Hilarious Getaway

Enjoy our Hilarious Getaway… A Visit is Worth a Thousand Laughs!

The Hilarious Getaway Package

The Chautauqua Harbor Hotel and the National Comedy Center have partnered to create an experience that will tickle your fancy and your funny bone with the Hilarious Getaway Package.

Package Includes:

Join us in Comedy’s Hometown on scenic Chautaqua Lake for a relaxing getaway filled with laughter. Stay at the beautiful Chautauqua Harbor Hotel lakeside resort designed to evoke the spirit of the grand hotels of yesteryear while offering modern amenities for today’s traveler. With its deluxe rooms, fine dining and world-class service, this nine-acre resort offers a lakeside playground with meticulously landscaped grounds, outdoor pool, al fresco dining, expansive patio with fire pits, putting green and lively outdoor Carousel Bar.

Just ten minutes away from the resort, you’ll find the award-winning National Comedy Center – the nation’s official cultural institution dedicated to comedy – located in Jamestown, NY, Lucille Ball’s hometown. The National Comedy Center is one of the most interactive museums in the world, featuring over 50 immersive exhibits showcasing comedy’s greatest artists. USA Today named the National Comedy Center the “Best New Museum in the Country, TIME magazine named it one of its “World’s Greatest Places,” and U.S. News & World Report selected it as one of the “25 Top Family Weekend Getaways in the U.S.”

A few blocks from the National Comedy Center is the Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, which presents the lives, careers and legacy of the “First Couple of Comedy,” and celebrates the greatest TV comedy of all time, I Love Lucy. The museum features rare artifacts, props and costumes, plus Lucille Ball’s Emmy® awards and exact re-creations of the I Love Lucy sets.

Laugh and Relax on Chautauqua Lake

The Hilarious Getaway Package includes double accommodations, two tickets to The National Comedy Center and Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Museum, and a $30 meal voucher to be used for breakfast, lunch or dinner at resort’s Lakehouse Tap & Grille. Amping up the fun, guests will receive a pair of Groucho Marx glasses. Wear them at the Lakehouse Tap and Grille and enjoy a complimentary dessert. To memorialize your visit, enjoy the short walk to Lucille Ball Memorial Park and take a selfie with the two statues of the “First Lady of Comedy.”

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