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Roaring Twenties Travel: The Great Gatsby Tour

July 15, 2008 at 11:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

F. Scott Fitzgerald may not be your typical pop culture travel icon, but back in the day (New York in the '20s to be exact), The Great Gatsby was just as huge as Gossip Girl.

In case you're still about eight decades behind the curve, you can catch up on all your F. Scott gossip with The Great Gatsby Boat Tour.

The tour, out of Port Washington, takes guests on a 90-minute ride around Long Island's North Shore, checking out the inspiration for Gatsby's newly moneyed West Egg (King's Point) and the ridiculously wealthy estates of East Egg (Sand's Point).

Guide Eleanor Cox fills the tour with anecdotes about the folks who may have inspired Fitzgerald, tossing in stories about the modern-day barons and celebrities who have taken over their mansions. (Just one fun fact: Bill O'Reilly lives in Groucho Marx's house.)

The Great Gatsby tour runs three more times this summer: August 3, August 31 and September 7.

Related Stories:
· The Great Gatsby Boat Tour [Official Site]
· Go Gatsby at the Glen Cove Mansion [Hotel Chatter]
· Long Island Travel coverage [Jaunted]

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