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Kay McLellan
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Shearings shifts
Anatolian Sky joins
into self-drive
SHEARINGS Holidays is targeting the self-drive
Greece and Turkey
market with the launch of its new hotel range,
Coast & Country.
Shearings has invested £7 million renovating
Kay McLellan.
Marmaris and visits
13 hotels for the brand’s launch and hopes it will ANATOLIAN Sky Holi- Symi before returning
appeal to a younger customer base. days has launched to Selimiye in Turkey.
Prices start from £99 for two nights’ self-drive. what it claims are the The second cruise
The launch of the range follows Shearings’ first tours to include also departs Mar-
announcement that bookings to its 49 UK hotels both Turkey and maris and visits
are up 10% on average compared with last year. Greece. Rhodes and Symi, and
The 13 three-star hotels are made up of eight The Turkey special- returns to Datca.
existing Shearings hotels and five new proper- ist operator is offering The final itinerary
ties, chosen for their character and prime loca- three eight-day cruises departs from Datca
tions in some of the UK’s most popular resorts. aboard luxury gulets, and visits Symi, Kos
These include Weston-super-Mare, Exmouth, traditional Turkish and Bodrum in
Scarborough, Bournemouth, Windermere, wooden sailing vessels. Turkey, before ending
Bath, Tenby, Keswick, Harrogate, Chollerford, It believes the Anatolian’s twin-centre luxury gulet cruises sail for eight days in Karacasogut in
Portpatrick and Pitlochry. offering will prove Turkey.
popular with travellers, after seeing its bookings All the gulet cruises can be taken in reverse
LAUNCHPAD. to Turkey grow by 50% in January and 70% in and twinned with any other holiday or tour in the
February and March, with gulet cruises being the Anatolian Sky summer programme.
ITC Classics fastest-growing type of holiday. Akin Koc, managing director of Anatolian Sky,
Platinum Collection 2009 The cruises will depart the Turkish resorts of said: “These new cruises are the fulfilment of a
ITC Classics has launched a Marmaris and the fishing village of Datca, a new long-held ambition for me. It makes so much
coffee table-style brochure addition to Anatolian Sky’s summer programme, sense to bring together the closely linked cul-
alongside an interactive CD and visit Greek islands including Rhodes, Kos and tures of Greece and Turkey in this way and, if
featuring luxury hotels and bespoke holidays. Symi. Prices from £599 including flights and food. they are successful, I hope to expand the concept
New properties include the boutique resort The first eight-day itinerary departs from next year with more twin centre holidays.”
Hermitage Bay in Antigua, with prices from
£2,270 all-inclusive, the Diva Resort and Spa
in the Maldives from £2,475 half-board and La
Plantacion Del Sur in Tenerife from £775 B&B.
All prices are for seven nights, based on two
sharing and include flights.
■ 01244 355527
First Choice
Ski & Snowboard 2009-10
First Choice has introduced
Canada and the US for the first
time and added 20 resorts in
Europe and North America to
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create its biggest ever snow programme. Ski Da
wedding packages are also now offered. Prices MONKEY MAGIC: Superbreak and Cameron Mackintosh Ltd, the production
start from £329 for seven nights’ self-catering in company behind West End musical Oliver!, donated £15,100 to the Aspinall
Switzerland. Ultimate Winter Savers packages Foundation, a charity for endangered animals. The operator was given more than
start from £449 to selected European resorts. 400 tickets to Oliver! to package up to include a charitable donation and VIP reception.
■ 0871 664 0130 At Port Lympne Wildlife Park in Kent are, from left: Sue Uings, Cameron Mackintosh Ltd;
Ray Jones, Superbreak; Robert Boutwood and Simon Jeffery, both Aspinall Foundation.
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