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Today's Travel News
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
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Tips & Bits
A SpongeBob Park?
Nickelodeon is opening a theme park at the huge Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, next week. Called Nickelodeon Universe, the seven-acre park will include rides designed after television shows, including SpongeBob Square Pants Rock Bottom Plunge, a roller coaster with vertical lifts and 90-degree turns, the Splat-O-Sphere, a 60-foot tower drop-ride and the Avatar Airbender, a surf-rider attraction that reaches a height of 70 feet. For more information, visit www.mallofamerica.com. Algonquin Family Package The Algonquin Hotel in New York City is offering a Family Celebration package with a 20% discount. The package includes transportation to the hotel, accommodations in one- or two-bedroom suites and the opportunity to discover the city on one of Manhattan’s famed Double Decker bus tours. Families also will have the choice of mingling with their favorite stars at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum or enjoying the city’s skyline with a two-hour harbor cruise. Prices for a two-night getaway for a family of four in a one bedroom suite start at $1,279. Available for booking now through Dec. 31, 2008; prices are subject to availability. For more information please visit www.algonquinhotel.com. To book this package, call 1-866-406-5341 x 2. JetBlue Down South With winter storms still dumping snow in the Northeast, now may be a good time to head south. JetBlue is offer a 40 percent discount for its new Shake the Blues Getaways package to St. Maarten. Starting at $769.00 per person for a three-night all-inclusive stay at the St. Maarten Sonesta, this package is valid for stays now through March 31, 2008, and the vacation must be booked by March 30. Prices do not include airline taxes and fees of $94.15. Offer available from select cities. The all-inclusive plan includes daily buffet breakfast, lunch, dinner, à la carte meals at Palms Grill Restaurant & Bar, unlimited alcoholic and non-alcohol drinks, non-motorized water sports, a complimentary $20 USD match play coupon daily per room for casino play and all hotel taxes and gratuities. JetBlue Getaways customers book discounted vacation packages including airfare, hotel, airport transfers and/or various activities at one time, saving valuable time and money. Customers can book a JetBlue Getaways vacation package to St. Maarten at www.jetblue.com or by calling 1-800-538-2583, option 3.
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Delta Air Lines announced its new nonstop service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to Georgetown, Guyana* will begin a month earlier on June 1, 2008. This year, whether vacationing with family, friends, or loved ones, make the most of Hawai‘i’s beautiful summer weather by vacationing at Waikoloa Beach Resort. In the coming months, Waikoloa Beach Resort has a number of exciting festivities planned, allowing guests to immerse themselves in Hawai‘i’s distinct culture and traditions while experiencing the very best sights, sounds and tastes that Hawai`i Island has to offer! Today at the Seatrade Cruise Shipping Convention in Miami Beach, Florida, Silversea Cruises announced that its newest all-suite ship will be named Silver Spirit. The last weekend of ski and snowboard season isn’t a quiet occasion in Colorado’s last great ski town, Crested Butte, where the expected rarely happens. Locals and visitors will be flushing out winter and welcoming spring with the 40th annual Flauschink, April 9 - 13, 2008. Nightclub & Bar Magazine has picked the industry’s “Top 100” of 2008 and five MGM MIRAGE venues have been honored among the nation’s best – V at MGM Grand Detroit; Eight75 at Beau Rivage in Biloxi, Miss.; JET Nightclub at The Mirage, rumjungle at Mandalay Bay and Tabú Ultra Lounge at MGM Grand, all in Las Vegas. Continental Airlines announced that it was again rated the top airline on FORTUNE magazine’s annual airline industry list of World’s Most Admired Companies. This is the fifth consecutive year that Continental has topped that list. The airline also ranked No. 41 on FORTUNE’s World’s Most Admired Companies “Top 50” list, which ranks companies in a wide variety of industries. Bellagio is proud to announce the induction of Joseph Phillips of Sensi into the Court of Master Sommeliers. Phillips becomes the fourth of Bellagio’s already impressive team of Master Sommeliers, joining Robert Smith of Picasso, Jason Smith of MICHAEL MINA Bellagio, and Director of Wine Robert Bigelow. |
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