BostonUSA CityBreaks Planner
BostonUSA
CityBreaks Planner is produced by the Greater Boston Convention &
Visitors Bureau: Larry Meehan, VP, Media Relations & Tourism Sales
Tel: 617- 867-8231, e-mail:
lmeehan@bostonusa.com Stacy Shreffler, Media Relations & Tourism
Sales Manager, Tel: 617-867-8203 / email:
sshreffler@BostonUSA.com;
www.BostonUSA.com is Boston’s Official Visitor Information website. The
GBCVB is proud to be partners with the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism,
MASSPORT, Discover New England, Boston Mayor’s Office of Arts, Tourism & Special
Events, & the Cambridge Office for Tourism. May 2008 edition
Contents
- Boston & Cambridge Hotels Contacts : See the
“BostonUSA Hotel Contacts E Directory BostonUSA
- CityBreak Selling Point: Boston & Cambridge
CityBreak Visitors Do Not Need Car
- New hotels & Hotel renovations in Boston &
Cambridge:
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - available free:
New Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau 2008 BostonUSA Specials Card
biggest ever
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Boston
CityPass
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Go Boston
Card
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - 1-day / 2-day
Old Town Trolley/Beantown/ CityView Trolley Ticket
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Walk the
Freedom Trail: Boston’s most popular visitor tour
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Boston Duck
Tour
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Sports: To create a BostonUSA Sports
CityBreak
- Green Your Boston-Cambridge City Break
- Create a Food & Wine CityBreak
- Create a Cultural CityBreak
- Create a Shopping CityBreak
- Create a Festival CityBreak
- Create a Festival 2009 CityBreak
- Create a Pre/Post Cruise CityBreak
- Create a Family Friendly CityBreak
- Create a performance CityBreak
- Create a Cultural Heritage CityBreak
- Create a visiting colleges in Boston area
CityBreak
- City Break Planner Tools: Images: More than thirty
(30) images available at no cost
- City Break Planner Tools: Fact Sheets for
promotion Copy
- City Break Planner Tools Keeping updated: What’s
New in BostonUSA? monthly at no cost:
- City Break Planner Tools Boston-Cambridge Map:
BostonUSA new online Map
- City Break Planner Tools: Airport ground
transportation
- Boston & Cambridge Hotels Contacts : See the
“BostonUSA Hotel Contacts E Directory “ for sales contacts to you’re
your CityBreak FIT Program (on page 11)
- BostonUSA CityBreak Selling Point: Boston &
Cambridge CityBreak Visitors Do Not Need Car: One Week all- system Visitor
Pass for Boston This Summer ₤ 7.5 … € 9.7 …. $15.36 CAD …..$15.00 USD !
For British, European & Canadian visitors to Boston using the extensive
public transit one week “T” pass which connects hotels, airport ,
attractions, shops, and parks could be the best bargain in the USA. At
$15.00- ₤ 7.5 € 9.7 $15.36 CAD
the Boston one-week “T” Pass provides unlimited travel
on their subway, locus, bus, inner harbor ferry. To make the purchase even
more convenient for arriving international visitors Boston Logan
International Terminal has installed a “T” Pass vending machine (all
major credit cards can be used) - and the one-week pass includes
the 12-minute trip from the airport to downtown on the new Silver Line
coach!
Click here for more information.
- New hotels & Hotel renovations in Boston &
Cambridge: Click to view
What's New for New & Renovated Hotels
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - available
free: New Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau 2008 BostonUSA
Specials Card biggest ever The new expanded Greater Boston Convention
& Visitors Bureau 2008 BostonUSA Specials Card (includes color city map)
offers the most discounts ever: $2.00 off the 50-story Pru SkyWalk (at
best place to begin a Boston visit) , $2.00 off Boston’s dramatic new art
museum - the ICA and - this year two-for-one admission at 22 historic
properties of Historic New England (houses range from the 20th
Century Gropius House to the 18th century Codman Estate.
Contact GBCVB Larry Meehan to request quantity (no cost)
e-mail:
lmeehan@bostonusa.com
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Boston
CityPass: Provide clients with admission to t 6 famous Boston
attractions for one amazing low price! CityPass Includes tickets to The New
England Aquarium, Harvard Museum of Natural History, John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of
Science and the Skywalk Observatory at the Prudential Center! Plus money
saving coupons including: The Freedom Trail guided walking tour or audio
tour, $3.00 off a whale watch at the New England Aquarium as well as a free
lobster appetizer, preferred seating and 10% off of gift shop purchases in
The Union Oyster House restaurant- American's first restaurant! See more and
avoid most ticket lines!CityPass is good for nine days beginning date of
first use- it's perfect for a weekend or a week! (An $85.90 value for only
$44.00). Contact Kat Ploude : Tollfree: 888-330-5008 Email:
kat@citypass.com web site:
www.citypass.com
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Go Boston
Card Provide clients with unlimited admission to over 70 top
attractions and tours in Boston for one low price! PLUS you'll receive a
FREE full color pocket guidebook, and savings of up to 20% on shopping and
dining throughout the city. Traveling further? You can keep "GOing" with
admission to top attractions in Boston's surrounding areas like Lexington
and Concord, Salem, Cape Cod and even Newport, RI. Contact Lori Timony
Phone: 800-887-9103 Fax: 617-830-8340 Email:
lori@smartdestinations.com web site
www.gobostoncard.com
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - one-day or
two-day Old Town Trolley or Beantown or CityView Trolley Ticket Old Town
Trolley Tours - Historic Tours of America: The original, orange and
green Old Town Trolley. Daily departures, leave at least every twenty
minutes from 17 stops throughout the city including: the New England
Aquarium, U.S.S. Constitution Museum, the Trolley Stop Store on the corner
of S. Charles & Boylston Streets and most major hotels (see your concierge.
Enjoy a 100 minute, fully narrated sightseeing tour with more than 100
points of interest guaranteed aboard our authentic, all weather trolley!
Additional features include: a fully narrated 45 minute Walking Tour of
Beacon Hill; discounted rates for Boston Harbor Cruises, Children's Museum,
Aquarium and Spirit of Boston. Phone: 617-269-7150 Beantown Trolley/Gray
Line: Departs 9:30 - 4:30 pm approximately every 20 minutes. See
Beacon Hill, Newbury Street, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Charlestown, Bunker
Hill Pavilion, and more. Choose from twenty stops with over 100 points of
interest. Tour Boston on the Red Beantown Trolley. Once aboard you can enjoy
a two hour narrated tour or hop on and off at your leisure. Unlimited use..
Beantown Trolley is the only trolley with direct service to the Museum of
Fine Arts and the Seaport District. Your ticket price includes a Harbor
Cruise from the New England Aquarium or the U.S.S. Constitution (Cruise
operates May - October) (Winter Schedule in effect Jan-Feb) Phone:
781-986-6100 Tollfree: 800-343-1328) CityView Trolley Tours (the
silver trolleys) offers you the BEST packaged value around. Your ticket
includes the choice of a NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM ADMISSION(year round), or a
FREE BOSTON HARBOR CRUISE (May-Oct). CityView's one hour narrated tour
includes free, unlimited boarding at any of our stops. Phone: 617-363-7899
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Walk the
Freedom Trail: Boston’s most popular visitor tour- and it’s free.
Visitors to Boston from all over the world - school children, teachers,
historians, history buffs, citizens- walk the Freedom Trail. There is no
other place in the United States where you can take in the rich history of
America’s Revolution — the events that lead up to the historic break from
Britain and the brave people who shaped our national government. Beginning
at the Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau Boston Common Visitor
Information Center, the Freedom Trail is a 2.5 mile red-brick walking trail
that leads you to 16 nationally significant historic sites, every one an
authentic American treasure. The Freedom Trail is a unique collection of
museums, churches, meeting houses, burying grounds, parks, a ship, and
historic markers that tell the story of the American Revolution and beyond.
This is Boston’s most popular visitor tour- and it’s free. (A few sites
charge admission fee)
- BostonUSA City Break added Value - Boston Duck
Tour “One big splash and the rest is history!" This fully narrated
historic tour, takes place in authentic WWI amphibious vehicles through the
streets of Boston and into the Charles River. The fun begins as soon as you
board! Operating seven days a week, the tours depart every 30 minutes
starting at 9am and the last tour leaves an hour before sunset. Departure
Locations: Outside Prudential Center and Museum of Science. Rain or Shine!
(All DUCKS are heated.) Boston Duck Tours average one hour and twenty
minutes in length.
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Sports:
To create a BostonUSA Sports CityBreak
- click
to view:
Sports Preview
- Green Your Boston-Cambridge City Break :
Click to view:
BostonUSA Green Visitors Program
- Create a Food & Wine CityBreak Click here
for
Culinary Events & Tours Also: Click to view:
Pubs & Brewery Tours. Also : Historic
Restaurants Also New
& Renovated Restaurants
- Create a Cultural CityBreak Click to view:
Museum Exhibitions 2008-2009
- Create a Shopping CityBreak Click for overview
(and available images)
Boston Shopping Visitor Program; Click for shopping copy to use in
your promotion
Shopping in Boston
- Create a Festival CityBreak Click to view:
2008 Events at a Glance
- Create a Festival 2009 CityBreak Click to
view:
2009 Events at A Glance
- Create a Pre/Post Cruise CityBreak: for
pre-post Boston-Bermuda or Boston-Montreal Cruises or other cruises that
call on Boston. Here’s the 2008 BostonUSA April-November Cruise
Schedule: Schedules & Bookings
- Create a Family Friendly CityBreak: Click to view:
Kids Love Boston
- Create a performance CityBreak: Click to view:
BostonUSA! Cultural Insider 2008 Edition
- Create a Cultural Heritage CityBreak: Click to
view:
Explore Multicultural Events at a Glance 2008
- Create a visiting colleges in Boston area
CityBreak: Click to view:
College Visit; look at current packages:Click to view:
College Visit Hotel Packages
- City Break Planner Tools: Images: More than
thirty (30) images available at no cost for BostonUSA CityBreak planners:
Click to view:
Available Photos
- City Break Planner Tools: Fact Sheets for
promotion Copy More than fifty (50) fact sheets for BostonUSA CityBreak
planners: Click to view:
Available Fact Sheets
- City Break Planner Tools Keeping updated: As
a CityBreak planner you are invited to receive What’s New in BostonUSA?
monthly at no cost: Click to view current edition :
What's New 2008
- City Break Planner Tools Boston-Cambridge Map:
BostonUSA new online Map
Interactive Boston Online Map.
- City Break Planner Tools Airport ground
transportation :
MASSPORT: Logan Airport: Getting to and from Logan; click here to
view:
Airport Wayfinder™, their online video featuring passenger arrival
and departure,