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Luxury For Less
Sunquest has brought back its “Luxury for Less” event with AMResorts, offering up to $600 in instant rebates at every Dreams Resorts & Spas, Secrets Resorts & Spas, Now Resorts & Spas, Breathless Resorts & Spas, Sunscape Resorts & Spas and Zoëtry Wellness & Spa Resorts. Valid on all new bookings made between Nov. 21-27 for travel anytime, this offer is available out of any gateway, for any duration, and at any AMResorts property available through Sunquest. Here’s what customers will save and where: A $600 instant rebate at Zoëtry Wellness Spas &...
Nolitours Puts Cuba On Sale
Nolitours has introduced “Cuba on Sale,” an early-booking promotion featuring a weekly selection of all-inclusive holiday packages. Bookings made by Nov. 24 for travel in January and February come with a discount of up to 50% on select all-inclusive packages. To learn more about this promotion, visit http://www.nolitours.com...
WestJet Vacations Returns to Cabo San Lucas
WestJet Vacations is welcoming guests back to Cabo San Lucas following the resumption of WestJet air service to the Los Cabos Mexico International Airport on Oct. 26. “The area and its many resorts and hotels have undergone significant repairs in the two months since Hurricane Odile devastated the Baja region,” said Dave Cecco, WestJet director, Product. “We are pleased to once again provide our guests with all this popular destination has to offer.” “There are many reasons why the area is truly a Mexican gem,” added Tim Croyle, vice-president and general manager,...
Alitours Sailing to Cuba
Alitours is offering week-long Cuba Cruise sailings around Cuba on the Louis Cristal vessel, with Jan. 5, 12, 19 and 26 sailings that leave Havana on Monday and return the following Monday starting at $909, plus taxes of $590 p.p. The rates include air travel from Toronto to Havana and transfers to and from the Cuban capital's port. The vessel will call at Holguin; Santiago de Cuba; Montego Bay, Jamaica; Cienfuegos/Trinidad; and the Isle of Youth. Cuba Cruise's season is Dec. 22 to March...
Cruise Savings
Just in time for the peak Caribbean cruise booking season, Air Canada Vacations (ACV) is offering free prepaid gratuities on all winter cruise packages. This includes cruises with the following: Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity, Norwegian Cruise Line, Carnival, Disney, Princess, Holland America, MSC Cruises, Costa, Cunard, Azamara and AMAWaterways. Prepaid gratuities are applicable for winter cruise packages booked with Air Canada Vacations between Nov. 15 and Nov. 19 for travel between Dec. 1 and April 30, 2015. The offer is applicable to first and second passengers, who...
Transat Pulls Off Cuba Stunt With Panache
Transat recently invited Torontonians to experience a taste of Cuba through a stunt. The event took place in the streets of Toronto using a specially designed taxi, painted in Transat’s signature blue and driven by an actor posing as a cab driver. He put passengers into comical, Cuban-inspired scenarios. Several shared the taxi with the driver’s friends, while others were encouraged to sing and dance, etc. Those who played along were rewarded with a one-week, all-inclusive vacation package for two to Varadero, Holguin, Cayo Coco or Cayo Santa Maria. “Canadians love Cuba....
ACV Revamps ‘ACV & Me’ Loyalty Program
Air Canada Vacations (ACV) has unveiled a new “ACV & Me” loyalty program, giving travel agents more flexibility, full automation and expanded options for rewards. With the redesigned program, agents now have the chance to earn and redeem ACV & Me points towards three types of rewards: A prepaid VISA Card with a reload option – the most flexible option; can be used towards any purchase, from holiday gifts to that much-desired designer bag. Six thousand ACV & Me points are required to redeem a $50 VISA; 5,800 ACV & Me points required to reload each consecutive...
An ALBA Unveiling
ALBATours has released its 2015 Europe & the Mediterranean brochure which features the return of its comprehensive Italy program, as well as the introduction of touring options in Ireland, Portugal, Greece, Turkey and Israel. It's the first of a series of three new brochures for the brand – the other two being Cruise Collection 2015 and Southern Hemisphere 2015, which will be unveiled in the coming weeks – this year’s Europe & the Mediterranean brochure highlights a program that offers everything from fully escorted tours and flexible short stays, to Greek island...