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Love the Iceland Experience?
It's not only mums that go to
Iceland these days you know!
Attraction World has over 20 Nordic
experiences for you to offer your
customers. Current best-sellers
are a trip to the Blue Lagoon, a
unique geothermal spa; The Northern Lights Mystery
Tour, where you will go in search of the elusive lights; Region
and not forgetting the Gullfoss Geysir Express, visiting
the spot where the tectonic plates of America and
Europe actually meet. For more Iceland options, visit
attractionworld.com
OPERATOR NEWS.
DoSomethingDifferent has introduced 20 new
experiences in Iceland, with a three-hour night-time
Northern Lights Mystery from £49. Iceland from Below costs
from £78 and takes visitors into lava caves and craters.
■ agent.dosomethingdifferent.com
Hurtigruten is dropping single supplements on cruises in
summer as well as winter. It is applicable on bookings made
before March 31 for cruises between April and September.
■ hurtigruten.co.uk/agents
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Regent Iceland has new itineraries for 2009 including a
Stock X
seven-day Sensational Iceland escorted tour taking in natural
wonders. Prices from £1,240 including flights and transfers.
CONTENTS.
■ regent-iceland.com
Summer in the city What Oslo, Stockholm, Bergen,
Keith Prowse Attraction Tickets has added a tour in Gothenburg, Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Reykjavik
Denmark, of Kronborg Castle, the setting for Shakespeare’s
Hamlet, and Frederiksborg Castle, priced from £38.
can offer your clients to fill long summer days, and
■ keithprowse.com/agents
how to get to them, p56; View from the crew A
Cosmos Tourama has a new 12-night Norwegian Coastal cabin crew member talks us round Reykjavik, p60
Voyage cruise priced from £1,659 including flights. Ports of
call include Bergen, Trondheim and Tromso.
■ cosmostourama.co.uk
FLIGHTS.
Finnair is opening a spa and wellness centre at Helsinki-Vantaa airport in
the autumn. Top tier clients will have use of a sauna, mineral water bath,
and spa treatment rooms.
■ finnair.fi
Iceland Express will fly from Gatwick to Reykjavik eight times a week from
May 1. It currently flies daily from Stansted. Prices start from £69 one-way.
■ Icelandexpress.com
Norwegian is expanding its Gatwick programme from the end of March.
Flights will depart for Oslo three times a day; Copenhagen and Tromso
Fam’s gone to Iceland: Regent Iceland twice daily; and Bergen, Stavanger and Aalborg daily. Finns are looking good:
took eight agents on a fam trip to help ■ Norwegian.no Transun releases its 2009 Santa
launch its latest brochure. The trip included brochure this month, featuring
a jeep adventure tour taking in the Golden BMI now flies from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Leeds/Bradford to Enontekio in north-west Finland,
Circles. Agents are pictured (above) at Copenhagen, and from Aberdeen to Esbjerg. which is far away from the more
Gullfoss, also known as the Golden Falls. ■ flybmi.com mainstream “Santa” destinations.
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