Long Island—Gardens and Wineries—Bus Tour

schedule for the
Long Island—Gardens and Wineries—Bus Tour
for Pettengill Farm Customers and Friends
A Groups, Inc., Bus Tour | Sunday, July 24—Tuesday, July 26, 2016
COST PER PERSON, INCLUDES ALL FEATURES
$629.00 Double Occupancy (2 to a room)
$599.00 Triple Occupancy (3 to a room)
$799.00 Single Occupancy (1 to a room)
Sunday, July 24, 2016
W
e will depart Pettengill Farm at 8 a.m. and head for New London, CT (we’ll make a rest stop
en-route) where we will head to the pier for the Long Island Ferries. Our bus and us will board
our ferry which will travel from New London, CT to Orient Point, Long Island, NY. We will
disembark and head for our hotel for the night—The Sag Harbor Inn right in Sag Harbor, NY.
Enjoying total luxury, this is a lovely property right on the water. We’ll get checked in and give
you a chance to freshen up and perhaps have lunch. Then we’ll head out to visit two wineries—
one for tasting and touring and the other for tasting and also dinner with pairings. One of the
vinyards we will be visiting is Pindar Winery, for a tasting of five of their internationally acclaimed
wines. Also we will hear about their new windmill that helps them to make wine with wind. In
fact 80% of their energy for running the winery comes from that installation of this windmill.
Long Island is one of the biggest producers of fine wines in the USA and that’s because of its
geographical location which helps it’s precious grapes to grow abundantly. This should be a
wonderful day. Upon returning to Sag Harbor, you are free to explore this wonderful town and
it’s great shopping as well as the delightful ambiance which our hotel has to offer.
Cost
per
Person, Including all features:
Double $679.00 (2 to a room), Triple $639.00 (3 to a room), Single $849.00 (1 to a room)
Monday, July 25, 2016
W
e will begin our day with breakfast at the Sag Harbor Inn (included). We’ll say “goodbye” to
this lovely place and head out for a truly busy but wonderful day. Our first event of the day will
be a tour of the Hamptons with our outstanding guide, Mary Cummings, from the Southampton
Historical Museum. Mary will be giving you interesting facts about why the Hamptons have
appealed to celebrities and notables as well as fascinating information on this beautiful area.
Next, we’ll head to Landcraft Environments located in Mattutick. This is truly an amazing
place. They grow plants of all kinds—from bulbs and succulents to tropicals—in greenhouses
as well as in their extensive gardens that are just begging to be visited. They also wholesale to
many garden centers, including Pettengill Farm! We’ll then take a lunch stop (on your own)
and continue our journey to mid-Long Island where we will visit Old Westbury House and
Gardens in Westbury, NY. This is truly one of the East Coast’s best takes in terms of gardens
and horticultural demonstrations, it’s nestled amidst 200 acres of formal gardens, landscaped
grounds, woodlands, ponds and lakes. Westbury House is furnished with fine English antiques
and decorative arts, it also served as the John S. Phipps family’s residence for more than fifty
years. This evening will find ourselves at the lovely Spring Hill Suites in Bellport, NY. Dinner
this evening is included and we will be going to the Harbor Crab Restaurant in Patchogue, NY.,
were we will enjoy a delicious buffet served on the deck of a triple decker steamboat (does not
move) that is part of the restaurant. Then, we are back to the hotel for a good night’s sleep—
most folks will need it.
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
I t’s an early start today as we depart our lovely hotel after the delicious breakfast which is
included. We’ll head for Oyster Bay, where we will visit Planting Fields Arboretum and State
Park—home to the Coe Family, the almost 450 acres was donated to the State of New York.
Here we will have a wonderful tour of gardens and greenhouses—it is so vast in size, that we
need to actually plan a tour with the guide! After our tour, we will have a box lunch in the café
known as Coffeed (included). We’re heading home today but not before we have one more treat!
We will drive on the Long Island Expressway across the Frog Hollow Bridge into the Bronx
to visit the New York Botanical Gardens and their fabulous exhibition of Impressionism in the
Garden. From here, we will depart the New York City area for home, making a stop for folks
to get something to eat (take on the bus) so we can arrive back in Salisbury and Pettengill Farm
mid-evening.