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Showbus broadway, luncheon shows, ship shop cruises, your journey begins with friendship tours.

With each day comes a new sunrise and a new opportunity. When designing our logo several years ago, it was no accident that we picked a rising sun and an endless road. These are symbols of our optimism of the joys of travel you will experience as your journey begins with Friendship Tours.

Saratoga Races - Queensbury, NY

Jul 24, 2024 - Jul 25, 2024 2 day(s) | 2 meals

Escorted Mediterranean Cruise Roundtrip Italy aboard the Norwegian Pearl with Hotel stay in Venice & Trieste, Italy

Sep 4, 2024 - Sep 17, 2024 14 day(s)

Escorted Australia 2025

Mar 21, 2025 - Apr 5, 2025 16 day(s) | 24 meals

A day trip is a great way to visit New England and the metro areas’ must-dos as well as hidden gems. From harbor cruises to museums to historic landmarks, even lunch with a spectacular show, Friendship Tours offers an impressive variety of fun-filled Motorcoach Day Trips. And whether yours is a large group or just a small get together of friends, we can turn any day into an unforgettable day. Leave the driving, tour planning, and parking to us. Our experienced drivers and expert Tour Directors will be there to ensure a worry free day.

Day Trips depart from several convenient departure points throughout Connecticut & Massachusetts, including Manchester, Farmington, Waterbury, Danbury, and West Springfield, MA. The departures locations vary depending on each trip, please refer to the description in each trip listing for details.

Your motorcoach journey awaits… Motorcoach overnight tours offer unforgettable destinations to visit. Motorcoach overnight tours range from the Canadian Atlantic provinces in the north, south to the Carolina’s and as far west as Michigan. These tours feature deluxe motorcoaches, first-class hotels, exciting attractions, the best restaurants, and unique experiences with that special "Friendship" touch. Our experienced drivers and expert Tour Directors add to the journey while ensuring everything goes as planned.

Motorcoach Overnight Tours depart from several convenient departure points throughout Connecticut & Massachusetts, including Manchester, Farmington, Waterbury, Danbury, and West Springfield, MA. The departures locations vary depending on each trip, please refer to the description in each trip listing for details.

ShowBus is the most convenient, user-friendly way to travel into New York City. Hop aboard a comfortable, deluxe motorcoach from multiple departure locations in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Relax as Friendship Tours whisks you away to your exciting Broadway show adventure.

Enjoy a long-running musical favorite like THE LION KING or WICKED. Looking to take in the excitement of a new show, A BEAUTIFUL NOISE or MJ The MUSICAL might be what your looking for!

Inquire about ShowBus Dates & Show Availability by calling us: 860-243-1630 or email: [email protected]

2024 Pick up Locations

Manchester, CT - Farmington, CT - Waterbury, CT - Danbury, CT

Join ShowBus on any of our upcoming dates!

April 27, 2024

June 22, 2024

Call for reservations 860-243-1630

Entertainment, Food & Fun…

Join us for a fun day of entertainment and lunch at any of these daytime events. Drive on your own to the various beautiful venues throughout Connecticut & Massachusetts. Enjoy a delicious lunch followed by a wonderful musical performance.

We can provide motorcoach transportation for your group of 40 or more people; we can help to find a group for your smaller group to share transportation with; or you can Drive on your Own to the event!

Important: Reservations must be made in advance. We need to know that you are joining us! Call us at Friendship Tours 860-243-1630 so that we can assist with any questions.

The Ship Shop is ready to help you plan your next cruise vacation! Cruising is one of the fastest growing segments of the travel industry. The ocean breeze and lapping waves are calling your name, and we’re here to make sure you answer the call in style.

Tropical destinations, Trans-Atlantic crossings, river cruises, and journeys to all of the continents are in your reach. We have a number of group departure options that you can join to take advantage of discounted group rates, as well as convenient transportation to your pier or airport. If you don’t see what you’re looking for, give us a call, and we would be happy to customize your own personalized cruise experience.

For world travelers and adventurous tour explorers, we have a number of fly tours that can take you to the global destination of your dreams.

Go a little further with a tour that takes you across the continental United States, journey to the National Parks, Europe and beyond. We can organize the perfect tour for you.

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Why Friendship Tours

Flexible planing.

We take the time to listen to you and give you the tour you want. If one of the tours in this web-site does not suit you, tell us, and we will give you exactly what you want. No request will be ignored and no question is unimportant. We don’t proceed until you are satisfied.

IMPECCABLE SERVICE

We do the big things right, like making all your airline and hotel reservations, setting up your deluxe motorcoaches and selecting the right guide for your group. We also do the little things that make a difference, like treating you as a member of our family, listening to the details that will make your tour unique, and giving you prompt and accurate information. Our pricing is competitive, even though we treat each of you as if you were our only client.

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• Comprehensive research
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How often have you wanted to create a really special tour but were not sure where to begin? Or, when have you needed a comprehensive quotation for a special group that was so unique it could not be found in the myriad brochures in your office? How many times are you asked about a destination for a special group, a location about which you know very little? Or, when did you really need some solid suggestions on how to build a challenging itinerary?

Friendship Tours has gone the extra mile time and again for our treasured clients; give us a call— you’ll be glad you did!

We’re the experts in the planning and delivery of high quality, worldwide, custom group tours. We have researched and operated over one thousand different group programs worldwide; from the simplest domestic weekend trips to multi-country journeys. We have worked with every conceivable group, special interests of all types and incentives of all sizes.

Allow us to provide you with a proposal, including some interesting itinerary options to show you how we can complement your plans. We enjoy working with our clients on a frequent repeat basis, and look forward to counting you among them.

SPECIALLY CHOSEN CHRISTIAN TOURS

Since we began offering Christian tour programs, Friendship has operated over 2,000 groups on virtually every conceivable itinerary. We have blended into this brochure a combination of traditional favorites, current popular tours, and some newer, more original programs designed to offer a more in-depth experience into both the Old and New Testaments, as well as European Christian Heritage.

So if you are new to Christian travel, or returning for new adventures, we sincerely welcome you. We believe there is something here for almost everyone.

EUROPEAN CHURCH HISTORY TOURS

We offer tours which take in the history and heritage of several denominations, including Lutheran, Presbyterian, Baptist and Methodist. If you don’t find a tour to your liking, we will create one just for you. If you should choose for us to customize your itinerary, we will do all the research for your tour so you can be sure every detail is properly handled.

CUSTOMIZE YOUR TOUR FROM YOUR GATEWAY CITY

If you have a group of 20 or more we will create a custom tour for you with an itinerary of your choosing including your own private motorcoach. We will price your tour from your gateway city. Then we will print a custom brochure personalized to your group. We will offer our suggestions to complement your ideas in order to achieve the best possible program for your group. We are happy to design any program you like. Flexibility is part of our service to you.

SERVICES, GUIDES and MOTORCOACHES

We are committed to providing the finest services at every level, and we are dedicated to getting it right. Our itineraries are backed by popular demand, and we endeavor to keep them current and fresh for you. Our guides are hand-picked, personable and knowledgeable, and ready to deliver a tour to you through their eyes and hearts. They love what they do and it shows. We use only late model, modern motorcoaches, equipped with the latest safety and comfort features. Motorcoaches with toilet facilities are used in countries where they are available.

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Penelope (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin (Luke Newton) enter a unique arrangement in the third installment of the hit Netflix series.

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Dearest gentle readers, Penelope and Colin enter into a unique agreement in the Bridgerton season 3 trailer.

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As Penelope and Colin begin working together to help her find a husband, the pair find that it may be harder than it seemed at first.

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Help! My Sister Thinks Her Lump of a Son Should Come Live With Me.

She wants a change of scenery to “inspire” him out of his rut..

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here.

Dear Prudence,

I comfortably live in an area with a very high cost of living. My older two nieces came to stay with me after college while they were trying to figure out their places in the world. Their “rent” went into savings so they could start out with a bit of a nest egg. They were expected to clean and to pay for their own food. We didn’t have a problem, and they both went on to have successful adult lives.

Their brother is another story altogether. He basically coasted through high school and then failed to do anything. No job, no interest in education, no interest in anything but video games—he hasn’t even gotten his driver’s license yet. He is 22. My sister has babied him his entire life. My brother-in-law is at the end of his rope and demanding something be done. My sister thinks that sending him my way for a change of scenery will inspire him. She says it is only “fair” that I help my nephew, as I did my nieces.

My sympathy has limits. My nephew refuses to see a doctor so any root cause like depression is not being addressed. My sister has offered to pay me until her son gets settled, but I am not willing to live with a lump lounging in my living room playing video games night and day. How do I have this discussion with my sister?

—Not a Launch Pad

Dear Launch Pad,

Your sister’s belief that you are obligated, in some way, to put up her children in the big city is ridiculous, of course. You are not! If you do not want to host a third of your sister’s children, rent-free, for some indeterminate amount of time, that is totally fine.

But I would not expect your sister to respond well if your stated reason is that her daughters were cool but her son sucks. And if you really enjoyed the company of those young women, and were pleased to be part of their young-adult lives, I’d remind you that you don’t really know that much about their younger brother or what he would actually be like as a houseguest. Maybe he would be a lump. Or maybe he would in fact find the city (I’m assuming) a welcome change in his life. There’s every chance you might similarly enjoy building a relationship with this young man and helping him along his way.

Or maybe you are not interested in the hassle! If that’s the case, a simple “I’m so sorry, but I just can’t host your son right now” will suffice.

—Prudie, hospitably

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My husband and I were lucky enough to buy a home last year. It’s a neighborhood on small lots, and most people who live there are retirees. Our next-door neighbor “George” is a sweet guy in his late 70s with whom we have a mild acquaintanceship. Last year, I watched him either struggle with his push mower or leave his grass long, such that he became the subject of Nextdoor neighborhood complaints about it. It would be easy for me to mow his lawn when I do mine, but I know he’s touchy about his independence. His church sent someone to shovel his driveway when we had a snowstorm, and he was insulted, but he needed it. Spring is coming: How do I ask if I can do this for him?

—Trying to Be a Good Neighbor

Dear Good Neighbor,

How do you ask? You ask! If he gets touchy about it, oh well. You don’t have to be like, “I see that you’ve got one foot in the grave, want me to mow your lawn for you?” Try mentioning that you enjoy mowing the lawn , and you’d be happy to do his while you’re out if he is interested. Or you could observe that he appears to be shoving around a mower from the 15 th century, and offer to share your electric mower with him. (I hope it’s electric—surely you are not using a gas-powered mower on your teensy lawn!)

But maybe he doesn’t want your help—maybe he’ll even be briefly annoyed—and that’s fine too. If his lawn doesn’t get mowed, who cares? Do not base your opinion of your neighbor on what the busybodies on Nextdoor think! Some might even suggest that a lawn in a state of disarray is a badge of honor , denoting a homeowner’s appreciation for the humble pollinators.

Finally, you’ll find that all your encounters with this neighbor will feel less fraught if you make a few overtures to transform this mild acquaintanceship into real friendship, or at least to actual neighborliness. Invite the guy over for a beer! Ask him for a favor! You’ll find it really pays off to have a neighbor who knows and cares about you, and it will make the next decade or two a little easier if you build a base of trust upon which future interactions might rest.

—Prudie, cuttingly

I have known Carole (not her real name) since I studied in France about 55 years ago. We have kept in touch, and during two of our (my husband and myself) visits to France, we went to the city she lives in for about four days, and although she invited us to stay at her apartment, we stayed at a hotel. She and her husband were very hospitable and took us on excursions in the area, had us to dinner, etc.

In 2017, she wrote and said she wanted to bring her granddaughter to New York in 2018 (we live in Montreal, Canada). To make a very long, involved story short, she finagled a 10-night visit to Montreal staying at our house most of the time and with four of those nights in New York (my husband being the driver and both of us being the tour guides). The little girl was almost 11 years old and very well-behaved, but Carole was like the Energizer Bunny. She took a thousand photos, and when she couldn’t get online in the hotel, she went crazy. Needless to say, when their trip was over, it took me a week to recuperate!

Well, a few months ago, Carole said she was planning a trip to New York in the summer of 2024, this time with her daughter and her daughter’s two kids (one of them being the granddaughter who was with her in 2018). Knowing how things turned out in 2018, I know this means she wants to be invited to Montreal. Meanwhile, this past year, my husband has had to deal with a very ill sister who lives out of town and had to first be transferred to an assisted living place, and now to a long-care home. He is totally exhausted by all that has happened, and he is the sole caregiver, so he has to visit regularly.  I related all of this to Carole, and she seems to have given up talking about going to New York (which means Montreal as well) this summer. However, I bet she will start again next year.

Let me add that in 2019, we moved into a condo and only have one uncomfortable hide-a-bed for guests, and there would be four people who want to come. I wish there were a polite way I could say, “Book a hotel in Montreal, and we will try to show you the sights on some of the days you are here.” Meanwhile, we do not feel like driving them to New York and walking all over in the July heat. If she tries again to be invited, how do I get out of it without being unkind? Remember, she will not start by saying she wants to come to Montreal.

—Not a Good Hostess

Dear Hostess,

I must confess I do not understand anything about this letter. Do people from Francophone countries possess some outlandish notion of hospitality that requires you not only put up a visitor for ten days but also drive them about six hours to a completely different country? There is a polite way to say “Book a hotel in Montreal, and we will try to show you the sights on some of the days you are here”—it consists of those exact words, preceded by the word “please.”

Honestly: You are in your seventies. You live in a one-bedroom condo. No reasonable person would expect you to put their family up for a long visit, nor would they expect you to accompany them to New York. If for some reason Carole does expect this—I admit this is possible, due to the fact that you did all this on her previous visit—politely tell her that unfortunately this time you don’t have the space to put them up, and that a trip to the Big Apple simply won’t fit in your schedule, désolée.

—Prudence, straightforwardly

Classic Prudie

I’ve been in a relationship with “Nick” for almost five years, and for the most part, it’s been smooth sailing. My family adores Nick. But lately, Nick and I have been arguing quite often. I’m a staunch Republican, and two of his friends, “Jordan and “Andrew,” don’t like that. They use all kinds of vile names for me, including “white trailer trash” and “inbred.” This started after I began working for a Republican organization. Before that, they were nice to me. Now they treat me terribly. I’m starting to believe that what they say about me is true .