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Club Med opens 2019-20 sales and revamped hotel


Phil Davies phil.davies@travelweekly.co.uk


Club Med has released details of its revamped Alpe d’Huez ski property in the French Alps and put its winter 2019-20 programme on sale.


The four-star ski-in, ski-out


resort has been rebuilt with four kids’ clubs for children aged from four months to 17 years old, a new spa, indoor and outdoor pools and children’s paddling area, a new restaurant and ‘gourmet lounge’, offering all-day dining, as well as a wine cellar and a lounge bar. Other new features include an adult-only wellness room with an area for yoga and meditation. The property, which opens on December 15, will offer direct access to the Alpe d’Huez Grand Domaine, which covers 155 miles of slopes, with lift passes included in Club Med packages. The property will also include


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Shearings offers package to this year’s Singapore Grand Prix


Shearings Holidays is offering tickets to the Singapore Grand Prix as part of a Formula One package in September. The seven-day tour offers customers the chance to


experience the night race, held on the city’s streets. The package includes a Bay Grandstand ticket for ualifying days and race day return flights four nights


REVAMP: Club Med Alpe d’Huez will feature a ‘family fun’ area


a ‘family fun’ area including new playgrounds, as well as walls to draw on, modular furniture, board games and climbing walls. The all-inclusive resort operator


has also opened bookings for its first fivestar resort in the Caribbean, the ‘eco-chic’ Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda on the northwest coast of the Dominican Republic. It offers treetop yoga and electric surfoarding and oins Club Med’s Exclusive Collection.


Bookings are now open for


winter 2019-20 season at 28 Club Med resorts. Seven nights at Alpe d’Huez starts from £1,670, a week at Cefalù in Italy starts from £1,210, and a week at Club Med Michès Playa Esmeralda, in the Dominican Republic, is priced from £1,420. rices do not include flights and are based on departures between


November 1 and April 30, 2020. clubmed.co.uk


B&B at a choice of two hotels, meet and greet at the airport and transfers. Flights are offered from Heathrow, Birmingham, Manchester, Edinburgh or Glasgow. From the grandstand, guests will be able to see cars


accelerate out of turn 17, passing the barriers closely on exit before racing beneath the grandstand. The position also offers views across Marina Bay. The tour is priced from £1,749 and departs on


September 18, arriving the day before qualifying starts to allow time to explore the city. The price is based on two sharing and includes a £176 Heathrow


supplement. shearingsagent.com


NEWS IN BRIEF


Book to win Bourne Leisure agency of the month prizes


Butlin’s, Haven and Warner Leisure Hotels parent Bourne Leisure has brought back its agency of the month award for 2019. Agencies which make high levels of sales and promote the brands will win a trophy and prizes such as champagne, chocolate and hampers. Email: trade.sales@bourne-leisure.co.uk


Make BA or AA bookings to enter Brand USA mega-fam


Brand USA has revealed the seven itineraries for its annual mega-fam for 100 UK and Irish agents this May, from California and Texas to South Carolina and Puerto Rico. To enter the mega-fam, make British Airways and American Airways bookings to the US and visit usadiscoveryprogram.co.uk/ megafam


Melia plans to take Innside hotels to holiday resorts


Meliá Hotels International aims to attract more millennials and leisure travellers by taking its traditionally urban brand Innside by Meliá portfolio into more holiday resorts. Currently, Innside has four and five-star properties in major cities in Europe including Berlin, Munich, Madrid and Manchester. melia.com


Dawkins promoted to Abu Dhabi’s UK country manager


Jane Dawkins has been promoted to UK and Ireland country manager for Abu Dhabi tourism, overseeing a team of four in London. She was previously senior trade executive with the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism. dctabudhabi.ae


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