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The First Step to a Holiday of a Lifetime

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USA - FC1The tour was unreal, had a great time and would love to do it again.  Howie Randell, Australia, 2007

If you want to go Hog wild and looking for the ultimate cruise, then this is it - a 400-plus mile adventure from Orlando to Key West, the perfect antidote to those winter blues.

Highlights

  • Kennedy Space Centre
  • Miami Beach
  • Key West
  • Everglades

Itinerary

Day 1 Arrive in Orlando. On arrival at Orlando Airport take a taxi to your hotel, which is located near Disney World, Universal Studios and Sea World. We’ll be in the hotel lobby at 4 pm to meet you. Best Western Movieland..USA - FC1to2

Day 2 Orlando – Hutchinson Island (170 miles). After our welcome breakfast at the hotel we pick up our motorcycles. Once all formalities are cleared, you are in for a ride along the Atlantic Coast. From Orlando we head south and ride down the so-called “Space Coast”, the base of the countries space industry. The Kennedy Space Centre complex encompasses part of the island – a visit to the Space Centre will be offered as an optiona extra. We roar down the coast on our Harleys towards Cocoa Beach, where we have our lunch stop today. As we head further south, facing the Atlantic Ocean, riding through palm-dotted beach resorts, we ride over the bridge to Hutchinson I. Marriott Beach Resort.

USA - FC3to4Day 3 Hutchinson Island - Miami (85 miles). Today we head towards Miami and our ride along the coast will take us through many famous vacation spots – West Palm Beach has been synonymous for nearly a century with the kind of lifestyle only limitless loot can buy. The nation’s nobs began wintering here in the 1890s, after Henry Flager bought his East Coast railroad south from St Augustine, building two luxury hotels on this then-secluded, palm-filled island. Then it’s onto to Boca Raton, which is noteworthy for its abundance of Mediterranean revival architecture. About 20 miles from here we arrive at Fort Lauderdale, the number one Spring Break venue in the USA and a thriving pleasure port. Next stop is Miami, where we overnight. Miami Beach is the “Miami” you know – a string of islands separating Biscayne Beach Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. Enjoy the hot Cuban nightlife here. Circa 39 Hotel.

Day 4 Miami – Key West (160 miles). From Miami Beach it’s off into the Florida Keys – a 100 mile chain of islands that runs to within 90 miles of Cuba. Getting around the Keys could hardly be easier. There is just one route all the way round to Key West: The Overseas Highway, a unique road. First stop, Key Largo, the first and largest of the Keys, which offers many interesting sights, such as the original African Queen. As we continue you can enjoy one of the country’s most fascinating rides with long glimpses of water that shift from emerald green to azure blue. The Keys are much more Caribbean than Floridian and nowhere else can you get this far from the American mainstream without leaving the country. It’s onto the Sugarloaf and Key West, the southernmost point of the USA, which resonates with an individual spirit that hits you the moment you arrive. Doubletree Grand Resort.

Day 5 Key West. Today is at leisure to enjoy Key West and it’s environs. Key West itself is quite unique, a laid back community, and still one of the most lively and anarchic places in the USA. Places of interest here include “Sloppy Joe’s Bar”, the place that Ernest Hemmingway fabricated one or the other hangover. You might want to take a tour in a glass bottom boat and watch tropical fish, enjoy a few cocktails by the beach and just absorb the special atmosphere of the mellow pace of local life here. And enjoy the distinctive cuisine, served for the most part in funky little shacks where the food is fresh and the atmosphere laid back. Doubletree Grand Resort.

USA - FC6to7Day 6 Key West – Fort Myers (230 miles). Today we head back north through the Keys, the Orchid jungle and the Monkey jungle. We ride our Harleys across the Everglades National Park. Covering over 1.5 million acres of the far south-western tip of mainland Florida, the park protects the largest subtropical wilderness in the USA. A fair portion is actually underwater, and the entire Everglade ecosystem is basically a giant, slow-moving river that is 50 miles wide, but averaging only a few inches deep. As an optional we offer an airboat ride with alligator stop. Then we head on to Fort Myers, one of the up-and-coming communities on the Gulf Coast. Outrigger Beach Resort.

Day 7 Fort Myers - Orlando (165 miles). Today we ride up Florida’s West Coast, which embraces all the extremes, buzzing youthful towns rise behind fishing hamlets, mobbed holiday homes are just minutes from desolate swamplands, and world-class art collection vie with glitzy theme parks. Surprises here are plentiful, though the coast’s one constant is the Gulf of Mexico – and sunset views rivalled only by those of the Florida Keys. After a short ride along Redington Beach we head inland at Indian Rocks Beach and catch the interstate, which takes us back into Orlando. Now it’s time to return our motorcycles and transfer back to the hotel and our Farewell Dinner. Best Western Movieland.

Day 8 Depart from Orlando. Today you transfer back to the airport for your departure flight back home.

Total mileage  c. 810 miles

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Price includes: 6 days Harley-Davidson hire (Hondas available on request) with unlimited mileage, helmets (if requested), basic liability insurance, CDW, 7 nights accommodation, welcome breakfast & farewell dinner; taxes and environmental charges, detailed tour description, National Park, State Park and National Monument entrance fees, special roadmaps, guide, support/luggage vehicle with spare bike, T-shirt; luggage storage; biker’s rucsac.

H-D models available: Electraglide Classic, Street Glide, Road Glide, Road King, Heritage Softail, Fatboy, Low Rider, 883 Sportster. Please see our rental information for more details

Price excludes: Flights and travel insurance (available through H-C Travel), all meals, fuel, riding gear; ELVIP & SLI insurance (see above), airport transfers.

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Date

Rider

Passenger

Sgl rm suppl.

VIP+SLI

23 Jan - 30 Jan 2010

£2,095.00

£895.00

£595.00

£144.00

22 Jan - 29 Jan 2011

£2,095.00

£895.00

£595.00

£144.00

EVIP offers comprehensive motorcycle insurance cover, including theft, with an excess of $1000.

SLI offers $1 million third party liability insurance.

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