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Bus Trip

Discover Newport!

 

Join us for a bus trip to nearby Newport

Our bus trip starts with a 10AM departure from the hotel with a drop-off in Newport on Bowen's Wharf on Thames Street  for shopping and lunch on your own.

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We reboard the bus at 2:15 for our scenic guided tour around Ocean Drive  and Brenton Point State Park and with stops for views and picture taking

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We'll arrive at the Breakers around 3:15 for a self guided tour and head back to the hotel at 5:15, arriving at 6

Newport Harbor
Mansion in Newport
Ocean Drive overhead
The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport

Photo of the Breakers courtesy of jenelizabethsjournals.com

Our free time on Bowen's Wharf on Thames Street in Newport, where you can choose from a number of great restaurants and plenty of interesting shops on Newport Harbor

Thames street Wharf
Thames Street, Newport
Thames street Wave sculpture

After lunch we board the bus for a guided tour of the beautiful rocky coast of Ocean Drive, which is dotted with mansion estates and includes Brenton Point State park, a favorite for viewing the coast, fishing and flying massive kites.

Brenton reef
Ocean Drive, Newport
Brenton Reef

The beautiful rocky coast leads to Bellevue  Ave, where most of the mansions of the Gilded Age are located.  We will have a tour of the Breakers, one of the most extravagant of these "summer Cottages", with its sweeping view of Narragansett Bay.

The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport
The Breakers Mansion, Newport

Photos of the Breakers courtesy of jenelizabethsjournals.com

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