Pack your bags for the day or longer and join PARA for trips down the street and across the world! Travel to an array of destinations is possible through PARA’s Day Away Trips and Mini-Vacations. For prolonged R&R, try one of our extended vacations through Southern Touch Tours or Collette Vacations. Call 562-3235 for trip itineraries, prices and details not included below.
Day Away Trips
Peanut Butter Festival and
We are going to experience some of the history of south Alabama and its heritage in the peanut butter industry while sharing in Grandma’s Smokehouse Breakfast, arts, entertainment of non-stop pickin’, dancin’ and singin’, the Nutter Butter Parade (the funniest parade around), construction of Alabama’s largest PB & J and much more. We will stop for dinner in
Date: October 27th, 2007
Cost: $50.00
Departure: 7:30 am – return by 5 or 6
Experience Bellingrath with an outdoor display of over 8,000 chrysanthemums. This will be a one night out so we can experience a beautiful morning display of color.
Date: October 31st - November 1st, 2007
Cost: $175.00 + meals
Departure: 9:00 am
Deadline: October 19th, 2007
Christmas in the Country at
Get ready to finish your holiday shopping with over 150 artisans and plenty of entertainment.
Date: November 2, 2007
Cost: $29.00
Departure: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
Deadline: 10/29/07
Smoky Mountains at the Wonderland Hotel
Take a few days to relax in the mountains in the fall. Bring a good book to read on the porch, take a good short day hike in the
Date: November 12 – 14, 2007
Cost: $335.00
Departure: 8:00 am on the 12th
Deadline: 11/1/2007
Date: November 27th, 2007
Cost: $50.00 includes lunch at Classic on Noble
Departure: 8:00 am
Deadline: 11/21/2007
Fantasy & Lights at
Spectacular show of lights by night and flowers and butterflies by day. Also a stop of the Little White House.
Date: December 3 – 4, 2007
Cost: $175.00 plus dinner (breakfast included)
Departure: 9:00 am
Deadline: 11/1/2007
This deeply informative exhibit will be available for a short time showing a large collection of artifacts from the ancient Italian city of
Date: December 11, 2007
Cost: $30.00 + dutch treat lunch
Departure: 9:00 am
Deadline: 12/6/2007
Eagle Awareness Weekend
Eagle awareness has been a tradition at
Date: January 11 – 12, 2008
Cost: $150.00
Departure: Friday at 2:00 pm return late evening on Saturday.
Deadline: 12/28/2007
Kennedy Center Theater at the
A special presentation by the White House Historical Association in conjunction with the Kennedy Center of an exciting new musical inspired by Theodore Roosevelt and his family. In the summer of 1904, young Kermit, Ethel & Archie Roosevelt stumble upon a real-life treasure map hidden in their library’s copy of
Date: January 14, 2007
Cost: $45.00 + dutch treat dinner at the Crescent City Grill
Departure: 3:00 pm Return late after the show at 7:00
Deadline: 12/12/2007
The Cyclorama boasts the world’s largest painting of the Battle of Atlanta. Accompanied by music, lighting, sound effects and narration, the painting brings to life the story of the famous battle. This is the longest running cyclorama in the country. We will eat a dutch treat lunch and travel north to the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History. History comes alive this day!!
Date: January 24th, 2008
Cost: $75.00
Departure: 7:00 am
Deadline: 1/21/2008
Museums of
Come visit the home of F. Scott Fitzgerald and his family from the 1930’s. This is the only museum dedicated to the memory of the Fitzgerald’s. We will move downtown
Date: January 29th , 2008
Cost: $45.00 + dutch treat lunch
Departure: 8:00 am
Deadline: 11/1/2007
Vaudeville Café Murder Mystery Dinner Show & the
We will travel up to
Date: February 9 – 10th, 2008
Cost: $225.00 for adults and $200.00 for children
Departure: 7:30 am on Saturday the 9th
Deadline: 1/28/2008
The Plains of
Departure Date: (14 day tour) During migration, February 2008
Highlights: Norfolk Hotel,
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Excursions (Southern Touch
Christmas Time in
Date: December 6-9
Cost: $705 double or $872 single
Trip ID: Beach
An Old-Fashioned Smoky Mountain
Date: December 12-14
Cost: $586 double or $685 single
Trip ID: Smokies
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