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Holidaymakers looking to experience those magical moments with Mickey Mouse and friends can also enjoy great savings on Disney accommodation and dining plans when booking with Complete Orlando, from now up until the 31st March 2011.

Save up to 30% on selected Disney Value Resorts – from just £21 per person per night!

Book before 31st of March 2011 and save up to 30% on Disney’s All-Star Music and Disney’s All-Star Sports Resorts, and save 15% on Disney’s All-Stars Movies and Disney’s Pop Century Resort, valid for travel between 01 August – 18 November 2011.

Disney’s Value Resort Hotels offer great value for money and fun and entertainment the whole family can enjoy.

This offer is only valid when a Disney ticket per person is purchased.

Take advantage of the 14-day Ultimate Disney Ticket for the price of 7 available through Complete Orlando, from only £232 per adult, available until March 31 2011.

For more information or to book please call Complete Orlando, free on 0800 294 8844.

Eat for FREE at Walt Disney World with Complete Orlando
Book a Walt Disney World holiday including Disney tickets for five nights or more, and everyone in the party can eat for free. Those staying at a Disney Moderate Resort will enjoy a free Disney Quick Service Dining Plan for the entire holiday which includes 2 quick service meals and 2 selected snacks in over 100 locations!

This offer is valid on all stays completed between 01 August – 18 November 2011, with all bookings made before 31st March 2011.

For more information or to book contact Complete Orlando on 0800 294 8844 or visit www.completeorlando.com
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Voila Hotel Rewards announced the program’s very first offerings in North America with the recent addition of two St. Giles New York hotels.

The Court and The Tuscany, owned by St. Giles Hotels, are located off Park Avenue in the historic neighborhood of Murray Hill in mid-town Manhattan. Voila Hotel Rewards is a loyalty program for independent hotels, giving members the opportunity to earn points and enjoy complimentary reward stays at more than 250 four- and five-star independent hotels and luxury brands. In addition to the most recent U.S. additions, Voila offers travelers choices throughout Europe, Asia-Pacific, Australia, the Middle East and Mexico.

The partnership with St. Giles New York kicks off Voila’s plans to expand its global footprint within North America. For more information, visit www.vhr.com

Santa Fe, N.M., has announced its first annual Winter Fiesta, which takes place Feb. 18 to 27.

Each day will feature special events, evening parties and savings city-wide.

A fiesta lanyard is available for $20 at www.TicketsSantaFe.com and offers value prices at participating restaurants, businesses and cultural institutions.

Fiesta highlights include a Fiesta Kick Off with the Live 505 Bar Crawl with no cover charge for lanyard holders and a variety of specials at participating restaurants and bars; GPS snowshoe scavenger hunts; a moonlight cross-country ski trip in the Valles Caldera; a guided Native American cultural tour to Puye Cliffs; and events along Canyon Road.

The fiesta will end with the 14th Annual Art Feast, which takes place Feb. 25 to 27.

The event includes the Edible Art Tour, fashion luncheons, Art of Home tours, a gentleman’s lunch, and an artists’ champagne brunch and auction.

Hotel packages are available as well.

For more information, visit www.santafewinterfiesta.com.

To purchase a lanyard, visit www.ticketssantafe.com

Central Holidays, a leading tour operator to Italy and Europe, unveiled its 2011 lineup of vacation packages to Italy, Greece, Spain, France and the rest of Europe.

Central Holidays has extended its Early Booking Discount promotion, which offers discounts on a selection of packages to 10 travel destinations, for new bookings made now through Feb. 28 for travel through March 31, 2012.

Travelers are eligible to receive a 5 to 7 percent discount when they book one of Central Holidays’ vacation packages from the brochure. Offerings include packages to Italy, France and Portugal, as well as Greece and Spain. Central Holidays is offering new Greece vacation packages that include hotel stays and cruises to the Greek islands, and other inclusions such as city tours and transfers. The new vacation deals can provide much of what a client is looking for in a vacation to Greece — a Greek holiday including excursions to explore ancient antiquities and sites, cruising the Greek islands, soaking up Greek culture, and enjoying Mediterranean cuisine.

Following are a couple of the Greece vacation deals, which enable travelers to experience Greece and its culture through both land and cruise portions.

Aegean Escapade from $557 (one night in Athens, four-day/three-night cruise) is a six-day getaway program for the traveler with limited vacation time and the desire to enjoy a cruise in the beautiful Aegean.

After a one night-stay in Athens, embark on a four-day Aegean cruise aboard Louis Cruise Lines M/V Aquamarine, discovering the splendors of this captivating part of the world, renowned for its many enchanting islands and spectacular coastlines.

Athens and the Three Continents from $866 (one night in Athens, eight-day/seven-night cruise) embarks on an eight-day/seven-night discovery of the great continents of Europe, Asia and Africa.

After a one-night hotel stay in Athens, the eight-day cruise aboard Louis Cruise Lines M/V Cristal is rich with history, culture and adventure as it explores Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Greek Islands and Turkey.

Central Holidays has also added Spain vacations, most notably escorted Spain vacations.

The two new vacation packages to Spain include Highlights of Spain from $1,937 (10 days, eight nights).

The tour begins in with a few days in the Spanish capital of Madrid, then after a few days in Madrid and a high-speed train to Seville to explore the romance of Southern Spain and then continue north towards Valencia and Barcelona. The tour includes guided tours to the UNESCO World heritage sites including Seville’s famous Cathedral, the Mosque of Cordoba and Alhambra Palace together with the Generalife Gardens in Granada.

Best of Spain from $2,589 (12 days, 10 nights) begins in Madrid where a host will be available to help take advantage of the city’s many treasures. After a tour of Toledo, a transfer is made to a station to board a high-speed train for arrival in Seville. The package includes guided tours to world UNESCO World heritage sites including Seville’s famous Cathedral, the Mosque of Cordoba and Alhambra Palace together with the Generalife Gardens in Granada. The vacation continues with tours of Mediterranean cities Valencia and Barcelona before returning home.

Founded in 1972, Central Holidays offers travel programs to destinations throughout Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, plus dozens of Mediterranean and European River Cruise itineraries and worldwide ski programs. For more information, call 800-935-5000 or visit www.centralholidays.com.

Lufthansa said San Francisco will be fifth destination for its Airbus A380.

Starting May 10, Lufthansa will operate a daily A380 service from Munich to San Francisco International Airport under the current flight numbers LH 454 and LH 455, replacing the Boeing 747-400 service currently offered on this route.

The new Lufthansa flagship is configured with 526 seats (eight in first class, 98 in business class and 420 in economy class).. Ticket prices for an A380 flight do not differ from regular fares on this route.

Lufthansa will be the first and only airline operating an A380 service to and from SFO. Passengers can already fly on the A380, the most advanced aircraft in the Lufthansa fleet, to Johannesburg, Beijing and Tokyo.

From the end of February, the Lufthansa flagship also will operate to New York. By the time the airline’s seventh A380 enters service, the A380 fleet will be taking off on 70 long-haul flights per week, covering a distance of more than half a million kilometers.

Each week from then on, almost 37,000 passengers will have an opportunity to fly on an A380.

Lufthansa expects to take delivery of the eighth aircraft of this type in the first half of 2011.

For eight days, Feb. 20 through 27, the Kingdom of Navarra, Spain will visit New York City for a gastronomic celebration. Restaurants will offer menus highlighting Navarra’s traditional dishes and local wines. Chefs in restaurants throughout New York will prepare such Navarran dishes as warm partridge and jabugo ham salad, artichokes fried with tocino (jabugo ham fat), piquillo red peppers stuffed with meat or fish, pochas beans, roast suckling pig, sautéed wild mushrooms and white asparagus, lobster, and puff pastry with potato and foie and sweet wine sauce.

For more information, including participating restaurants in New York City, visit www.navarragastronomy.com/restaurants.php

The Napili Kai Beach Resort on Maui has announced its Value Season programs and packages.

Value Season dates are March 5 through April 15, April 30 through June 17, and Aug. 21 through Dec. 16.

Every third night is free with the Whale of A Deal program, valid for stays in Ocean View Studios only from March 5 through April 15.

A minimum three-night stay is required, with the third night free with two consecutive nights paid at the rack rate.

A Fifth Night Free special is valid for all 2011 Value Season dates in selected room categories.

The Seventh Heaven Special offers a sixth and seventh night free with a stay of five paid nights in selected room categories.

With the Let Us Take Care of Your Luggage offer, the hotel will deduct the cost of guests’ airline baggage fees off the total cost of their stay, up to a maximum of $125 per reservation.

Guests must present their checked-baggage receipt upon check-in.

This offer is valid for five-night minimum stays in selected room categories during Value Season dates.

In addition, the hotel is offering a Keiki Eat Free program through Dec. 16. Children (keiki) age 12 and under receive one free entree from the keiki menu when accompanied by an adult who purchases an adult entree.

The offer is valid for breakfast, lunch, and dinner at the resort’s Sea House Restaurant. The Keiki Eat Free program is not available on holidays and is valid for hotel guests only.

For more information, call 800-367-5030 or visit www.napilikai.com

Utah, which average more than 500 inches of snow each year, is promoting its skiing with a wealth of value-added deals for travelers.

This year, Utah ski areas also have new terrain, accommodations and on-mountain improvements such as North America’s first heated chair lift at The Canyons; Utah’s 14th ski resort, Eagle Point; and recently opened Montage Deer Valley.

Snowbird is offering ski and stay free the fifth night through April 2. Sundance Resort is offering guests two passes per day when booking a stay at Sundance Resort.

Passes include both day and night skiing on nights available. Black-out dates include Jan. 20 to 30, 2011. Group rates qualify to receive one pass per day.

The Canyons Ski, Dream & Dine package for guests staying in a hotel room, studio or one-bedroom suite at the Grand Summit Hotel, Silverado Lodge, Sundial Lodge, or Vintage on the Strand includes two, multi-day lift tickets and a buffet breakfast for two each day.

Guests staying in two-bedroom units and larger will receive four, multi-day lift tickets and four breakfast buffets each day of stay.

At Park City, skiers and boarders can benefit from the Park City Quick START Vacation, which lets out-of-state visitors convert airline boarding passes into free, same-day lift tickets to the Park City resort of their choice — Deer Valley Resort,  The Canyons Resort or Park City Mountain Resort.

Deer Valley is offering travelers who book a late season trip will receive 25 percent off lodging and lift tickets. Guests who book this package will also receive a free day of skiing for each paying adult and one night of free lodging.

Free lodging and skiing may be added to qualifying packages of four or more nights with three or more days of skiing.

The Alta Lodge is offering packages to families with two kids under 18 that allows them to stay free and receive complimentary breakfast and dinner when booking a room for four or more nights.

A four-night minimum stay is required.

For more information, visit www.utah.travel or

www.skiutah.com

After a $25 million transformation, Club Med Sandpiper Bay, the only all-inclusive family resort in the U.S., has collaborated with international pop artist Romero Britto to launch the new Britto Art Center.

Children ages 4 and up can participate in educational art programs throughout their vacation, including painting, sketching and coloring with a professional art teacher.

Britto is a contemporary artist influenced by early and modern masters, and is known for his use of pulsating colors and bold patterns as a visual language of hope and happiness.

The new art center will feature Britto’s Mias Garden, a wall mural he selected to reflect the Sandpiper Bay experience. Its vibrant illustrations of colorful animals, children, flowers and shapes make it the perfect art piece to inspire children.

For more information, visit www.clubmed.us.

The JW Marriott Ihilani Resort & Spa at Ko Olina has completed a renovation of its 35,000-square-foot Ihilani Spa.

Improvements include a redesign, featuring a larger ladies’ lounge, including a new Zen garden and meditation area; a new couple’s treatment room; Ho‘onanea, a new private suite featuring customizable services for groups; a new, 24-hour fitness center; a new salon area; and a refreshed reception area. The fitness center was relocated from the third to the sixth floor above the spa near the tennis courts.

The spa will also offer customizable fitness and nutrition programs for individuals and groups. For spa reservations, call 808-679-3321 or visit www.ihilanispa.com.

 For hotel information, call 800-626-4446 or visit www.ihilani.com