Bus tours are becoming an inexpensive way to travel and see the sites. There are a number of bus tours that travel through all areas of North America. Whether you're interested in snorkeling with sea animals off the coast of Mexico, hiking on famous trails in the United States or taking in the scenery in Canada, there are a variety of vacations from which to choose. Each bus tour offers different types of accommodations throughout the expedition.
Founded 91 years ago, Collette Vacations has 150 bus tours available including 52 in North America. Tours include an eight-day Music City Tour of Nashville, Memphis and New Orleans, a nine-day Best of Eastern Canada Tour with stops at Niagara Falls and Montreal and also a 10-day American Heritage Tour along the East Coast where you can explore presidential estates like Thomas Jefferson's Monticello and famous sites such as Independence Hall and Monuments in Washington D.C. A standard coach bus is used for each tour.
Prices for each bus tour include museum passes, meals, admission to parks and the hotel accommodations.
Collette Vacations
162 Middle St.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island 02860
(800) 340-5158
collettevacations.com
Founded in 1925, Tauck is in its 85th year of planning and creating travel adventures. Tauck has over 100 bus tour expeditions all over the world including 26 in North America. Bus tours in North America travel to Eastern Canada on an eight-day tour where you can go whale watching and hiking in Nova Scotia and Prince Edwards Island, you can explore four islands in Hawaii on the 12-day Best of Hawaii Tour or you can experience the old-fashioned Southern hospitality on the eight-day Charleston/Savannah Tour, which includes stops at plantations, Jekyll Island and Fort Pulaski.
Accommodations on bus tours are mostly hotels and resorts. Some meals are included throughout the tour.
Tauck World Discovery
10 Norden Place
Norwalk, CT 06855
(800) 788-7885
tauck.com
Green Tortoise Adventure Travel offers a variety of bus tours throughout North America. Bus tours include a 36-day U.S.A. Trek, where you essentially backpack through the United States with stops in New Orleans, Chicago, Austin and New York. You also can travel on a bus tour expedition to the Northwest, taking in the landscape and mountains on the British Columbia, Yukon and Alaskan Tour. The bus used on each tour is a 36-passenger sleeper coach.
Accommodations during the tour consist of camping, hostels and the sleeper coach. Meals are prepared by the entire group on the tour and are of mostly vegetarian dishes created by local, fresh ingredients. Each bus tour adventure gives you plenty of time for exploring on your own, hiking and taking photographs.
Green Tortoise Adventure Travel
494 Broadway
San Francisco, CA 94133
(800) 867-8647
greentortoise.com
