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Tourist Bureau can handle all your visitor needs
F irst time and frequent visitors to Port Aransas can
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get their questions
answered by dropping in at the Chamber of Commerce-Tourist Bureau.
It is at 403 W. Cotter, about a block east of the ferry landing in the cheery yellow building trimmed in white. There you'll find informatin about member businesses and brochures from other Texas destination for those staying for a longer time.
Details of local and area events can be had for the asking at the tourist bureau.
The tourist bureau also has dining and accommodations guides as well as the South Jetty's Visitors' Guide - but you knew that because you're reading this!
Beach parking permits are sold at the tourist bureau, as are Port Aransas t-shirts.
Visitors who want to plan a return visit for a family or school reunion or business meeting can get help from
tourist bureau staffers. Also, tour groups on buses .can arrange to have a tour guide from the bureau join them for a narrated tour.
The tourist bureau lobby is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. When the lobby is closed, a rack with brochures, dining and accommodations guides, and a South Jetty newspaper rack are left on the porch.
The new satellite office in the Port Aransas Community Theater building on State Hwy. 361 at Sea Isle Drive has general information and brochures about Port Aransas accommodations, dining, shopping, fishing and other activities. The office also sells tickets for PACT productions. The new information center is open on Thursdays and Fridays from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more detailed information, visitors can stop by the main office on Cotter.
The tourist bureau's newly redesigned Web site, www. portaransas.org, "is a great source of information with lots of links," said Ann Bracher Vaughan, executive director of the bureau.
Contact the bureau by phone at (361) 749-5919 (1- 800-45-COAST) or by e-mail at info@portaransas.org.
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