San Antonio is the gateway to the Texas Hill Country and South Texas. Its location is a wonderful hub-and-spoke destination for groups. The city offers a wide variety of theme venues, historical sites and unique Texas experiences in and around its beautiful locale. San Antonio’s seasonal festivals, parades and celebrations offer big-city entertainment with a small-town feel. The surrounding Texas Hill Country is home to antique and local heritage shopping, historical tours along the presidential corridor, the Cowboy Capital of the World and a myriad of beautiful beaches.

San Antonio is easy to navigate for groups as almost all of the sites and venues are within a 10-to-25 minute drive from downtown. The outlying points of interest vary in distance of 30 minutes to 2.5 hours. Please refer to Maps and Neighborhoods for approximate driving times to these exciting destinations. Each itinerary is based on an approximate arrival time of 9 a.m. at the initial site and a full day of touring.

Day 1

• IMAX Theatre showing of “Alamo – The Price of Freedom”
• Tour the Alamo
• Visit the Institute of Texan Cultures
• Lunch and shopping at Market Square
• Tour the King William Historic District, the Guenther House, and the Steves Homestead
• Cruise on the San Antonio River or arrange a dinner cruise on the River (arrangements may be made by any restaurant, full-service hotel or caterer)

Day 2

• Tour Mission Trail
• Tour the San Antonio Botanical Gardens 
• Lunch at the Gardens
• Visit the San Antonio Zoo
• Tour SAS Shoemakers Factory and shop at outlet
• Tour the Majestic Theatre
• Enjoy dinner and a performance at the Majestic or Empire Theatres

Day 3

• Visit Kerrville, home to the Cowboy Artists Museum and James Avery silver and goldsmith workshop
• Lunch in Fredericksburg and enjoy the German heritage
• Stroll Main Street, lined with original 1800’s stores stocked with unique treasures
• Tour the National Museum of the Pacific War
• Return the scenic route via Luckenbach, the Wildseed Farm and Sisterdale
• Stop in Boerne for quaint shopping, live entertainment and Texas barbecue

Day 4

• Visit Johnson City, home of our 36th president, Lyndon Johnson, and tour the Johnson Ranch and then visit the Sutter Ranch, a working ranch set in the 1800’s
• Visit the State Capitol in Austin and have lunch on 6th Street or Town Lake
• Tour the LBJ Presidential Library and tour the Texas State History Museum
• Return to San Antonio for dinner and a rodeo and live entertainment at Cowboys San Antonio

Day 5

• Shopping trip to San Marcos outlet malls
• A late lunch or early dinner in Gruene, home to one of the country’s oldest active dance halls; dine along the Guadalupe River; visit an original old-fashioned General Store for hand-dipped ice cream and shop for unique gift and antiques
• For the young-at-heart, enjoy a day of tubing on the Guadalupe and Comal rivers, or a day at Schlitterbahn Waterpark.

Day 6

• Enjoy a day out at a Dude Ranch in Bandera, the Cowboy Capital of the World. A short drive from San Antonio takes you back to experience a day in the life as a cowboy. Try your hand at roping, riding, working the ranch, and afterwards enjoy a chuck wagon dinner with singing and dancing.

Day 7

• A trip to Corpus Christi or Laredo offers two different excursions; both cities are approximately 2.5 hours from San Antonio.
• Corpus Christi sits on the Gulf of Mexico. It offers miles of open beaches to explore and hunt sand dollars, and it boasts the battle ship Lexington and the sea aquarium for touring. For those interested in deep-sea fishing, there are numerous fishing charters available. In nearby Rockport, a quaint fishing village, are seasonal birding excursions into the marshlands to view over 150 migrating birds.
• Laredo is one of the many Texas border towns to Mexico. Nuevo Laredo, Mexico is a shopper’s paradise with many quality stores offering a variety of leather, onyx, silver, pottery and regional goods for bargain hunters.