The region offers much more than those top attractions. Seeing Nautilus and the adjoining Submarine Force Museum takes 60 to 90 minutes. The two attractions are only one mile away from each other. It takes more than two hours to see the aquarium and three to five hours to see Mystic Seaport. “If you do everything, it would take about 20 hours,” added spokesman Aaron Gooday. You could spend a Saturday morning at the aquarium and Saturday afternoon at the seaport, then see Nautilus on Sunday morning.Īverage stay at Mashantucket Pequot Museum is three to five hours and “most people say that’s not enough time,” said museum spokeswoman Wendy Dastous. You could arrive in the region about midday on a Friday and spend that afternoon in Mashantucket Pequot Museum. If you are ambitious, you might be able to do most of what we did on the press trip in one long weekend. Simpson offered one indicator that her region is becoming more popular: in 1992 average visits lasted less than a full day.
Fewer gamblers than anticipated even visit the new Mashantucket Pequot Indian museum, which is within sight of the casino. Simpson said most people who gamble at Foxwoods do not go sightseeing.
