A Salem Halloween

Day 1

6:30 AM Depart Sam's Club, Mechanicsburg

7:00 AM Depart At Home Store, Harrisburg

Meal/Rest Stop en route, "on own"

3:00 PM Check into Rhode Island hotel

Tonight enjoy a storytelling dinner and the Jack O' Lantern Spectacular! Enjoy a New England 3 course old world style meal at Pot Au Feu/Colonial Tavern with restaurateur Bob Burke, historian, creator of the Independence Trail Tour, and folk lore personality. After dinner is the JACK O’ LANTERN SPECTACLUAR, featuring expertly carved pumpkins lining the pathways and trails of the Roger
Williams Park Zoo. This gourd-geous display of artistry, creativity and wonderment showcases thousands of professionally designed jack-o-lanterns, all arranged with whimsical and seasonal theatricality. The event consists of more than 5,000 jack-olanterns and has earned rave reviews as one of the country’s finest displays of holiday artistry.

10:00 PM Return to the hotel

Day 2

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before checking out.

9:00 AM Depart for Salem

11:00 AM Arrive in Salem and have time for lunch on your own

1:30 PM Visit the Salem Witch Museum - Witness the testimony of the hysterical girls, the suffering of the blameless victims, and the decisions of the fanatical judges who sent innocent people to their deaths. When the witch hunt began no one was safe from being accused. This presentation is based on actual trial documents. With 13 stage sets, you’ll enter the web of lies and intrigue of the Salem Witch Hunt, one of the most enduring true stories in American History.

2:30 PM Free Time in Salem

4:30 PM Dinner at Finz Restaurant

6:00 PM Salem Wax Museum - The original Salem Wax Museum has transformed into The Wax — a bold, immersive journey where Salem’s eerie past meets modern storytelling. Wander gas-lit cobblestone streets, explore hands-on activities like gravestone rubbings, and experience refreshed exhibits featuring lifelike London-made wax figures. Celebrating 30 years of history, The Wax offers a fresh, thrilling take on Salem’s legendary 1692 hysteria.

7:00 PM Candlelit Ghost Walking Tour - This hour walk through the streets of Historic Salem takes you to many of our most 4 haunted houses and locations. This tour explores the history of the building, as well as various accounts of spirit activity. The tour guide will advise you on the best methods of ghost photography as well as the different types of spectral evidence that appear in people's home photography. Some highlights of our tour include the Joshua Ward House, the Howard Street Cemetery, Old Salem Prison, and the Lyceum.

8:30 PM Check into Boston area hotel

Day 3

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel.

9:00 AM Depart for Salem - meet your local guide

9:30 AM Real Pirates & Witches Experience - Immerse yourself in the stories of Real Pirates! The family-friendly pirate experience features the true tale of ‘Black Sam’ Bellamy - the richest and one of the youngest pirates of all time - and Maria Hallett, the love of his life and so-called ‘Witch of Wellfleet. Meet the crew and follow their journey as they seek fortune on the high seas, amass the greatest pirate treasure of all times, and ultimately meet their untimely fate!

12:00 PM Free time for lunch on your own

2:30 PM Depart for Boston

4:00 PM Dinner at the Chart House Restaurant

6:00 PM Ghosts & Gravestones Trolley Tour - Hear all about Boston's darker side! In a city nearly four hundred years old - troubled with war, murderers, strife and the occasional bout of stray molasses, it is hardly any wonder that Boston remains one of the most haunted cities in America and stories of the glory days of Colonial Boston only scratch the surface of Boston’s darker side. Walk amongst the dead in burying grounds nearly four hundred years old, hear stories of those whose mortal remains lie beneath your feet, and listen to tales of many of the sordid practices that went along with them. Venture to the site of the biggest grave-robbing scandal in New England’s history. Walk atop Boston’s largest unmarked burying ground and hear tales of the tortures, punishments and executions
that took place there. See Boston’s most haunted hotel: the Omni Parker House.

10:00 PM Approximate arrival back at your hotel.

Day 4

Enjoy breakfast at the hotel before checking out.

9:00 AM Depart for home

Fast food/rest stops made along the way, on your own.

8:00 PM Approximate return to Harrisburg

8:30 PM Approximate return to Mechanicsburg

B=Breakfast, D=Dinner