JKL TOURS

Travel with Friends you know and a company you trust

Professionally Guided Single & Multi-Day Tours

We are excited to offer this array of trips for the coming year.  Part of our success is our passion for creating new trips that offer excitement and provide an experience (and value) you are happy with.  Because of this, the real “SECRET” to our success is YOU! 

There is an amazing number of people who travel with us and share our trip information by “word-of-mouth” with friends, so they can enjoy the fun, companionship, value and camaraderie our trips provide.  We know you appreciate and enjoy the advantage of traveling with many wonderful people who join us to experience new adventures and for the security of traveling with our group. 

“Please know that our most important job is to keep our Travelers safe and we will always do our best in that area.  We do monitor the information from the Governor’s office, the Ohio Department of Health, the CDC, etc. and work with our Senior Center partners to never knowingly put our travelers in harm’s way.”

JKL TOURS
Friends you know and a company you trust!

THANK YOU for visiting our website. JKL TOURS has been offering group trips since 1994 and have been tremendously BLESSED by the amazing number of fun and friendly people that have chosen to travel with us. Our business grows every year by word-of-mouth advertising as friends want to share the fun and camaraderie of our trips with their friends.

We are all sharing this challenging time but we do look forward to a brighter future. We restarted our trip program in August of 2020, by offering SAFE and FUN trips and have continued to do so.
JKL TOURS along with our Bus Partner – BARONS BUS – followed the CDC guidelines along with all State, County and city guidelines to create a trip program that is safe, fun and affordable. The guests that travel with us understand the SHARED RESPONSIBILITY of traveling as part of a group. Group travel provides a chance to enjoy an adventure with the extra benefits of feeling younger, feeling alive and connecting with others while still staying safe. You can join us for the camaraderie, companionship, value and safety our trips provide.
Our trips are escorted by excellent, knowledgeable and caring guides with pickups on both the East and the West sides of Cleveland. Because these are unusual times, we have been challenged to be flexible in creating our trip program. To find out our latest list of trips, please call JKL TOURS at 440.942.5350, or send an email to info@jkltours.net. With so many seniors wanting to get back to travel, many of our trips are selling out, so don’t hesitate to call or email. And with over 100 trips set up for 2021, we’ll have trips to
1) Ohio’s Amish Country – enjoy a delightful day seeing the beauty of Ohio’s rural countryside, learning about the Amish way of life and enjoying an amazing meal.
2) Mystery trips – we offer Fifteen (15) different mystery trips to smaller, out-of-the-way places you probably did not even know existed for a fun day of surprises.
3) Historic and Ethnic Cleveland – with 6 different customized itineraries, you can learn about the amazing history we have right here. From seeing where Moses Cleaveland landed in 1796, to the location of the original stockyards of 1881, to League Park where the Cleveland Spiders played in 1891, even Frankie Yankovic Square and so much more. Cleveland is a city with a tremendous history, present and future and we’ll see it all.
4) Wine tasting & Wine & Chocolate tours – Ohio was the Napa Valley of the US in the late 1800s and this tradition has continued with over 150 wineries. Join us as we sample the nectar of the gods with some trips including chocolate sampling at boutique chocolatiers!
5) Historic Houses of Worship – many immigrants came to our area in search of the American way of life and brought their religious heritage with them, as their lives centered around their church. We are blessed by an amazing number of museum-quality churches that were built in the late 1800s/early 1900s with incredible craftsmanship and amazing stories to match.
6) Theatre tours – if you enjoy live performances, then make sure you check out our trips to Rabbit Run in Madison to see “Always, Patsy” the Patsy Cline story, and “The Marvelous Wonderettes” a tribute to the sock-hop music of the 50s and 60s. Or you can see the many tribute shows and hear wonderful performers imitate legends, like “The Everly Brothers,” “The Four Seasons,” “Neil Diamond,” and more. We’ve already booked seats for 2022 to see “Ain’t Misbehavin’” at the Hanna and “My Fair Lady” at Playhouse Square Center!

We have plenty of day trips visiting exciting destinations e.g. Put-In-Bay, Niagara Falls USA, Fall Foliage trips, Ashtabula Covered Bridges, Barberton MUM Festival, Ohio’s Lavender Trail, Cleveland Indians Baseball games, and more. We also have overnight trips – Myrtle Beach, Pigeon Forge, Chicago, New York City, The Wild Mustangs of North Carolina, The Canadian Rockies Railtour, etc.

In addition to the many trips we offer directly, we have many Senior Centers that partner with us for their travel program.
We look forward to hearing from you so you can join us to enjoy the amazing benefits of group travel and THANKS AGAIN.

JOHN LATKOVICH
440.942.5350
info@jkltours.net

JKL TOURS
Friends you know and a company you trust!

HELLO to all our Travel guests~
This is John from JKL TOURS and on behalf of KAREN, LEONA, CHRIS and DIANE, you are in our most sincere thoughts and prayers.  We hope you are doing well and that you and your loved ones are healthy and safe.  If you do need help, we suggest you contact your local Senior Center, as they can direct you.
 
Although Staying-at-home is best right now, we know it can create loneliness and anxiety.  
We do miss seeing everyone and being out enjoying trips, but we look at this as a tremendous GIFT of Time.  
Although I am not a Medical Expert, here are some tips that might help you to cope.
1)  Please do your best to connect with friends and family by phone, skype, email, or whatever works for you.
2)  Please get out and WALK.  The weather is getting better and you’ll feel better.  Make it part of your daily routine.  It will pay off when we CAN travel.
3)  Limit your input of fear-inducing TV, Radio or the internet.  Separate Fact from Fear.  Find something that will make you laugh or inspire you or give you HOPE and do that Every DAY!
4)  Try out a new recipe, learn to bake something new or make something you have not cooked in a while.  Samples of baked goods can be sent to JKL TOURS.  However, stuffed cabbage, cabbage and noodles or cabbage soup does not travel well, but I appreciate the thought.
5)  Look at photos, especially your Travel photos.  Now is a great time to enjoy, appreciate and organize them!
6)  Write a LETTER and mail it to someone.  They will feel great for getting it and YOU will feel great for sending it.  Do you know how many “Dear JOHN,” letters I have received?   LOTS!
7)  Be careful of SCAMS.  I cannot stress this enough.  I promise there is NO foreign prince who needs your money.  (And there is no ointment that grows Hair!)
 
Here are three more thoughts~
A)  I know all about SOCIAL DISTANCING.  That is what happens when I approach single women!
B)  Stay-at-home combined with food takeout?  This creates a different need to “Flatten the Curve!”
C)  I was long overdue for a haircut before the barbershops were closed.  I was considering the “Bald guy with a Pony-Tail,” look, but then I realized that never looks good on any guy!
 
BIAGIO DONUTS IS OPEN!  But for take out only.
 
Can you do JKL TOURS a Favor?  If you order food via Take Out, we ask you support the places we use on our tours so they are still there when this is over.  You can even tell them “JKL Sent me!”
Sokolowski’s University Inn
Hansa Haus
Balaton Restaurant of Shaker Square
Galluci’s Italian Import Store
Grumpy’s of Tremont
Alladins
 
Please continue to Pray, Reflect or Meditate.  Be Thankful.  And have HOPE – nothing in this world changes without HOPE.
Finally, I want to THANK all the people that have checked on JKL TOURS.  We appreciate your concern and are confident we’ll be back travelling soon.
 
 
NOTE:  Your local Senior Center won’t help with your laundry. . . I found that one out!