
Mature Friends members arrange exciting group travel both within the US and abroad.
Upcoming Trips:
Eclipse Cruise!
Join Mature Friends in 2024 on a 10 day cruise aboard the Discovery Princess to see a total eclipse of the sun. We will leave Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2024 and cruise to Mazatlan to see the eclipse for a whopping 4 minutes and 14 seconds. If you’ve never seen a total eclipse, this may truly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You can book directly at www.princess.com or use our travel agent for no fee. Brandi at (425) 775-1314 will be happy to help you – be sure to let her know that you are with Mature Friends. Questions? Email Mark at mark98033@gmail.com.
2024 Christmas Market Cruise on the Danube
For Christmas 2024, we will be cruising the Danube. We depart SeaTac Airport December 8 for Nuremberg, Germany. Our cruise includes Christmas Markets of Nuremberg, Regensburg, Passau, Linz, and Vienna. Also included is a choral concert in Regensburg, a tour of the Bishop’s Residence in Passau, the Melk Abbey, and a performance in a famed Vienna concert Hall. The main adventure ends December 16th. Optional 3-day pre- and post-trip extensions to Munich and Vienna are also available. The cost for the upgraded Category A through D cabins, ranges from $2,495 to $2,595, excluding airfare. Cost of roundtrip airfare and airport transfers purchased through Grand Circle Travel will run an additional $1,300. Check out the full itinerary here. The map shows the route across Germany and Austria. You may also contact Grand Circle Travel at 800 -955-1925. Mention Mature Friends Group – G4-22830.
Past Trips:
2023: Croatia
2023: Southern Oregon/Shakespeare Festival
2022: Scotland
2019: Thailand
2018: 15-day cruise with stops in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Germany and Poland.
2017: Bus trip to Tacoma for a three-museum tour.
2017: Lake Diablo day trip.
2017: Escape into Cuba, an all-gay 7-day tour.
2017: "Cruise to Nowhere," departing Seattle with stops in Astoria OR, San Francisco and Victoria BC before returning to Seattle.
2016: Two weeks in Tuscany.
2015: Weekend in San Antonio.
2014: Grand tour of China.
2014: Two weeks in northern Spain and southern France
2013: Long weekend cruise in the San Juans.
2013: Reno gambling trip.
Upcoming Trips:
Eclipse Cruise!
Join Mature Friends in 2024 on a 10 day cruise aboard the Discovery Princess to see a total eclipse of the sun. We will leave Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2024 and cruise to Mazatlan to see the eclipse for a whopping 4 minutes and 14 seconds. If you’ve never seen a total eclipse, this may truly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience. You can book directly at www.princess.com or use our travel agent for no fee. Brandi at (425) 775-1314 will be happy to help you – be sure to let her know that you are with Mature Friends. Questions? Email Mark at mark98033@gmail.com.
2024 Christmas Market Cruise on the Danube
For Christmas 2024, we will be cruising the Danube. We depart SeaTac Airport December 8 for Nuremberg, Germany. Our cruise includes Christmas Markets of Nuremberg, Regensburg, Passau, Linz, and Vienna. Also included is a choral concert in Regensburg, a tour of the Bishop’s Residence in Passau, the Melk Abbey, and a performance in a famed Vienna concert Hall. The main adventure ends December 16th. Optional 3-day pre- and post-trip extensions to Munich and Vienna are also available. The cost for the upgraded Category A through D cabins, ranges from $2,495 to $2,595, excluding airfare. Cost of roundtrip airfare and airport transfers purchased through Grand Circle Travel will run an additional $1,300. Check out the full itinerary here. The map shows the route across Germany and Austria. You may also contact Grand Circle Travel at 800 -955-1925. Mention Mature Friends Group – G4-22830.
Past Trips:
2023: Croatia
2023: Southern Oregon/Shakespeare Festival
2022: Scotland
2019: Thailand
2018: 15-day cruise with stops in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Germany and Poland.
2017: Bus trip to Tacoma for a three-museum tour.
2017: Lake Diablo day trip.
2017: Escape into Cuba, an all-gay 7-day tour.
2017: "Cruise to Nowhere," departing Seattle with stops in Astoria OR, San Francisco and Victoria BC before returning to Seattle.
2016: Two weeks in Tuscany.
2015: Weekend in San Antonio.
2014: Grand tour of China.
2014: Two weeks in northern Spain and southern France
2013: Long weekend cruise in the San Juans.
2013: Reno gambling trip.
Mature Friends functions as a non-profit, non-partisan, non-sectarian resource organization based in Seattle to provide social activities, education, and protection against discrimination to the over-40 LGBTQ communities and their allies.