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Grand Island, Nebraska
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| Founded by German immigrants in 1857, Grand Island | Can I make the Grand Island reservation by phone? We |
| became a prominent center when the Union Pacific | would be happy to help you make any Grand Island hotel |
| Railroad was built through the area in the mid 1860s. The | reservation by phone. You can call our toll free number |
| region's early history is the focus of the Stuhr Museum of the | between the hours of 8 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through |
| Prairie Pioneer. Indoor exhibits are housed in a building | Friday (CST). 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. |
| designed by Edward Durrell Stone. Outdoor exhibits | |
| include a re-created prairie town made up of more than 60 | How can I be sure information about my credit card is |
| historic buildings that were relocated from around the state, | secure? We use secure-socket-layer (SSL) encryption, the |
| including the cottage where actor Henry Fonda was born. | standard encryption on the Internet. This type of encryption |
| The annual Husker Harvest Days celebration takes place | allows you to feel confident and secure about supplying |
| in Grand Island in September. | personal and credit card information. |
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| An 80-mi/130-km stretch of the Platte River around Grand | Is free breakfast available? Some hotels offer free |
| Island is a prime stopping point for sandhill cranes as they | breakfast with each room night booked. This information |
| migrate north from mid February to early April. Some | can be found on the property information "detail" page for |
| 500,000 birds make use of the river, and at the peak of the | your specific property. |
| migration as many as 40,000 birds may descend on the | |
| river at one time, a startling sight to behold. The Crane | Can I book the reservation to stay tonight? Some hotels |
| Meadows Nature Center near Grand Island is one good | accept reservations until 3:00pm on the arrival day. Only |
| viewing spot. | hotels that follow this policy will show when the today's |
| | arrival date is typed into the search form. |
| Two nearby cities make interesting day trips. Aurora (20 | |
| mi/32 km east of Grand Island) has the Plainsman Museum, | Are free shuttles supplied from the airport to the hotel? |
| which documents the history and prehistory of Nebraska. | Some hotels do offer free shuttle services from the airport |
| You also might check out the Hastings Museum in Hastings | but not all. Please verify this information on the property |
| (20 mi/32 km south), which has gun, toy and coin collections, | information page, if this is import to you. |
| a natural-history exhibit, the J. M. McDonald Planetarium | |
| and an IMAX theater. Grand Island is 130 mi/210 km west of | |
| Omaha. | |
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