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Tip of the Month
Work Backwards to Plan Your Time
When planning your timing for the day, start with the end in mind. If you need to arrive at hotel at 9 PM and it takes 30 minutes to get there, you must depart at 8:30 PM. Your group should be meeting and doing headcounts at 8:15 PM. If you need an hour and a half for evening touring, you need to be at your first site by 6:45 PM. Dinner should then finish by 6:30 PM. Continue until you reach breakfast.
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Scholastica Travel News
Save the Date: Christmas in Colonial Williamsburg
Scholastica Travel will be hosting a FAM trip to Williamburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown from December 6-8, 2019! Please join us for this special festive weekend. All independent tour leaders and their guests are invited. Details to follow.
Tour Leader Message Board
Tour season is nearly underway. Are you on the Tour Leader Message Board? Tour leaders share on-the-go road closures, exhibit information, special events, and important announcements. Don't miss out on this excellent resource!
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Tour Leader News
We kicked off the Spring season with our Washington D.C. FAM trip.
Thank you to all who attended!
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Destination UpdatesChicago
- Ivan Navarro: This Land is Your Land is on display at Navy Pier now until September 30, 2019.
New York City
- LEGOLAND is opening in Goshen, NY in 2020. Goshen is about 60 miles north of New York City. Learn more.
Orlando
- The Flash and Cyborg will join “Justice League: A Call for Heroes” at Madam Tussauds Orlando on April 12.
- Hagrid’s Magical Creatures Motorbike Adventure will open on June 13, 2019 in The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Hogsmeade at Universal’s Islands of Adventure, and feature the most highly-themed coaster yet. For the first time ever, guests will fly with Hagrid on a thrilling roller coaster ride that plunges into the path of some of the wizarding world’s rarest magical creatures. Learn more.
Washington D.C.
- Hirshhorn Museum To Revitalize Sculpture Garden for the 21st Century: The new vision will create spaces for large-scale contemporary works and performances, as well as intimate spaces for the museum’s modern masterpieces. Learn more.
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History:
- David H Koch Hall of Fossils will open on June 8, 2019. The new 31,000 square foot fossil hall will feature 700+ fossils.
- “Outbreak: Epidemics in a Connected World” is on display until 2021 and located on second floor. This 4,250-square-foot exhibition invites you to join epidemiologists, veterinarians, public health workers, and citizens as they rush to identify and respond to infectious diseases, such as HIV/AIDS, Ebola virus, influenza, Zika virus, and others. Work cooperatively with other visitors to contain an outbreak before it spreads further in a multi-player game.
- “Objects of Wonder” is on display until 2021 and located on second floor. Explore the breadth and splendor of the Museum’s collection through some of our most significant and beautiful artifacts and specimens.
- Smithsonian National Museum of American History:
- The Ruby Slippers from the Wizard of Oz are back after a year of conservation treatment.
- Superheroes exhibit on display (1 East) until September 2, 2019. Features George Reeves’s Superman costume from the Adventures of Superman TV program, which ran from 1951-1958, as well as Halle Berry’s Storm costume from the 2014 film X-Men: Days of Future Past.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- “Americans and the Holocaust”: New exhibit on the lower level that examines the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism, war, and genocide.
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Featured Resource
Trip Tool Kit
Puzzles, games, quizzes, maps, and checklists are available for your trip!
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Recent Reviews
Fred Collins reviewed Scholastica Travel Inc. — 5 star
We have used Scholastica Travel exclusively for the past 40 years. They have taken us to Orlando, FL, Boston, MA, Norfolk, VA, Lexington, KY, and Washington, DC. Our most recent trip was to Disney with the high school marching band. The trip was well planned out by the office and carried out by Mary Keto, who could not be more personable and organized. We have and will continue to use Scholastica for their excellent planning and professionalism. Kudos to Scholastica.
Rebecca Johnson reviewed Scholastica Travel Inc. — 5 star
Scholastica is such a wonderful family-owned, company which I'd highly recommend for any group or school considering traveling with them! I've worked with them for over 6 years and everyone I've encountered has been very competent and also very kind. Their trips are organized and smooth. I also like the feeling of supporting a small business as opposed to going with one of the big guys. You won't find a more genuine group of people that are also as well-informed as these folks anywhere!
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