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Arizona deals start to sizzle
When the mercury rises in Arizona
each summer – temperatures can top the 100C mark in July and August – there are some sizzling deals for visitors prepared to brave the desert heat. Hotels in the Scottsdale area, which sits
on the edge of the Sonoran Desert, offer up to 60 per cent off their high-season rates – that means a stay at a top resort is available for around £100 a night. For example, The W Scottsdale’s summer Vitamin D package is priced at $189 (£117) per night and includes accommodation, a pitcher of mojitos served poolside, and a W beach tote bag with aloe body mist and chapstick. It is available for stays until September 5. Golfing clients should be pointed in
the direction of the JW Marriott Camelback Inn Resort and Spa, an AAA Five-diamond property. The new Just Bring Your Swing! package includes accommodation, unlimited golf for two, club and shoes rental, six golf balls and a course yardage guide – for $279 (£172).
www.experiencescottsdale.com
Southern Cal visitors urged to drop by exclusive Newport Beach
there are nine islands in the harbour which can be explored by a yacht cruise. "Alternatively visitors can move around
Newport Harbour by renting a ‘Duffy’ (pictured), looking for the homes of stars like Nicholas Cage, before stopping at one of the many harbour restaurants that offer dock slip parking,” she added. Other attractions include Corona del
Visitors to Southern California should
pencil in a the USA’s most exclusive oceanside community. With the highest per capita income
and some of the priciest pieces of real estate in the country, Newport Beach is better known for attracting Hollywood stars and mandarins of the commercial and entrepreneurial world, but the town
Atlanta gives a damn about classic
Atlanta is a city with plenty of attractions to keep visitors entertained before they depart the main international gateway to the Southern states. The host of the 1996 Summer
Olympic Games is also known as the birthplace of Martin Luther King Jr and for its association with one of the country’s biggest-ever selling books, Gone With The Wind. Fans of Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel
about life in the South during the US Civil War will be thrilled that in the year of its 75th anniversary a rare piece of manuscript, once thought to have been destroyed, will shortly be on display in Atlanta, Georgia. Atlanta’s Book: The Lost Gone With
the Wind Manuscript will be housed in the Atlanta History Center between June 4 and September 5 and will feature the last four chapters of the book. The individual sheets of chapter sixty-
three, the final chapter, will be mounted on the wall for visitors to view and read. The desk that Mitchell used while writing Gone With The Wind, as well as letters of correspondence by Mitchell,
images, and foreign and first-edition copies of Gone With The Wind will also be on display. For a complete Gone With The Wind experience visitors can save 20 per cent when purchasing dual tickets to the Atlanta History Center and Margaret Mitchell’s House, birthplace of Gone With the Wind. Atlanta’s Book: The Lost Gone With
the Wind Manuscript, and The American Civil War and War in Our Backyards: Discovering Atlanta, 1861-1865 exhibition are all included with Atlanta History Center general admission.
www.georgiatourismusa.co.uk www.AtlantaHistoryCenter.com
Florida’s a trip with Funway Funway Holidays' 2012 Florida
preview brochure leads in at £775pp for a seven-night stay at the Quality Inn International Drive, Orlando, including Virgin Atlantic flights from Gatwick and fully- inclusive car rental. Funway has also launched an agents booking incentive with the top prize a holiday for two to Orlando and Miami Beach. It includes flights with Virgin Atlantic, seven
has plenty to hold the interest of international visitors, says Vicki Higgins, senior vice-president of marketing for Newport Beach Inc. “It’s the archetypal dream California
beach destination: upmarket, chic, elegant and sophisticated but with plenty to entertain tourists,” she said. “Aside from over 300 area restaurants
Mar State Beach, one of the ‘cleanest’ beaches in the US, dolphin and whale- watching tours (January-March), watersports like kite surfing, windsurfing and the latest craze stand-up paddle boarding in Back Bay. Newport Beach also has a year-round calendar of events, including Shakespeare in the Park (July). For shoppers, Fashion Island is an
outdoor retail park with over 200 speciality shops and chic boutiques. Newport Beach is located around 45
minutes from Los Angeles. Disneyland is 14 miles inland, at Anaheim.
www.visitnewportbeach.com
nights at the Doubletree Universal, Orlando, and seven nights at the Fontainebleau, Miami Beach (pictured), 14 days’ car hire and two two-Park Universal Bonus Tickets. Agents can double their chances of winning by booking online. To be in with a chance of winning agents must register their bookings by calling 0844 557 0649 or emailing
agencysales@funwayholidays.co.uk.
www.funway.co.uk
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