Tired? Beat? Dutchess County Can Help

The challenges of business travel can be harrowing. You’ve got to balance a tight schedule with often uncomfortable surroundings, unreliable transportation and stressful business meeting and client dinners. Whether you realize it or not, being under so much stress can be a real zinger on your mood, your productivity and your overall health. Studies have proven time and again that too much stress for too long a period of time can lead to a condition known as distress, resulting in raised blood pressure, irritable stomach and chronic headaches. Not only will too much stress ruin your productivity during a business trip, it can have severe effects on the quality of your overall life as well.

If you find that you’ve caught the stress bug during a business to Dutchess County, New York, you’re in luck. Dutchess is a place full of great opportunities to unwind, learn a little something, or play a few rounds of golf. Here’s a list of our favorite destinations in Dutchess County to unwind. But first, get to know Dutchess County a little better:

Vassar Golf Course in Poughkeepsie

Many an overtaxed business person finds a great refuge of relaxation in going out on a local green  playing a game of golf. Take a colleague and make an afternoon of it; in Dutchess County, the sky’s the limit. Vassar Golf Course in Poughkeepsie is a beautiful 9-hole public course that is both challenging and enjoyable. The scenery bathes each golfer in the charm of the Hudson River Valley and allows even the most harried businessperson to escape for a couple of hours and focus on the beauty of nature and the fun of golf.

Azar Wellness Spa

Who doesn’t like a few moments of peace and utter relaxation with a massage, a facial or another equally indulgent treatment? Therapeutic massage has proven to be a very effective way to relieve the stress that eventually turns into distress, and Azar Spa in Millbrook meets every massage need a tired businessperson could have. Choose from their variety of specialty massages, skin care treatments or wellness spa treatments and give yourself the break from the world you deserve.

Bowdoin Park

Sometimes all an stressed-out executive needs to feel relaxed is to simply get away from all of the action, the negotiating, the presentations and the suits and ties. Sometimes, just taking a blanket, a book and a lunch to a beautiful public park and spending a few hours alone is the perfect recipe for relaxation. Bowdoin Park in the heart of Dutchess County is beautiful place to unwind for a few hours in the sun or under the divine shade of a nearby tree. See some of the county’s beauty and indulge in some alone time all in the same.

Get to know Dutchess County, New York and find out how you can unwind the next time you come through on your business travels.

Dutchess County is also an amazing place for romantic getaways, so next time you want to spend a little time with your partner you cand choose a  Romantic Weekend Getaway in Hudson Valley’s Dutchess County.

As for the driving, leave that to us, Majestic Trasnportation Service, we are really good at it.

Dutchess County, NY, Limousine Services

Majestic Transportation Services & Limo Inc. is proud to be the Dutchess County, NY, limousine company of choice for CEOs, celebrities, families, wedded couples and more. We’ve developed a reputation as the premiere luxury car service in Dutchess County, NY, and surrounding areas.

Our services in the area include:

Airport services. Major airports serving Dutchess County include Stewart International Airport, Westchester County Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and LaGuardia Airport. Majestic Transportation Services & Limo Inc. is the luxury limousine company in Dutchess County, NY, serving all these airports.

Tours. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum, Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site, the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site and Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site are just a few of the historic sites in the area. If you’d like to plan a special tour of Dutchess County, a limousine company such as Majestic Transportation Services & Limo Inc. can create the ultimate travel experience. We can transport you and your guests in absolute comfort so you can focus on the tourism, not the traffic.

Wine tours. The Dutchess County Wine Trail is one of the best-known wine tour areas in this part of the country. You can visit Alison Wines & Vineyards, Cascade Mountain Winery & Restaurant, Clinton Vineyards & Winery, Millbrook Vineyards & Winery and other area restaurants and attractions. Our courteous Dutchess County, NY, limousine service can get you and your guests to and from the wineries safely, so you can focus on exploring and wine-tasting.

Photography sessions. Wilderstein and Innisfree Gardens are popular photography spots for graduations, engagements, weddings and more. If you’d like the historic mansion or the beauty of the gardens in your photos, our car service can take you out to these and other attractions for your special photos. Our fleet has even been included in some special photos.

Client engagements. Our executive car service in Dutchess County, NY,  including Poughkeepsie, is ideal if you need to impress clients or transport a group of clients or investors to dinner, a conference center or hotel conference room for meetings. Our Dutchess County, NY, executive car service is trusted by luxury realtors, business managers and executive planners in the area because we maintain our fleet and carefully select our drivers to deliver the best possible professional experience.

For more than 10 years, Majestic Transportation Services & Limo Inc. has specialized in offering luxurious, personalized and professional limo services. If you need a touch of luxury with a driver service, contact Majestic Transportation Services & Limo Inc. to reserve one of our cars.

Business or pleasure make sure you book your Majestic ride.

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New York City is New York City only because of the Hudson, an unusually deep river that runs 315 miles from the Adirondacks to the Statue of Liberty. The heart of it makes up the Hudson River Valley, for our purposes a narrow 80-mile long region of historic towns and big-time views that begins around Deacon, 65 miles north of New York City. The country’s first art and literature movement were born here, and it has offered the best breather from city exhaustion for New Yorkers ever since New York was a city.

With 80 miles of riverfront to explore, there’s a lot of ground (and water) to cover. Here are our picks for the best things to do, ordered south to north by each side of the river.

Dia Beacon

Dia Beacon is an unreal modern art collection housed in a 240,000-sq-foot former boxing plant for Nabisco. Its mammoth industrial rooms are particularly evocative for biggest installations like Bruce Nauman’s videos and Richard Serra’s giant rolled-steel plates you can walk through.

Poughkeepsie’s Walkway Over the Hudson

Scrappy Poughkeepsie is chiefly a valley hub, but near the train station and downtown, it’s worth saving a couple hours for the longest pedestrian bridge in the world. The non-profit Walkway Over the Hudson (www.walkway.org) transformed a 1.28-mile abandoned railroad bridge into a pedestrian park in 2009. It hosts several walks, and is a great spot for the July 4th fireworks show.

FDR’s (mom’s) house

Franklin D Roosevelt’s riverside home– a household run at the time by his mother – is a worthwhile national park stop in Hyde Park. The house, which was the setting of the events in the 2012 Bill Murray film Hyde Park on Hudson, can be toured with guides.

Eleanor Roosevelt’s house

For many visitors, the emerging star of a Hyde Park visit is FDR’s wife, Eleanor, who snuck away and created her own home, the cozier Val-Kill, a few miles inland, which can be toured on a separate ticket.

Hyde Park Drive-In Theater

Across the road from FDR’s mansion, this drive-in classic has been around since 1950, with summer showings that bring big crowds. The screen is 82 feet wide, and the sound is delivered via FM radio. Got to do it.

Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park

The Hudson River Valley is sort of the American Downton Abbey District, with all sorts of mogul and millionaire mansions from the 19th century you can visit. One of the more famous is the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site, on a riverside bluff on the north end of Hyde Park.

Red Hook diner

The official name is the ‘Historic’ Village Diner but everyone just calls it the Red Hook diner, five miles north of Rhinebeck. And it’s a classic. Built in the 1920s, and run with love by a local family, the Red Hook fills fast any day of the week. Good for usual diner fare, best at breakfast.

Olana

Painter Frederic Church, one of the mid 19th-century landscape-as-art pioneers of the Hudson River School, picked a spot he called the center of the world to build the most unique home of the valley. Set atop a 500-foot hilltop in the 1870s, Olana is a Persian-styled home overlooking a wide stretch of the Hudson, backed to the west with the wall of Catskill mountains. You can’t help but want to paint.

Hudson’s shopping

A few miles north of the Rip Van Winkle Bridge from Olana, the town of Hudson has the best shopping of the valley – that is if you’re looking for Sotheby’s-quality (and -priced) antiques from past centuries. It’s more than just that. Central Warren Street is lined with all sorts of 19th-century townhouses you’ll want to buy, plus Brooklynesque cafes, good book shops and at least a half-dozen places to suit your lunch needs.

New Paltz’s Huguenot Street

A short walk from the Main Street buzz is the ‘oldest street in America,’ and apparently it’s true. Huguenot Street has six houses, open for visits, which date from the late 17th-century. The town was first settled by the historically French Protestant group in 1678 and the street reached its current state by 1792.

Feel free to top this amazing experiences with a Majestic limousine ride.

For more than a decade, Majestic Transportation Services & Limo, Inc. has been the luxury car services company NY and CT clients have counted on. Our luxury executive car and limousine service provides courteous and prompt transportation throughout New York and Connecticut, including Hudson Valley and upstate New York.

Whether you need a luxury car service company to deliver you safely home after an evening out with clients or you want a luxury limousine service for your wedding or other special occasion, Majestic Transportation Services is the company you can trust.

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