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Fred.\ Holidays cruises into 2015
FRED.\ HOLIDAYS, the UK’s General
Sales Agent (GSA) for
Spanish-based Pullmantur Cruise, has launched the cruise line’s 2015 brochure featuring five cruise ships: Empress, Monarch, Sovereign, Horizon and Z
enith. Destinations include the Baltic,
Caribbean and Mediterranean. Travel agents can request ‘flat- to put on their websites,
files’
featuring over 600 sailings. All Pullmantur cruises are taken on an all-inclusive basis, with prices starting from £899pp for the seven- night ‘Breezes of the Mediterranean’ cruise.
pullmanturcruises.co.uk
Vienna’s attractions pass affordability test
VISITORS to Vienna, Austria’s capital, can now enjoy the best of the city’s sightseeing attractions with the new Vienna PASS. The pass gives visitors entry to than 60 sites
more including
Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Austrian Imperial family; Schönbrunn Zoo; Riesenrad, a giant Ferris Wheel immortalised in the movie The Third Man; and The Spanish Riding School, the world-famous riding school for Lipizzan horses. The Vienna PASS also offers
visitors unlimited journeys on the city’s hop-on, hop-off sightseeing buses,
fast-track per
attractions and a free guidebook. . The pass is priced from €69 (€34.50
child aged six-19
years) for two days. Three-day and six-day passes are also available.
Viennapass.com
entry at key Iceland shows fortitude
Ontario has a sense of adventure
ONTARIO Tourism is offering the chance to win an adventure holiday
in the province
accompanied by TV personality and bushcraft expert Ray Mears. The successful applicant will
travel to Canada in August this year
to experience Ontario’s
Wabakimi Provincial Park – with its spruce forest, granite and waters – and embark on a series of
‘unique
adventures’. The
contest forms the
ICELAND is the location star of Sky Atlantic’s most ambitious drama to date, Fortitude, which started screening on January 29. The series, which centres on a
mysterious death in the Arctic Circle, is filmed, in part, in East Iceland. The Fortitude film crew took over the
town of Reyðarfjörður for several weeks, using an old fish factory as their base. Matthew Bird, Producer,
said: “I’ve
never seen anything like it: black sand, rocks of
ice, thousands of years old
rolling into the sea and then the seas forces them back onto the beach so
you’re surrounded by massive, massive blocks of ice that are blue inside and different colours.” Iceland has become one of the world’s highest-profile filming locations due to its easy
access, unique
centrepiece of Ontario Tourism’s 2015-16 Ray Mears Adventure Campaign, launched last autumn, designed to build awareness of the variety of adventure itineraries and outdoor experiences that can be enjoyed in the province. The
tourism volcanic
landscapes and generous filming incentive programme. Other recent films and TV series filmed on the island include Interstellar (2014), Noah (2013), The Secret Life of W Mitty (2013), Thor 2: The Dark W
body’s website
features two adventure suggestions: for
the novice
alter orld
(2013), Oblivion (2013) and Game Of Thrones.
inspiredbyiceland.com
Saga shows off a ‘different side’ of Sri Lanka
SAGA has a new 11-night Sri Lanka tour that promises to show
‘a
different side’ of the island. The escorted tour takes visitors to the unspoilt east coast and takes in wildlife and ancient Buddhist shrines. Stops include a two-night stay at the Suriya Resort, Waikkal; a boat ride in the Muthurajawela Sanctuary to look for tropical birds, monitor
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Maldivian culinary contrasts: The over-water
lagoon-villa Sun
Siyam Iru Fushi in the Noonu Lagoon, Maldives, has two new eateries: a newly-opened Indian restaurant, Taste of India, and a Japanese restaurant, TEPPANYAKI. Travelbag offers seven nights full-board from £1,659.
thesunsiyam.com;
travelbag.co.uk
Belfast new for KLM: Belfast will
become KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’ 17th UK destination when the airline starts daily flights from Amsterdam’s Schiphol
Airport on May 18. The
flights, which will leave George Best Belfast City Airport at 11.15, will be operated by KLM Cityhopper.
klm.com
Improving Gleneagles: The
Gleneagles Hotel, Perthshire, is to invest £1.1million in refurbishing its bedrooms as part of an ongoing upgrade programme. Thirty-six of the five-star hotel’s 232 bedrooms will be given a new look by April; the same number completed their upgrades in 2014.
gleneagles.com
lizards, crocodiles and python; visits to a cashew plantation and to Kaffir village, home to one of Sri Lanka’s few remaining communities of African descent; Anuradhapura; Sigiriya; and a wildlife safari in Wilpattu. The tour is priced from £1,699pp, and runs April-November 2015 and January-March 2016.
travel.saga.co.uk/holidays
adventurer, the Classic Canadian experiences, and for the more experienced adventure travel enthusiasts the Epic Adventures. The contest is open for entry until May 31 2015.
Full details and the online entry
forms can be found at:
ontariotravel.net/ukadventure
sellingtravel.co.uk
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