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You have heard of police departments who have quotas for tickets, not here. We have a department (Williamsburg P.D.) which officers come in on their days off to write tickets. Why? They are on commission! That's right. ON COMMISSION! Certain areas have additional fines levied as high as $200 plus the ticket and court costs. Think they will cut anyone a break? Why would they?
We have a lot to offer, Colonial Williamsburg, Jamestown, Yorktown, Busch Gardens, Water Country USA etc. However, BEWARE OF THE FINANCIALLY MOTIVATED BEARS!!!
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 RWO_HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE by matcrazy1
If you want to take a carriage tour you should book it at the Visitors Centre or by phone (call, free from the US: 1-800-history), preferrably a day before. We arrived on business day in the early afternoon and all carriage tours were already sold out for that day. Leave a Comment
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 CROWDS ALONG MAIN AVENUE OF
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG by matcrazy1
But I would expect more people on weekends and especially American long weekends close to the following national holidays:
- Memorial Day (last Monday of May),
- Independence Day (July, 4),
- Labour Day (first Monday of September))
- Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday of November).
My suggestions:
1. be at visitors center before 9.00 am (they open it 8.45), most folks go a little bit later and visit the Governor's House first, before others;
2. if you start a little bit later start from the Capitol (most folks go to closer Governor's House, I suppose);
3. when it's getting dark avoid shuttle buses back to visitors center (you can walk there).
Keep in mind that Williamsburg with approx. 4.5 mln visitors a year (over 12,000 daily) is the most visited place in Virginia and one of the most visited in the USA, surprisingly even more than the U.S. capital, Washington, DC.
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 AT MERCHABTS SQUARE SHUTTLE
BUS STOP by matcrazy1
We were too tired after very busy day to walk and... 20 minutes was not that bad. And it's not easy to take so many visitors at one time back to the Visitors Center. It was time to use restroom, watch people, take a few more pictures and first of all nice talk with Nat and planning the next day.
Don't miss the last bus. the blue line shuttle cirles historic area daily from 9.00 am to 10.00 pm including Visitor Center only 5.00 - 10.00 pm). The red line shuttle bus (Visitor's Center - Governor's House and back) goes from 8.50 am - 5.00 pm).
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 COOKWARE IN THE KITCHEN OF THE
GOVERNOR'S PALACE by matcrazy1
Do look at them, do buy them if you like but please never use them for preparing or cooking any food unless you want to catch copper toxicity syndrome. The most common symptoms are headaches, fatigue, insomnia, depression, spaciness, learning disorders or premenstrual syndrome. Brrr...
Some folks told me that both Hillary Clinton and Theresa Heinz-Kerry use copper and brass cookware in their kitchens. Hmm... I don't know :-).
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Williamsburg is very crowded during Spring and Summer weekends. This is a place where it is a good idea to plan ahead. Leave a Comment
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 WHERE IS MY CAR? by matcrazy1
Most friends of mine say that I have a very good sense of direction. But, anyway, I was forced to remember well where I parked my car in Williamsburg. Otherwise I would lose an hour or more looking for it after coming back. I didn't notice any cameras on my unguarded parking lot which would eventually help to find out the car, but I wasn't too worried because I was told Colonial Williamsburg is in a good neighbourhood.
Have you ever lost your car? As I know bright yellow colour is the best seen, but the car I hired was an ordinary silver colour :-).
My recommendation is always to write down the number of place and/or sector whenever you park on a large parking lot or the name of the street (+ the closest side street) in a city, unless you happen to have "b1bob" with you to remember it for you. Never use another vehicle as a landmark because after 5 or 6 hours of touring Colonial Williamsburg, your landmark could well be long gone. Use an immovable landmark instead.
I can't forget one event which happened in late 1970s. I, as a kid that time, visited "the West" for the first time: Vienna, Austria. My parents met a young couple from Poland on the camping. They were really depressed because they lost their car. They parked it somewhere in suburbs by a Mobil gas station and took a bus to tour downtown Vienna. They were so excited about the tour that they forgot where they left their car. They reported the loss to the police but... hmm... the problem was that there were over... 100 Mobil gas station in the Vienna area that time.
The moral of the story: remember where you leave your car. Leave a Comment
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