Omaha Serves Up a Full Plate of Summer Vacation Pleasure This friendly city offers heaping portions of fun, sophisticated and tasty attractions.
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f your calendar has room for a summer sojourn not too far away nightlife scene and top-drawer live performances. Diverse lodgfrom home, consider Omaha. Our affable Nebraska neighbor ing options aim to deliver sweet dreams when you’re ready to tuck bubbles with possibilities for discovery, relaxation and leisure. in at the end of the night. Omaha speaks our language, too: friendly Midwestern, true to So if your summer agenda is still in need of a convenient getits roots, thriving in 21st century innovative and progressive values. away in the heart of the Midwest, dig into Omaha’s full plate of Best of all, Omaha brims five-course fun. No matter with the five “musts” any your appetite for chilling, visitor seeks in a destinathis cool, laid-back town tion: shopping, culture, enbeckons with sophisticated tertainment, accommodasurprises, interactive expetions and dining. riences and tasty cuisine. Just under a three-hour Power Shop car ride from Kansas City, Omaha has plenty of shopOmaha’s streets and neightil-you drop experiences, borhoods are easily navigatincluding Regency Court, ed for a long weekend with Oak View Mall, Westroads the kids or the girls or an Mall, Village Pointe Shopintergenerational adventure. ping Center, One Pacific And if a pamper-perfect roOld Market Entertainment District Place and Nebraska Crossing mantic overnight is on your Outlets. There are charming neighborhoods such as Dundee to exsummer bucket list, Omaha is your ticket to bliss. Even if it’s your first time to Omaha, the city is familiar, em- plore and the iconic and historic Old Market, considered Omaha’s bracing and welcoming, making visitors feel at home with desti- premier arts and entertainment district. This scenic cobblestoned nation star power. Customize your trip’s itinerary with excursions street area in downtown has everything a traveler hankers for: lodgto eclectic boutiques and world-class art and museums; vibrant, ing, bars, restaurants, bakeries and brewpubs, art galleries, and block independently owned restaurants; exciting sporting events; hot after block of shopping. Standouts: Anderson-O’Brien Fine Art, La
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