December 2024
“Traveling—It Leaves You Speechless, Then Turns You Into A Storyteller”
Bilbrey Tours is Abilene’s leading resource for tourism opportunities, providing the time to travel, relax, and enjoy the amazing things this country has to offer. Read below to learn about the featured destinations for December 2024.
Christmas in Montreal & Quebec City
featuring Canada
December 3* – 9, 2024 (Fly)
(7 days – 6 nights)
Departing Abilene
$3859 per person (2 people per room)
$4725 per person (1 person per room)
$400 due upon booking – Final due June 4, 2024
** Passport Required**
Medicare does not pay outside the United States
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Highlights Include:
- Roundtrip transportation to DFW
- *Overnight in DFW area on December 3
- Montreal City Tour
- Underground City
- Notre Dame Cathedral
- Via Rail Train – Montreal to Quebec
- Quebec City Tour
- Montmorency Falls
- Old Quebec Christmas Market
- Gilles Copper Museum
- St. Anne de Beaupre Shrine
- Sugar Shack Demonstration
- Leisure time in Quebec City
- Meals: 5 breakfasts and 1 continental breakfast | 2 dinners
Louisiana Holiday Trail of Lights
featuring 98th Annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival
December 5 – 8, 2024
(4 days – 3 nights)
Departing Abilene, Big Spring, Midland, and San Angelo
$1069 per person (2 people per room)
$1269 per person (1 person per room)
$25 due upon booking – Final due October 3, 2024
Highlights Include:
- 98th Annual Natchitoches Christmas Festival
- 2 nights in Alexandria, LA
- Minden / Monroe / Alexandria
- Ivy Vale Estate – oldest log structure in Louisiana
- Lunch at Geaux Fresh Bistro & Bakery (featured on HGTV’s Home Town Kickstart)
- Biedenharn Museum & Garden including Bible Collection
- Chennault Aviation & Military Museum
- Kent Plantation
- Natchitoches Historic Downtown
- Natchitoches Fireworks Show on the Cane River
- Meals: 3 continental breakfasts, 3 lunches or dinners
The Gift of Christmas
Prestonwood Baptist Church
December 12 – 13, 2024
(2 days – 1 night)
Departing Abilene
$489 per person (2 people per room)
$549 per person (1 person per room)
$25 due upon booking – Final due October 9, 2024
Highlights Include:
- The Gift of Christmas performance features a living Nativity, a live orchestra, a 1,000-member cast, flying angels, and more!
- The 12 Days of Christmas are showcased at the Dallas Arboretum, each in a glass-encased gazebo
- George W Bush Library and Museum features “Christmas at the White House”
- Shopping time at the elaborately decorated Galleria Dallas with a variety of shops including Nordstrom, Macy’s, Tiffany & Co, American Girl, and H & M
- Meals: 1 continental breakfast & 1 dinner
Grapevine Christmas
ICE!
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Departing Abilene
$165 per person
Full payment upon booking
Highlights Include:
- Discover the magic in Grapevine, the Christmas Capital of Texas!
- Gaylord Texas Resort in Grapevine brings the magic of a winter wonderland indoors with its annual ICE! extravaganza. Featuring more than 2 million pounds of colorful, hand-carved sculptures created by more than 40 ice sculpting artisans transformed before your very eyes. ICE! also boasts one-and-a-half million twinkling lights, 12,000 ornaments, 1 52-foot-tall rotating Christmas tree, and a life-sized gingerbread house.
- Shopping at Grapevine Mills Mall with more than 180 discount stores including Burlington, Ann Taylor, Chico’s Outlet, Marshalls, Disney Outlet, Neiman Marcus Last Call & Saks Off Fifth.