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Join us for the annual “Dickens on the Strand” Festival in historic Galveston. Enjoy a narrated tour of the city, all decorated for the holiday season with stops at the 1892 Bishop’s Palace and the 1894 Opera House. Enjoy a live show at Albert’s Whimsical Whisker Revue at Windsor Castle, followed by the popular Holiday Lantern Light Parade. Then we will have a narrated harbor cruise of the city and the ship canal, followed by a visit to the 1895 Moody Mansion. After lunch we will enjoy the elaborate “Queen’s Parade” before visiting the famous Moody Gardens, with it’s glass pyramids full of lush tropical gardens and undersea aquariums. Walk along its Festival of Lights, a mile long trail with more than one million lights and lighted scenes take you around the Moody Gardens property with a spectacular view of Galveston Bay. Next we will all meet for our Farewell Dinner together. After departing our hotel we will have a tour of one of Galveston’s most popular attractions, the Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Platform, a museum dedicated to how oil is extracted from the Gulf. Walk out onto this platform replica and learn all about oil drilling on the ocean floor. This bus tour will depart from the Airport Security Parking Lot located at Airport Blvd. and Loop 410 East at 1106 Halm Blvd. Tour includes baggage handling, travel insurance, 6 meals and gratuities for tour manager, coach driver and local guides. Deposit: $200/per person. Double: $1,199/per person. Single: $1,449. Final payment is due October 1, 2021. Credit cards accepted. Make checks payable to AFC Vacations.