The Middletown Press (Middletown, CT)
Ring in the New Year at Mohegan Sun
The Beacon Falls Senior Center is offering a bus trip Dec. 31 to Mohegan Sun casino for New Year’s Eve.
Bus will leave the senior center, 57 N. Main St., at 5 p.m. and leaves the casino at 1:30 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Cost is $40 per person and includes bus, $15 food voucher and $15 gaming. Advance registration is required. Call Bernadette Dionne at 203-7232344 or 203-217-8444.
Casino trips ahead
The East Haven Senior Center and Pearls of Pauline are co-sponsoring two trips to Foxwoods Resort Casino, on Jan. 4 and Feb. 8, 2017.
For each trip, the cost is $25 per person and includes roundtrip motorcoach transportation, casino package ($10 slot play and food voucher for free buffet or $10 in any food vendor), and driver’s tip. Bingo on your own.
Coach departs from the senior center at 7:30 a.m. with a pick-up in Madison at 8 a.m.
For information and reservations, call senior center at 203-468-3277 or Pauline at 203-468-2148.
Cruising With Friends
Cruising With Friends is offering a 7-night cruise to Bermuda from Boston May 20, 2017, aboard Holland America’s Veendam. Arriving Front Street in Hamilton, Bermuda, docked there May 22, and departs May 25 for Boston.
Bermuda Heritage Days Festival Parade on Front Street May 24, as well as a half marathon.
Now new transfer service to piers New York, Bayonne, New Jersey, and Boston is available. Information available for this new service from Stephanie at 860-334-4085.
For more information, details, pricing and availability, call Sal Chiaramonte at 860669-5697 or email srchiaramonte@sbcglobal.net.
Sail with TLC
The TLC Group is back. Sailing on the brand-new Carnival Vista May 28, 2017, with great rates starting at $490 plus taxes.
For information, call Mike at 203-281-4316.
‘Saturday Night Fever’
The Allingtown Senior Center is offering a trip Dec. 29 to see “Saturday Night Fever” at the Westchester Broadway Theater in Elmsford. Cost is $89 per person, excellent seats. Bus leaves Savin Rock Conference Center at 9:30 a.m. Payment due in full by Nov. 18.
Fliers with details for trips are available at the office, 201 Noble St., West Haven Senior Center, or call Miriam at 203937-3507 for more information.
Norwegian Gem
The Fairfield Travel Club is offering a 10-night group cruise out of New York City on Norwegian Gem Jan. 1828, 2017.
Cruise visits San Juan, St. Thomas, St. Maarten and Tortola British Virgin Islands. A special offer of free alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages with bar gratuities is included. Rates begin at $849 per person, double occupancy, plus port tax of $186.56 per person.
A deposit of $200 will hold your reservation. Call Nancy Glynn at 203-255-4443 or email nancyglynn@gmail.com.
Magical Rhine and Moselle
Bayer Retirees is offering a Magical Rhine and Moselle trip.
Highlights of the trip, scheduled for Aug. 31-Sept. 9, 2017, include Basel, Strasbourg, Speyer, Mannheim, Rudesheim, Siegfried’s Mechanical Music Museum, Koblenz, Moselle River, Cochem, wine tasting, Cologne and Amsterdam. The 10-day trip includes 22 meals (8 breakfasts, 6 lunches and 8 dinners).
Book now and save $500 person; per-person rates start at $4,299, double occupancy. Price includes group transportation from a central location to and from New York, roundtrip airfare from New York, air taxes and fees/surcharges, and hotel transfers. Not included in the price are cancellation waiver and insurance of $350 per person.
For information, call 203878-7966.
Midler on Broadway
Pearls of Pauline is offering a trip Sept. 20, 2017, to see “Hello Dolly” with Bette Midler on Broadway.
Cost is $329 and includes transportation, complete luncheon (choice of chicken sauteed with white wine and lemon, or rigatoni in meat sauce) at the famous Pietrasanta Italian Trattoria, ticket to show, and driver gratuity. Deposit of $200 required with booking, due by Nov. 3, 3016.
For information or reservations, call Pauline at 203-4682148.
Plan 2017 early
Several bus trips are being planned in March-May 2017 as follows:
• March 31, April 21: Washington, D.C. with 2 nights at the Holiday Inn & Suites in Old Towne Alexandria, guided day and bus tours of D.C., Smithsonian Institute Museums, Arlington National Cemetery and 2 meals. and National Museum of African American History. Cost $425.
• March 25: Broadway show of choice with lunch at Tony’s DiNapoli and orchestra or front mezzanine seating Call for prices.
• March 25: Off-Broadway show, “Cagney,” and lunch at Tony’s DiNapoli with orchestra seating, $199.
• April 22: Jonah, a 2-day tour at Sight & Sound Theater in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, with 3 meals, Hawthorne Inn & Suites, “My Fair Lady” at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theater, Kitchen Kettle, Amish meals and farmlands tour, $399.
• May 6: Grand Central Tour with inside stories and NYC highlights tour, $89.
• May 18: Brooklyn Chocolate Tour with stops and samples at four top Brooklyn chocolate makers and Brooklyn tour, $109.
• May 21: Cape May 4-day tour, 3 nights at the Grand Hotel overlooking ocean, trolley tour, Victorian tour, Cape May Point, Atlantic City, Renault Winery, entertainment and open bar and 6 meals, $549.
Call for a complete schedule. Departures from Cromwell, North Haven and Milford. Overnight tours will have early bird discounts of $10 per person if booked by March 1. Call 203-483-6330 or 800-9671993, or visit www.tatoursonline.com.
Groban on Broadway
The St. Raphael’s Social Group is offering a trip April 22 to see Josh Groban on Broadway in a matinee performance of “Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812.” Cost is $185 and includes orchestra seat, bus and driver gratuity. Dinner is on your own.
Bus leaves East Haven at 8 a.m. with a second pick-up in Milford.
For information or reservations, call Arlene at 203-4671051 or Ann at 203-469-1427.