Dottie Travel has designed a Mardi Gras 2008 Tour to New Orleans for 500-plus fun loving people with 'safety' in mind. The company believes there's 'safety in numbers'. The tour includes 4-star hotels on the Mardi Gras Day parade route, chartered riverboat cruise, dinner at the Court of Two Sisters Restaurant and more! Organize a small group of 11 people and you can travel free. Want to ride a float on Mardi Gras Day?
Chicago, IL (PRWEB) November 29, 2007 -- Dottie Travel & Tours, a Chicago-based tour company, has designed a Mardi Gras 2008 Group Tour Promotion to New Orleans, Louisiana, with 'safety nets' built in. The tour company recognizes that there's 'safety in numbers', especially, when a group is merging into a city that has a 24-hour night life like New Orleans. Many times when people travel to new destinations that offer the kind of excitement New Orleans has, they tend to let their personal guard down, so that they can have fun. Dottie Travel & Tours is aware of this. To combat all of this, they have made sure that safety and security is a 'must have' feature in all of their Mardi Gras 2008 tour packages. This means choosing hotels and activities in walking distance of all of the Mardi Gras weekend fun.
Consequently, the tour company has created unique tour packages for 500-plus special people who want to enjoy Mardi Gras and feel safe at the same time. Each tour package includes a chartered 2 ½ hour riverboat cruise on the Mississippi River, complete with live jazz music and New Orleans cuisine on the Steamboat Natchez and an invitation to the 'Lundi Gras Music Festival' at the foot of Canal Street and the river front on Mardi Gras Eve; hosted by the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club. This music festival event will feature local and renowned entertainers performing on two main stages outside. Everyone in the group will also experience a nostalgic one hour horse and buggy ride through the historic French Quarters and dinner at the world famous Court of Two Sisters Restaurant on Bourbon Street. The activities within the tour packages are reserved for the group and pre-paid. All a person has to do is: GO.
All of the tour package hotels are located on the official Mardi Gras Day Parade Route. This means that all of the Mardi Gras Day Parades will pass 'in front' of the selected hotels. You won't get lost looking for the next parade! The promotion hotel headquarters will be the Marriott on Canal Street with its 'back door' to the French Quarters. You will be able to see all of the parades from Canal Street and be in walking distance to the nightlife in the famous French Quarters.
The Staybridge Suite Hotel has been selected as the luxury hotel for triple or quad occupancy choices or for adults traveling with children. Their studio suites are larger and have full kitchens to accommodate children and store that delicious food brought home from the many restaurants in the area.
For the 'Elite' Mardi Gras traveler, the company has selected the Hilton New Orleans on St. Charles Avenue. This Hilton property is considered to be an intimate 'boutique' style hotel with special features; such as 'Private Reviewing Stand' seating on Mardi Gras Day. This means that you have a reserved seat in a reviewing stand, away from the crowds jumping all over you. All of the floats and bands STOP in front of the reviewing stand to entertain you and throw loads of beads and other Mardi Gras stuff to you. In other words, you are treated like 'Royalty' because you are in a private reviewing stand. This tour package is called the 'Ultimate' Tour package.
Last, but, not least, Dottie Travel & Tours, can, for the first time, cordially invite 100 prospective float riders to 'Ride with Zulu!' on Mardi Gras Day. This means riding in full costume and make-up on a Mardi Gras Float on Mardi Gras Day and throwing lots of beads, coconuts & things to thousands of parade revelers from all over the world. All float riders will be staying at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside Hotel located on the banks of the Mississippi River. This luxury hotel is the official headquarters for all of the Zulu Social Aid & Pleasure Club activities such as the 'Lundi Mundi' Music Festival on Mardi Gras Eve. In addition, all of the Zulu Parade entourage will be staying at this hotel. All of the float riders get ready to ride (put on costume & full makeup/mask), have Mardi Gras Day breakfast together, and depart together enroute to the Superdome to board the Mardi Gras Floats for the Zulu Parade. Remember, the Zulu Parade starts Mardi Gras Day.
This is 'pure' fun. The locals know that to 'Ride with Zulu' in the Zulu Parade is a 'coveted' honor, along with the 'coveted' coconut 'throw' and the special theme beads to be thrown on Mardi Gras Day. All interested parties should go to: dottietravel.com. As an extra promotion boost, Dottie Travel & Tours will be launching 'Ride with Zulu! Mardi Gras 2008' radio promotion with a local 'smooth' jazz radio station @ 95.5FM. The radio station will be giving away a trip for 2 to, not only, go to Mardi Gras 2008 in New Orleans, but the winners will be riding in the Zulu Parade on Mardi Gras Day on a float in full costume. All interested parties can register to win this trip by going to the radio station's website @ www.wnua.com.
The tour company has carefully organized these tour packages, enabling everyone to, always, be in the 'right' place at the 'right' time. You won't be losing or wasting time wondering what to do next, because you're staying in a hotel with others within your group even though you do not know them. Everything is pre-paid. So, all you have to do is go to your next destination. The tour company boasts that you can enjoy Mardi Gras with them, because they know where to go, know what to do and where to be on Mardi Gras Day.
For more information or to make reservations for Mardi Gras 2008, contact Debby Cosby, VP Tour Promotions @ 1-888-239-3232 or go to: http://www.dottietravel.com .
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