What’s on your travel agenda for 2016? Orlando and Tampa based ESCOT Bus Lines invite your group to experience Central Florida’s vast array of entertainment, educational and cultural venues in this new year.
Theme Parks beckon you to come play
ESCOT escorts churches, schools, and family charter groups to the many different attractions at Disney, Universal Orlando or Sea World theme complexes. Customers like the convenience of riding in climate-controlled comfort to one or more theme parks in the Orlando area, arriving relaxed and ready to go with no worries about traffic or parking.
Plan a charter trip for your group to visit Busch Gardens, The Florida Aquarium, The Lowry Park Zoo, or The Clearwater Marine Aquarium just to name a few of the wild animal and natural adventures in the Tampa Bay area. Parking’s not getting any cheaper and the traffic’s not getting less congested any time soon. ESCOT can take you to all of your wild animal and marine chartered adventures safely in climate-controlled comfort.
Take a trip to the beach!
How about Fort De Soto- One of America’s Top Beaches!
Immerse yourself in the natural beauty of Fort De Soto when you enjoy kayaking near the water’s edge or relaxing on the beach. Fort De Soto’s park offers an abundance of bird life, sea life, wild life and plant life that provides a tranquil escape.
Fort De Soto Park is the largest park within the Pinellas County Park System, it consists of 1,136 acres made up of five interconnected islands (keys). The Fort De Soto keys are home various beach plants, mangroves, wetlands, palm hammocks, and hardwoods. Fort De Soto has more than 328 species of birds that have been documented over the past 60 years! While you are enjoying the beach, keep your eye out for the loggerhead sea turtle, which nests between April and September. Fort De Soto is a beautiful destination with fun activities for everyone to enjoy.
Culture and Art in stylish coaches
Take a ride to the cultural side of the Tampa Bay area. ESCOT’s customized Art tours allow your group to enjoy the eclectic Dali Museum and the ultra-modern Tampa Museum of Art, where it’s not just about the art. Acting as event venues, as well, ESCOT coordinates group tours, private parties and corporate events, from exhibition kick-offs to black tie corporate affairs in the stylish comfort and convenience of our streamlined motor coaches.
Other Don’t Miss Art Tours
If seeing some of the most magnificent glass art and decorative glass lighting in existence is your group’s goal, set your sights on picturesque, downtown St. Petersburg, where world famous glass master Dale Chihuly’s permanent collection resides at the Morean Center. ESCOT customers also enjoy visiting Clearwater Beach, one of Florida’s most sought after beaches on chartered St. Pete/Clearwater adventures.
Explore the Past…and the Future
ESCOT Bus charters to Tampa’s Cuban and Spanish past arrive in historical Tampa’s Ybor City. Not unlike New Orleans’ Bourbon Street, Ybor City breaks out its spicy Latino culture in Cuban and Spanish flavored live music and scintillating restaurants. Give your group an experience they’ll remember for years to come. Ybor City is a favorite off-the-beaten path destination ESCOT groups endorse and enjoy.
Create a tour that includes more of Tampa’s history with a visit to the Henry B. Plant Museum. Discover railroad, steamboat and hotel tycoon, Henry B. Plant’s influence in shaping today’s Tampa Bay. The old Tampa Bay Hotel houses the museum and her lovely gardens, as well as the University of Tampa.
Make time for a Museum of Science & Industry tour, featuring the Imagination Playground, where kids can explore and engineer everything from robots to urban centers. Your group will be sure to catch the wave of the future with MOSI’s exciting 3D Printing the Future exhibition.
ESCOT customers also enjoy charter tours from Orlando and Tampa Bay to Florida’s Cape Canaveral area to indulge in the NASA experience and/or to explore the Canaveral National Seashore for its fishing, sunning, swimming and surfing opportunities.
NASCAR and Entertainment Venues
Charter your group’s private bus now for the February 2016 Daytona 500 and save the date for a private chartered bus to Daytona Speedway on July 2, 2016 for The Coke Zero 400. ESCOT goes to the races in comfort and style, without any traffic or parking concerns.
Get your group together to support the team at a Tampa Bay Buccaneer’s game at Raymond James Stadium, or get to an Orlando Magic game or catch a concert at Amway Center and don’t worry about traffic or parking. ESCOT delivers the fun on chartered game and concert buses.
Chartering a group trip to Seminole Hard Rock Casino for a night of gaming fun is as easy as contacting ESCOT to escort you there and back.
Cruise Connections, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale and the Florida Keys
Connect with southern Florida for your cruise ship departures, to play in Miami or Ft. Lauderdale or to embark on “swim with the dolphins” and/or manatee adventures. Make your Florida trip special with a charter tour of world renowned Florida Keys and the scenic adventures awaiting you at Florida’s southernmost destinations, including Key West and Key Largo. ESCOT coaches escort you in comfort and style to your cruise ship or other southern Florida hotspots.
In 2016, when Florida destinations appear on your radar, plan your group charters with ESCOT Bus Lines. Contact us today to plan your group’s next charter tour. See you soon!
