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Studio ’91 dances at Disney Springs
Studio '91 from Mechanicsburg, PA performed on December 10, 2016, at the Waterside Stage at Disney Springs. They had 97 dancers that performed at 2 performances. Jenkins Travel is honored to work with them to plan their trip to the Walt Disney World Resort. They...
Beaches Turks & Caicos part 2
Today we had a seminar learning about the changes and future of Sandals and Beaches resorts. There are some pretty awesome things coming - I am not allowed to announce yet - but it will be exciting. Adam Stewart, CEO, was the presenter. Here are some pictures of the...
Sandals Travel Agent Recognition awards at Beaches Turks and Caicos
Jenkins Travel is honored to have been invited again to the STAR awards. We could not reach this goal without the business of our many clients - and so we thank all of you! Beaches Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite resorts in the Caribbean. It is made up of 758...
National Parks Road Trip, Glacier National Park, Two Medicine and Logan Pass
For the last day of our trip, it was one final pass through Glacier National Park. We started the day with a boat ride in the Two Medicine section of the park, so named due to two different Native American women selecting the area for a medicine lodge many years ago....
National Parks Road Trip, Glacier National Park, Many Glacier
Today we continued our touring of Glacier National Park by visiting the Many Glacier area of the park. There are a lot of hiking trails in this area, with several trails offering very limited elevation change, and the views are amazing. This area is also one of the...
National Parks Road Trip, Glacier National Park
Today we left Whitefish, MT, and headed into Glacier National Park through the west entrance. We had arrived in Whitefish yesterday evening after about 8 hours of driving from Yellowstone. We were certainly hoping that all of that driving would be worth the effort,...
National Parks Road Trip, Yellowstone
Yellowstone National Park is amazing for many, many reasons. Stellar cellular coverage, however, is not one of them. Add to that my refusal to purchase WIFI by the hour since it's no longer 1993, and you go a few days without a blog update! Tonight, we're at the...
National Parks Road Trip, Phelps Lake (Tetons), Lewis Falls and Hayden Valley (Yellowstone)
After getting in late last night and waiting even later for some pizza from Pinky-G's in Jackson, we slept in a bit this morning. We loaded up the family trickster, hit a place called the Bunnery for what turned out to be brunch, and then we were on our way. The food...
National Park road-trip ~ Grand Teton National Park
Day 7 - today we woke up early as we were enjoying a 8 mile float trip / 8 mile white water rapids combo trip with Sands Whitewater Rafting Company. We weren't sure how the kids would like this - but they had a blast! It started off chilly due to the early...
National Parks Road trip, Cody, Yellowstone NP and Grand Teton NP
Today we slept in a bit at our Cody hotel, the Best Western Sunset Inn. We had a nice breakfast in the hotel lobby before we headed to the famous Irma Hotel. This was a luxury hotel Buffalo Bill had built in town. We picked up our trolley tickets here. We took the...
National Parks Road Trip, Devil’s Tower Monument, Bighorn National Forest, Shell Falls and Cody Nite Rodeo
Another long, but wonderful, day today so this entry will be brief. We started the day in Spearfish, SD, and our first stop was at the Devil's Tower monument in Wyoming. We hiked the loop, about 1.3 miles, around the tower. It's a great stop along the route between...
National Parks Road Trip, Custer State Park, Spearfish Canyon
Today we packed up to leave the Holiday Inn Express in Custer, SD. The property is great with a complimentary breakfast each day and a beautiful patio to eat it on. We were able to take advantage of the laundry facilities as well so everything that got loaded into the...
National Parks Trip, Custer State Park, SD
Custer State Park is a 71,000 acre facility located adjacent to both Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse monuments. In fact, there are several places inside of the park that you can see Mount Rushmore. We spent the whole day in the park, and it was fantastic. We...
National Parks Road Trip, Badlands, Wall Drug, Big Thunder Gold Mine and Mount Rushmore
Well, as you can see from the title of this post, day two of our trip was a busy one! After loading up the car, we remade our cabin a bit so that we could take some pics of the room before leaving. This is life traveling with a travel agent. After that, we spent the...
National Parks Road Trip, Badlands National Park
Today the Jenkins family set out on a two week journey to cover several of the national parks in the upper mountain time zone including the Badlands, Custer State Park, Spearfish Canyon, Yellowstone, Grand Tetons and Glacier. The journey began with an early flight out...
Over the water suites without flying to Tahiti!
The Palafitos (over the water suites) at El Dorado Maroma (Riviera Maya, Mexico) are now open for booking for stays after September 1, 2016. Only GIVC agencies can book these rooms and Jenkins Travel is one of those. Call today for rates for these amazing rooms (and...
Jenkins Travel receives Sandals Star Award
“Travel agents take the lead in recommending a vacation of a lifetime.” – Gordon “Butch” Steward, Chairman of Sandals Resorts
Africa, it’s worth the flight!
Recently, we had the opportunity to travel to Southern Africa for a familiarization tour of the region. We visited Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia on the tour taking in more than 15 properties that offer travelers a variety of accommodations to choose from. These...