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· New Tour Operator Offers More Spain For Less Southern Spain Beckons, with High Quality Eight-Day Packages Starting at $499NEW YORK (December 11, 2003) - Here's a clever idea for a winter getaway that will chase post-holiday blues without leaving you strapped at tax time. If your idea of fun includes warmth, culture and gorgeous scenery but not sunburned hordes, don't fly south. Cross the Atlantic to the chic Costa del Sol, Spain's southern coastal playground of Andalucia, land of sherry, flamenco and fabled cities. While others are struggling with baggage and connecting flights, you can be whisked nonstop to Malaga in just six hours from JFK and transferred to a charming hotel in a seaside resort town or fishing village. Here, you can play golf, sightsee and visit the age-old cities of Cordoba, Granada and Seville, shaped by Europeans, North Africans, Christians, Muslims and Jews. Best of all, you will spend much less than the masses bound for tropical climes. A new tour operator, Visit Spain Tours, is offering unbeatable prices on eight-day/seven-night packages. Starting prices for these packages range from $499 to $1,170 including roundtrip nonstop airfare from New York-JFK to Malaga, accommodations and hotel transfers. Participating hotels include three and four-star properties of exceptional caliber. Tours depart every Friday on Air Plus Comet nonstop to Malaga. Daily departures are also available on Iberia Airlines and most leading scheduled European carriers such as Alitalia and Lufthansa. In the Costa del Sol, vacationers can relax on serene Mediterranean beaches, play world-class golf and enjoy sizzling nightlife. Optional day trips are available to Cordoba, Granada, Seville and Malaga, as well as across the Strait of Gibraltar to Morocco. Andalucia's enduring treasures include Malaga, founded by the Phoenicians, an important site of the Moorish epoch and birthplace of Picasso. An important new Picasso Museum opened here in October 2003, with more than 200 works donated by the Picasso family - a must see. In sophisticated Seville one civilization after another left its mark, not to mention historical figures from Roman emperors Trajan and Hadrian to famous lovers, of fact - Don Juan - and fiction -- Carmen. Cordoba is made for walkers, who can roam the course of western religious history amid Jewish, Islamic and Christian architecture. Fabled Granada, the Moorish jewel arrayed against the Sierra Nevada Mountains, is home of the Alhambra, Spain's most important monument, and myriad Andalucian gardens and fountains. Participating three- and four-star hotels include the VistaMar Hotel Apartments and the Sunset Beach Club in Benalmadena, a breathtaking Andalucian village in the foothills; the Melia Hotels Sol Principe Hotel and Sol Don Pedro Hotel in Torremolinos, a paradise for bargain shopping, entertainment and nightlife; Las Piramides Hotel in Fuengirola, a seaside resort, and the Melia Dinamar, Westin La Quinta, Gran Melia Don Pepe and Puente Romano in Marbella, a top spot for sun, sea and adventure with 10 miles of white, sandy beach. For reservations and further information about Visit Spain Tours, see a travel agent or call (866) VST-4604, (866) 878-4604 or (973) 337-4012; fax (973) 338-5658; e-mail info@VisitSpainTours.com; web site www.visitspaintours.com. Media Contact: Nora Brossard 212-620-7100 norab@spring-obrien.com |
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