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| MTips
– M is for Mary, M is for Mayflower, M is for Mimi... |
September,
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Planes, trains, motorcoaches...and now Segway
tours!
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| Mayflower
Tours operates escorted holidays. We sell escorted
group travel. The mode of transportation is the
vehicle that gets us from place to place. We travel
by air, train, coach, river cruise vessel and
more. So why not by Segway?
The other day, my brother and his wife came to
Chicago and wanted to do something different -
and they love Chicago, so they were ready for
anything. I decided to show them Chicago by Segway.
What was very important was to get a guide to
go with us, so I created our first ever escorted
tour via Segway.
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to know |
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Weather
needs to be dry and pleasant |
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Allow
three hours |
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Organize
a private tour for your group only |
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Select
a reputable company centrally located by some of
the key areas you want to see |
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Ask
about their training on how to use the Segway. We
had a half-hour training session consisting of a
DVD and then we rode the Segway under supervision
of our guide to get the feel of it. Learn how to
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Our guide provided by the company was a gem. Aaron
rode ahead of us watching how we were doing, telling
us about this curb and that crack. We rode on
the sidewalks and crossed the streets with the
pedestrians.
We would stop together and then our guide would
tell us all about Millennium Park, Buckingham
Fountain and the skyline of Chicago. Halfway through,
we made a comfort stop by the Shedd Aquarium and
Soldier Field (home of Da' Bears). My legs felt
funny yet it was rewarding and invigorating to
be on that Segway. Before you know it, the Segway
was your buddy. By the way, three of us are over
65 years-young.
One question I always get asked is ....are the
size of your groups getting smaller? Well yes
and no. Yes, there were four of us on the Segway
tour. Yes, there are 120 travelers on a river
cruise. So are our groups getting smaller? The
answer is that the size of the group may not matter,
yet the escorted group experience must be TOPS. |
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