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Bear watching heads options in Prestig Juliet Dennis
Prestige Holidays is offering bear watching, winter breaks and “north-south” twin centres in Croatia for the first time in 2015. The operator’s 2015 Croatia
brochure features trips to Risnjak National Park in the Gorski Kotar mountains, where the best time to spot bears is in late spring or autumn. The park is also home to the lynx, Europe’s only big cat, as well as wolves, deer and chamois. Bear-watching
sessions last up to 24 hours and can be included in a package as a day trip or with overnight accommodation in a basic observation hut. Park entrance and bear
Price to watch bears from an observation hut for up to 24 hours
£33
watching are payable locally for about £5 and £33 respectively. Packages start from £559 for six nights at the three-star Hotel Risnjak in Delnice in May including
return flights, and car hire. Prestige
general
manager David Skillicorn said: “You
can go to an observation
hut to watch for bears and then go walking and cycling in the park on other days. The type of clients we are attracting are looking for more than just sitting round the pool.” New internal flights connecting
Dubrovnik, Rijeka and Split mean the operator now offers holidays
Operator introduces nine properties in Sicily
Prestige Holidays has added nine properties to its Sicily 2015 programme. Four of the new properties
are in the southeast region of the island that is rich in Sicilian baroque architecture and which the operator is promoting heavily. All except the Verdura Golf & Spa Resort near Sciacca are boutique or agriturismo in style. Prices start from £436 at the
19-room Hotel Palladio in the seaside town of Giardini Naxos. Prestige Holidays general manager David Skillicorn said: “There are a lot of smaller hotels here that have not worked with tour operators before and we feel there is real potential for growth.” Sicily was first offered by the
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operator in 2013 and is now one of its top five best-selling destinations in passenger numbers. Prestige is also revamping its
website to improve functionality in response to feedback requested from 100 agents.
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Verdura Golf & Spa Resort
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