Bus Touring: A Guide to Charter Vacations, U.S.A. - Softcover

Bus touring in this country has been generally overlooked by travelers in the past few years. While bus touring lacks some flexibility, it offers wonderfully advantageous freedom from tiring driving, individual planning, calling for individual hotel reservations, and so on. Moreover, buses are comfortable for all ages, and the availability of an organized, educated tour guide can make the trip a complete delight. Warren offers pretrip advice for packing, seating, special comfort ideas, finding the right trip, asking the right questions, assessing the value, tips, baggage limitations, insurance, and the importance of good food and accommodations. He also suggests sources of travel information; offers tips for single travelers; and discusses contracts, refunds, and cancellation policies. To explain how tours are usually conducted, Warren describes a day visiting the California Redwoods and another in wine country. Major points of departure (San Francisco, Seattle, and New York) are covered by concise information about routes and destinations, weather, shopping, sightseeing, and cuisine in the city. The book tersely describes the specific routes from San Francisco to the Canadian Rockies; San Francisco to San Diego and Yosemite; Seattle to Alaska; Nashville to Charleston, Atlanta, and New Orleans; Washington, DC, through Virginia and Pennsylvania; autumnal New England routes; and a Rocky Mountain trek through Yellowstone, the Grand Tetons, and Glacier National Park. Covering much territory in a very concise, limited fashion, the book serves as an introductory glimpse into the possibilities of bus touring. Libraries and bookstores serving older audiences interested in leisurely, comfortable travel (but who may have little experience in arranging for such vacations), will want to consider. -- From Independent Publisher