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Welcome to

Highlight Vacations

Top-of-the-line educational traveling club and socialization program that organizes vacations, weekend getaways, and day activities for adults with Intellectual disabilities.

Our goal of the program is to get you a place to feel like you belong, while facilitating the development of appropriate traveling & socialization skills in a nurturing environment. The program is under the leadership of Mary E. Bozzone, Retired Technology Educator, PSIA Adaptive Instructor, and sibling to a special needs adult. Our staff are industry professionals, including teachers, social workers, and other health care providers with years of experience.

Highlight Vacations travelers hanging with the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial.

Day Trips

Enjoy a day of fun and educational sightseeing and learn about the many local landmarks or have an afternoon walking around our beautiful parks & bridges.

Multi-day Trips

We offer top-of-the-line vacations, weekend getaways, and sightseeing tours. Our vacations & getaways are open to everyone.

Activities

Events include everything from daytime walking tours, museums, and sporting events to lunch/dinner outings, parties, and the theatre.

Stay Connected

Sign up for the Highlight Passport!

Vacations and getaways are open to everybody regardless of membership. Day trips have a $25 fee for non-membership and free to member plus the cost of the activity. Sign up at highlightvacations@gmail.com or call (718) 938-2122.

UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

Floyd Bennett Field

June 8th at 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Take a walk through history as you visitor the place where Howard Hughes took off to fly around the world. Come on the trip and learn more amazing things that happened here. Please sign up by June 4, 2024. All day trips have a $25 fee per traveler for administration cost. Bring lunch, there is no way to buy lunch at the National Recreational Park.

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Lunch at Ben’s Kosher Delicatessen in Queens

June 9th at 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

We will be ordering off the menu, so the cost with differ with each traveler, but I would like to work on budgeting skill to keep them between $20-$25 per traveler for lunch. All day trips have a $25 fee per traveler for administration cost on top of lunch cost.

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Tenement Museum Tour

June 10th at 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Come see how people lived in the 1870's in the lower east side of Manhattan. Learn the history for a National Park Ranger as we tour the tenement building. The tickets for the tour are $30 per people and must be purchased in advanced. You must sign up for trip by June 4th.

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