About Amish Experience/ Amish Tours/ Magic Lantern Shows
The area's most popular tour, the SuperSaver Package includes three activities that best exemplify the Lancaster County Amish: The Amish Farmlands Tour, The Amish Experience Theater and The Amish Country Homestead.
Amish Farmlands Tour (Approx. 90 minutes) - Travel the scenic backroads with a certified guide on 14-passenger shuttle. See everything from children playing outside an Amish one-room school, or a farmer working the fields with horses, to Amish heading for church or a wedding. Stops usually include an Amish farm or craft / bake shop (Amish businesses are closed Sunday), Learn about aspects of Amish life such as weddings, funerals, cottage industries, farm practices, etc.
The Amish Experience Theater (Shows hourly, 40 minutes) - Sit in a barnyard setting for "Jacob's Choice," the moving story of an Amish boy's decision to join the faith or live in the modern world. You'll be moved and thrilled as you experience 400 years of Amish history thru magical special effects.
The Amish Country Homestead (tours hourly, 40 minutes): The only Amish house tour designated a Heritage Site by Lancaster County. A guide will take you thru this 9-room house to explain Amish dress and what life is like without electricity. We unravel some of the riddles of Amish life, such as why a bottled gas refrigerator may be used, but not an electric one. Included is the Fisher Amish schoolroom, furnished and decorated authentically with the help of an Amish schoolteacher.
You may decide upon arrival on the times you wish to do the homestead and the theater, which run throughout the day. Some people do them before the bus tour, and some after. Allow approx. 3.5 hours to do everything, depending on your arrival and tour times. (Individual tickets for "Jacob's Choice" and the Homestead are not available online. If you wish to do ONLY the 90-minute farmlands tour, please call or email us directly.)
IN DECEMBER, SuperSaver packages are only available Saturdays and Dec.26-31, 2012. Closed Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. Tours depart at 10:00am, 12:00pm, and 2:00pm. SuperSaver pricing: Adults $34.95. Children (12 and under) $21.95. Seating is limited to 14 people per excursion. (For the farmlands tour, all children (regardless of age) must purchase and occupy a seat, with car seat provided by you if the child is too small to ear a seat belt. This is Pennsylvania State law.) Type in or select the day you want to check availability.
