Labor Day 2007 Weekend Club Dive Outing
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Trip Leader: |
For Questions Regarding Trip
Doug Geddes
(859) 224-3197 |
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Financial: |
No payments made thru the
club. Each participant will pay their own charges directly to the
vendors/hotels used.
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Costs:
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All individual |
Dates: |
Friday, August 31st, 2007 to
Monday, September 3rd, 2007 |
Itinerary:(travel times
included - all times CDT) |
Day |
Date |
Event/Activity |
| Friday |
8/31/07 |
Travel to Bowling Green (2:36 - 156miles) |
| Tour Corvette Assembly Plant
1:15 PM |
| Lunch wherever |
| Tour National Corvette Museum |
| Travel to Best Western Hopkinsville, KY (1:27 - 74 miles) |
| Dinner at Applebee’s (next to hotel w/10% discount if staying at BW) |
| Saturday |
9/1/07 |
Travel to Dive Cerulean (0:34 – 25 miles) |
| Dive at Dive Cerulean |
| Travel back to
Best Western Motor-In in Hopkinsville (0:34 – 25 miles) |
| Dinner |
| Sunday |
9/2/07 |
Dive at Pennyroyal Blue Springs Resort in Hopkinsville (0:05 – 3 miles) |
| Lunch at the Waterfront Grill (on site) |
| Travel to Best Western Motor-Inn in Bowling Green (1:21 - 66 miles) |
| Monday |
9/3/07 |
Travel to Mammoth Cave National Park (0:26 – 26 miles) |
| Travel back to Lexington (2:15 – 136 miles) |
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Dive Operation in Cadiz:
Dive Cerulean
www.divecerulean.com
270-350-1156
270-522-7688
Hale Princeton Road
Cadiz, KY 42215
divec@mchsi.com
Dive Cerulean diving
costs:
$20 per diver per day, air fills are $5 each
Tanks, weights & rentals are extra
Non-divers are $5 per day
Overnight camping is $5 per person
Dive Operation in
Hopkinsville:
Pennyroyal Blue Springs Resort
www.pennyroyalscuba.com
602 Christian Quarry Road
Hopkinsville, KY 42240
270-887-2585
270-841-9431
info@pennyroyalscuba.com
Pennyroyal diving costs:
$20 per diver per day, air fills are $7 each
Tanks weights & rentals are extra.
Non-divers are $7 per day
Overnight camping is $5 per person
Lodging in Hopkinsville:
Best Western Hopkinsville
www.bestwestern.com
800-780-7234 (nationwide reservations)
270-886-9000 (direct)
4101 Fort Campbell Boulevard
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-4946
Check In: Friday night, 8/31
Check Out: Sunday morning, 9/2
Cost: $146.52 (total for 2 nights including all taxes & fees)
Price based on AAA or Corporate ID rate.
Rooms are non-smoking, 2 double beds, continental breakfast included.
Hotel is 34 minutes from Cerulean and only 5 minutes from Pennyroyal.
Applebee’s next door offers 10% discount to BW guests.
Lodging in Bowling Green:
Best Western Motor-Inn
www.bestwestern.com
800-780-7234 (nationwide reservations)
270-782-3800 (direct)
166 Cumberland Trace Road
Bowling Green, KY 42103-9000
Check In: Sunday afternoon, 9/2
Check Out: Monday morning, 9/3
Cost: $78.38 (total including all taxes & fees)
Price based on AAA or Corporate ID rate.
Rooms are non-smoking, 2 double beds, breakfast NOT included.
Hotel is 26 minutes from Mammoth Cave.
Non-Diving Attractions
info:
Corvette Assembly
Plant Tour, 11:30am, $5 per person
www.bowlinggreenassemblyplant.com
270-745-8019
600 Corvette Drive
Bowling Green, KY 42101
You may buy tickets online or via phone.
Tour takes 1 hour and distance is 1 mile.
Shows GM employees building the Chevrolet Corvette and Cadillac XLR.
National Corvette
Museum, $8 per person ($6 with AAA member card)
www.corvettemuseum.com
270-781-7973
800-53-VETTE
350 Corvette Drive
Bowling Green, KY 42101
Open 8am – 5pm. Its
68,000 sq/ft of exhibits with 75 Corvettes on display ranging from the 1953 to
2007 model years. The gift shop
does not require a ticket.
Mammoth Cave
National Park
www.nps.gov/maca
www.mammothcave.com
270-758-2180
877-444-6777
1 Mammoth Cave Street
Park City, KY 42259
There are 13 different tours ranging from easy to moderate
to difficult. The adult cost range
is between $10-$48. The time
duration is from 1:15–6:00. I’m
going on the Grand Avenue tour which begins at 10:30 AM. The cost is $24 and it lasts 4.5 hours. All tours should be booked well in advance as they do sell
out. You may book online or via
phone. It remains 54 degrees inside
the cave. After the tours we’ll
head back to Lexington.
Travel:
Personal vehicle carpool.
Total roundtrip mileage distance is 511 miles.
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