Thursday, January 1, 2009
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Atlanta city sightseeing tours
Atlanta city sightseeing tours
The Atlanta City Tour will make you familiar with the major landmarks, attractions and neighborhoods of the Capital of the South.
The Atlanta trolley tour is an excellent way to see Atlanta and works best with your time frame and schedule.
With stops located at major tourist’s attractions, parks, museums and neighborhoods you tour ticket can be used all day long, or if you have a short period of time our 1 ½ tour loop is the perfect length to get a great overview of Atlanta.
Atlanta's trolley tour is a great way to see the city and the best way to learn your way around before setting off on your own
The Atlanta City Tour will make you familiar with the major landmarks, attractions and neighborhoods of the Capital of the South.
The Atlanta trolley tour is an excellent way to see Atlanta and works best with your time frame and schedule.
With stops located at major tourist’s attractions, parks, museums and neighborhoods you tour ticket can be used all day long, or if you have a short period of time our 1 ½ tour loop is the perfect length to get a great overview of Atlanta.
Atlanta's trolley tour is a great way to see the city and the best way to learn your way around before setting off on your own
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
CELEBRATE
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line and Ghosttoursatlanta.com would love to wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday season.
May you all have great success in the new year.
May you all have great success in the new year.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Atlanta Trolley Tour is now on Triptips.us
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line has joined one of the newest online social site. What makes this site different is that the site is dedicated to travel information and tips. Many of the tips come from traverlers themselves.
Check out the site: www.triptips.us
Check out the site: www.triptips.us
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Atlanta Trolley Tour Special for the holiday week
With Christmas and New Years around the corner we know that many of you will be entertianing family and friends for the holidays.
If you are a reader of our blog or a friend on facebook.com please mention this posting and you can get yourself and your friends a tour for only $25 instead of the usual $29 per person.
It is just one way to say thanks to all of you have followed and supported us over our first year.
Offer is good from December 17, 2008 through January 4, 2009.
If you are a reader of our blog or a friend on facebook.com please mention this posting and you can get yourself and your friends a tour for only $25 instead of the usual $29 per person.
It is just one way to say thanks to all of you have followed and supported us over our first year.
Offer is good from December 17, 2008 through January 4, 2009.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
We have joined the Facebook community
The Atlanta Trolley Tour is now announcing that we have a Facebook page. You will find us under: Atlanta Trolley Tours.
If you have a Facebook page please become friends with us and help us help spread the work about the Atlanta Trolley Tour Line and all we have to offer.
If you have a Facebook page please become friends with us and help us help spread the work about the Atlanta Trolley Tour Line and all we have to offer.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Atlanta's Haunted History Tour
Atlanta’s Haunted History Tour
Follow your guide - the grave keeper, southern belle or solider - on a journey of Atlanta’s darker history.
On this 2 ½ tour you will hear tales of spirits, hauntings, mysteries, murders, suicide, war, fire, monsters and other stories of the city you would never hear on an average tour.
Your tour starts at the Visitor’s Center located at Underground Atlanta. From there you board the tour trolley and begin your journey into Atlanta’s night.
You will ride through downtown to your first stop, Oakland Cemetery.
Oakland Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Atlanta's settlers, builders, and noted citizens like Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, and Maynard Jackson. It is also home to over 7,000 Atlanta’s Confederate Dead.
You will learn of 19th century burial customs as well as tales of the residents who call Oakland home.
You will reboard your trolley and continue your tour through downtown.
Your last stop is Underground Atlanta. Your tour will take you beneath the streets of Atlanta and the location of Atlanta’s founding. Under the streets you will hear tales of some of its most interesting characters.
A portion of your ticket cost is donated to Oakland Cemetery for the Historic Oakland Foundation. This will contribute to the preservation and education of one of Atlanta’s most treasured historic locations.
Reservations Required
No tours July 4th, October 23, 24, 25
Your Host will great you starting at 5:00 PM and tour leaves at 5:30 PM
Tour may not be suitable for children under 12 years of age.
Cost $47.00 per person
Dates March 1st through November 8th 2009
Follow your guide - the grave keeper, southern belle or solider - on a journey of Atlanta’s darker history.
On this 2 ½ tour you will hear tales of spirits, hauntings, mysteries, murders, suicide, war, fire, monsters and other stories of the city you would never hear on an average tour.
Your tour starts at the Visitor’s Center located at Underground Atlanta. From there you board the tour trolley and begin your journey into Atlanta’s night.
You will ride through downtown to your first stop, Oakland Cemetery.
Oakland Cemetery is the final resting place of many of Atlanta's settlers, builders, and noted citizens like Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell, and Maynard Jackson. It is also home to over 7,000 Atlanta’s Confederate Dead.
You will learn of 19th century burial customs as well as tales of the residents who call Oakland home.
You will reboard your trolley and continue your tour through downtown.
Your last stop is Underground Atlanta. Your tour will take you beneath the streets of Atlanta and the location of Atlanta’s founding. Under the streets you will hear tales of some of its most interesting characters.
A portion of your ticket cost is donated to Oakland Cemetery for the Historic Oakland Foundation. This will contribute to the preservation and education of one of Atlanta’s most treasured historic locations.
Reservations Required
No tours July 4th, October 23, 24, 25
Your Host will great you starting at 5:00 PM and tour leaves at 5:30 PM
Tour may not be suitable for children under 12 years of age.
Cost $47.00 per person
Dates March 1st through November 8th 2009
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Haunted History Tour is on roll for 2009
Atlanta Trolley Tour Line is excited to annouce its latest tour which will begin March 1, 2009.
The Haunted History Tour will take visitors and locals alike on an evening ride around the city of Atlanta and explore the darker side of the city's history.
We will explore hauntings, spirits, murders, mysteries, monsters, fire, war, strange encounters, famous and infamous residents, legend and folklure.
The tour will include 2 stops:
1. Oakland Cemetery
2. Underground Atlanta
Oakland Cemetery is where Atlanta's History lives. The oldest buring ground in the city, a walk through the cemetery is a walk through the city's history from Atlanta's founding to present time. A portion of your tour cost is donated to Oakland Cemtery Preservation.
Underground Atlanta is one of the most unique places to visit in the city. It represents the ever changing city and its ability to adapt to new and old alike.
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line is now taking reservations for groups. Contact us at 678-916-1303 to book your tour.
The Haunted History Tour will take visitors and locals alike on an evening ride around the city of Atlanta and explore the darker side of the city's history.
We will explore hauntings, spirits, murders, mysteries, monsters, fire, war, strange encounters, famous and infamous residents, legend and folklure.
The tour will include 2 stops:
1. Oakland Cemetery
2. Underground Atlanta
Oakland Cemetery is where Atlanta's History lives. The oldest buring ground in the city, a walk through the cemetery is a walk through the city's history from Atlanta's founding to present time. A portion of your tour cost is donated to Oakland Cemtery Preservation.
Underground Atlanta is one of the most unique places to visit in the city. It represents the ever changing city and its ability to adapt to new and old alike.
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line is now taking reservations for groups. Contact us at 678-916-1303 to book your tour.
Monday, October 27, 2008
Neighborhood Spotlight: Grant Park
Grant Park is an the in-town neighborhood surrounding Grant Park, It is Atlanta's largest historic neighborhood in Atlanta and includes the 48 acres of Oakland Cemetery, and many Civil War dead are buried. The Grant Park area is where a significant portion of the Battle of Atlanta was faught on July 22, 1864. The battle was part of General Shermans Campaign to the Sea and was the major objective in that campaign.
The Grant Park neighborhood was named for Lemuel P. (L.P.) Grant, a civil engineer for the Georgia Railroad who has been called the "Father of Atlanta." Grant Park, as a neighborhood, began to be populated in the 1890's. Craftsmen built many of the architecturally distinctive homes in the neighborhood. The streets are line with late 19th and early 20th century Victorian, Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts style homes.
Lemuel donated the 100 acres of Grant Park to the city.
Grant Park Neighborhood is also home to the oldest park in Atlanta. It is the fourth largest park in the city.
Grant Park has two major attractions besides the park itself: Zoo Atlanta, established in 1889 and originally known as the Grant Park Zoo; and the Atlanta Cyclorama featuring the 1864 Battle of Atlanta.
The Grant Park neighborhood was named for Lemuel P. (L.P.) Grant, a civil engineer for the Georgia Railroad who has been called the "Father of Atlanta." Grant Park, as a neighborhood, began to be populated in the 1890's. Craftsmen built many of the architecturally distinctive homes in the neighborhood. The streets are line with late 19th and early 20th century Victorian, Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts style homes.
Lemuel donated the 100 acres of Grant Park to the city.
Grant Park Neighborhood is also home to the oldest park in Atlanta. It is the fourth largest park in the city.
Grant Park has two major attractions besides the park itself: Zoo Atlanta, established in 1889 and originally known as the Grant Park Zoo; and the Atlanta Cyclorama featuring the 1864 Battle of Atlanta.
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Neighborhood Spotlight: Midtown Atlanta GA
Midtown Atlanta is a neighborhood in Atlanta GA. The neighborhood is located between the SoNo District that begin at North Avenue to the south and the residential and commercial district of Buckhead that starts at the bridge that spans 85 North. Midtown includes about one-third of the city's high-rises. It is known as the Center of the Arts in Atlanta.
Midtown is awash with busy thoroughfares, including Atlanta's famous Peachtree St. The area where Piedmont Avenue and Tenth Street meet is the focus of Atlanta's thriving gay and lesbian population. The length of Peachtree St that stretches from the famous Fox Theater to the High Museum of Art is known as the Midtown Mile. Along this mile you will find skyscrapers, high rise condos and great shopping and some of the best place to eat in the city. Some of the best restaurants in Atlanta can be found up and down Peachtree St., and mingled in to the side streets of the neighborhood.
Midtown is also home to Atlanta’s largest park, Piedmont Park. The streets are lined with late 19th and early 20th century Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts style homes.
Midtown was also home to Atlanta’s most famous writer, Margaret Mitchell. The famous writer of the novel “Gone With The Wind” lived in several place in midtown and along Peachtree St. You can visit the “apartment” where she lived when she penned her famous novel.
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line has 5 stops on its tour route located in Midtown Atlanta. They include:
Piedmont Park
Woodruff Arts Center
Center for Puppetry Arts
Margaret Mitchell House
The Varsity
Any trip to Atlanta should include time to explore this most vibrant Atlanta neighborhood.
Midtown is awash with busy thoroughfares, including Atlanta's famous Peachtree St. The area where Piedmont Avenue and Tenth Street meet is the focus of Atlanta's thriving gay and lesbian population. The length of Peachtree St that stretches from the famous Fox Theater to the High Museum of Art is known as the Midtown Mile. Along this mile you will find skyscrapers, high rise condos and great shopping and some of the best place to eat in the city. Some of the best restaurants in Atlanta can be found up and down Peachtree St., and mingled in to the side streets of the neighborhood.
Midtown is also home to Atlanta’s largest park, Piedmont Park. The streets are lined with late 19th and early 20th century Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts style homes.
Midtown was also home to Atlanta’s most famous writer, Margaret Mitchell. The famous writer of the novel “Gone With The Wind” lived in several place in midtown and along Peachtree St. You can visit the “apartment” where she lived when she penned her famous novel.
The Atlanta Trolley Tour Line has 5 stops on its tour route located in Midtown Atlanta. They include:
Piedmont Park
Woodruff Arts Center
Center for Puppetry Arts
Margaret Mitchell House
The Varsity
Any trip to Atlanta should include time to explore this most vibrant Atlanta neighborhood.
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