Gray Line Tampa Bay

Welcome! Not only does Martz have group charters, but now individuals can enjoy a Gray Line City Tour through Martz of Tampa Bay. (Some tours temporarily on hold, visit www.grayline.com to see which are active).

WE ARE NOW OFFERING A SEMINOLE HARD ROCK CASINO DAY TRIP at $25 per person with $20 in Free Play and a $5 Meal Voucher!

Must have 30 people participating to run the tour.

How about a Tampa City Tour, please see details below.

2- Hour Tour @ $14.95 per person, children under 12 at $10.95

See Floirda's largest active seaport, the Port of Tampa in the Channelside District where phosphate, tobacco and bananas fueled the state's trade in the 1880's. Visit the 1912 Historic Tampa Union Railroad Station, the 1850 Oaklawn Cemetery, stop at the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel site, Hisboric Ybor City and hear the stories of how Henry Bradley Plant, Vincente Martinez Ybor, Col. Teddy Roosevelt, President John F. Kennedy and other international figures impacted Tampa's story.ONE RESTROOM STOP at Univ. of Tampa

3-Hour Tour @ $17.95 per person, children under 12 at $10.95

Follow the paths of Seminole Chief Osceola and other native Americans of the 1800's in the Port of Tampa's Channelside District, Florida's most active seaport. Stop at the Historic 1912 Tampa Union Railroad Station, the 1850 Oaklawn Cemetery and the nearby Historic Central Avenue District where newly-freed slaves settled in 1865. Ride past historic cigar factories and social clubs for Cubans, Spaniards, Italians, German-Americans and Afro-Cubans on Ybor City's 7th Avenue as Col. Teddy Roosevelt and the Roughriders did in 1898. Stand in the lobby of Henry Bradley Plant's jewel, the Historic 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel, visited by John Philip Sousa, Booker T. Washington, Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe, Red Grange and Jackie Robinson. Travel down miles of Historic Bayshore Beautiful, the 1891 paradise that features hundreds of mansions that sit on glilstening Old Hillsborough Bay. See Historic West Tampa's factory site from where secret battle plans were rolled into a cigar in 1895 and smuggled into Cuba. TWO RESTROOM STOPS at Univ. of Tampa and Union Station

4-Hour Tour @ $19.95 per person, children under 12 at $10.95

Travel down the Port of Tampa's Channelside Drive in the old Garrison area, where Seminole Chief Osceola and other Native Americans fished and lived in the 1800's. Stop at the Historic 1912 Tampa Union Railroad Station inspired by transportation magnate Henry Bradley Plant and see the nearby Jackson House. This is where Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other notables visited. Walk through the 1850 Oaklawn Cemetery where natives who lived here 2000 years ago are buried along with notable Tampa's founders, area slaves and cigar baron Vincente Martinez Ybor. See the Historic Central Avenue Business and Entertainment District where a young Ray Charles made his first recording and where "The Twist" dance craze began. Stand in the lobby of the 1891 Tampa Bay Hotel as did Clara Barton, Sara Burnhardt, Col. Teddy Roosevelt and his Roughrider Officers. Drive down the historic 1891 Bayshore Beautiful and view its hundreds of mansions along the glistening Old Hillsborough Bay and see the spot where in 1914 the country's first commercial airplane landed. See the Historic West Tampa factory spot where plans for the 1895 invasion of Cuba were smuggled out of Tampa rolled inside a cigar. Spend an hour of free time for lunch, shopping, or browsing Ybor City where dozens of restaurants, shops and entertainment venues line the seven-block 1886 area historic district. THREE RESTROOM STOPS at Univ of Tampa, Union Station and Ybor City

Other Tour Ideas:

One of the St.Petersburg Museums and/or the St. Petersburg Pier
Johns Pass for Shopping, Food, or Dolphin Tours
Ybor City in Tampa and/or Channelside
Henry B. Plant Museum
Red Rose Inn for Dinner, Entertainment and accomodations if needed
The Florida Aquarium
MOSI
Lowry Park Zoo
Busch Gardens
Orlando Parks
Kennedy Space Center
1/2 or whole day deep sea fishing and sunset festival in Clearwater
Homosassa Springs State Park or swimming with the Manatees

Please visit www.grayline.com to view available tours. Thank You