Welk Resort Offers Big-Band Revue : Motor-coach trip to Escondido includes luncheon and a 1940s-style radio show.

Golden Tours of Alhambra, which runs senior tours with departures from Alhambra and Pasadena, is offering a motor-coach trip Dec. 10 to the Lawrence Welk Resort in Escondido. The trip includes a luncheon and matinee performance of “The 1940s Radio Hour.”

The show is a staged re-creation of a typical live radio program in 1942, complete with a studio band playing big-band music. Audiences sit in the Algonquin Room of “the beautiful Hotel Astor in New York City, where station WOV is broadcasting live ‘The Mutual Manhattan Variety Cavalcade.’ ” There are comedy routines, staged sound effects, real commercials of the era, a narrated drama and elaborate dance routines.

Best of all is the music, which features great show tunes of the ‘40s from “Tuxedo Junction” to “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B.”

Cost of the Golden Tours package is $45 per person.

Tickets to the show, which runs through Jan. 16, can be purchased with or without a buffet luncheon or dinner. Prices: $26 midweek matinees, $29 with lunch; $25 evenings, $31 with dinner; $26 Saturday matinees, $32 with lunch; $31 Saturday evenings, $36 with dinner. Group rates (15 or more) are also available.

For more information on the Golden Tours package, call (818) 289-6271 or (213) 283-7876.

For show information or reservations, call (619) 749-3448. For group information, (619) 749-8501.

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Gadabout Tours, a Palm Springs-based senior specialist, has put together an 11-day “Pirates of the Caribbean” cruise/ tour. It starts with a three-night stay in Tampa, Fla., during its big Gasparilla Days, capped by an “invasion” of the city by the mythical pirate Jose Gaspar and his motley crew.

Then comes a weeklong cruise from Tampa on Holland America Line’s Nieuw Amsterdam, visiting Key West, Fla.; Cozumel and the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico; Jamaica and Grand Cayman. Rates, including air fare from LAX, start at $1,789 for an inside cabin, $1,984 for an outside cabin. For more information, call (800) 952-5068.

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The Kings Inn and Town & Country Hotel in San Diego are offering travelers two-night packages that include admission to Sea World and the San Diego Zoo.

Regular cost for a two-night package at the Kings Inn is $169 per couple, including the four sightseeing admissions. At the Town & Country, it’s $189 per couple. Both hotels provide transportation to shopping areas and major area attractions.

Travelers 55 and older get a 10% discount off either package on a space-available basis. For reservations, call (800) 772-8527 and ask for the STRAC (Senior Travel and Recreation Activities Council) Getaway Vacation package.

Also available is a “Snooze & Cruise” package that includes a day cruise on the Pacific Star, which travels along the Mexican coast to Ensenada, plus an overnight at either the Kings Inn or the Town & Country. Price is $99 per person, double occupancy, with slightly higher rates on Saturdays. There is no senior discount on this package.

The packages are good through June 30.

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An item in the Nov. 15 column listed an incorrect phone number. To reach FamilyHostel in Durham, N.H., call (800) 733-9753.