Train Ride in Copper Canyon Will Highlight Nine-Day Trip

Tour Masters will take mature travelers on a nine-day motor coach and rail tour to Mexico’s Copper Canyon for $859 per person, double occupancy, beginning Oct. 30.

Participants will leave Los Angeles by motor coach for Los Mochis/El Fuerte, Mexico, where they will board the train for the Copper Canyon part of the trip. After two days on the train, a motor coach will pick up the group in Creel, Mexico, for the return trip to Los Angeles. Overnights in the Copper Canyon area are in hotels along the way.

Tour Masters, which has been offering mature travelers moderately priced tours for about 10 years, will also stop in Tucson, El Paso and Phoenix. One of the trip features will be a Green Angels vehicle that will escort the motor coach while it is in Mexico and also provide emergency services.

For more information, contact Tour Masters, 3350 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 580, Los Angeles 90010, (213) 386-1698.

Two of Pismo Beach’s most popular resorts, the Sandcastle Inn on the beach and the Spyglass Inn on a cliff facing the ocean, are offering discounts for the traveler 55 years and older.

The 58-room Sandcastle Inn provides a 15% midweek discount, and the 83-room Spyglass Inn, which overlooks Avila Bay, gives 20% off its rates. The Sandcastle includes a continental breakfast and the Spyglass a cooked-to-order one.

Both hotels are operated by Invest West Management. For more information and reservations, contact the Sandcastle Inn at (800) 822-6606 and the Spyglass Inn at (800) 824-2612.

Desert Adventures of Palm Springs is offering some new soft-adventure tours for mature travelers.

Mary and Charlie Dungans and daughter Kim began operating Desert Adventures nearly four years ago with a few Jeep tours, mostly for hotel guests and convention groups, and have been expanding ever since.

The firm still offers its popular “Jeep Adventures” to the desert, canyons and mountains, but recently added open-air trolley tours for general sightseeing, shopping trips, Indian canyon visits and local attractions such as the Palm Springs Aerial Tram. Seniors 60 and older get $3 to $5 off regular prices.

In addition, the company is offering 30 other “Desert Adventures,” including covered-wagon rides, hot-air ballooning, trail rides, hiking and biking tours.

One of the Desert Adventure programs is a “Tour de Jour” by motor coach or open-air trolley every day to local attractions.

These adventures, with walking at a minimum, average four hours and cost $20 to $30 per person. Some include lunch, beverage or a snack. Tours leave at 12:30 p.m., with pickups at the Palm Springs Village Green and Town Center Mall.

The firm’s daily tours include trips to the canyons of the Agua Caliente Indians, the aerial tram, celebrity homes, resort hotels and shopping at factory outlets outside Cabazon or a street fair held every Thursday night on Palm Canyon Drive. Also, travelers will be taken shopping at Hadley’s or the Cahuilla Indian Trading Post.

Desert Adventures is also offering a special senior rate for a “Thanksgiving Adventure” Nov. 21 in one of the Indian canyons. Along with turkey and all the trimmings, there will be entertainment by Indian dancers and country and Western groups, nature walks and covered-wagon rides.

The event is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Seniors 60 and over pay $33 instead of the regular $40 price.

For more information, contact Desert Adventures, 68-733 Perez Road, Suite 16, Cathedral City 92234, (619) 324-3378.