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Gold Medal boosts cruise-and-stay options in Florida Juliet Dennis


Gold Medal has added three stay-and-cruise options and four hotels to its 2016 Florida preview programme. The brochure, which made its debut last year, features two stay-and-cruise itineraries in the western and eastern Caribbean, while a Disney stay-and-cruise option includes a stop at the operator’s private island retreat, Castaway Cay, in the Bahamas. The seven-night western


Caribbean itinerary features two nights at the four-star Hilton Fort Lauderdale Marina, a five-night


Gold Medal’s Ruth Hilton (left) and Tina Hodge


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round-trip cruise to Belize and Cozumel in Mexico, and return flights. Price start at £1,249. Among the new hotels featured is the Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Orlando Resort, which opens in summer 2016. The launch of the Gold Medal


brochure coincides with Disney reintroducing free dining plans for guests at moderate and deluxe resorts, and in deluxe villas. The brochure offers more than


50 hotels across Florida, including in St Petersburg, Sarasota, Naples, Miami, Orlando and Florida Keys. goldmedal.co.uk ❯ Florida’s best beaches, page 41


If Only coalition promotes celebrations in Mauritius If Only has teamed up with Air Mauritius and Paradise Cove Boutique Hotel to promote trips for special occasions such as weddings and anniversaries. Window displays have been supplied to 300 agents. ifonly.net


Caribtours launches its biggest-ever summer sale Caribtours is offering free nights and room upgrades on selected bookings made by May 9, as part of its biggest-ever summer sale. caribtours.co.uk


16 • travelweekly.co.uk — 30 April 2015


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