites in the city.
• : Visit the Norman Rockwell Museum, a wonderful snapshot of Americana, built to showcase the amazing artwork produced during his long career.
• Weston (VT): Step back into history with a visit to the Vermont Country Store where you'll find a nostalgic assortment of products ranging from local cheeses to whiskey pecan pie.
• : Explore the Billings Farm and Museum- of the finest operating dairy farms in America, which also serves as a museum of Vermont's rural past.
• Waterbury: Experience a guided tour of the Ben and Jerry's Factory, where you will learn from Caring Dairy farmers about the sustainable farming practices that goes into their ice cream production.
• Montpelier (VT): Travel to Morse Farm Maple Sugarworks, where maple syrup is "tapped" from the trees. Taste a Vermont tradition, the unusually named "sugar on snow’" which is maple syrup drizzled over packed snow. This tasty treat is traditionally served with a doughnut and pickle.
• Franconia Notch State Park: Take a scenic ride on the Gondola SkyRide at Loon Mountain Resort (weather permitting). On a clear day, you'll have superb panoramic views of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont, New York and Canada.
• Bretton Woods: Stop for pictures at the Silver Cascade Waterfall and Bretton Woods, which offers stunning views of Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the northeast at 6,288 feet (1,917 metres).
• North Conway: Enjoy a scenic hike to Diana's Baths, which is features a small series of cascading waterfalls.
• : This morning visit the iconic Portland Head Light on the spectacular shores of Fort Williams Park.

Insight Choice

• : Take a guided tour of Chesterwood, the former summer home and studio of prominent 20th century public sculptor Daniel Chester French. Best known for his seated figure of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial, you'll get a glimpse at the life and work of this prolific artist.

Make Travel Matter

• North Conway: Enjoy an insightful talk by a naturalist on the North Woods' wildlife and ecology. Expert Chris Lewey is an Executive Director and Founder of Raven Interpretive Programs. Then, more spectacular fall foliage awaits as you journey through Crawford Notch, an arresting pass through the White Mountains. Stop for pictures at the Silver Cascade Waterfall and Bretton Woods, which offers stunning views of Mount Washington, the tallest peak in the northeast at 6,288 feet