Cape Breton Island Tour

Featuring Inverness County

Sept 6-9,2022 

Your tour leaves Halifax the morning of Tuesday Oct 5th when you meet your tour director Ron Mac Eachen.  Please note you can also be picked up along the route to Port Hood at a location (Truro, New Glasgow, Antigonish ) along the trans-Canada highway. Arrangements must be made with tour organizers.

Here is a chance to move out of the house with on this 4 day/three night short  getaway. You will travel to one of most beautiful places in Canada with a combination of pristine coastlines, gentle hills, and fascinating people. You will encounter entertaining characters, storytellers, and musicians while amidst some of the most amazing vistas anywhere in North America. This all can be experienced knowing the tour organizers have constructed the four day tour with complete compliance of the safety protocols required. 

Day 1

Dinner Included 

845 AM Meet your tour director and coach driver at the parking lot of the Future Inn, Bayer’s Lake, Halifax. The address is 30 Fairfax Drive,

9am Depart for Cape Breton on your modern  motor coach

1045 – Stop in New Glasgow for washroom/ stretch  your legs break

11:05 Depart New Glasgow

12:15 Arrive Cove Motel in Auld’s Cove for lunch

1:30 –Depart Auld’s Cove for Port Hood

2:30 pm Arrive Hebridean motel in Port Hood for check in. Free time 

5pm  Transfer to Clove Hitch restaurant for  opening reception and dinner 

8pm Transfer back to hotel

Day 2 

Breakfast Included 

9am a tour around the various trails and back roads in the Mabou /Port Hood area including a stop in stop in Glencoe. Ron and Mary Janet will inform and entertain as you learn about the area with particular emphasis   on the Gaelic culture that was so predominant in the region over the last two centuries. 

12 noon -Stop at the Glenore Distillery for a tour as well as lunch. 

130-3pm Additional touring in local area 

5pm  Dinner at the Red Shoe Pub in Mabo

630pm Visit the Chestico Museum in Port Hood for dessert nd  musical  presentation .

Day 3

Breakfast  and  .Included  

9am Depart hotel

This day will feature a tour  down Route 19 throughout  the Margarees , Cheticamp and  up to Pleasant Bay . You will be mesmerized by some amazing vistas .

Tour will take through some lovely scenic places with some stops for photos as well as several gift shops. Lunch at the Rusty Anchor in Pleasant Bay. 

After lunch we will  travel back  to Port hood area  

5.00  pm Arrive back at hotel in Port Hood. Dinner at local  restaurant 

Day 4 

Breakfast Included 

Some free time to take a walk to the beach perhaps, meander through the village or just relax outside your motel enjoying the coastal view of Port Hood Island.

1145 Depart for Judique and the Celtic Music Interpretive Center for lunch and some entertainment

230 pm depart Judique for Halifax. 

4pm Arrive New Glasgow for twenty minute rest stop.

5:45 Arrive  Halifax at Future Inn .Tour ends

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4day/ 3night tour includes

• Three nights’ accommodations 

• Modern motor coach transportation throughout the tour

• Four meals 

• Opening reception with complimentary beverages and entertainment.

• Tour will be escorted by Ron Mac Eachen of Sandy Travel with Mary Janet Mac Donald.

• Some special treats and surprises along the way.

• Many laughs and stories.

Price

• $975.00 per person based on double occupancy  plus 15% hst

• Single supplement $ 200.00 plus 15% HST.

• Deposit of $200.00 to reserve space due at time of reservation. 

• Full and final payment three months before departure date 

• Payments are non refundable.

• Payment Protection Plan available at  $90.00 per person.

• This plan allows cancellation for any reason with refund as follows : 75% refund up  to six weeks before departure  Within 6 weeks of departure a reund of 65%of monies paid 

• Manulife Trip Cancellation Insurance  and Hospital medical insurance also available also available