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Motorhomes for just a fiver a day


The Motorhome Experts has expanded the range of destinations to which brand new motorhomes from Cruise America's Chicago location, close to the factory where these unique vehicles are built, can be driven. For what could be less than £5 per person per day, visitors can take up to a month before delivering these new vehicles to Cruise America rental locations in San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles or New York. Your clients could head west across America, maybe re-tracing the famed Route 66 from Chicago to LA, in a brand new motorhome. Or, also from Chicago, explore New England, Ohio and Pennsylvania, or, further south across the Mason Dixon line, as long as the motorhome ends up at one of the two locations in the New York area. Visitors to the USA can save literally thousands of dollars on normal pricing and be charged as little as $55 (around £35) a day for up to seven peoples’ transportation and accommodation.


Aqua gets active Aqua Hotels & Resorts’ Hotel


Wailea, an all-suite resort on Maui’s southwest coast, has created a number of activity packages for guests. “Many of our guests are active


travellers, looking for exciting water sports to participate in during their stay. We’ve created three packages for couples, families and girlfriend groups,” said Markus Schale, Hotel Wailea’s general manager, Guests can skim the waves on a kite-


board, with three days' of private tuition on Maui’s premier kite beach, or learn SUP – Stand-Up Paddle Surfing – a combination of surfing and paddling. For girls there’s a Maui Ocean Divas package. Private kite-boarding lessons, outdoor yoga classes, a SUP class and a treatment at Spa Wailea are all included. www.hotelwailea.com


Graceland's triple treats


Three new exhibits are due to launch


That can mean as little as $7.86 (or under £5) per person per day. For these US rentals, a flat, all-


inclusive price of $770 per motorhome is all that’s charged for any rental of between ten and 14 days. An extra day price of just $55 applies after that. There is no one-way rental fee but


standard insurance as well as 3,000 miles and all taxes are included. The motorhome’s kitchen is fully equipped and the price also includes the first two persons’ bedding kits. Vehicles will be available to set out to


different destinations between April 2 and May 24. 0844 910 3271 or res@ themotorhomeXperts.com. www.TheMotorhomeXperts.com


at Elvis Presley’s Graceland in Memphis to commemorate its 35th anniversary year, starting with ‘Elvis on Tour’ which will be open for the public on January 5, in conjunction with the Elvis 2012 Birthday Celebration. The exhibit celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Golden Globe award-winning documentary of the same name. Elvis…Through His Daughter’s Eyes’


will open on February 1, Lisa Marie Presley’s birthday, and will highlight the relationship between Elvis and his child. The largest exhibit launching during


the 35th Anniversary year ‘Icon: The Influence of Elvis Presley’ will open on March 1. This exhibit will feature many artifacts on loan from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland and items from the collections of many of the biggest names in music. The exhibit will celebrate Elvis’ status as a music pioneer and icon. www.elvis.com/graceland


VISIT USA IN BRIEF


Free add-ons from BA British Airways has reduced domestic add-ons for USA and Canada flights to nothing! With immediate effect, domestic


add-ons to and from Aberdeen (ABZ), Edinburgh (EDI), Glasgow (GLA), Manchester (MAN), Newcastle (NCL) and Jersey (JER) have been reduced to £0 (zero) for all journeys to and from the USA and Canada. This changes applies to all booking classes and all cabins. The airline has also introduced


some improvements to its World Traveller Plus product: a choice of two options from the Club World menu; a personalised service, with menus handed to customers prior to take-off; orders taken before the onboard bar service commences; the main hot entrée served in white china crockery along with metal cutlery and linen napkins www.ba.com


United links Manchester with Washington DC United Airlines/Continental


will launch a daily non-stop service between Manchester and Washington, D.C’s Dulles International Airport from May 2. The flight will depart Manchester


at noon, arriving into Washington/ Dulles at 15:08. The return flight will depart


Titanic re-surfaces in Connecticut ‘Titanic - 12,450 Feet Below’ opens


in April at the Mystic Aquarium in Mystic, Connecticut to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the liner’s maiden voyage and tragic sinking. The first person to see the transatlantic liner since 1912, when it struck an iceberg and sank off Newfoundland, was Dr Robert Ballard. In 1985, the American marine explorer was stunned by what he saw some 12,450 feet below the ocean’s surface. Now Dr Ballard’s knowledge is combined with the ingenuity of former Walt Disney imagineer Tim


Delaney to transport visitors back 100 years to that fateful transatlantic crossing. The special new Titanic exhibit, complete with HD interactive video, takes you to “a whole new world and a mysterious, awesome place to be.” Mystic Aquarium www.


mysticaquarium.org is two hours southwest of Boston. Entry to the exhibit, which opens on April 12, is included with admission to the aquarium: adults $29 (approximately £19), children (3-17) $21 (approximately £13). www.mystic.org www.discovernewengland.co.uk


Washington/Dulles daily at 22:16, arriving at Manchester at 10:20 the following day. The service will be operated by Continental Airlines Boeing 757- 200 aircraft with 175 seats – 16 in BusinessFirst and 159 in Economy. The airline has operated non-stop


flights from Manchester to New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport, since 1995. Both the Washington/Dulles and


New York/Newark flights are timed to provide connections beyond the hubs to more than 300 destinations across North, Central and South America and the Caribbean. 0845 6076760 and


www.unitedairlines.co.uk


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