Brendan Vacations released its brochure for 2013 North and Central America Guided Vacations, for the U.S., Canada, Mexico and Central American destinations. The company is launching the new product with a limited-time offer to save $150 per person on any 2013 North or Central American vacation booked by July 19. The programs include new local specialties called Hidden Delights, and the You’re Personally Invited program, which includes dinner and a personal encounter with a local family and the culture of the destination.

New additions to the North America program for 2013 include the nine-day Canyon Country Jamboree, which starts from $2,095 and is now reduced to $1,795 per person, double occupancy, land only. Also new is the 10-day Florida’s Sunshine Trail, which includes the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Everglades, Key West, St. Augustine, and the Kennedy Space Center and Little Havana in Miami tour. Prices start from $2,595, now reduced to $2,295 per person.

The new 11-day New York Zest and New England’s Best is a culinary tour that includes a tour of Cabot Creamery, fresh apple cider at a local cider house, a guided bog tour at a cranberry farm and a tasting of Ben & Jerry's ice cream at its birthplace in Vermont. In New Hampshire, learn about the production of mead, and then finish off the program in Boston, one of the oldest cities and most historic cities in the United States. Prices start from $3,275, now reduced to $2,975 per person.

The new Panama, The Canal and Beyond is an eight-day itinerary that includes Panama City, a cruise on the Panama Canal, the Gamboa Rainforest, the mountain slopes of the Chiriqui Provence and Cerro Punta near the Costa Rican border and the Volcan Baru, a dormant volcano. Prices start from $1,875, now reduced to $1,725 per person.

Brendan Vacations offers a selection of Guided, Customized, Locally Hosted and Group travel options, more than 800 packages in all and 10,000 hotels in Ireland, the U.K., Europe, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, Fiji, Mexico, and South and Central America.