Arrive in Boston make your way to your first hotel. The rest of the day is yours to do as you please, a recommendation is to visit the Boston harbour where you can enjoy The Boston Harbour Walk. This walk is designed to connect the public to a clean and restored Boston Harbour. Alternatively, you could visit Faneuil Hall Marketplace comprised of a collection of boutiques, eateries and pushcart vendors housed in converted 18th-century warehouses.

Boston Park Plaza or similar

Spend a full day exploring this historic town. Take a walk along the famous Freedom Trail, one of Americas’ first historic walking tours and the perfect introduction to Colonial and Revolutionary Boston. You will visit 16 historical sites covering two and a half centuries of America’s most significant past.

Optional Experience – Boston Old Town Trolley Tour
Hop aboard one of these trolleys and you’ll experience ‘Transportainment’, a delightful combination of transportation and entertainment. Turn back the pages of history and relive colonial Boston. Coming from various backgrounds, each conductor narrates the sightseeing tour with his or her own blend of trivia, colourful anecdotes, and humorous stories to ensure that your experience is both enjoyable and informative.

Boston Park Plaza or similar

Collect your car this morning and leave Boston behind as you drive north toward Salem, the infamous home to the witch trials of 1692. Well aware of its infamy, Salem has a number of attractions centred on this uneasy time, including haunted tours and re-enactments. Continue the drive passing Gloucester, America’s oldest fishing port, toward Kennebunkport, a great place for hiking and exploring.

Boston > Kennebunkport | 127 miles

Nonantum Resort or similar

This morning get to know Kennebunkport and all its natural wonders like Spouting Rock and Blowing Cave. In the afternoon continue the journey to Bar Harbor. Located in Downeast, Bar Harbor was once considered a small fishing and ship-building community; today it’s a favourite destination for people throughout the world, offering spectacular beauty and natural wonder for those who would prefer to spend their time outdoors.

Kennebunkport > Bar Harbor | 234 miles

Bluenose Inn or similar

Today you can explore Bar Harbor and its surroundings at your leisure. Visit Mount Desert Oceanarium which includes a lobster museum, a marsh tour, and a lobster hatchery. For a touch of nature, visit Acadia National Park, New England’s only National Park; it offers 6000 acres of mountains, rugged coastline, islands, forests and lakes where you can hike, bike, canoe, fish, and explore this Park’s trails.

Optional Experience – Lobster Boat Cruise
Experience a sample of the life and work of the Maine Lobsterman. Watch as the captain demonstrates how lobster traps are hauled while learning all the parts of a lobster trap and how the lobsters find their way to the bait inside. Learn all about the anatomy and life cycle of the Maine Lobster. In addition to lobster and crab, you’ll see and be able to touch sea urchins, starfish, and sea cucumbers. The kids will love it and so will you. About halfway through our cruise, we’ll stow all the lobster gear and then head off to a small island to look at harbour seals basking on the rocks or swimming in the nearby water.

Bluenose Inn or similar

Continue on your journey through coastal Maine to Jackson. Take a scenic drive to the White Mountains National Forest, better known as the Whites. Take a train ride through this scenic area; choose one of the Valley routes to Conway or Bartlett, or the legendary Crawford Notch excursion.

Bar Harbour > White Mountains | 219 miles

Christmas Farm Inn or similar

As you leave this morning, through the White Mountains, visit Franconia Notch State Park located in the heart of the White Mountain Region. Here you can ride a passenger cable car to the top of Cannon Mountain where on a clear day you can see mountains in Canada, and you can visit Mount Washington, the highest Mountain peak in the Northeast. After a scenic stop and some great photo ops, continue on to the Stowe area in Vermont.

White Mountains > Stowe | 131 miles

The Lodge at Spruce Peak or similar

After a night in Stowe it’s time to head towards the Green Mountains. On your way, you will pass ‘Moss Glen Falls’, a roadside attraction featured in just about every photographic portrait of Vermont ever published. You can also visit the Smugglers’ Notch State Park in the Green Mountains; it’s great for hiking and offers several short, medium and long trails throughout the park.

Stowe > Green Mountains | 78 miles

Snowed Inn or similar

The Berkshires are a beautiful place to visit any time of year, the area is known widely as a cultural hub of museums, historic sites, music, dance and art venues. In addition, the region also offers outstanding opportunities for outdoor sports including golf, hiking and mountain biking, fishing, and even white-water rafting. All of these activities take place amid spectacularly scenic rural hills dotted with mountain streams and lakes.

Green Mountains > The Berkshires | 68 miles

Red Lion Inn Stockbridge or similar

Leave the Berkshires behind and drive on to Newport. Home to spectacular coastal scenery, awe-inspiring architecture, a thriving waterfront, and welcoming hospitality, Newport is considered by many to be a shining gem in the coastal crown of New England. Take a walk through tennis history and explore six acres of historic grounds at the Tennis Hall of Fame, enjoy the peaceful waters of Narragansett Bay aboard the Newport Dinner Train, or visit Bannister’s Wharf, an old commercial seaport in the colonial days, now the hub of Newport’s harbour side shopping and dining. Here you can find eclectic boutiques and numerous restaurants from the sophisticated to the casual.

OPTIONAL EXPERIENCE – Newport Mansion Tour
Visit two of the famed Gilded Age mansions that once were the summer playground for socialite families. With names like Breakers, Astor and Vanderbilt, they are by far the most popular attraction in Newport. Built near the turn of the century, these magnificent structures are each a museum onto themselves. Here you will find a world of exceptional elegance and inspiration in architecture, art, interior design and landscapes.

The Berkshires > Newport | 187 miles

Newport Beach Hotel & Suites or similar

People come to Cape Cod to feel inspired; to walk the pristine beaches, revel in the arts and culture, indulge in the freshest fried clams, play 18 holes on the lush fairways, and savour the breathtaking scenic beauty. Lighthouses, cultural landscapes, and wild cranberry bogs offer a glimpse of Cape Cod’s past and continuing ways of life.

Newport > Cape Cod/ Falmouth | 97 miles

Shoreway Acres Inn or similar

Today you can make a decision between visiting Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket Island, both are next to Cape Cod and both are full of charm and typical New England atmosphere. The best way to see the prettiest spots on the islands are on foot, bicycle or a combination of the two. There’s so much to see and do on both Island’s the decision of which way to go may not be an easy one. 

Shoreway Acres Inn or similar

On your last day, on your way back to Boston, you may wish to visit historical Plymouth Rock a monument symbolizing the location where the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower when they first landed on what was to become American soil. You can also see the Mayflower II, a replica of the ship that first brought settlers to New England. 

Boston > Airport | 75 miles