Educational Tours

January 5, 2009

• The Apollo

  The AST team is back to work booking awesome student travel around the country, and here I am blogging away about the great places you want to see. (…)

December 24, 2008

• Happy Holidays from the Staff at Adventure Student Travel!

  The student travel blog will be quiet for a couple of days while we spend the holidays with our families. (…)

December 23, 2008

• Museum of Modern Art

  So, there are usually some pretty strict policies on reproducing art.  This is the only picture of the Museum of Modern Art (or MoMA) that I felt pretty sure I could copy and paste from Flickr. (…)

December 22, 2008

• Metropolitan Museum of Art

  It goes by such a simple, little name.  This is the MET in New York City, pictured here and below by Listen Missy! on Flickr. (…)

December 18, 2008

• Museum of Natural History

  I like movies.  I can think of a movie line - or television - for almost any situation. (…)

December 16, 2008

• New York City's Serenity

  I can't imagine being in the prettiest, open spaces of a city and seeing these buildings just over the tree tops.  In the open spaces where I live, all you can see over the trees is sky. (…)

December 15, 2008

• A Water Cruise with Teeth

  This is no time of year to be considering water cruises except that most student tours are planned months in advance.  And this is the perfect attraction for students. (…)

December 12, 2008

• It's Happening at the Garden

  Kanye West, Rhianna, Jesse McCartney, Ne-Yo, Leona Lewis, Chris Brown, and American Idol nice guy himself, David Archuleta. (…)

December 9, 2008

• I'll Meet You at the Top

  You know you wanna.  The Empire State Building is one of the most recognizable buildings in the world and certainly one of the most anticipated tourist attractions for New York City student tours. (…)

December 8, 2008

• The Magic of Carnegie Hall

  Although not the sharpest image, I love this view of Carnegie Hall by ricoeurian on Flickr. (…)

December 4, 2008

• Top of the Rock

  The top of 30 Rockefeller Plaza is a New York City attraction in its own right.  We previously wrote about Top of the Rock in May. (…)

December 3, 2008

• Rockefeller Center

  Rockefeller Center is much more than just its 30th building, which managed to get its own t.v. sitcom named after it. (…)

December 2, 2008

• More Studio Tours: The CBS Early Show

  All the studios have them, and CBS is no exception.  It's the early bird's proverbial fifteen seconds in which average people who have neither starred in the latest blockbuster nor survived a shark attack are catapulted to fame - as long as they're waving like a crazy person and/or standing behind a flashy handmade sign. (…)

December 1, 2008

• Visiting the Original 30 Rock

  Meet 30 Rockefeller Center. (…)

November 26, 2008

• Chinatown and Little Italy

  New York City neighborhoods are defined sometimes by geography as with SOHO being South of Houston Street. (…)

November 24, 2008

• Greenwich

  Greenwich Village used to be a Native American settlement complete with a trout stream running through it.  That's difficult to picture now after several transformations leading to what is now one of the most famous neighborhoods in New York City. (…)

November 21, 2008

• SOHO - Artistic Roots, Shopper's Paradise

  You haven't painted until you've painted the rooftops and cast iron balconies of SOHO in New York City . . . (…)

November 20, 2008

• South Street Seaport

  I'm going to let the video do the talking for this New York City attraction.  The South Street Seaport is old school New York City, back when everything that came in and went out basically did so by water.  It's full of shopping and dining and amazing sites like any great New York City neighborhood, but it's also a tribute to history, to an era that because it thrived promoted the city to the relevance it still has around the world today. (…)

November 19, 2008

• New York's Federal Reserve

  When I went to the website for New York's branch of the Federal Reserve today, I was hoping to find a giant flashing icon on the home page, "Would you all PLEASE calm down?  We've GOT THIS."  It wasn't there, although I suppose I should be equally comforted by the fact that the website still exists.  Apparently the backbone of our economy is still standing after all. (…)

November 18, 2008

• World Trade Center Site

  Apparently this is what it will look like - the building that will stand where the Twin Towers once stood.  They call it Freedom Tower, and according to the website dedicated to it, it is scheduled to be completed in 2012.  (Photo by gniliep on Flickr)
  Right now the site where the towers stood until the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, is largely a construction zone and one of the most visited locations in the city by tourists.  A friend who went there told me it is unbelievable and that your heart feels as though it's fallen into the giant footprint left by the destruction. (…)