Cape Cod & Islands · 3 Days
Summer by the sea on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard, for families and holidaymakers.
- Duration
- 3 days / 2 nights
- Best season
- Jun–Sep
- Group size
- 10–30 guests
- Route
- Boston → Boston
Overview
Three summer days on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard. Chatham’s lighthouse and seals, the gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs, and the dunes and art town of Provincetown. The geology of a drifting land and the origin of the cottages turn pretty scenes into stories.
Service note: This is a private, fully customisable ground programme. All transport is performed by licensed, insured third-party carriers, with chauffeured vehicles scaled to your group. We provide non-ticketed ground services only.
Highlights
- The gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs — a colourful town grown from a Methodist tent camp
- A drifting land — the glacial geology of Cape Cod
- Lighthouses moved whole to escape coastal erosion
- Chatham’s lighthouse and seals, and the fish pier
- The dunes of the National Seashore and the art town of Provincetown
- Martha’s Vineyard by ferry, with a private vehicle on the island
Day-by-day
- Day 1
Boston to Cape Cod
Cross the bridge onto the Cape to Chatham’s fish pier and lighthouse, arriving for a seafood dinner.
- Drive from Boston, crossing onto the Cape
- Chatham fish pier and lighthouse
- Check in
Transport: Private chauffeured vehicle throughoutMeals: Seafood dinner - Day 2
A Day on Martha’s Vineyard
Ferry to Martha’s Vineyard for the gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs, Edgartown and the red cliffs of Aquinnah, returning in the evening.
- Ferry to the island
- Oak Bluffs gingerbread cottages
- Edgartown
- The red cliffs of Aquinnah
Transport: Ferry and a private vehicle on the islandMeals: Lunch on the island - Day 3
Provincetown, back to Boston
The dunes of the National Seashore and the art town of Provincetown, then the return to Boston.
- The dunes of the National Seashore
- The art town of Provincetown
- Return to Boston
Transport: Private chauffeured vehicle throughoutMeals: Lunch in town
Included
- Private chauffeured vehicle throughout
- Bilingual tour leader
- Accommodation
- Ferry tickets
Not included
- Some meals and admissions
- Gratuities
Gallery
Places on this journey
Cape Cod (Chatham / Provincetown)
Jun–Sep
A hook-shaped peninsula reaching into the Atlantic. The lighthouses and seals of Chatham, the artists’ town and whale-watching of Provincetown, and the dunes and lighthouses of the National Seashore make up New England’s most quintessential summer coast.
Guide’s notes
The geography is itself a good story: all of Cape Cod was piled up at the end of a glacier, its sandbars are still on the move, and its lighthouses have been relocated whole more than once to escape coastal erosion — a land that is still drifting.
Photo spot: Nauset Light and Highland Light; the seals at Chatham’s fish pier; the dune trails.
Martha's Vineyard
Jun–Sep
A resort island reached by ferry. The colourful gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs, the white whaling-captains’ houses of Edgartown and the red clay cliffs of Aquinnah each have their own character.
Guide’s notes
The gingerbread cottages grew out of nineteenth-century Methodist camp meetings — first tents, then tents rebuilt as wooden houses, which is why they are so small and so intricate. Explain the origin and a row of pretty houses turns from merely charming into genuinely interesting.
Photo spot: The gingerbread cottages of Oak Bluffs; the white houses and lighthouse of Edgartown; the red cliffs of Aquinnah.
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