{"id":12228,"date":"2007-07-23T11:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/go-nuts-with-samoa-deal-2\/"},"modified":"2007-07-23T11:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T11:13:00","slug":"go-nuts-with-samoa-deal-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2007\/07\/go-nuts-with-samoa-deal-2\/","title":{"rendered":"GO NUTS WITH SAMOA DEAL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL <\/span><\/span><\/span>COLUMN<\/span><\/span> “travellers good buys” <\/span>
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STAY seven nights but pay only for five at Samoa’s laid-back Coconuts Resort and Spa through Adventure World on select dates until March 31 2008, if booked by October 31. The Resort has a private white-sand beach, pool with swim-up bar, indoor\/outdoor dining, and entertainment including firewalking. Seven nights in a Garden Suite, return air and airport\/resort transfers starts from $1641pp twin-share ex-Sydney, $1716 Melbourne, $1717 ex-Brisbane and from $2141pp ex-Cairns. Details 1300 302 591 or check-out www.adventureworld.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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TAKE advantage of the best start in years to the ski season in the NSW Snowy Mountains, with a self-contained apartment stay at the Novotel Lake Crackenback Resort that includes hot buffet breakfast, a 2-course dinner per person, sporting and fitness facilities, and 2-day ski, clothing hire and mountain pass. Prices start from $506 per room per night; details 1800 020 524 or www.novotellakecrackenback.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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FOUR nights at China’s annual International Beer Festival is priced from $262pp twin-share at the Gloria Plaza Hotel in Beijing if booked through Student Flights. The 16-days of celebrations are based on the famous Tsing-Tao brewery in the coastal town of Qingdao, and run from August 14; air fares are extra. Full details of inclusions on 1800 069 063 or www.studentflights.com.au<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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MELBOURNE will get an extra Cathay Pacific daily flight to Hong Kong from October 1, giving it three flights a day and bringing the airline’s total each week from Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Perth and Cairns to Hong Kong to sixty-four. Full details of schedules including connections to Asia, throughout China, to London, Europe, the USA and Canada from travel agents.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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ROMANTICS taking a Blue Lagoon ‘Gold Club’ cruise in the Mamanuca or Yasawa Islands can now treat themselves to a candle-lit dinner on a private screened-off section of the decks of boutique cruise-boats Mystique Princess and Fiji Princess during their 4- and 7-day sailings. Dinner includes appetiser, entr\u00e9e, main course, dessert, port, cheese platter and a bottle of wine<\/span>, and costs from FJ$150 per couple (about AU$111) on top of the $1399pp twin-share cost of a 4-day sailing and from $1949pp for 7-days; air is extra. These private candle-lit dinners are available only once per cruise on 4-day sailings and 3-times on 7-day cruises, and have to be booked on arrival at the company’s departure lounge in Lautoka; details ++ (679) 666 1622 or email <\/span>reservations@blc.com.fj<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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TRUE<\/i>: <\/b>English couple Eric and Doris King-Turner of Hampshire have booked themselves on the British liner Saga Rose next January to New Zealand as part of plans to start a new life on the other side of the world. Probably nothing unusual about that \u2013 except that Eric is 102 and Doris 87.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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